The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is very interesting to me, especially since I don't care much for Bogart. The short man syndrome from hell. But I still like the movie.
I recorded "The Best Years of Our Lives" from TCM on Veteran's Day and watched it yesterday. It had been a while since I last watched it. What a great movie!!
If Blazing Saddles, one of my all time faves, is considered an old movie, than I guess High Anxiety is too. It was on the other day and I caught some of it while the wife was watching it.
We like the Thin Man series too. Especially think one line is a classic. When the cops are going through the dresser and Myrna Loy says "what's that man doing in my drawers".
Blazing Saddles is good, as is most of Mel Brooks' work as the parody is often on purpose.
I am generally not a fan of movies from the 60s, 70s and much of the 80s. Often the acting and most often the resolution, or at least small parts of the plot are terrible.
One time I watched "Blazing Saddles" in the company of my wife and a woman friend of ours. While I was rolling on the floor laughing, they kept asking "What's supposed to be funny about that?".
One time I watched "Blazing Saddles" in the company of my wife and a woman friend of ours. While I was rolling on the floor laughing, they kept asking "What's supposed to be funny about that?".
Blazing Saddles is good, as is most of Mel Brooks' work as the parody is often on purpose.
I am generally not a fan of movies from the 60s, 70s and much of the 80s. Often the acting and most often the resolution, or at least small parts of the plot are terrible.
Blazing Saddles is good, as is most of Mel Brooks' work as the parody is often on purpose.
I am generally not a fan of movies from the 60s, 70s and much of the 80s. Often the acting and most often the resolution, or at least small parts of the plot are terrible.
Tough to argue.
Some of the best movies made were in the 90’s Showgirls Striptease Batman and Robin The Island Of Dr Moreau The Postman Wild Wild West
Blazing Saddles is good, as is most of Mel Brooks' work as the parody is often on purpose.
I am generally not a fan of movies from the 60s, 70s and much of the 80s. Often the acting and most often the resolution, or at least small parts of the plot are terrible.
Tough to argue.
Some of the best movies made were in the 90’s Showgirls Striptease Batman and Robin The Island Of Dr Moreau The Postman Wild Wild West
I didn't realize until lately that The Last Picture Show was based on the book by Larry McMurtry,....same guy that wrote Lonesome Dove
,...and Larry McMurtry is now married to the widow of Ken Kesey.
McMurtry wrote the Paul Newman movie, Hud also, as well as several others. It's based on his book, Horseman Pass By. Texasville is the sequel to The Last Picture Show. The same people are in it. The sequel to Lonesome Dove is Streets of Laredo with James Garner as Call and Sissy Spacek as Lorena. Ned Beatty plays Judge Roy Bean and it features Randy Quaid of Christmas Vacation as John Wesley Hardin. There is another sequel to Lonesome Dove called, Return to Lonesome Dove. It's different and stars John Voight as Call. McMurtry had nothing to do with it whereas he wrote Streets of Laredo. He also wrote prequels to Lonesome Dove, Dead man's Walk and Comanche Moon. Both were turned into mini-series like Lonesome Dove and Streets of Laredo.
Gene Wilder played the part of The Waco Kid. Fastest gun on earth. Said he had killed more men than Cecil B. Demille. LMAO!
It’s worth seeing twice.
I had a job at a gov aerospace subcontractor. They needed ~ 100 signatures from 3 engineers every morning on drawing changes. We walked in a circle around a table signing our name a date to each form while the head of drafting put them down and picked them up like playing cards. I signed thousands of documents about missiles and fighter jets, and I never read a word of them once.
This was just like Mel Brooks as Gov Lepetomane signing documents like a machine.
Blazing Saddles is good, as is most of Mel Brooks' work as the parody is often on purpose.
I am generally not a fan of movies from the 60s, 70s and much of the 80s. Often the acting and most often the resolution, or at least small parts of the plot are terrible.
Tough to argue.
Some of the best movies made were in the 90’s Showgirls Striptease Batman and Robin The Island Of Dr Moreau The Postman Wild Wild West
The 90s had some doozies too, no doubt.
My beef with the resolutions are with things like Roadhouse, which seemed common in movies from these decades. The three guys who had been wronged all sneak in and each get some vengeance by each hitting the criminal mastermind with shotgun blasts, while everyone else dies from single bullets to the arms. Then the police show up at the exact same time. The suspense music was bad as well. It was all meant to be serious, but was awful.
Blazing Saddles, like Married with Children, was meant to be corny. That's why I like them.
Two Lane Blacktop with Dennis Wilson (Beach Boys), James Taylor (the singer) and Warren Oats. Not a ton of dialog, but it definitely takes you back to a different time and era.
Blazing Saddles is good, as is most of Mel Brooks' work as the parody is often on purpose.
I am generally not a fan of movies from the 60s, 70s and much of the 80s. Often the acting and most often the resolution, or at least small parts of the plot are terrible.
Tough to argue.
Some of the best movies made were in the 90’s Showgirls Striptease Batman and Robin The Island Of Dr Moreau The Postman Wild Wild West
One time I watched "Blazing Saddles" in the company of my wife and a woman friend of ours. While I was rolling on the floor laughing, they kept asking "What's supposed to be funny about that?".
Back in the early days of blockbuster, my wife at the time and I were visiting another couple and we all decided to rent one movie each from the local video store.........I rented a 3 episode tape of classic Amos n Andy.........they were not amused.......all relationships eventually dissolved.
I recorded "The Best Years of Our Lives" from TCM on Veteran's Day and watched it yesterday. It had been a while since I last watched it. What a great movie!!
YES! I was 8 years when my relation came home from the War. So my memories of the War are much the same.
Hellfighters with J Wayne is a classic as is comes a horseman even tho it has "her" in it,, still a good movie an I also liked the original Planet of the apes
Not a big fan of colorizing old movies just for the sake of colorizing them, like colorizing Casablanca, but applying modern technology to the older, grainy and jerky movies really bring those people to life. "They'll Never Grow Old" was a terrific achievement and that treatment works well for a lot of older films created by hand cranked cameras.
Once upon a time in the West The Good The Bad and the Ugly ( a movie that damned Deflave made me watch through a different scope than I had previously) High Plains Drifter Pale Rider Unforgiven
There are two movies that I have seen firsthand that will capture the attention of 12 year olds - people in their 70's and 80's.
One of them, is The African Queen.
Another great one from C.S. Forester. A feller could get by pretty well with a collection of his books, H. Ryder Haggard, Elmore Leonard, Kipling, Camilleri, Burroughs, Rex Stout, and some Thorne Smith thrown in for laughs.
Best thing about old movies is everybody in them is dead and not tripping all over themselves trying to be the biggest jackass in the world on the internet, or selling reverse mortgages.
Charlie : Look, kid, I - how much you weigh, son? When you weighed one hundred and sixty-eight pounds you were beautiful. You coulda been another Billy Conn, and that skunk we got you for a manager, he brought you along too fast.
Terry : It wasn't him, Charley, it was you. Remember that night in the Garden you came down to my dressing room and you said, "Kid, this ain't your night. We're going for the price on Wilson." You remember that? "This ain't your night"! My night! I coulda taken Wilson apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palooka-ville! You was my brother, Charley, you shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn't have to take them dives for the short-end money.
Charlie : Oh I had some bets down for you. You saw some money.
Terry : You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley.
There are a few things about old movies that don't play well in these enlightened times. There are no interracial couples, there are no angry black supervisors, old movies falsely show crimes being solved without computers and the transsexual geeks to operate them, old movies don't show women as having martial arts skills to shame Chuck Norris, old movies never show women who can outshoot Jerry Miculek, old movies do not show that any woman driver would shame AJ Foyt. Old movies do not give women enough credit, period. In a bout of insomnia recently, I reviewed the 10 top movies on Netflix...yup, 7 of 10 were female lead roles. The last few years, judging by movie releases, it has become apparent to me, that women pretty much won World War II. We wrongly grew up thinking Ike and Winston had something to do with it, with some help of course. Little did we know, back then.
"Joe" (1970). It's very wild and fun to watch, but a lot of younger people WON'T "get it". This because the younger people think and act like the hippies in the film; and therefore don't see the humor!
There are a few things about old movies that don't play well in these enlightened times. There are no interracial couples, there are no angry black supervisors, old movies falsely show crimes being solved without computers and the transsexual geeks to operate them, old movies don't show women as having martial arts skills to shame Chuck Norris, old movies never show women who can outshoot Jerry Miculek, old movies do not show that any woman driver would shame AJ Foyt. Old movies do not give women enough credit, period. In a bout of insomnia recently, I reviewed the 10 top movies on Netflix...yup, 7 of 10 were female lead roles. The last few years, judging by movie releases, it has become apparent to me, that women pretty much won World War II. We wrongly grew up thinking Ike and Winston had something to do with it, with some help of course. Little did we know, back then.
I recorded "The Best Years of Our Lives" from TCM on Veteran's Day and watched it yesterday. It had been a while since I last watched it. What a great movie!!
A friend, in his final writings while dying from cancer proclaimed “‘The Best Years of Our Lives’ the greatest film ever made. I have intended to find a copy and watch it for over 10 years now.
Zulu 1964 - saw it first run as a kid with my friends in England, might have been the first color movie I ever saw. Kids would roam all over back then and no one thought anything of it.
Last of the Mohicans - the 1992 version - 28 years ago already
Ride With the Devil - 1999 - my favorite War Over Secession movie.
Zulu 1964 - saw it first run as a kid with my friends in England, might have been the first color movie I ever saw. Kids would roam all over back then and no one thought anything of it.
Last of the Mohicans - the 1992 version - 28 years ago already
Ride With the Devil - 1999 - my favorite War Over Secession movie.
Zulu 1964 - saw it first run as a kid with my friends in England, might have been the first color movie I ever saw. Kids would roam all over back then and no one thought anything of it.
Last of the Mohicans - the 1992 version - 28 years ago already
Ride With the Devil - 1999 - my favorite War Over Secession movie.
Topper Cary Grant, Constance Bennet, Roland Young, Billie Burke.
All three Topper movies are funny as Hell. The third one, Topper Returns, wasn’t originally a book, but might be the funniest, with Eddie “Rochester” Anderson as the chauffeur.
I’ve got a pretty good collection of my favorite movies on DVD. Mostly old westerns, Duke, Jimmy Stewart, Fonda, Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, Glenn Ford and others. Also a lot of classics like Anatomy of a Murder, Vertigo and a bunch of others that I like. I’m not very big into modern movies, too much CGI explosions and violence. I don’t necessarily need to see blood and brains splattered on a wall. 7mm
I’ve got a pretty good collection of my favorite movies on DVD. Mostly old westerns, Duke, Jimmy Stewart, Fonda, Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, Glenn Ford and others. Also a lot of classics like Anatomy of a Murder, Vertigo and a bunch of others that I like. I’m not very big into modern movies, too much CGI explosions and violence. I don’t necessarily need to see blood and brains splattered on a wall (in other words, Sam Peckinpaugh.) . 7mm
Ride With the Devil - 1999 - my favorite War Over Secession movie.
The opening scene was filmed at Watkin’s Mill State Park about 30 minutes from my home. The girlfriend & I go there frequently to kayak on the lake.
She likes to go to Lawrence, Kansas and I will sometimes venture into ‘enemy territory’ and go with her. The hotel where Quantrell set up his base of operations during the raid on Lawrence is still there.
When Mr Connery passed away folks mentioned League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in a positive light. It's as dumb as The Matrix or even more so. I will try some of these old movie suggestions despite my growing doubt.
When Mr Connery passed away folks mentioned League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in a positive light. It's as dumb as The Matrix or even more so. I will try some of these old movie suggestions despite my growing doubt.
Allan Quatermain is one of my favorite fictional characters. The writers for LEG apparently never read any of Haggard’s books or thought AQ needed some punching up. Nevertheless, I watch that one once in a while if I run into it. The vampire chick also played Nikita on TV, and is a lovely gal. Sometimes, that’s enough.
The big creature is getting agitated and yells out some unintelligible gibberish at the now rather nervous, young adventurer.
HUMAN Don't insult us. You just watch yourself. We're wanted men. I have the death sentence in twelve systems.
LUKE I'll be careful than.
HUMAN You'll be dead.
The rodent lets out a loud grunt and everything at the bar moves away. Luke tries to remain cool but it isn't easy. His three adversaries ready their weapons. Old Ben moves in behind Luke.
BEN This little one isn't worth the effort. Come let me buy you something...
A powerful blow from the unpleasant creature sends the young would-be Jedi sailing across the room, crashing through tables and breaking a large jug filled with a foul-looking liquid. With a blood curdling shriek, the monster draws a wicked chrome laser pistol from his belt and levels it at old Ben. The bartender panics.
The Hallalujah Trail on Prime with Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Brian Keith and a good cast of supporting actors - western comedy. It's a little long but it has enough action to keep it going.
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