Movie Classics

[Alan V]

One person's classic is another person's "WTF?"

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

For perspective, A New Hope was released the same year as the last execution by guillotine in France.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

One person's classic is another person's "WTF?"

The phrase ‘instant classic’ gives me the fantods.

Boru

[Alan V]

One person's classic is another person's "WTF?"

The phrase ‘instant classic’ gives me the fantods.

Boru

Are you an Edward Gorey fan?  At one point in his life, he thought movies went downhill after they became talkies.

In 1973 he wrote a screenplay for a new silent film titled The Black Doll. For some reason, it was never produced.

However, he became more eclectic later in life and watched just about anything. He even wrote his own surreal plays and puppet shows.

[AFTT47]

Some of my favourite classic films (in no particular order, and the list is not exhaustive).

-Adam's Rib
-The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
-The Lion In Winter
-The Great Race
-Some Like It Hot
-Lillies Of The Field
-The Godfather
-Bringing Up Baby
-It's A Wonderful Life
-The Ruling Class

Boru

The Great Race was my favorite movie growing up. I was inspired by Professor Fate's car to build a smoke screen device. It consisted of a discarded space heater I found in the garbage and a gravity-fed tank to drip oil across the heating element. Lucky I didn't burn the house down.

I streamed the movie a few years ago and was saddened by the realization that every last actor in it is dead.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The phrase ‘instant classic’ gives me the fantods.

Boru

Are you an Edward Gorey fan?  At one point in his life, he thought movies went downhill after they became talkies.  

In 1973 he wrote a screenplay for a new silent film titled The Black Doll.  For some reason, it was never produced.

However, he became more eclectic later in life and watched just about anything.  He even wrote his own surreal plays and puppet shows.

Never heard of him.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Some of my favourite classic films (in no particular order, and the list is not exhaustive).

-Adam's Rib
-The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
-The Lion In Winter
-The Great Race
-Some Like It Hot
-Lillies Of The Field
-The Godfather
-Bringing Up Baby
-It's A Wonderful Life
-The Ruling Class

Boru

The Great Race was my favorite movie growing up. I was inspired by Professor Fate's car to build a smoke screen device. It consisted of a discarded space heater I found in the garbage and a gravity-fed tank to drip oil across the heating element. Lucky I didn't burn the house down.

I streamed the movie a few years ago and was saddened by the realization that every last actor in it is dead.

‘PUSH THE BUTTON, MAX!’

Boru

[Silver]

Best gay classic ever.

[Alan V]

Are you an Edward Gorey fan?  At one point in his life, he thought movies went downhill after they became talkies.  

In 1973 he wrote a screenplay for a new silent film titled The Black Doll.  For some reason, it was never produced.

However, he became more eclectic later in life and watched just about anything.  He even wrote his own surreal plays and puppet shows.

Never heard of him.

Boru

Gorey liked to use the word "fantods" in his books, and published some of his books under The Fantod Press.  See for instance.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Never heard of him.

Boru

Gorey liked to use the word "fantods" in his books, and published some of his books under The Fantod Press.  See for instance.

I got it from the writings of Mark Twain.

Boru