Horror Movies Forum - Your Favorite Classic Movies?

Re: Your Favorite Classic Movies?

dummy@example.com (MoonRaven) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:06:52 +0000

LoudLon wrote:

^^^ Nice. Did you know Olivia Hussey was only seventeen when they filmed that?
Mmm. Olivia Hussey. Good lookin' broad back in the day...

Yeah. She was a young-in.
I watched an interview with her and she said she couldn't go to the premier of the film because of the sex scene...that SHE filmed. And it didn't show much anyway. But during the interview she was smoking a cigarette. So she's too young to watch sex but not too young to smoke. It's backwards.

Re: Your Favorite Classic Movies?

dummy@example.com (revengebiteme) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:01:16 +0000

Rosemary's baby

Re: Your Favorite Classic Movies?

dummy@example.com (LoudLon) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:25:33 +0000

^^^ Nice. Did you know Olivia Hussey was only seventeen when they filmed that?

Mmm. Olivia Hussey. Good lookin' broad back in the day...

Re: Your Favorite Classic Movies?

dummy@example.com (MoonRaven) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:22:29 +0000

Romeo and Juliet (1968 version)

Re: Your Favorite Classic Movies?

dummy@example.com (LoudLon) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:35:59 +0000

The Tenant is...weird. I bought it on DVD a few years back sight unseen and as I sat watching it I didn't know what to make of it. I kept thinking, "What's the point of this movie?" The answer I ultimately came up with was, "There isn't one."

Re: Your Favorite Classic Movies?

dummy@example.com (Ms45) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:22:47 +0000

yeah the ones i've seen are:

Repulsion
Fearless Vampire Killers
Rosemary's Baby
Macbeth
Chinatown
Frantic
The Ninth Gate
The Pianist

I wanna watch more.. Knife in the Water sounds pretty good.. I'm also interested in seeing Cul-de-sac and The Tenant...

Re: Your Favorite Classic Movies?

dummy@example.com (deadhorse13) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:51:14 +0000

Bitter Moon is a fave of mine - very interesting couples character study

Re: Your Favorite Classic Movies?

dummy@example.com (LoudLon) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:49:11 +0000

I dug Fearless Vampire Killers, though it's been a good twenty or so years since I saw it. I also liked Frantic quite a bit, and still do, and that actually kind of bothers me.

Re: Your Favorite Classic Movies?

dummy@example.com (deadhorse13) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:05:50 +0000

personally I think it's funny as hell and Sharon Tate never looked more lovely. good stuff.

Knife In The Water and Macbeth rarely gets props and really, really should, too

Re: Your Favorite Classic Movies?

dummy@example.com (Ms45) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:47:13 +0000

Yeah i reckon he is a damn fine director... What did you guys think of Fearless Vampire Killers? I didn't really get it, but it's been years since i've seen it and i was thinking of re-watching it...

Re: Your Favorite Classic Movies?

dummy@example.com (deadhorse13) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 06:50:39 +0000

with the exception of Pirates, Polanski IMO really has done little wrong:
latter stuff like Frantic is under-rated; Bitter Moon was great; The Ninth Gate is some enjoyable hokum and The Pianist IS a fantastic period piece. Pedophile or not, the guy is a master when it comes to the language of film.

Re: Your Favorite Classic Movies?

dummy@example.com (Ms45) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:04:41 +0000

he was probably a pedophile when he made Chinatown too.. just an unconvicted one.. but yeah i know what you mean haha..

Re: Your Favorite Classic Movies?

dummy@example.com (LoudLon) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 03:45:53 +0000

Yeah, I could see how both those things would make you want to molest a teenager, then hide in France for thirty-some because they don't extradite.

Dude's trash. I can watch his pre-kiddie-boner flicks and not feel weird, but anything after '77 and I'll read shit into it.

Re: Your Favorite Classic Movies?

dummy@example.com (Ms45) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 03:24:53 +0000

LoudLon wrote:

Ms45 wrote:
LoudLon wrote:
5. Chinatown -- A tight screenplay by Robert Towne and terrific performances by Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Houston elevate what could have been a seedier-than-most noir thriller into a bona fide work of art. The plot, while serpentine, is never hard to follow and the climactic showdown in LA's Chinatown is the definition of tragedy. Great movie.
you forgot to mention how great Roman Polanski is...
I'd never say Polanski is great (the dirty little child molester) but I will say that there once was a time when he was great -- and yes, Chinatown was from that time.

Then again his wife was brutally murdered by the Manson Family and he is a Holocaust survivor.. Both probably screwed him up a bit..

Re: Your Favorite Classic Movies?

dummy@example.com (LoudLon) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 03:07:25 +0000

Ms45 wrote:

LoudLon wrote:
5. Chinatown -- A tight screenplay by Robert Towne and terrific performances by Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Houston elevate what could have been a seedier-than-most noir thriller into a bona fide work of art. The plot, while serpentine, is never hard to follow and the climactic showdown in LA's Chinatown is the definition of tragedy. Great movie.
you forgot to mention how great Roman Polanski is...

I'd never say Polanski is great (the dirty little child molester) but I will say that there once was a time when he was great -- and yes, Chinatown was from that time.