Classic/Non-Recent Movie Thread

[EagerBeaver]

Fargo (1996) is my favorite movie from the Coen Brothers (even more than the Big Lebowski).

There was a lively debate in the other thread on which of the Coen brothers movie is the best, but I think the consensus top 3 are Fargo, Big Lebowski and No Country For Old Men. All 3 of those are great and they are my top 3, but "Burn After Reading" is a really, really good film that somehow gets lost in the shuffle. I personally thought it was brilliant and I would put it right after the top 3.

Regarding Quentin Tarantino's films, I believe his best films are Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Django Unchained. I have seen all of his films as well. I like them all but those were my favorite 3.

 

[HornyForEver]

Regarding Quentin Tarantino's films, I believe his best films are Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Django Unchained. I have seen all of his films as well. I like them all but those were my favorite 3.

Pulp Fiction has been my favorite movie for many years. I think I have watched it more than 10 times. I love the original, back then, sequencing of scenes, the music and of course Miss Mia Wallace. My other favorite Tarantino movies are Four Rooms and Death Proof. I watched each a few times. Sin City gets a honorable mention too.

 

[Siocnarf]

There was a lively debate in the other thread on which of the Coen brothers movie is the best, but I think the consensus top 3 are Fargo, Big Lebowski and No Country For Old Men.

It's hard to say which is the best objectively. Fargo is my favorite, because it has the best of the other two and felt the most enthralling. Even if No Country for Old Men could be considered the best, I found it less entertaining. I just didn't enjoy any of the character much. ''Blood Simple'', is another classic although I found the Chinese remake (A woman, a gun, a noodle shop) more entertaining so I liked that better. I also loved ''Raising Arizona'' (possibly the only Nicholas Cage movie I love)

 

[EagerBeaver]

Classic Marsellus Wallace Scene from Pulp Fiction

Ving Rhames' classic scene from Pulp Fiction "I am going to get medieval on your ass":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVRPz6-Tkww

 

[EagerBeaver]

Another classic scene between Ving and Bruce is the "fuck pride" scene, an important theme in this movie and other Tarantino films where the characters battle with pride:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruhFmBrl4GM

 

[HornyForEver]

A classic I recently watched (which kinda traumatized me because I wasn't expecting the end) was Saturday Night Fever. Here I was thinking this was some sort of dance movie, which it is, PLUS A GANG RAPE.
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I never watched Saturday Night Fever in full, though I think I saw the scene you are referring to: I think it took place in a car on a bridge.

Since we are posting Pulp fiction scenes, one of my favorites is this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNe3mp7ross

 

[dolt]

Excalibur (1981)

If you watch only one Arthurian legend movie in your life, make it this one.

 

[Siocnarf]

Sidney, I never watched Saturday Night, but you made me remember ''The Accused'' with Jodie Foster.

On a lighter note:
This is Spinal Tap (1984) A mockumentary about a fictive Heavy Metal band. A must for any fan of rock music. I didn’t find it very funny the first time I watched it, because the humour is very understated. In fact, when it came out a lot of people didn’t even realize that it was a comedy and not a real documentary. It contains many memorable scenes including the Stonehenge prop and the good old amp-that-goes-to-eleven. ''Eleven. Exactly. One louder!''

 

[Merlot]

Same here.

A classic I recently watched (which kinda traumatized me because I wasn't expecting the end) was Saturday Night Fever. Here I was thinking this was some sort of dance movie, which it is, PLUS A GANG RAPE.

I didn't really like or dislike it...

Really???

I know the scene, but as I remember it I thought the girl Annette (Pescow) in love with Tony (Travolta) was so jealous and pissed off that he didn't want her she threw herself at the other guys in revenge sex with Tony's friends. If so, I'd call it a gang bang exploiting an emotionally vulnerable yet willing girl. You can argue about the exploitation being wrong, but it's not quite rape.

"Young Frankenstein" 1974 directed by Mel Brooks. Budget $2.78 million, grossed over $86 million. Starred Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, and Gene Hackman. I thought Madeline Khan absolutely gave the movie that needed final touch only she could provide.

"Cool Hand Luke" 1967 directed by Paul Rosenberg. Starred Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin. It had one of the most unforgettable lines ever: "What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week. Which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. And I don't like it any more than you men." One magazine, "Empire", ranked Luke 53rd as one of the greatest screen characters of all time. The 50 eggs scene actually makes me a little sick. Oh...and the car wash scene...YUMMMM!!!

:thumb:

Merlot

 

[simonpaul]

As a christian don,t forget the 10 Comendements.

 

[Doc Holliday]

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

I love war movies. Probably as much as i love westerns. This classic movie is playing tonight on TCM and i plan on watching it for the very first time. Every review i've read about it over the years have praised it. So we'll see how accurate they were.

 

[EagerBeaver]

I saw All Quiet On The Western Front recently via Netflix. I thought the battle scenes were pretty good for the technology available at the time. It's hard to believe it was made in 1930. There are two classic scenes in the movie, one is at the very end. The other is a scene of trench warfare with the main character getting stuck in a trench with a French soldier he has killed.

 

[Siocnarf]

So many great movies I'd want to see but Netflix in Canada seems very limited compared to the US.

A war movie I want to watch is ''Come and see'' (1985) a WW2 Soviet movie. In Biellorussia a young boy joins the soviet partisans after his village is raided by the Einsatzkommandos, (the Nazi killing squads who burned down hundreds of villages).

 

[dolt]

So many great movies I'd want to see but Netflix in Canada seems very limited compared to the US.

There's definitely less in Netflix CA than Netflix US. Every once in a while though, I use a proxy server to access the US catalog , but it's always a pain in the ass to find a free one that works

 

[str8flash]

Shawshank Redemption

IMHO Best " Prison " movie starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Good story, Great plot, un chef d'oeuvre.
In the same category, but very different: Midnight Express.

 

[Doc Holliday]

IMHO Best " Prison " movie starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Good story, Great plot, un chef d'oeuvre.
In the same category, but very different: Midnight Express.

I agree. One of my all-time favorite movies! And based on a Stephen King story, which many people don't know.

 

[Doc Holliday]

For those of you who enjoy foreign movies, there are three great ones whose time period is WWII:

Das Boot (1981)

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, this great German award-winning movie is about the claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror. It stars Jurgen Prochnow & this movie is so great it even had me rooting for the Germans!

I watched it three or four times over the years and loved the sound when i watched it using headphones, due to its great surround sound effects. I got myself a high-quality surround sound home theatre system a few years later & have yet to watch it since.

The Tin Drum (1979)

Controversial at the time of its release, this award-winning German movie begins in Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on......

Europa Europa (1990)

This very good movie from France is about a boy in Nazi Germany trying to conceal that he is Jewish, so he joins the Hitler Youth. For whatever reason, i was under the impression until i looked it up on the net that this movie was German. To my surprise it was made in France. If my memory is correct (i last watched it when it was released), it is based on a true story.

 

[simonpaul]

You are right Doc ,Das Boot is one of the best ww2 film ever made,myself i watcher that film at least 10 times and each time it is a pleasure.

 

[Doc Holliday]

You are right Doc ,Das Boot is one of the best ww2 film ever made,myself i watcher that film at least 10 times and each time it is a pleasure.

Great suspense, great action, great acting, great directing. As i mentionned earlier, it was difficult not to pull for the Germans in that U-boat. It's one of the rare war movies to portray the Germans in a positive, human way. The only other WWII movie that i can think of who achieved such a feat was "The Young Lions", which starred Marlon Brando in the role of a German officer.

 

[Siocnarf]

It's one of the rare war movies to portray the Germans in a positive, human way...

As an aside, I recommend the book ''Bomber'' by Len Deighton, which tells a story from the sides of English bombers, German night-fighters, radar operators and civilians.