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Post by The Man of Tomorrow on May 10, 2014 14:52:25 GMT -5
The Harold Lloyd version of On the Waterfront is a scream! When the union tugs throw Harold out the window, he just grabs the ledge and climbs up the building to safety! Then he hi-jacks a trolley and rides to the rescue to save Eva Marie Saint! Of course, the most famous scene is when Harold is in the car with Rod Steiger, and he's throwing his arms around on the verge of tears, and the title card says: I could have been a contender! Heh. Very funny, indeed.  |
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Post by Jesse on May 10, 2014 16:14:23 GMT -5
Do you have TCM On Demand? I noticed it was on my provider's TCM On Demand library today. (And it was on last night as I was going to bed and I watched the last half of it. It's great. It really holds up. Good ol' Mary Pickford. Imagine Shirley Temple playing her little girl roles into her 30s, and that's Mary Pickford.) Thanks for pointing that out. I just rewatched the entire movie and it's definitely an excellent film. I think William Beaudine did a great job identifying Mr. Grimes as a scoundrel in the first scene and the shots of the swamp were really creepy. While the opening card almost sets the tone of horror and the orphans situations is certainly dire there's also a lot of genuinely funny scenes. Mary Pickford is immediately endearing. The escape through the swamp was really suspenseful. It has one scene in particular that is amazing and exciting and will stick in your head for years. (You'll know it when you see it.) Are you referring to Molly's dream sequence the night the baby died in her arms? I like the symbolism of Christ taking the child away. |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 10, 2014 16:23:22 GMT -5
It has one scene in particular that is amazing and exciting and will stick in your head for years. (You'll know it when you see it.) Are you referring to Molly's dream sequence the night the baby died in her arms? I like the symbolism of Christ taking the child away. I was referring to the bit where they're on the tree limb above the alligators! And the kids are about to fall in the alligator's mouth! Aaaaah!! |
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Post by Jasoomian on May 10, 2014 16:25:57 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 10, 2014 17:01:33 GMT -5
Thought I would post my favorite movies by year since birth in this thread rather than random lists.Some years was hard to choose just one,some hard to find one worthy of this list.Of course if I did this tomorrow,I'd have different choices.I should also do a similar list for guilty pleasures
1954 On The Waterfront
1955 Night Of The Hunter
1956 Forbidden Planet
1957 12 Angry Men
1958 The Defiant Ones
1959 Some Like It Hot
1960 Psycho
1961 West Side Story
1962 To Kill A Mockingbird
1963 The Great Escape
1964 Dr. Strangelove
1965 Cat Ballou
1966 Our Man Flint
1967 The Graduate
1968 The Producers
1969 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
1970 Catch-22
1971 Clockwork Orange
1972 The Godfather
1973 The Sting
1974 Godfather 2
1975 Jaws
1976 Taxi Driver
1977 Star Wars
1978 Superman
1979 The Warriors
1980 Raging Bull
1981 Superman 2
1982 Star Trek 2
1983 Scarface
1984 Terminator
1985 Back To The Future
1986 Aliens
1987 Full Metal Jacket
1988 Rain Man
1989 Weekend at Bernie's
1990 Goodfellas
1991 Silence of the Lambs
1992 Unforgiven
1993 Groundhog's Day
1994 Shawshank Redemption
1995 Toy Story
1996 Jerry McGuire
1997 The Game
1998 Saving Private Ryan
1999 Green Mile
2000 Cast Away
2001 Blackhawk Down
2002 Lord of The Rings Two Towers
2003 Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005 50 Year Old Virgin
2006 Children Of Men
2007 Ratatouille
2008 Gran Torino
2009 Up
2010 Shutter Island
2011 Hugo
2012 Life Of Pi
2013 This Is The End
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Post by Hoosier X on May 10, 2014 17:24:29 GMT -5
I have a list for my favorite movies, year by year, on IMDB. But I didn't start with the year I was born (1964). I started with 1920, the year of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Instead of copying it here, I'll just provide a link: My favorite movies ... by year.
There are a few ties. When I made the list, I planned to go back and get rid of some of those ties, but I never got around to it. |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 10, 2014 17:36:12 GMT -5
Ish, you have a bunch of movies that I think are amazing that, unfortunately came out in a year with something even more amazing. (To me, anyway.) Like for 1965, you have Cat Ballou. Love it! But not as much as What's New Pussycat.
Or 1969, you have Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Again, great movie. But I have two movies that year I like: The Wild Bunch and Fellini Satyricon.
We agree on 1976's Taxi Driver, but I couldn't choose between that and The Tenant, so I called it a tie.
I've seen all the movies on your list except these seven:
The Defiant Ones
Our Man Flint (For the kind of movies I watch, this is a glaring omission.)
Weekend at Bernie's
The Game
Cast Away
40-Year-Old Virgin
This Is the End
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 10, 2014 17:37:36 GMT -5
I have a list for my favorite movies, year by year, on IMDB. But I didn't start with the year I was born (1964). I started with 1920, the year of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Instead of copying it here, I'll just provide a link: My favorite movies ... by year.
There are a few ties. When I made the list, I planned to go back and get rid of some of those ties, but I never got around to it. Interesting.Some we agree on,some was in 2nd place for me,some on my guilty pleasure list,some I've never seen,some I'm totally befuddled (Mars Attacks and Borat for example) |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 10, 2014 17:41:32 GMT -5
I didn't go to the movies as much as I usually do in 2006, the year of Borat.
Mars Attacks is just plain amazing.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2014 17:43:29 GMT -5
Borat is a terrific movie.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 10, 2014 17:57:22 GMT -5
I didn't go to the movies as much as I usually do in 2006, the year of Borat. Mars Attacks is just plain amazing. Of Hoosier's favs I've yet to see He Who gets Slapped Faust Sunrise Beggers Of Life Pandora's Box-own it Follow The Fleet Shall We Dance Too Late For Tears La Strada-own it Smiles of a Summer Night Elevators to the Gallows Yojimbo-own it Andrei Rublev Fellini's Satyricon Even Dwarves Started Small Female Convict Scorpion Hope and Glory The Moderns Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Drugstore Cowboy Naked Lunch Lost Skeleton of Cadavra 8 Women Domino Pride and Prejudice-have an earlier version Black Swan The Skin I Live In Seeking a Friend for the End Of the World Snow White and the Huntsmen American Hustle Obviously way behind you on international films.Props for listing Pretty Poison.I'll never get to see all the movies worth watching |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 10, 2014 18:08:41 GMT -5
Pretty Poison is BOSS! I saw it in L.A. at the American Cinematique at the Egyptian.
If you own Pandora's Box, Yojimbo and La Strada, you have to watch them soon. I've watched all three of them over and over. I own Pandora's Box, I used to get Yojimbo from Netflix every year or so, and La Strada used to be on TCM or IFC or some channel so much you could hardly miss it. (Plus I saw it at the Laemmle theater in Santa Monica one time. And I've seen Pandora's Box in a theater three or four times.)
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 10, 2014 20:57:31 GMT -5
Silent Movie (1976)
Mel Brooks,Dom Deluise,Marty Feldman,Sid Caesar,Bernadette Peters,Harold Gould,Ron Carey,Burt Reynolds,James Caan,Paul Newman,Marcel Marceau,Liza Manelli,Anne Bancroft D-Mel Brooks
Mel Funn (Mel Brooks)has an idea for a hit movie-the first silent film in 40 years.He goes to financially troubled Big Picture Studios to propose it.They are about to be taken over by Engulf & Devour and need a hit film desperately. So Mel and his cohorts (Dom Deluise,Marty Feldman) rush to get some Hollywood stars to agree to be in the flick.
Mel Brooks was on a roll,coming off Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.Not quite reaching the heights of comedy as those two film,Silent Movie is still a great smorgesbourd of visual shtick and slapstick.Marty Feldman rises to the top.This is also the first film with Mel Brooks in a leading role.Of the various stars they try to enlist,I thought the Liza Manelli bit was the best.Only one word of dialogue is spoken in the film and its appropiate who it belongs too. 7 of 10 stars
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Post by Hoosier X on May 10, 2014 21:18:57 GMT -5
I remember seeing Silent Movie when it first came out and we all thought it was hysterical. (But you're right, it's not quite as good as Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein. (And Mel's funniest movie is The Producers.))
I found Walkabout on YouTube, divided into 10-minute segments. It's really good! I think it's my new favorite movie! I sure wish I had caught it on TCM yesterday. (I missed Road Games last week and I've been wanting to see that for a while.)
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 11, 2014 2:08:01 GMT -5
The Social Network (2010)
Jesse Eisenberg,Andrew Garfield,Justin Timberlake
D-David Fincher
Flashbacks during a deposition recount how Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg created the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the financial cofounder who was later squeezed out of the business
I'm not a Facebook user and I wouldn't think this type of story would be all that compelling. But it was thanks to the screenplay by Aaron Sorkin,the directing of Fincher and the excellent acting of the entire cast.The characters are mostly unlikeable,the dialogue is rapid-fire and at times technical and the subject was nothing I was interested in.And yet I was riveted start to finish.Jesse Eisenberg absolutely nailed the type of character nerdy,smarmy character Zuckerberg is supposed to be and yet he was so likeable in Zombieland.The film never flagged,the 2 hours went quick. 8 1/2 of 10 stars
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