What's your favorite old movie

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  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    <i>Gone With The Wind</i> FTW!
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1633439:date=Jun 14 2007, 11:10 AM:name=DrSuredeath)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DrSuredeath @ Jun 14 2007, 11:10 AM) [snapback]1633439[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Oh yeah? I watched Birth of a Nation.
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    1915 eh? I'll raise you that bet with the first Sci-Fi film of all time, released in 1902:

    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_to_the_Moon" target="_blank">Voyage to the Moon</a>

    And for your viewing pleasure, you can download it from Archive.org:
    <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/Levoyagedanslalune" target="_blank">http://www.archive.org/details/Levoyagedanslalune</a>
    OR Stream it on YouTube:
    <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0BmQaIIR4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0BmQaIIR4</a>
  • AldarisAldaris Join Date: 2002-03-25 Member: 351Members, Constellation
    None. No films that early have ever interested me <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
  • Browser_ICEBrowser_ICE Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6944Members
    edited June 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1633420:date=Jun 14 2007, 11:46 AM:name=UltimaGecko)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(UltimaGecko @ Jun 14 2007, 11:46 AM) [snapback]1633420[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Plus it's got the historical "In the morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas...how he got in my pajamas, I dunno."
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    My favorite Marx quote is :

    "Last night a woman kept knocking on my door. After several hours, I decided to let her go"


    "The day the earth stood still", isn't it the one about this man coming out of a spaceship flying saucer with a robot ?

    My favorite Laurel and Hardy scene is when Hardy (the skinny guy) is siting next to a small river, drying his cloaths, then puts tabaco in his hand and making his hand look like a pipe, he puts his thumb in his mouth, takes a match, lights it, and lights up the tabaco in his hand, inhales through his thumb and out of his mouth, smokes gets out !!!

    I always prefered Laurent and Hardy over Chaplin. I think these 2 guys were funnier when they first started doing talking movies, after that, it started being less funny. I guess you could say, sound sort of ruined their career.

    How about Abott and Costello (hint: "Who`s on first, What`s on second, I don`t know is on third")

    Oh and I did see Metropolis old original version and anim version too.

    Another old sci-fi which I can't quite remember the name : The shape of things to come <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />


    <!--quoteo(post=1633515:date=Jun 14 2007, 09:22 PM:name=Aldaris)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Aldaris @ Jun 14 2007, 09:22 PM) [snapback]1633515[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    None. No films that early have ever interested me <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
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    Back then,they didn`t have special effects like we do now since 1960, so they had to make up with story and other things. I know it doen't make sense but alot of those old movies in away, are much better then today. Too many movies today, rely on special effects, sex and violence. Take all that out and what do you have left ?

    By the way, I was borned in 1963, so I am 43.


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    Citizen Kane
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    Rosebud.


    <!--quoteo(post=1633512:date=Jun 14 2007, 09:09 PM:name=Liku)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Liku @ Jun 14 2007, 09:09 PM) [snapback]1633512[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    1915 eh? I'll raise you that bet with the first Sci-Fi film of all time, released in 1902:
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    Saw it but along time ago.

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    <i>Gone With The Wind</i> FTW!
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    I have the cassette at home digitaly retouched with colors.
    "Franky my dear, I don't give a dam"


    "Forbidden Planet" isn't that Leslie Nelson's first movie ever ?
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    I just finished <i>The Adventures of Robin Hood</i> 5 minutes ago. Man, that swordfight in the end. Great stuff. That counts as old, right? 1930's? I think I still like <i>Metropolis</i> more though.
  • OmegamanOmegaman Join Date: 2004-01-11 Member: 25239Members
    This wasn't very old, but..Old and obscure enough that it can be considered old.

    <img src="http://www.impawards.com/1973/posters/my_name_is_nobody.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

    [youtube]tyjbrXfMLkM[/youtube]

    "My Name is Nobody" is quite possibly <i>the best Spaghetti Western of all time</i>. I effing mean it. And it's not even a serious one, it's a comedy. I'm not gonna go into all the points of why it's awesome but...Nobody, the character played by Terence Hill, is supremely awesome.
  • Browser_ICEBrowser_ICE Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6944Members
    edited June 2007
    At this very moment (1am at the office, shhhtttt!) watching "The day the earth stood still".

    3:30 am, just finished watching it. I liked it. Wonder if they ever made a remake of it (Hollywood usualy does).

    Its a 1951 movie by the way about a humanoid coming to earth to warn us to stop violence otherwise, their intergalactic robot police would obliterate earth !
  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1633439:date=Jun 14 2007, 01:10 PM:name=DrSuredeath)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DrSuredeath @ Jun 14 2007, 01:10 PM) [snapback]1633439[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Oh yeah? I watched Birth of a Nation.
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    That movie never cease to be funny to me.


    <!--quoteo(post=1633555:date=Jun 14 2007, 11:51 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Jun 14 2007, 11:51 PM) [snapback]1633555[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I just finished <i>The Adventures of Robin Hood</i> 5 minutes ago. Man, that swordfight in the end. Great stuff. That counts as old, right? 1930's? I think I still like <i>Metropolis</i> more though.
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    Errol Flynn is the man, nuff said. (btw, 1938)
  • puzlpuzl The Old Firm Join Date: 2003-02-26 Member: 14029Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1633569:date=Jun 15 2007, 06:12 AM:name=Browser_ICE)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Browser_ICE @ Jun 15 2007, 06:12 AM) [snapback]1633569[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Its a 1951 movie by the way about a humanoid coming to earth to warn us to stop violence otherwise, their intergalactic robot police would obliterate earth !
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    Try "Forbidden planet" next, if you haven't already seen it. Yes, it stars Leslie Nielson. No, that doesn't take from the movie <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
  • SpaceJesusSpaceJesus Join Date: 2004-07-02 Member: 29683Banned
    <!--quoteo(post=1633629:date=Jun 15 2007, 09:05 AM:name=puzl)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(puzl @ Jun 15 2007, 09:05 AM) [snapback]1633629[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Yes, it stars Leslie Nielson. No, that doesn't take from the movie <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I'm not convinced xD
  • puzlpuzl The Old Firm Join Date: 2003-02-26 Member: 14029Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
    Well, the movie is made in that kind of hammy 50s style, and Nielson is very young in it ( most don't even recognise him, I certainly didn't the first 2-3 times I watched it ), so it's not like he's making cracks about dingies and beavers.
  • frostymoosefrostymoose Join Date: 2003-09-12 Member: 20799Members
    Lost Horizon (1937)
  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021814/" target="_blank">Bram Stoker's Dracula (19390 - IMDB Link</a>
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