I was very close to adding "Singing in the Rain", and am glad it made the list.
How about "Bridge Over the River Kwai"?
"Stalag 17"?
"Schultze Gets the Blues" (never heard of it? Try it)
"Mrs. Miniver" (goes with the earlier "Best Years of Our Lives" suggestion)
"Bunny Lake is Missing"
"Rebel Without a Cause"
Yes, Barbarella had a profound affect on me the first time I saw it. Well, I was only 12.
Never understood why people went in for all that Startwars guff a decade later.
Pulp Fiction
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Fifth Element
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
Fury ( they're getting really good at making realistic war movies )
Talvisota (1989) Finnish
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
plus any movie with James Stewart
As far as Star Wars saga I remember watching it in Bristol while local audience laughed at every occasion treating it as a comedy .... such it was summer 1977 in UK
As far as Star Wars saga I remember watching it in Bristol while local audience laughed at every occasion treating it as a comedy .... such it was summer 1977 in UK
Ha, I could have been in that audience. Well, except I lived the other side of the country.Audience response was the same. Silly movies.
My audience for the first time to watch Star Wars was the Lucas film SFX crew, who was rewatching the film one Saturday afternoon. The theater was right around the corner from the original ILM in Van Nuys. Completely different response and experience, though the auditorium was only half full -- and tickets were just 99 cents. It was quite fun, actually.
I saw the second showing of Star Wars in the New Orleans area, and by accident since my parents decided almost at random to maybe see a movie that night and I'd heard the radio DJ's yammering about Star Wars on the way home in the school bus. So we went and spent about 5 minutes in a line of 50-60 people to get into the 5:30 PM showing. The mood in the theatre was almost of shock. You could have heard a pin drop during the quiet interludes. Nobody had ever seen anything like it. It was silly and hammy and overblown and it was also like a great big steamroller of fun that just mowed you down.
When we got out, the line for the 7:00 show was four blocks long.
Not quite what I had in mind Gordon. Just that I gave up trying to find native version on the Utube. Still, we can brush up on a little German at the same time:)
By 1930 a number of films (even silents) were shot and shown in color, though it was a "bipack" two-film process that didn't fully reproduce all the colors. It was good enough for audiences used to black and white and constant "pops" throughout the soundtrack. Technicolor's three-strip process came out a little later commercially, and of course was in full view by the mid 1930s with the Disney cartoons.
My father loved Hell's Angels, but I never personally got into WWI tales. Conversely, he hated films about WWII, because he was in that war, and those are the ones I like the most. My favorite, though, is 'Best Years of Our Lives,' which is post combat. For a film that was made just a few months following the end of the war, it was amazingly prescient.
I think the problem is that when those early colour movies were still turning up on TV we still only had a black and white TV. I had a bit of a shock when I saw my first ever color news reel footage from the Second World war.
I generally go to the movies for a healthy dose of escape from reality. Three movies I recently enjoyed despite some notable objections in these forums.
Avatar
Gravity
Maleficent
and many Pixar animations.
Can't wait for the soon to be released "Into the Woods"
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That is just NOT possible, my favorite movies change every few minutes.
5 per forum member and since a large number of members are not very vocal, we're just giving them a voice. :0)
Ok, with all the things going on at the various levels in that book, "naked little boys fighting to the death" never even occurred to me.
No nostalgia required, my coworker suffers from that to this day. Which means I do to.
How about "Bridge Over the River Kwai"?
"Stalag 17"?
"Schultze Gets the Blues" (never heard of it? Try it)
"Mrs. Miniver" (goes with the earlier "Best Years of Our Lives" suggestion)
"Bunny Lake is Missing"
"Rebel Without a Cause"
Great! Now I'll be whistling that the rest of the day! Thanks!
Robinson Crusoe on Mars - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058530/
The Birdmen - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066833/
You can only marvel at her Positronic Rays:)
Never understood why people went in for all that Startwars guff a decade later.
Sure to be a cool movie!
Sandy
Pulp Fiction
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Fifth Element
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
Fury ( they're getting really good at making realistic war movies )
Avengers is my favorite, followed by Iron Man, then Captain America.
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
plus any movie with James Stewart
As far as Star Wars saga I remember watching it in Bristol while local audience laughed at every occasion treating it as a comedy .... such it was summer 1977 in UK
Now a days though, we Brits are all turning Jedi http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9737886/Jedi-religion-most-popular-alternative-faith.html
When we got out, the line for the 7:00 show was four blocks long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEyxdRFxcXI brilliant.
And learn (I gather from the subtitles) Portuguese while you're at it!
I'm amazed there are color sequences in there.
My father loved Hell's Angels, but I never personally got into WWI tales. Conversely, he hated films about WWII, because he was in that war, and those are the ones I like the most. My favorite, though, is 'Best Years of Our Lives,' which is post combat. For a film that was made just a few months following the end of the war, it was amazingly prescient.
Avatar
Gravity
Maleficent
and many Pixar animations.
Can't wait for the soon to be released "Into the Woods"
How about Red Skelton in "The Fuller Brush Man" or even Jerry Lewis or maybe one of the Bob and Bing on the road movies.
Even an anthology of the best of the old silent slapsticks would let me go out with a smile(or grin) on my lips.
Tim
"Just keep grinning - It intrigues your friends and worries the heck out of your enemies."