OT Your Fave Older Movies

[ABM]

What are your favorite movies, say, 20 years are older?

Right up there for me are:

A Few Good Men
Shawshank Redemption
Coming To America
Rocky
Schindler's List
Almost Famous
You've Got Mail
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Godfather

OK, this one is no classic, but my wife and I are planning on watching Capricorn One this evening.

 

[bigbailes]

LA Confidential
Dumb and Dumber
Godfather Epic
Rounders
Se7en
Silence of the Lambs
Office Space
Grosse Pointe Blank
The Rock
The Sandlot
Boondock Saints
Heat
Big Lebowski
Reservoir Dogs
Halloween
T2
Tombstone
Tommy Boy
Die Hard

 

[oldfisherman]

Cool runnings, with John Candy.

 

[Chris Craig]

Citizen Kane
Casablanca
The Third Man
North By Northwest
Rear Window
Rocky
The Big Lebowski
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Natural Borne Killers
Tombstone
Unforgiven
Die Hard
Boondock Saints
Blade Runner
Taxi Driver
Gladiator
Tremors
Duel

 

[ABM]

LA Confidential
Dumb and Dumber
Godfather Epic
Rounders
Se7en
Silence of the Lambs
Office Space
Grosse Pointe Blank
The Rock
The Sandlot
Boondock Saints
Heat
Big Lebowski
Reservoir Dogs
Halloween
T2
Tombstone
Tommy Boy
Die Hard

Good list there, for sure.

Dude abides, man.

 

[BlazerWookee]

Support Your Local Sherrif

 

[twobullz]

Support Your Local Sherrif

What about your local gunfighter?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Go for a Billy Wilder & William Holden night and make a double feature of Sunset Boulevard and Stalag 17.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Trading Places
Coming to America
Back to the Future 1-3
Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton Bond Movies
American Psycho
Boiler Room
Clueless
Pulp Fiction

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Trading Places
Coming to America
Back to the Future 1-3
Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton Bond Movies
American Psycho
Boiler Room
Clueless
Pulp Fiction

Boiler Room and Rounders makes a great double feature.

 

[Road Ratt]

Tremors
Die Hard
Carrie (1976)
Short Circuit
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Lethal Weapon 3
Lethal Weapon 4
Planet of the Apes (1968) (I was watching this series as a kid)
My Name is Nobody
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Being There (what a performance by Peter Sellers)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Kelly's Heroes (this was one of the last movies I watched with my dad, one of both of our favorites)
True Grit (1969 version)
Evil Roy Slade (I was watching this movie back in the 70's as a kid. Bought the dvd several years ago. Still love it)
The Road Warrior
Cool Hand Luke (another movie I was watching as a kid)
Real Men (great old comedy with Jim Belushi and John Ritter)
Duel (1971)
Red Dawn (1984) (another old favorite I watched with my dad many times)
The Longest Yard (1974)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
The Parent Trap (1961)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High

 

[SlyPokerDog]

@ABM a Mike Rich night also might be fun for you. Mike is a former Portland radio personality turned screen writer.

You would have your pick of good movies:

Secretariat
Radio
The Rookie
Finding Forrester

 

[BigGameDamian]

Back to the Future 1-3
Karate kid 1-3
North Shore
The Firm
Weekend at Bernies
Plains Trains & Automobiles
Color of Money
Rounders
Groundhog Day
Rain Man
A few good Men
Shawshank redemption
Forest Gump
Tombstone
Beverly Hills Cop 1-3
Blues Brothers
Bill & Ted Excellent Adventure
Roadhouse
Above the Law...Even though I'm not a Steven Seagal fan.
The Fugitive
Executive Decision
Big Trouble In Little China

 

[riverman]

The Razors Edge....Bill Murray...he fought to get this made and it's one of my all time favorite movies...adapted from the F Scott Fitzgerald novel...wonderful movie from WWI to the roaring 20s...from New York to Europe to India and back to Paris...an epic journey
The Score ...Robert DiNero, Marlon Brando and Ed Norton....best ending ever in a thriller
The Constant Gardner..the English Patient, Schindlers List and Strange Days all staring ..Ralph Fiennes,
Lawrence of Arabia
Citizen Kane
The Color Purple
The legend of 1900 ...Tim Roth

 

[Lanny]

What are your favorite movies, say, 20 years are older?

Right up there for me are:

A Few Good Men
Shawshank Redemption
Coming To America
Rocky
Schindler's List
Almost Famous
You've Got Mail
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Godfather

OK, this one is no classic, but my wife and I are planning on watching Capricorn One this evening.

I like:
A Few Good Men;
Shawshank Redemption;
Schindler's List;
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

There are a ton of others:
The Grapes of Wrath;
Forbidden Planet;
Airplane;
King Kong;
A Shot in the Dark;
To Kill a Mockingbird;
The Seven Samurai;
Dr. Zhivago;
On the Waterfront;
12 Angry Men;
The Bridge on the River Kwai;
Oklahoma;
South Pacific;
Laurence of Arabia;
Monty Python and the Holy Grail;
North by Northwest;
I was a Male War Bride;
West Side Story;
My Fair Lady;
Sunset Blvd.;
The Big Lebowski;
Jurassic Park;
Saving Private Ryan;
Alien;
Psycho;
The Shining;
A Clockwork Orange;
Star Wars;
The Princess Bride;
The Graduate;
Singin' in the Rain;
The Sound of Music;
The Sting;
Jaws;
Gone with the Wind;
Raiders of the Lost Arc;
2001 A Space Odyssey;
Casablanca;
Citizen Kane;
The Wizard of Oz;
Doctor No;
Grease;
Rebel without a Cause;
Kill Bill;
1981.

There must be a Million other great classics.

 

[stampedehero]

The Red Violin*
The Illusionist*
Das Boat*
Casablanca
The Big Lebowski*
Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
One flew over the Coocoo's nest
The Bunker*
All the Indiana Jones movies
Reservoir Dogs
The Departed
The Irishman*
Good Fellas*
Monty Python Movies*
James Bond Movies
King Kong with Jack Black*
Forrest Gump*
Boiler Room
The Game*
Alien one and two (Third one sucked)
Terminator movies
All Alfred Hitchcock movies
Ronin*
Heat*
Tombstone*
All the Star Trek movies
Only the first Jaws*
Duel
Bullitt*
The Seven Ups*
Live and Die in LA*
La Confidential*
Knives Out
Police Squad movies *

I'll have to come back and add to the list. * Denotes: Have to see them when well enhanced.

 

[jonnyboy]

Trading Places
Coming to America
Back to the Future 1-3
Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton Bond Movies
American Psycho
Boiler Room
Clueless
Pulp Fiction

I like how you snuck Clueless in there.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I like how you snuck Clueless in there.

I was obsessed with Alicia Silverstone when it came out. She ended up going to my college.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I was obsessed with Alicia Silverstone when it came out. She ended up going to my college.

Is that when she took out the restraining order against you?

 

[ABM]

Is that when she took out the restraining order against you?

Conversely, when he showed her his 40 pair of shoes she realized she could take him.

 

[crandc]

Some of my longtime favorites, in no particular order:

A Hard Days Night
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
9 to 5
West Side Story
Silence of the Lambs
Romeo & Juliet (1968)
Color Purple
But I'm A Cheerleader!
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Thelma & Louise
To Kill A Mockingbird
Wizard of Oz
Rear Window
Godfather I and II
Black Klansman
Like Water for Chocolate
Glory Road
Million Dollar Baby
All the President's Men

With lockdown now in second year I've been streaming movies. Some that I never got around to seeing before and liked:
To Catch a Thief (Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, AND a cat, what's not to love?)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (actually he was rather dim, his wife much smarter)
The Tale (very thought provoking about how a woman and her 13 year old self view same incident)
Cape Fear (the original with Gregory Peck as good guy and Robert Mitchum as very bad guy)
Marnie (one of Hitchcock's lesser known but worth seeing)

Sure I'm leaving some out.

 

[riverman]

I didn't even touch on comedy....Jo Jo Dancer.(not a comedy but Pryor)....Planes Trains and Automobiles.....Dirty Rotten Scoundrels....the Blues Brothers....A Night at the Opera...Modern Times (Chaplin)...Indiana Jones...take your pick....they're all good ..Crocodile Dundee

 

[BigGameDamian]

Uncle Buck
Colors
Primal Fear
Rock
The Outsiders
My Cousin Vinny
Mrs doubtfire

 

[Chris Craig]

The Red Violin*
The Illusionist*
Das Boat*
Casablanca
The Big Lebowski*
Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
One flew over the Coocoo's nest
The Bunker*
All the Indiana Jones movies
Reservoir Dogs
The Departed
The Irishman*
Good Fellas*
Monty Python Movies*
James Bond Movies
King Kong with Jack Black*
Forrest Gump*
Boiler Room
The Game*
Alien one and two (Third one sucked)
Terminator movies
All Alfred Hitchcock movies
Ronin*
Heat*
Tombstone*
All the Star Trek movies
Only the first Jaws*
Duel
Bullitt*
The Seven Ups*
Live and Die in LA*
La Confidential*
Knives Out

I'll have to come back and add to the list. * Denotes: Have to see them when well enhanced.

Love Duel. Have it on DVD

 

[ABM]

@ABM a Mike Rich night also might be fun for you. Mike is a former Portland radio personality turned screen writer.

You would have your pick of good movies:

Secretariat
Radio
The Rookie
Finding Forrester

Loved The Rookie

 

[Chris Craig]

@ABM a Mike Rich night also might be fun for you. Mike is a former Portland radio personality turned screen writer.

You would have your pick of good movies:

Secretariat
Radio
The Rookie
Finding Forrester

All good movies. Finding Forrester my favorite out of them.

 

[ABM]

Love Duel. Have it on DVD

Me, too. Dennis Weaver was great. I could see someone like Cup or Yankee as the antagonist.

 

[riverman]

The Rookie was great....so was the Natural but my alltime favorite sports movie was probably Hoosiers....I'd put the original Rocky on that list too

 

[Chris Craig]

Me, too. Dennis Weaver was great. I could see someone like Cup or Yankee as the antagonist.

Weaver was perfect for it. His acting was superb especially in the diner scene. The psychology of that movie was beautiful. Being chased by an unseen spector in a cat and mouse game as the tension rises with each scene. Spielberg was genius directing his first movie. Using minimal elements, not relying on a large cast, but on sound and sight.

 

[ABM]

Weaver was perfect for it. His acting was superb especially in the diner scene. The psychology of that movie was beautiful. Being chased by an unseen spector in a cat and mouse game as the tension rises with each scene. Spielberg was genius directing his first movie. Using minimal elements, not relying on a large cast, but on sound and sight.

Exactly. Well put.