OLD movies

[Paelos]

Hugs and kisses at f13? Hardly.

But I do admit expecting a touch more diversity of opinion on this one.

And yet, no.

[Ingmar]

I don't actually care all that much for 2 myself, but I wouldn't say it is awful. I'll agree that the acting really is pretty hard to take now.

[Paelos]

Hardly any different than the acting in any 80s movie. Only a few things survived that hideous decade of cinema.

[Bunk]

Don't start dissing the 80s for movies...

Empire, Raiders, Das Boot, Ran, Back to the Future, Blade Runner, Princess Bride, A Christmas Story, Brazil, Spinal Tap. That's just me doing a quick scan of the IMBD top list looking for personal favorites. The 80's wasn't about overacting, it just looked like overacting when the were all wearing leg warmers and big hair.

[Arthur_Parker]

I thought The Voyage Home was slightly better than Wrath of Khan.  Chekhov having to explain himself after getting captured near a Nuclear reactor on the real Enterprise & Scotty picking up a mouse and going "hello computer" get me every time.

[Ironwood]

See, that's the funny thing :  The Voyage Home and even (yes, stick with me) The Final Frontier are BETTER 'Star Trek' movies.  They're more in keeping with the Original Series. 

I agree that The Voyage Home is also Good;  where 5 fails for just being awful.  Khan, however, was much more dramatic and plotted and kept you going.  There was also a hell of a lot better character dynamic with people who weren't the Magnificent Seven.

[Sky]

Star Trek sucks. All of it. The best star trek movie was the one with Tim Allen.

I forget if I've mentioned it in this thread, but I love the old Adam West Batman movie, the one with Batman running around a pier with a bomb. That scene had me in tears (we also mst3k most movies at home).

[HaemishM]

Why ?  You're wrong.

 

What he said. Baldrake, despite all the things you talk about being wrong with this picture, it's still the best Star Trek movie. I'd only put the new one on par with it, but they are really two separate types of movies that share a common genealogy. The overacting and clothes I put down as an artifact of the times - those are the kinds of things that great movies transcend. Shit, Casablanca is very much a product of its time, especially the stilted manner of speaking, but goddamn if it still isn't one of the best movies ever.

[Margalis]

Star Trek 6 is my favorite.

[Ratman_tf]

[Slyfeind]

Here's your old fucking movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zkCnHUnoYY&feature=related

[Abagadro]

Star Trek 6 is my favorite.

That is a good one, not merely coincidentally written and directed by the same guy that did Wrath of Kahn.

[Sjofn]

I forget if I've mentioned it in this thread, but I love the old Adam West Batman movie, the one with Batman running around a pier with a bomb. That scene had me in tears (we also mst3k most movies at home).

That scene is one of my favorite scenes in any movie, ever. It makes me smile just to think about it.

[Merusk]

Enjoy...

[Abagadro]

Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb.

[pxib]

"Holy kleenex, Batman. It was right under our nose and we blew it!"

That film is camp incarnate.

[grebo]

Star Crash is also camp incarnate... with David Hasselhoff!  Nothing is more ridiculous or nonsensical.  

E2A:  Buckaroo Banzai  It's sorta a bit like Howard the Duck, but with much more awesome.

[Teleku]

To me Mel Brooks is very very hot or very very cold and nothing in between. I think Young Frankenstein is one of the best comedies ever made, possibly the best. I couldn't be paid to watch Spaceballs.

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I think of Zulu and Man Who Would Be King as classic gamer movies. The other one that my wargaming friends indoctrinated me into was the so far unmentioned Kelly's Heroes.

Ok, thank you for referencing Kelly's Hero's, one of my absolute favorite movies of all time, and definitely my favorite war movie of all time.  Holy god I love this movie.

For this, you can be forgiven for not liking the greatness that is Spaceballs The Movie.  When the revolution comes, you will be spared, if just barely.  I'm now going to post a big pic of a Kelly's Hero's poster to attract people just skimming the thread to my post, and thus, the awesomeness of Kelly's Heroes.

[Musashi]

Dude, I totally mentioned Kelly's Heroes on the first page of this very thread. 

God damn negative waves.

[Merusk]

I thought I'd seen that, but now I realize I haven't.  Don Rickles?   One of these things is not like the others...

[Furiously]

No one has said "Heathers".

[Engels]

No one has said "Heathers".

Is that really old? That's 88. I think the cut off date should be at minimum 85, if not 80. We can grandfather the already posted about in, but really. That, or just change the forum post title to 'SORTA Old movies"

[Tale]

For WWII movie fans, I like Where Eagles Dare, which features lots of doublecrossing and a young Clint Eastwood in a supporting role: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew-cO0Ij5F8

[HaemishM]

Where Eagles Dare is a fun old movie. Not a great film, but damn fun.

[Xuri]

Hm. No mention of The Goonies. Saw it the other day for the first time since the early 90s, and thought I'd get my sister's kids (8, 10 and 14) to watch it too - but turned out they'd already seen it (and had even bought it on DVD) :P

[WindupAtheist]

Where Eagles Dare is good. I like Clint's bottomless bag of dynamite he uses to blow up Nazis through the whole thing. When it comes to Eastwood movies from that era, though, I think I still prefer The Eiger Sanction.



Clint Eastwood as a mountain-climbing hitman. Does it get any manlier?

[Musashi]

I thought I'd seen that, but now I realize I haven't.  Don Rickles?   One of these things is not like the others...

Don Rickles is awesome in it.  Donald Sutherland steals the whole movie, though.

[Mattemeo]

I watched the first Mortal Kombat movie a couple of weeks ago. I always knew it was shit, but it wasn't until this latest viewing that I realised how shit. As in how did this blithering idiot ever manage to score another job as a director? shit. Don't get me wrong, I've never really harboured a rage-on for Paul W. S. Anderson, because for the most part his movies are sweetly ignorable (Resident Evil franchise, for example, notable only for a brief flash of Jovovich's front-bum at the end of the first and since she's a model and hardly a prude, that's not even really notable). But this is also the man responsible for Event Horizon, which is not only a very nifty sci-fi/horror blend of Alien and Hellraiser, but compared to the rest of his output is a fucking good movie.
I... I just don't understand it. How. How? How could Mortal Kombat be that shit and not only gain a sequel but gain Anderson a career? Just... just... wat.

[Johny Cee]

I watched the first Mortal Kombat movie a couple of weeks ago. I always knew it was shit, but it wasn't until this latest viewing that I realised how shit. As in how did this blithering idiot ever manage to score another job as a director? shit. Don't get me wrong, I've never really harboured a rage-on for Paul W. S. Anderson, because for the most part his movies are sweetly ignorable (Resident Evil franchise, for example, notable only for a brief flash of Jovovich's front-bum at the end of the first and since she's a model and hardly a prude, that's not even really notable). But this is also the man responsible for Event Horizon, which is not only a very nifty sci-fi/horror blend of Alien and Hellraiser, but compared to the rest of his output is a fucking good movie.
I... I just don't understand it. How. How? How could Mortal Kombat be that shit and not only gain a sequel but gain Anderson a career? Just... just... wat.

The first Mortal Kombat is an absurdly fun movie.  It's the perfect balance of camp and cheese, best watched with a half-dozen friends and alcohol.

The sequel is so awful I've never made it past the first 5 minutes or so.

[Furiously]

I watched the first Mortal Kombat movie a couple of weeks ago. I always knew it was shit, but it wasn't until this latest viewing that I realised how shit. As in how did this blithering idiot ever manage to score another job as a director? shit. Don't get me wrong, I've never really harboured a rage-on for Paul W. S. Anderson, because for the most part his movies are sweetly ignorable (Resident Evil franchise, for example, notable only for a brief flash of Jovovich's front-bum at the end of the first and since she's a model and hardly a prude, that's not even really notable). But this is also the man responsible for Event Horizon, which is not only a very nifty sci-fi/horror blend of Alien and Hellraiser, but compared to the rest of his output is a fucking good movie.
I... I just don't understand it. How. How? How could Mortal Kombat be that shit and not only gain a sequel but gain Anderson a career? Just... just... wat.

But it has the best techno song in the world?

[Paelos]

Mortal Kombat is simply silly and great. The sequel was an abomination.

[Merusk]

I watched the first Mortal Kombat movie a couple of weeks ago. I always knew it was shit, but it wasn't until this latest viewing that I realised how shit. As in how did this blithering idiot ever manage to score another job as a director? shit. Don't get me wrong, I've never really harboured a rage-on for Paul W. S. Anderson, because for the most part his movies are sweetly ignorable (Resident Evil franchise, for example, notable only for a brief flash of Jovovich's front-bum at the end of the first and since she's a model and hardly a prude, that's not even really notable). But this is also the man responsible for Event Horizon, which is not only a very nifty sci-fi/horror blend of Alien and Hellraiser, but compared to the rest of his output is a fucking good movie.
I... I just don't understand it. How. How? How could Mortal Kombat be that shit and not only gain a sequel but gain Anderson a career? Just... just... wat.

But it has the best techno song in the world?

The 2nd album is worlds better.  I'd forgotten until Stray mentioned it a few months back and started listening to it again.

I also agree with Paelos and JC's evaluation of the movies themselves.  The first one is just stupid over-the-top fun.. the 2nd seemed to think that it could pass as a real movie based on the first's success.

[Mattemeo]

But see, that's the problem. I thought it was stupid, over the top fun. But like so many other things, it has been liberally doused in the heady perfume of nostalgia and when I went back for a sniff, I found out it stank. This is a film with Christopher Lambert in it, not fighting. The single 'star' name, playing one of the most recognisable characters from the game, does nothing but mumble in Frenglish.

There's still nothing wrong with the music, mind. I've actually been relvisiting those heady mid-90s Goa Trance days lately.

[Margalis]

The first MK movie is great.

The second one is an abomination. Even the film quality on it is awful, it looks like overexposed VHS.

Recently I watched DOA: The Movie. I kind of liked it, but I think that's only because I have a crush on Sarah Carter.

[Paelos]

But see, that's the problem. I thought it was stupid, over the top fun. But like so many other things, it has been liberally doused in the heady perfume of nostalgia and when I went back for a sniff, I found out it stank. This is a film with Christopher Lambert in it, not fighting. The single 'star' name, playing one of the most recognisable characters from the game, does nothing but mumble in Frenglish.

There's still nothing wrong with the music, mind. I've actually been relvisiting those heady mid-90s Goa Trance days lately.

Things that are silly and great don't change. We change.