Cinema Which "classic" films are actually still watchable?

[Wintermute]

Gone With the Wind? Marry Poppins? Citizen Kane? Casablanca? Lawrence of Arabia?

I consider myself a movie buff, but there are "classic" films I haven't seen. I find that usually these films- even thought they're termed "timeless"- feel very dated when watched now in terms of pacing, dialog, acting style.

Are there classic movies that you still watch and love?

 

[Bozy]

I know the Stooges aren't classic films. But they're classics and still hold up.

 

[Splinty]

I know the Stooges aren't classic films. But they're classics and still hold up.

In that same sense, the original twilight zone series is still a keeper.

 

[Priziesthorse]

I consider myself a movie buff,

 

[Banchan]

Old American classic are my favorite.
Always though Paul Newman was just ok looking.
Then I saw him in long hot summer and now I have a crush

 

[SongExotic2]

Bloodsport!

 

[Banchan]

Can anyone remember the title of this classic movie where this woman bangs a confused young gay man and she says this classic line about when he thinks back on this moment "please be kind"? Honestly that stuff is pretty ahead of its time. That was a movie from the fifties if I remember correctly.

 

[SongExotic2]

Can anyone remember the title of this classic movie where this woman bangs a confused young gay man and she says this classic line about when he thinks back on this moment "please be kind"? Honestly that stuff is pretty ahead of its time. That was a movie from the fifties if I remember correctly.

Pretty woman?

 

[Banchan]

A lot of themes in old classics are still classist. So you have a lot of poor vs rich conflicts in love stories.

 

[Gay For Longo]

In that same sense, the original twilight zone series is still a keeper.

Yes it is
I just watched a couple episodes a couple weeks back

 

[HEATH VON DOOM]

Cool Hand Luke

Barbarosa

The Dirty Dozen

( Is Barbarosa considered a classic since it was made in 1982?)

 

[Wintermute]

Cool Hand Luke

Barbarosa

The Dirty Dozen

( Is Barbarosa considered a classic since it was made in 1982?)

The Dirty Dozen was great! Have you seen the original FAILSAFE? That's some taught shit.

 

[HEATH VON DOOM]

The Dirty Dozen was great! Have you seen the original FAILSAFE? That's some taught shit.

Have to check it out. I found the Dirty Dozen by accident about 10 years ago and I always watch when I run across it on TV. Lee Marvin is very underrated.

 

[RaginCajun]

Can anyone remember the title of this classic movie where this woman bangs a confused young gay man and she says this classic line about when he thinks back on this moment "please be kind"? Honestly that stuff is pretty ahead of its time. That was a movie from the fifties if I remember correctly.

Sounds like a movie about @Robbie Hart 's younger days.

 

[Priziesthorse]

A few from the 30s to 60s that I've watched over the past few years and consider great

M
Duck Soup
His Girl Friday
Citizen Kane
Sullivan's Travels
The Maltese Falcon
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Double Indemnity
A Matter of Life and Death
Notorious
The Big Sleep
Bicycle Thieves
The Red Shoes
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Third Man
White Heat
Sunset Boulevard
Ace in the Hole
Singin' in the Rain
The Wages of Fear
Rear Window
Bad Day at Black Rock
Rebel Without a Cause
The Night of the Hunter
The Killing
12 Angry Men
Paths of Glory
Sweet Smell of Success
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Touch of Evil
Vertigo
North by Northwest
La Dolce Vita
The Apartment
The Hustler
Lawrence of Arabia
Shock Corridor
The Great Escape
Dr. Strangelove
Repulsion
Persona
Seconds
Cool Hand Luke
Le Samourai
Point Blank
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Swimmer
Midnight Cowboy

 

[Robbie Hart]

Sounds like a movie about @Robbie Hart 's younger days.

I’ve told every chick I would be nice and kind.........Till I get into Rob mode

 

[SongExotic2]

A few from the 30s to 60s that I've watched over the past few years and consider great

M
Duck Soup
His Girl Friday
Citizen Kane
Sullivan's Travels
The Maltese Falcon
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Double Indemnity
A Matter of Life and Death
Notorious
The Big Sleep
Bicycle Thieves
The Red Shoes
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Third Man
White Heat
Sunset Boulevard
Ace in the Hole
Singin' in the Rain
The Wages of Fear
Rear Window
Bad Day at Black Rock
Rebel Without a Cause
The Night of the Hunter
The Killing
12 Angry Men
Paths of Glory
Sweet Smell of Success
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Touch of Evil
Vertigo
North by Northwest
La Dolce Vita
The Apartment
The Hustler
Lawrence of Arabia
Shock Corridor
The Great Escape
Dr. Strangelove
Repulsion
Persona
Seconds
Cool Hand Luke
Le Samourai
Point Blank
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Swimmer
Midnight Cowboy

Not watched any of them

 

[SongExotic2]

But seeing as we are talking Kung Fu films I'd like to add,

Seven samurai

5 super fighters

Drunken master

And 36th chamber of Shaolin

 

[Yossarian]

The God Father movies are extremely watchable still.

 

[Hauler]

The Sting
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
On The Waterfront
12 Angry Men

 

[otaku1]

Have to check it out. I found the Dirty Dozen by accident about 10 years ago and I always watch when I run across it on TV. Lee Marvin is very underrated.

Lee Marvin was a great character/action actor.

 

[Wintermute]

But seeing as we are talking Kung Fu films I'd like to add,

Seven samurai

5 super fighters

Drunken master

And 36th chamber of Shaolin

We're not, though LOL

 

[Priziesthorse]

Not watched any of them

A lot of those were made by great Englishmen. You should be ashamed of yourself.

But seeing as we are talking Kung Fu films I'd like to add,

Seven samurai

Akira Kurosawa, the dude who made Seven Samurai, has a lot of great films you'd like.

Throne of Blood
Rashomon
Ran
The Hidden Fortress

 

[Wintermute]

The God Father movies are extremely watchable still.

Definitely agree. I & II are incredible every time.

 

[SongExotic2]

A lot of those were made by great Englishmen. You should be ashamed of yourself.


Akira Kurosawa, the dude who made Seven Samurai, has a lot of great films you'd like.

Throne of Blood
Rashomon
Ran
The Hidden Fortress

I watched ran I reckon.