I've been curious about this, what is your favourite older film? I watched a movie from the 60s a few days ago and it occurred to me that I've watched very few pre-1970s movies, mostly only a few of the older Disney movies, one or tw horror classics, and The Wizard of Oz. I was curious what older movies people like?
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What is your favourite older (Maybe pre-1970s?) movie?
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Arsenic and Old Lace, Harvey, Gone with the Wind, Bythe Spirit, anything Hitchcock, all of Steinbeck’s even though they’re depressing as hell, The Shop Around the Corner, Breakfast at Tiffany’s... Harold and Maude but that might be early seventies... Just too many to name actually.
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The movies that come to mind are Singin' In The Rain and Roman Holiday. I love 'em. Although I haven't seen that many, I do enjoy watching those old classic movies - especially ones with singing and dancing! For example, 'Till The Clouds Roll By and Call Me Madam. So if you're into musicals and such, I recommend checking them out. There's a bunch of other good movies that are of the same genre as well, that were also made during that era.
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I love older movies! My favorite movie of all time is Gone with the Wind.
Other notable older movies that I love:
- Jane Eyre (1943)
- Roman Holiday
- My Fair Lady
- The Uninvited (1944)
- The Bad Seed (1956)
- Psycho (1960)
- Casablanca
- The Sound of Music
- Mary Poppins
- The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- All About Eve
- Rosemary's Baby
- The Pink Panther
- A Clockwork Orange
- Harvey
I realized that a lot of these movies have been remade recently. I'll stick to the originals, though.
Other notable older movies that I love:
- Jane Eyre (1943)
- Roman Holiday
- My Fair Lady
- The Uninvited (1944)
- The Bad Seed (1956)
- Psycho (1960)
- Casablanca
- The Sound of Music
- Mary Poppins
- The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- All About Eve
- Rosemary's Baby
- The Pink Panther
- A Clockwork Orange
- Harvey
I realized that a lot of these movies have been remade recently. I'll stick to the originals, though.
RedTropicalPeachyFish
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Not pre-70's but my favorite from old movies are God Father Ⅰ and Ⅱ.
Nunnafinga
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It's hard to pick just one so here's a few:
The Searchers(1956)
Citizen Kane(1941)
Casablanca(1941)
Stalag 17(1952)
My Fair Lady(1964)
The Adventures of Robin Hood(1938)
Gigi(1958)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)
Scaramouche(1952)
The Ten Commandments(1956)
The Searchers(1956)
Citizen Kane(1941)
Casablanca(1941)
Stalag 17(1952)
My Fair Lady(1964)
The Adventures of Robin Hood(1938)
Gigi(1958)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)
Scaramouche(1952)
The Ten Commandments(1956)
SublimeDonut
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Unpopular opinion, films that came out after the 60's can't be called old or classics. But anyways, my favorite is Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca. The title was changed in my country to Rebecca, the Unforgettable Woman, and I much prefer it like that.
I quite like the old Showa era Godzilla movies (well, all the Godzilla movies). They're cheap and tacky but I love 'em...Even the bad ones have enough absurdity to be enjoyable. I THINK they may be the oldest movies on my movie shelf.
The Gamera series was pretty decent too. Largely for the same reasons I find Godzilla appealing.
In fact, I kind of just love any of the old kaiju movies. The effects were terrible, you can tell that it's a man in a rubber suit with some laser beams drawn straight onto the reel with a pen, but there's just something about them that's so appealing to me. Then again, I've always found practical effects massively more appealing than CGI and watching older movies where they were still working out more convincing ways to do things fascinates me, not to mention a guy in a rubber suit destroying a miniature Tokyo looks far more convincing to me than a CG monster knocking down CG buildings.
That seems a bit arbitrary.
I think we have a good idea of what movies are going to be around near forever much sooner than 70 years, typically the definition of classic, something that's regarded as high quality over a long period of time. 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', 'Pulp Fiction', 'Shawshank Redemption', 'Green Mile'. These aren't movies that are going to fade into obscurity or the general consensus suddenly decide they're terrible, we don't need another 20 years to know that.
The Gamera series was pretty decent too. Largely for the same reasons I find Godzilla appealing.
In fact, I kind of just love any of the old kaiju movies. The effects were terrible, you can tell that it's a man in a rubber suit with some laser beams drawn straight onto the reel with a pen, but there's just something about them that's so appealing to me. Then again, I've always found practical effects massively more appealing than CGI and watching older movies where they were still working out more convincing ways to do things fascinates me, not to mention a guy in a rubber suit destroying a miniature Tokyo looks far more convincing to me than a CG monster knocking down CG buildings.
That seems a bit arbitrary.
I think we have a good idea of what movies are going to be around near forever much sooner than 70 years, typically the definition of classic, something that's regarded as high quality over a long period of time. 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', 'Pulp Fiction', 'Shawshank Redemption', 'Green Mile'. These aren't movies that are going to fade into obscurity or the general consensus suddenly decide they're terrible, we don't need another 20 years to know that.
