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Classic Movies You DIdn't Like
Posted on 8/31/09 at 12:27 pm
Posted on 8/31/09 at 12:27 pm
For this crowd "classic" will be any movie before 1980.
BRINGING UP BABY. Cary Grant is great. Howard Hawks is great. This film though is a bit slow (surprising since it's Hawks) and short on laughs.
Could be Katherine Hepburn spoils it for me. Never thought she was attractive or interesting -- more like a man in drag.
THE THIN MAN. First 30 minutes are wasted. Finally gets going. Okay film but flawed execution.
Saw the film TOO MANY HUSBANDS last night. Shipwrecked man comes home to find his wife remarried to his former partner. Hmmmmm.
Guess the writer of CASTAWAY watching the old movies, too.
Anyway, for your list focus on top 100/AFI type films and why you didn't care for it.
Sure someone will put up CITIZEN KANE. The first section, Kane as a young newspaper owner, is great. Kinda fades after that. Of course, the entire film is flawed because... nobody is in the room wtih Kane when he dies. So how the frack do they know his last word was "Rosebud"???
BRINGING UP BABY. Cary Grant is great. Howard Hawks is great. This film though is a bit slow (surprising since it's Hawks) and short on laughs.
Could be Katherine Hepburn spoils it for me. Never thought she was attractive or interesting -- more like a man in drag.
THE THIN MAN. First 30 minutes are wasted. Finally gets going. Okay film but flawed execution.
Saw the film TOO MANY HUSBANDS last night. Shipwrecked man comes home to find his wife remarried to his former partner. Hmmmmm.
Guess the writer of CASTAWAY watching the old movies, too.
Anyway, for your list focus on top 100/AFI type films and why you didn't care for it.
Sure someone will put up CITIZEN KANE. The first section, Kane as a young newspaper owner, is great. Kinda fades after that. Of course, the entire film is flawed because... nobody is in the room wtih Kane when he dies. So how the frack do they know his last word was "Rosebud"???
This post was edited on 8/31/09 at 12:28 pm
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Posted on 8/31/09 at 12:33 pm to Homeboy
I like The Moneypit.
Posted on 8/31/09 at 12:34 pm to Homeboy
Gone With the Wind.
Posted on 8/31/09 at 12:35 pm to Homeboy
I had no idea they made movies before 1980
Posted on 8/31/09 at 12:36 pm to HeadChange
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Of course, the entire film is flawed because... nobody is in the room wtih Kane when he dies. So how the frack do they know his last word was "Rosebud"???
I believe the maid or the butler was in the room with him. I'd have to watch the beginning again to be sure though.
Posted on 8/31/09 at 12:36 pm to Homeboy
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For this crowd "classic" will be any movie before 1980.
Speak for yourself, youngin'.
Posted on 8/31/09 at 12:55 pm to Sophandros
Raging Bull 
Posted on 8/31/09 at 12:58 pm to Dan In Real Life
I didn't care for RAGING BULL that much when I first saw it. A few viewings later it kind of grew on me.
Tough doing any film when the main character is a SOB.
Tough doing any film when the main character is a SOB.
Posted on 8/31/09 at 1:00 pm to Homeboy
Posted on 8/31/09 at 1:18 pm to Homeboy
The Apartment
Sunset Boulevard
Oddly enough, both are Billy Wilder movies. Other than these two, I love his films.
Sunset Boulevard
Oddly enough, both are Billy Wilder movies. Other than these two, I love his films.
Posted on 8/31/09 at 1:23 pm to Godfather1
The Graduate - Just hated it. Mainly cause I didn't like Hoffman's character in the movie who I thought was a total dumbass in just about everything he did. Yes I know he's supposed to be dumb and naive and susceptible prey to the cunning Mr. Robinson, but he was just too dumb. The 'plastics' quote is overrated and so is the stupid ending. Praised by baby boomers as something iconic from the 60s but I can't imagine why.
This post was edited on 8/31/09 at 1:26 pm
Posted on 8/31/09 at 1:31 pm to constant cough
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Praised by baby boomers as something iconic from the 60s but I can't imagine why.
I think it's because it was one of the first movies to openly break the taboos on extramarital sex in Hollywood film. Particularly because it was about a subject as daring as a much older woman sexually seducing a man young enough to be her son. It lacks shock value in today's desensitized world, but it was pretty groundbreaking stuff in 1967.
I didn't like it myself for a long time, but over the years, I've come to appreciate it a little more.
Posted on 8/31/09 at 1:33 pm to Godfather1
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I think it's because it was one of the first movies to openly break the taboos on extramarital sex in Hollywood film.
I don't know I can think of plenty of pre 1967 movies that had extramarital sex in them, like most film noirs.
Posted on 8/31/09 at 1:38 pm to constant cough
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I don't know I can think of plenty of pre 1967 movies that had extramarital sex in them, like most film noirs.
The aforementioned "The Apartment" would be one. But before "The Graduate" the infidelity was more implied than open. Damn, in "The Graduate", there's a scene where Dustin Hoffman actually gropes Anne Bancroft's tit. You sure didn't see THAT before 1967.
Also, the Simon & Garfunkle soundtrack is classic.
This post was edited on 8/31/09 at 1:39 pm
Posted on 8/31/09 at 1:39 pm to constant cough
I hate Gone With the Wind. Absolutely hate it. If I want to watch a movie that glorifies the Klan, I’ll watch Birth of a Nation.
And, I absolutely hate the Graduate as well, but it is not nearly as terrible as the ultimate Baby Boomer film – Easy Rider. Easy Rider is a terrible movie that is probably at the root of my deep loathing of hippies to this day. Thanks for filming your acid trip.
And, I absolutely hate the Graduate as well, but it is not nearly as terrible as the ultimate Baby Boomer film – Easy Rider. Easy Rider is a terrible movie that is probably at the root of my deep loathing of hippies to this day. Thanks for filming your acid trip.
Posted on 8/31/09 at 1:41 pm to Baloo
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I hate Gone With the Wind. Absolutely hate it. If I want to watch a movie that glorifies the Klan, I’ll watch Birth of a Nation.
They didn't have the Klan in GWTW. The Klan didn't form till after the civil war.
Posted on 8/31/09 at 1:43 pm to constant cough
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They didn't have the Klan in GWTW. The Klan didn't form till after the civil war.
The Klan is implied in GWTW when Ashley, Frank, and some of the other southern gentlemen go out to clear out the woods after Scarlett's near-rape at the hands of a couple of tramps.
Posted on 8/31/09 at 1:45 pm to Godfather1
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The Klan is implied in GWTW when Ashley, Frank, and some of the other southern gentlemen go out to clear out the woods after Scarlett's near-rape at the hands of a couple of tramps.
I didn't get that since she was attacked by white men and a black man came and saved her.
Posted on 8/31/09 at 1:46 pm to constant cough
GWTW does have the Klan in the novel. The group that boots out the carpetbaggers was the Klan. They changed it for the film. The film follows the south until after the war. I think it holds up.
Big fan of THE APARTMENT and SUNSET BOULEVARD but agree that THE GRADUATE is overrated. The hotel clerk scene with Buck Henry is funny but mostly it's a piece for Boomers. Will say that it has gotten better for me over the years.
Also, if everyone says he 'stopped the wedding' in THE GRADUATE -- nope. Wrong. She says "yes" and they are married but still runs off with Hoffman. Easy film trivia win.
Posted on 8/31/09 at 1:48 pm to constant cough
I certainly don't believe that GWTW "glorifies" the Klan. The Klan existed post-Civil War. That's just a fact. If you're going to make a film about that period, to not at least hint at their existence is at best, revisionist.
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