Old Movies

[Rocket Edge]

I personally think they were better made back then. They had a certain feel to them that made it very easy & relaxing to watch, as well as being engaging & entertaining.
My favourite old movies are '12 Angry Men', 'The Apartment', & 'It's a Wonderful Life'..

So what old movies did you enjoy watching?

[Madame Adequate]

The Day The Earth Stood Still is probably my fave.

Citizen Kane rates highly as well.

Night of the Living Dead, of course

The Seven Samurai is classic, but hell, it's Kurosawa. He could probably draw patterns of more beauty in the snow with his pee than most people could do with any art medium and ten years with unlimited funding.

[Rocket Edge]

The Seven Samurai is classic, but hell, it's Kurosawa. He could probably draw patterns of more beauty in the snow with his pee than most people could do with any art medium and ten years with unlimited funding.

That's very true, he's a genius, and your right, it is a classic.

[I Took the Red Pill]

Some Like it Hot, To Kill A Mockingbird, and It's A Wonderful Life are probably my favorites.

[Burtsplurt]

I'm not sure they're better per se, but there are some great examples. And I'm going to have to agree with some of those already mentioned...

The Birds
12 Angry Men
Vertigo
Night of the Living Dead - still scares me
Strangers on a Train (I like Hitchcock)
Seven Samurai

I'd really like to watch some film noirs. Need to watch out for them on TV.

[Sefie1999AD]

I think The Wizard of Oz was an amazing movie. Great music (Somewhere over the Rainbow...) and musical scenes, a lot of emotional moments, likable characters and an enchanting fantasy adventure.

[XxSephirothxX]

Casablanca. The Big Sleep. The Maltese Falcon. Bogart ftw.

[Skarr]

I don't know if M*A*S*H counts, but I loved it.

[fantasyjunkie]

Maltez Falcon
The lost patrol
Wizard of Oz(The ending where Dorthy said goodbye to her friends in OZ was a tear jerker)
12 angry men was just plain outstanding
Something about today's movies are just missing something. I can't quiet place it

[Markus. D]

Monkey!

*hops on a cloud and graphittis the sky for awhile*

[Captain Maxx Power]

It baffles me how nearly any movie in black and white is automatically labelled a masterpiece. I watch most of them and am usually bored to death by the slow pacing of dialogue, poor acting and lack of inventive cinematography. I think it's just because most movies brought out today are made purely for money, and is a reflection of our own times in which we ourselves don't feel comfortable. Chances are that the plethora of movies made 30's/40's/50's were made for exactly the same purpose, but because we've moved on as a society, looking back on these films gives us a kind of jaded view of the past and of a more pleasant era without the likes of Global Warming, Terrorism, Obesity "time-bombs", dwindling natural resources and so on.

[Rostum]

I think The Third Man was a very artsy kind of black and white (I can't remember the name to describe that). To me it was a pretty interesting story with a few star actors.

[Madame Adequate]

Maxx, there are thousands and thousands of movies from the old days most of us will never even hear of, let alone consider masterpieces. We're just discussing here the old ones which DO happen to be awesome. There are some of those from then, just as there are some of those from now.

[My_car_is_faster_than_you]

I was a huge fan of the Back to the Future series and Ferris Buellers day off. Since movies back then (depends what you mean by that), such as the 80's and 90's were made a heck of a lot better than they are now. I'd much rather see an old James Bond flick than xXx because the actors and actresses had to compensate for the lack of technology.

There are still good movies out there now, but there are more and more junk ones that are polluting the shelves because creating them (cameras and editing software) has become more accessible to the public, hence, many low budget pieces of junk are being produced.

[Odaisé Gaelach]

Psycho.