"Taxi Driver" with DeNiro is coming on tonight on TCM at 10:30 CST. Going to stay up and watch this one as DeNiro is my all-time favorite actor. This will be the first time that I have ever seen this movie and it got me thinking that there are a lot of classic movies that I have never seen. Besides "Taxi Driver", some other classics I would like to see include: "Citizen Kane" "Gone With the Wind" (have never seen it in its entirety) "Pulp Fiction" "Raging Bull" "Apocalypse Now" I am sure there are others but these are the ones that come to my mind right now. So, what are some classic movies that people around here would like to see?
"Taxi Driver" is an awesome flick, especially the end. Definately check it out. "Citizen Kane" I've tried to watch it before but fell asleep. "Schlindler's List" "2001 Space Odyssey" "Biodome"
Taxi Driver was awesome since your a big fan of DeNiro you'll love that movie..he was badass in there but dude! you gotta check out Pulp Fiction! from the movies you've listed I've never seen: Gone with the Wind Citizen Kane Raging Bull They just released Raging Bull on DVD (SE I think) so I'm definitely gonna check that out!
Geez, Fattty, don't tell me that you like to take a giant **** on movies like you like to do with music? If that is true, then why do you post in these threads? To be an *******?? Never mind, I answered my own question.
What. You're the only one? Apparently, you haven't payed attention to my posts. http://bbs2.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20842&highlight=crazy+drunk+sunday
Alright, Manny, I'll be serious. My favorite classic movie is "Guys and Dolls" with Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra. You wanna be cool? Watch this flick.
Some of my favorites: The Apartment The Maltese Falcon The Graduate Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House Pride of the Yankees Sabrina Roman Holiday Bridge on the River Kwai It's a Wonderful Life Ben Hur Want to See: Citizen Kane 2001 Breakfast at Tiffany's The Italian Job The Lion in Winter The African Queen
"The Thin Man" "Major Barbara" "Giant" "It Happened One Night" "Roman Holiday" "Stanley and Iris" - Robert De Niro & jane Fonda "Rumble fish" "Payback" "As Good as It Gets"
In no particular order... Dr. Strangelove Citizen Kane The Seven Samurai Rear Window Taxi Driver Casablanca The Usual Suspects North by Northwest Goodfellas The Manchurian Candidate (original) The Deer Hunter The Big Lebowski The Thin Man -- droxford
Some of the things you people label as "classics" are too young for me to consider. I can honestly say I've seen every movie on this list, except for Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. TIVO kicks @ss. The first three The Thin Man movies are great. William Powell is hilarious, and Myrna Loy makes a great "straight man". The last three are not nearly as good, but in the second one , After the Thin Man you get to see James Stewart as the bad guy. The final film, Song of the Thin Man is neat to watch because Nick & Nora's son is played by Dean Stockwell... the same Dean Stockwell who was Al in Quantum Leap. He was about 6 at the time. It happened One Night and It's a Wonderful Life both get a mention, and both are great. They are the bookends to Frank Capra's great run of movies, including Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, and Lady for a Day, and You Can't Take It With You which are all sort of everyman movies like "Wonderful Life" and just as good. He also did the more serious Mr. Smith Goes To Washington and the atypical but great Arsenic and Old Lace between the two bookends which are top rate as well. I also highly recomend 3 Cary Grant films Bringing Up Baby & Holiday (both with a very young Katharine Hepburn) and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer with a Myrna Loy, a teenaged Shirley Temple, and Rudy Vallee, the musician, all three very funny. Cary Grant, btw, was a big fan of LSD! He used it when it was being experimented with as a part of psychotherapy, and did over 100 sessions on the drug. If you liked The Bridge on the River Kwai, watch the other movies by David Lean with Alec Guiness, Lawrence of Arabia, and the slightly more chick-friendly Doctor Zhivago. They are both about 3-3.5 hours long, but they're a little better than Kwai, IMHO, and as a series they (augmented with some of his other work) convinced me that Alec Guiness was the best actor of the post WWII era in cinema. I could go on and on... I already have, but this the subject that I geek over more than any other.
Also, his other classics, A Fistful of Dollars (a rip-off of Akira Kirosawa's Yojimbo) and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly get more play, but the best spagetti western of all time is by far Once Upon a Time In the West. There are few movies where you think "I wish I could make something that good". The David Lean films I mentioned earlier qualify, and this does too.
