Not A Mallard Posted December 24, 2014 Posted December 24, 2014 Also, dUSt, your City Lights avatar is great! More Chaplin. That's what I gotta watch.
Ancilla Domini Posted December 24, 2014 Author Posted December 24, 2014 I love It's a Wonderful Life! Also, dUSt, your City Lights avatar is great! Pop quiz: My signature is adapted from a famous line from which classic film? Cool Hand Luke! :D
Ancilla Domini Posted December 24, 2014 Author Posted December 24, 2014 Is City Lights the one where Charlie Chaplin helps the blind flower-lady?
Not A Mallard Posted December 24, 2014 Posted December 24, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBa2Mm-nP50
HopefulHeart Posted December 24, 2014 Posted December 24, 2014 Cool Hand Luke! :D Yes indeed! I can't eat hard-boiled eggs without thinking about the egg-eating scene from that movie. :hehe2: Is City Lights the one where Charlie Chaplin helps the blind flower-lady? Yep, that's it! My family has a poster for City Lights hung in our dining room.
Ancilla Domini Posted December 24, 2014 Author Posted December 24, 2014 (edited) Yes indeed! I can't eat hard-boiled eggs without thinking about the egg-eating scene from that movie. :hehe2: Yep, that's it! My family has a poster for City Lights hung in our dining room. I've actually never watched that movie. Mea culpa! But I grew up hearing my dad quote from it, so I immediately knew what the quote was from. Kinda funny story: My history teacher (in an online class) asked a question in class once, and the kid he was asking misunderstood it and answered something completely irrelevant. I typed in the chatbox, "What we got here is a failure to communicate!" and he started quoting the egg scene. XD (My history teacher and I had such a wonderful relationship. XD He and I were the only people in class who knew old movies, so I could always quote a relevant movie-quote and count on him to catch the reference. XD I have tons of quote-stories from that class. Oh, and btw, he was a great teacher and didn't allow himself to get off-topic too much. XD All the kids would come in early to class to chat, though.) I LOVE City Lights! Such a lovely movie. It's been an age since I watched it last, though. I need to watch it again. Edited December 24, 2014 by Ancilla Domini
HopefulHeart Posted December 24, 2014 Posted December 24, 2014 I've actually never watched that movie. Mea culpa! But I grew up hearing my dad quote from it, so I immediately knew what the quote was from. Kinda funny story: My history teacher (in an online class) asked a question in class once, and the kid he was asking misunderstood it and answered something completely irrelevant. I typed in the chatbox, "What we got here is a failure to communicate!" and he started quoting the egg scene. XD (My history teacher and I had such a wonderful relationship. XD He and I were the only people in class who knew old movies, so I could always quote a relevant movie-quote and count on him to catch the reference. XD I have tons of quote-stories from that class. Oh, and btw, he was a great teacher and didn't allow himself to get off-topic too much. XD All the kids would come in early to class to chat, though.) I LOVE City Lights! Such a lovely movie. It's been an age since I watched it last, though. I need to watch it again. Cool Hand Luke is a good movie. You should watch it sometime. Your history teacher sounds great! My dad, who homeschooled me through high school, is an old film buff, so I got my love of classic films from him.
Ancilla Domini Posted December 29, 2014 Author Posted December 29, 2014 Teahouse of the August Moon! I just watched it last night. Has anyone seen it? It . is . awesome. Marlon Brando plays a Japanese man, (talk about versatility!) an interpreter for Glenn Ford, who plays an American soldier. The movie takes place during the U.S. Occupation of Okinawa -- Glenn Ford plays the American who is supposed to teach democracy to the Japanese natives of the town of Tobiki. I'd definitely recommend watching it. It's hilarious!
PartesVulpiumErunt Posted December 30, 2014 Posted December 30, 2014 Marlon Brando - the most convincing westerner to play an Asian since John Wayne played Genghis Khan. :blues:
ChristianGirlForever Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 I love old movies, but I haven't seen nearly as many as I'd like. One I recall enjoying quite a bit is Please, Don't Eat The Daisies. Anybody else seen it? I have it recorded on the DVR, so I'm going to see it soon. I love Jack Lemmon and Doris Day, so I'll probably like it. :) When I was a child all I saw were old movies because my father watches them as a hobby. Also, they are often very clean, so it was considered not inappropriate for a child to watch them. I had a very sheltered childhood. :) If you don't have FMC or TCM, Netflix streams old movies online, FuturePriest.
ChristianGirlForever Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 It is with Doris Day, but I'm not sure about the other guy. Be sure to watch it, however, as it was quite good. Have you seen Boys Town? It's a really good classic movie about Priest, and better yet it's a true story. To top it off, at the very end of the movie he punches a guy in the face. It's epic. I saw Boys' Town. It was quite good. I wish they still made movies like that. I really like Spencer Tracy, too.
ChristianGirlForever Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 Watched "Pat and Mike" the other day, with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. They're such an amesome pair. XD I know it, Ancilla! I'm not a big Katherine Hepburn fan, but she softened when she was around Spencer Tracy. It was very sweet---if he weren't married :unsure: . My favorite Tracy and Hepburn movies are Woman of the Year and Adam's Rib. I also loved the moral messages in them!
ChristianGirlForever Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 It's different, really. If you watch a pro-American movie from the 1940s and a pro-American movie today, there's something fundamentally different in the words and approaches. I can't explain what it is, but there is definitely something different. Perhaps the difference is that they have removed God from Patriotism.
HopefulHeart Posted January 18, 2015 Posted January 18, 2015 Over the weekend I watched a fun comedy called Champagne for Caesar. Vincent Price is quite humorous in one of his non-horror roles. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOMNz2cc0YA[/media]
Ancilla Domini Posted January 18, 2015 Author Posted January 18, 2015 Over the weekend I watched a fun comedy called Champagne for Caesar. Vincent Price is quite humorous in one of his non-horror roles. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOMNz2cc0YA[/media] Oh I need to see this! I love Ronald Colman and Vincent Price! Sounds great. Thanks for sharing. :)
HopefulHeart Posted January 18, 2015 Posted January 18, 2015 Oh I need to see this! I love Ronald Colman and Vincent Price! Sounds great. Thanks for sharing. :) Great, hope you enjoy it! :)
Not A Mallard Posted January 18, 2015 Posted January 18, 2015 I've been watching older Spielberg movies such as Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. (my favorite of the bunch), The Last Crusade, and Jurassic Park...if that counts...
Not A Mallard Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 I saw The Maltese Falcon recently. I haven't been more disappointed by a Golden Age Hollywood film.
Ancilla Domini Posted January 29, 2015 Author Posted January 29, 2015 I saw The Maltese Falcon recently. I haven't been more disappointed by a Golden Age Hollywood film. It's the stuff the dreams are made of... I really hated that movie. Peter Lorre, though, as always, was absolutely brilliant. I love his outburst against Sydney Greenstreet at the end, when he finds out that the Falcon was fake. He completely loses it and then slinks off to an armchair to mope. Then, when Sydney Greenstreet says he's going to continue his search, Peter Lorre looks up and says in that wonderful voice of his, "You are? I'm going with you!" :P Really, though, that was such a disappointing movie.
Not A Mallard Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 It's the stuff the dreams are made of... I really hated that movie. Peter Lorre, though, as always, was absolutely brilliant. I love his outburst against Sydney Greenstreet at the end, when he finds out that the Falcon was fake. He completely loses it and then slinks off to an armchair to mope. Then, when Sydney Greenstreet says he's going to continue his search, Peter Lorre looks up and says in that wonderful voice of his, "You are? I'm going with you!" :P Really, though, that was such a disappointing movie. As I say in my review (the last one on the list), I didn't like any of the characters. Sam Spade was having an affair with two woman at once. That would be acceptable if his lifestyle brought about consequences that led to his redemption, but it didn't.
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