Favorite classic movies

[creekster]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

These movies are all crap except Apocalypse Now, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Raging Bull. Tora Tora Tora? You must be joking.

Very compelling argument. And persuasive too!

[Sleeping in EQ]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Cat on a hot tin roof,
Some like it hot,
the Birds,
Vertigo,
Tora Tora Tora,
Casablanca
(not exactly classic but my favorite so it gets mentioned every time)
Apocalypse Now,
Raging Bull,
Rear Window,

Others?

There are so many, but you've listed some very good ones. Apocalypse Now, Rear Window, Casablanca, Some Like it Hot--you can't go wrong with those.

Some other personal favorites are:

The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon
The African Queen
Key Largo
The Philadelphia Story
His Girl Friday
Penny Serenade
The Grapes of Wrath
Dr. Strangelove
Strangers on A Train
North by Northwest
Psycho
Shadow of a Doubt (I could list alot more Hitchcock, but you get the idea)
Night of the Hunter

and from Hollywood's "second golden age":

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Graduate
Annie Hall
The Conversation
China Town
The Godfather I and II
The French Connection
The Deer Hunter
Taxi Driver
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Network
Rocky
Alien
Jaws
A Clockwork Orange

I'm not being comprehensive, just pulling some off the top of my head...

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by marsupial

Harold & Maude
The Graduate
The Jerk
This is Spinal Tap
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Escape from Alcatraz
Roman Holiday
Charade

You're too young as only Roman Holiday and the Graduate qualify as classics. The others are too new.

[UteStar]

My wife is the old movie buff but I enjoy them as well. There are several that I can watch anytime:

The Maltese Falcon
The Thin Man series
Any Hitchcock movie
Philadelphia Story

A little more recent: Dr. Strangelove, The Godfather 1 and 2, Alien and Aliens,

[mpfunk]

Originally Posted by marsupial

Young Frankenstein

Loved that movie, scared the hell out of me.

[tooblue]

High Noon
My Darling Clementine
Ben Hur
The Bridge on the River Kwai
My Fair Lady
The Grapes of wrath
Mrs. Miniver
Double Indemnity
The 10 Commandments
It's a Wonderful Life
Birds
Arsenic and Old Lace
African Queen
Lawrence of Arabia
Stalag 17
Man who shot Liberty Valance
Gone with the Wind
Thunderball
West Side Story

Shall I go on ...

[tooblue]

Originally Posted by tooblue

High Noon
My Darling Clementine
Ben Hur
The Bridge on the River Kwai
My Fair Lady
The Grapes of wrath
Mrs. Miniver
Double Indemnity
The 10 Commandments
It's a Wonderful Life
Birds
Arsenic and Old Lace
African Queen
Lawrence of Arabia
Stalag 17
Man who shot Liberty Valance
Gone with the Wind
Thunderball
West Side Story

Shall I go on ...

Fiddler on the Roof
Dr. Shivago
Yentel
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Longest Day
Shane

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by tooblue

Fiddler on the Roof
Dr. Shivago
Yentel
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Longest Day
Shane

You had me for most of them, but "Yentl"? Come on, that's not even a classic by any defintion. That's Miss Big Nose herself starring herself. Do you have something to tell us? Yentl is a fairly gay movie.

[marsupial]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Cat on a hot tin roof,
Some like it hot,
the Birds,
Vertigo,
Tora Tora Tora,
Casablanca
(not exactly classic but my favorite so it gets mentioned every time)
Apocalypse Now,
Raging Bull,
Rear Window,

Others?

Your reasoning is faulty. Except for Spinal Tap (1984), all of my movies were released before two on your list: Apocalyyse Now (1979) and Raging Bull (1980).

[tooblue]

Originally Posted by Archaea

You had me for most of them, but "Yentl"? Come on, that's not even a classic by any defintion. That's Miss Big Nose herself starring herself. Do you have something to tell us? Yentl is a fairly gay movie.

Oh now, I had to throw babs in there somewhere and I couldn't remember the name of the film where she starred with Robert Redford -The Way We Were? so I threw in Yentl which isn't a bad film.