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Yeah, "I Am a Fugitive From a Chaingang" is indeed a great movie.
They Drive By Night is on my watch list
Never heard of 21 Days but I'll definitely seek it out, too! Thanks.
1. Fantasia
2. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
3. Pinnochio
4. Dumbo
5. Bambi
^To me, his 30s and 40s era work stands alone in artistic and technical brilliance and are Walt's true masterpieces
50s:
1. Sleeping Beauty
2. Cinderella
3. Peter Pan
60s era:
1. The Jungle Book
2. The Sword In The Stone
3. Swiss Family Robinson
4. Pollyanna
5. Mary Poppins
***long intervening period of forgettable garbage***
Disney Renaissance:
1. Beauty And The Beast
2. The Lion King
3. The Little Mermaid
4. Pocahontas
5. The Rescuers: Downunder
Loved early Pixar right up until Finding Nemo, the most overrated animated movie of all time
Funny, my mum, myself, my sister, and my cousins are all fans of Beatrix Potter's books and none of us were born in the 40s. I was born in the 90s.
Yes, completely agree.
Sadly a lost art.
Actually forgot how stunning the Himalayan backdrops look in Black Narcissus...that's like a Renaissance painting!
How about these:
MARRY POPPINS
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BEN HUR
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SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
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The 30s rule! Curious, which great 1930s movies did you watch this year?
I was also a strict Bogie and Cagney guy and didn't bother watching anything else that was old... until I saw a restored and remastered print of "The General" by Bustor Keaton, which I loved and it sparked a kind of inspiration in me to watch more movies later throughout the era and earlier. Lately, I'm discovering amazing foreign directors like Kurosawa, Ophuls, Fellini and Herzog.
I agree, they are comforting, and for the most part better written, better acted, had better music and gorgeous sets, costumes and cinematography than today's movies which for the most part either resemble expensive, 2 hour long video games, or mediocre tv movies.
It will be just as bad or worse than Trump. Biden's yet another rich, racist, war mongering old dinosaur put in office by lobbyists and rich degenerates masquerading as progressives. Add to that possible Dementia and a tendancy to grope and sniff the hair of other people's children.
It could only be dandy.
Not as great, but the one movie that comes to mind, far as emphasis on prospectors and greed is concerned, is There Will Be Blood (2007) Paul Thomas Anderson's also mentioned on occasion that Treasure is his all time favourite movie.
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In no particular order:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Apocalypse Now
Vertigo
The Conversation
La Dolce Vita
Unforgiven
It Happened One Night
Ikiru
Ran
Goodfellas
Aguirre, Wrath of God
City of God
The Searchers
Singin in the Rain
The General
2001: A Space Odyssey
Lawrence of Arabia
The Right Stuff
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Fargo
The Wizard of Oz, The Lady Eve, The Public Enemy, Singin' in the Rain, Dances with Wolves, The Conversation, The Third Man, The Searchers, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Aguiree, Wrath of God, To Catch a Thief, The Right Stuff, E.T. The Extra-Extra-Terrestrial, The General, Casablanca, White Heat --- off the top of my head
Undoubtedly that was the plan from the start. Stealing from the series, Cruise had a pre-made product to start a successful blockbuster franchise, with an already iconic score and nifty tropes. Bruce Geller probably would've sued the socks off him and Paramount had he still been alive.
Never looked at it that way, but that makes sense!
Based on it's technical achievements and creative innovations it's easily a 10/10
For it's entertainment value I give it 6/10
Honestly I notice a lot of people disliking this movie because of it's "Greatest film of all time" status. Things with huge accolades breed a kind of weird resentment in some people for whatever reason.
It wad due to both financial and artistic choices.
Agreed. His SUPERMAN score belongs in my top 5 favorite John Williams scores, alongside Jaws, ET, Schindler's List & Raiders Of The Lost Ark. I think William's music can feel as alive as the characters do in every film he scores.
Same here, if it's not's Scorsese directing, I've got super low expectations because it needs his kind of visceral intensity and performance direction. The only other director in my opinion who could do Tyson's story justice is Michael Mann, but he's gone off the radar, probably retired.
I remember there being quite a few comic/tv series film adaptations in the 90s that were very source material-accurate... This is one of the rare few that isn't.
True, but every single sci fi movie is dated, or will show it's age somehow, inevitably. I think Strange Days gets away with it because it's based in 1999, and not some distant future, and so everything felt "in it's place" to me.