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Older movies you can't help but watch




I've rarely ever seen a sports-based movie, and even more rarely cared a speck about seeing them again. Just not my thing.


Never saw more than about 15 minutes of that one.



Probably has something to do with being largely indifferent to most sports in general...
 
I've rarely ever seen a sports-based movie, and even more rarely cared a speck about seeing them again. Just not my thing.


Never saw more than about 15 minutes of that one.



Probably has something to do with being largely indifferent to most sports in general...

In important ways it's not a sports movie.
 
In important ways it's not a sports movie.




Yeah, people keep telling me that, and I keep not getting around to watching it. :shrug:
 
Greetings, Shrubnose.
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Mine, too! :thumbs: In 2012, we drove to Cleveland to tour the actual house where Ralphie lived, and where the story was filmed - no Hollywood location for that story! They even had a bar of Lifebuoy soap on the sink in the bathroom! They've done a great job renovating the house, and there is a museum across the street where they have the actual clothing worn and many pictures from the movie, all behind glass. There was a huge map of the world on the wall, and stickpins for people to use that showed where they were from, and it had pins from almost every country on earth! Also across the street is a store where you could buy mementos - I got a coffee cup that had "you're going to shoot your eye out, kid," on it, plus lots of other things! Fun trip if you're ever in the area, shrubnose, and the tour guides know what they're talking about when answering questions about filming the movie! :thumbs:



I was never lucky enough to get an air rifle for Christmas but one of my cousins did almost 'shoot my eye out' with his air rifle,he hit me in the forehead.

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Major League.

The Goonies.

Empire Strikes Back
 
Holy crap I feel so old.



I was thinking Casablanca, Abbot and Costello Meet Dracula, the original Day the Earth Stood Still and Forbidden Planet, Chinatown, the Godfather trilogy, the original Star Wars and Alien, and Forrest Gump. :)



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Though honestly I thought Forrest Gump didn't really qual as 'old movie'...

Me too!! And, since it's the xmas season upon us, there is It's a wonderful life, the older Miracle on 34th street, and the animated version of how the Grinch stole Christmas.

I met one of the screen writers for Casablanca (Howard Koch), and during a talk, he gave lots of interesting stories about the making of the movie. He also wrote the radio play that caused a little panic when Orson Wells narrated a Mars invasion.
 
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This is the absolutely best movie I have ever seen.
It did not get much fanfare from the press
It IS a "chick flick"
but it is very well done.
Stars Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, and Burton Cummings of the Guess Who.

No machine guns or zombies. Just an illiterate woman from West Virginia moving all the way out to Los Angeles to stay with a friend in an attempt to get her son back from her Army husband (Don Johnson) who took him. She touches different people's lives in a positive way as she tries.
 
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Casablanca. Forrest Gump. The Green Mile... Alien and Aliens... The original 'Flight of the Phoenix'..... Psycho... ....and Justice for All... A Few good Men.... To Kill a Mockingbird.... A Bronx Tale.... A Christmas Story... Stand By Me..... American Graffiti... It's a Wonderful Life... The original 'Karate Kid'...

I can go on and on.
 
No idea what would qualify as old when you start the thread with a 2002 film.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Godfather I&II, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, all are really old movies I watch again and again.

Then again the movies I watched the most are Leon, Gladiator, The Matrix trilogy, LOTR trilogy, Goodfellas, Snatch, Tarantino's older movies, etc.
 
I was never lucky enough to get an air rifle for Christmas but one of my cousins did almost 'shoot my eye out' with his air rifle,he hit me in the forehead.

:lol:

:lol: :thumbs:
 
So ... many.... movies............

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Ever since I ran across it on late late TV late 70's.....by far my fav war movie:

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If I catch this on cable, I have to watch it to it's end. Well put together flick.

yeah, that's one great movie. the scene where they picked up the younger version of Doc Graham hitchhiking and took him to play was awesome. Costner's character playing catch with his dad has choked me up almost every time i've seen it, too. not to mention the awesomeness of James Earl Jones. it remains a well written film with excellent performances all around.
 
I used to teach a leadership development module based on that film.

I know right?

I told my future ROTC trained Active Duty Quartermaster Corps Officer son that he should watch it.

This movie is stunning well done on so many levels.

Love it..
 
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Arthur, with Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli and Sir John Gielgud - never ceases to make me laugh out loud and feel great.
 
No special effects

Just a spectacular screenplay

A cast that was incredible

And a theme that is as important today as it was 50+ years ago

12 Angry Men....my #1 of all time

2nd place goes to "Gone with the wind"
 
Watching The Rookie right now staring Dennis Quaid and Rachel Griffiths. 2002, I don't know how many times I've watched. love it.

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Sports movies, Major League is the one I liked the best. If you go with real old movies, The Pride of the Yankees with Gary Cooper really stands out. To this day, my favorite war movie is The Longest Day with a ton of stars in it and pretty historical accurate I might say. I like old, real old horror movies, the one's with Bela Lagosi, Lon Cheney, Boris Karloff. But Dracula movies with Christopher Lee is tops, he was the best Dracula. Westerns, anything with John Wayne or Clinton Eastwood. I really don't have a favorite there.

Comedy, I can sit all day watching the old Abbot and Costello movies. Most movies today have way too much special effects in them. Sci-fi, the Star Trek movies with the original crew. I pretty much run the gamut, but it is the older flicks I like and I keep on watching them again and again.
 
It's with me almost every day.
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