Basically what's your favorite classic movie. Not sure what defines a classic movie, but whatever you see fit.
Mine is definetely the fugitive. It's a great movie, pretty much everybody knows it, everybody has seen it, and almost every director has used at least one scene from that movie somewhere.
Favorite classic
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Maybe not my absolute favorite, but Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is definitely on my list of all-time greatest classics.
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"We're No Angels." Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov play three escaped convicts on Devils Island who set out to screw over a merchant and escape back to France and wind up helping him and his family.
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Moby Dick (the original), Forbidden Planet and The Day the Earth Stood Still (original)
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"Casablanca" -- 1942 Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. Romance, war, and drama in "Unoccupied" Africa. Also setting of one of the most stirring scenes in movies, (IMO) Here And also source of some of the greatest lines in movie history.
I suppose I'd also add "The Adventures of Robin Hood" - 1938. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Haviland, Basil Rathbone, Claud Rains
I suppose I'd also add "The Adventures of Robin Hood" - 1938. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Haviland, Basil Rathbone, Claud Rains
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Yeah, gonna have to go with that one. Dr. Strangelove is just an awesome flick.Tsukiyumi wrote:Maybe not my absolute favorite, but Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is definitely on my list of all-time greatest classics.
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Mine would be "Forrest Gump", followed closely by "The Princess Bride".
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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Citizen Kane.
Last third was a bit weaker then the first too, but a fantastic film none the less.
Last third was a bit weaker then the first too, but a fantastic film none the less.
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Are you talking about the 1933 The Fugitive, or the John Ford 1947 one? Surely you can't mean the crappy Harrison Ford remake of the TV show, right?Nickswitz wrote:Basically what's your favorite classic movie. Not sure what defines a classic movie, but whatever you see fit.
Mine is definetely the fugitive. It's a great movie, pretty much everybody knows it, everybody has seen it, and almost every director has used at least one scene from that movie somewhere.
Anyway, for me I'd say The Philadelphia Story - Grant and Hepburn had phenomenal chemistry and Jimmy Stewart was great as usual. Likewise, To Have and Have Not - Bacall and Bogey had amazing chemistry (as they should have,) and it's got one of the greatest lines ever. As a big Kurosawa fan, I have to add Ran and Seven Samurai. My Guilty Pleasure award would have to go to Pale Rider.
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I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
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Yes I'm talking about the Harrison Ford one... 
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Nickswitz wrote:Yes I'm talking about the Harrison Ford one...
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
Re: Favorite classic
My favorite classic is... Harvey.
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