i am the only one who enjoy old movies more then the new ones ?
i find most of the today's movies boring and i don't like them, well of course there are some who i like but most of them i don't.
and when it comes to old movies i almost love watching them all !
anyone here who can relate to me ?

It's interesting that people can say they like old movies, but maybe have completely different eras in mind. I like old movies, meaning from the 1930s and 1940s. I mostly like comedies - Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and directors like Frank Capra and Preston Sturges.

I feel the same way Meyer. I haven't been to a theater to see a movie in years. I have my favorites and that's pretty much the movies I watch. I've never been a big movie guy anyways.

I'm the same way with music too. The older the better. Modern stuff? No chance.

True enough Pete. There are probably some Board members who like to watch "old movies" such as the original Star Wars. Well, as you state, old movies to me are those from the 30s and 40s. Those black and whites were superb. Also, yes, I am critical of today's genre of movies. So, so many are trash and simply vehicles to appeal to a niche audience to generate revenue, not artistry.

I'm reminded of that episode of Two and a Half Men when Charlie is watching Jaws with his nephew Jake who is about 10 years old. Jake is bored. Why? Well, as he says, we're forty minutes into the movie and have not yet seen the shark.

Me too ! Well I have some modern songs that i like but most of them are bad imo i only listen to old ones
The old ones are better for sure !
And i also haven't been in the theater for years...

No pete i like almost every old movie i watched even 40s
The old scarface was great (30s-40s it was i think)

When I can't find something to watch I go right to Turner classic. I love those old movies. The way they dressed, spoke, carried themselves, and the way the homes eyes decorated. Most of the movies are American, but they talk with an accent I can't put my finger on.

Like for instance the old westerns are 100 times better then todays
The old james bond movies are better
Old middle age movies movies are better

Two of my favorites are Slim (Henry Fonda) and The Hustler (Paul Newman & Jackie Gleason)

In my age and country watching old movies and music is consider weird thing.
So i don't tell it so much to people
The first reaction when i was saying it it's like i'm alien or something

What you're hearing is "The Mid-Atlantic Accent" that was taught in US boarding schools and to stage actors in the early part of the 20th century:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

That is interesting. I've never heard of mid atlantic accent before but I too love the way the people talked in the 30's and 40's movies.

One thing I noticed about many of those old movies is how fast the actors talked. Cagney was one of those. I wonder if that was just particular actors or if it was the result of actor training or just alot of words in the script.

Which is almost always w/ me also...even if i'm reading I have TCM just to listen to the dialogue.

U should know from my posts by now Meyer. Turner Classic Movies Rule!!!

And the "Dames"!!....Who in their right mind would rather look @ most of today's actresses w/the xception of a few , than say Rita Hayworth , Ava Gardner, Virginia Mayo , Barbara Stanwyck and the like ....THEY had class & looks..real "Creamy Dishes".

yeah i knew you love the classics

When Netflix adds one of these old classics, I always watch them. I saw ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and ''Vertigo'' for example a couple of months ago..

I get a lot of nostalgic feelings when watching these movies from the 50's and 60's, which is very strange because I was born in the 80's myself..

I get nostalgic when I watch a good early 80s movie cause that's when I was king of the world, girls were hot w/big hair,,heavy metal ruled the airwaves, in my 20s , & in a rock band w/ a house in the Wildwoods N.J...chicks everywhere & good times everyday & always felt indestructible ....no fuckin hiphop culture bullshit & TV was worth watching....which is another reason I escape to good old T.C.M. best channel on the tube.

"I Confess" w/Karl Malden ,Montgomery Clift (1953) 2 nite ..

how was it buddy ?

Very watchable!

I'm strictly an old movie guy. The last time I went to a theater to see a new movie (first time in over five years) was to watch "Blade Runner 2049. Wish I hadn't. Conversely, last week I watched "Advise and Consent" (1962) from my collection. Outstanding! Gimme W.C. Fields over Jim Carey any day.

Completely agree TB. Why are the B&Ws so superior in so many ways to so much of today's cinematic crap?

Nope, love Old Movies.


I think the first thing I check on the TV guide option is what is on TCM

100% correct.

On DemandTCM...."Birdman of Alcatrazz" , love Burt Lancaster & an off the wall Telly Savalas.

We were just discussing that. Like with the movie 30 Days of Night. Seems like They had to make it almost like a soap opera drama. Meaning that films today have to have relationship drama in it when really it doesn’t need to be in there....it doesn’t really even relate to the main theme.

I find myself not going to the theatre like I used nor buying movies like I used. Films have just become so different today and even long.

But on another note, while watching an old tape from like 1991 I saw some of the commercials from back then. The one thing that seems so different is car commercials. Back in the early 1990s car commercials seemed so ....... temptation like ...... almost sexy in a way ...... like come on you know you want this car.......look at what it can do. Now a days it seems like car commercials are just style and how fast and smooth the car can go in the great open outdoors.

8pm Turner Classic Movies

The Ghost & Mrs. Muir

Saw it...….Alec Guiness @ his best.

(Aside to Hoodlum) Uh, Rex Harrison.

Yes, Rex did the movie.

Just watched Casablanca for the first time in awhile.

Today’s movies just aren’t near the same quality as the old movies.

I point out to my students that Casablanca is one of the greatest film love stories during which noone got naked.

I’m glad to hear that. Good to know someone is passing their knowledge to the next generation!

my grandfather came from casablanca...

Very Cool.

I watched The Great Excape today.

Big "guy movie" day on cable: Rocky films, Great Escape, Red October, River Kwai.

Yes, I was tuned in...TCM

Then went out to dinner with wife.
Did not want to leave but did.

Raisin in the Sun this afternoon//TCM...always enjoyable.

Just finished watching "The Longest Day"

John Wayne and many others in bit parts but all heavy.

Not at all a fan of the Nazi anything , but did enjoy how it was portrayed very well, how the mistakes German officers made, helped the cause of the main attack on Normandy.

Just watched The Man With The Golden Arm

Great movie

Frank Sinatra??

Yes sir Hood. In my opinion probably his greatest big screen performance.

Saw it a few months ago on TCM..that dame he was with was hot too.

Just watched an entire day of Marlene Dietrich movies on & off …..she was some gal.....quite creamy if I might say.

Double Indemnity is probably the oldest movie I've watched. I generally don't watch anything made before the 70s.

It was pretty good.

I guess the earliest talking movie I've watched has been The Cocoanuts with the Marx Brothers. That was 1929. I think the best really old talkie is the original King Kong (1933). I'll watch that any time I see it's on.

Great film noir. I love those 1940's-50s noir films

I agree about Double Indemnity.

I love those crime noir films as well.

TCM showing Oscar award winners all month. So far I've seen The Lost Weekend, Wait Until Dark and The Third Man and The French Connection which I've seen before but always like it.

Nice Gio..... I gotta check that out.

Dues never saw Lost Weekend??..& the Third Man has 1 of the greatest weird guitar tracks of all time not 2 mention my wife's obsession of constant reminding that it is Orson Welles that is the culprit(alas.spoilor alert)…..".Wait" is also great..but ..Gio..must love also Double Indemnity w/ Barbara (yum) Stanyck ..always loved her in her prime..so hot..god forbid when I was a kid, if she showed a little bit of leg ,I was glued 2 the tv set..always wondering what was further up that skirt..

I agree Hood. Barbara Stanwyk is a smoke show. I think Double Indemnity is the only thing I can remember seeing her in. I guess because I've seen it a lot. One of the best noir films ever made.

Watching "Lifeboat" w/ William Bendix & Tallulah Bankhead....TCM..very engaging film..young ppl oughta watch this flick 2 c how the human mind works when treachery sets in...a fine example of desperate measures in human psyhcology ..not 2 mention that Bankhead was a classy creamy dish back then..they don't make them like that anymore...Hume Cronyn also starred & Hitchcock directed.

It has been years since I’ve seen that movie. If I recall, isn’t that the movie where in true Hitchcock style, where he made a brief appearance and most of his films, there’s a newspaper floating in the water that happens they have Alfred Hitchcock‘s picture on it? 😂

TIS

Yes TIS... that is his doing & 2 true Hitchcock stylisms.

Saw "Mighty Joe Young" after work last night & am I the only 1 who thinks it is spectacular & maybe superior to King Kong...the effects r more realistic..in the nightclub , the drunken gorilla throws a lion all the way across the room & the lion flies into a dining table for 4 & gets right back up after sliding a few feet just like a cat would. Fantastic.

Best Years Of Our Lives.

Rips my guts out every time but I love it.

U gotta b kiddin' me Dues...I love that movie..seen it @ least 7 times...the dude w/ the arm(claw)..playing piano....& the young girl testing her parents love is so heartwarming..that is 1 of my favorite flicks of all time.

I saw a real oldie but goodie today.

Frank Capra’s 1930 Rain or Shine.

A comedy Drama about a traveling Circus.

Really good and had some old time vaudeville actors who were fantastic

Always loved old movies. Probably always will.

A few days ago, TCM had a gem for the first time: the restored 1930 King of Jazz, a musical revue starring Paul Whiteman, arguable the most popular bandleader of his day.

Incredible.

First off, it was in an early form of Technicolor that was not sensitive to all colors of the spectrum (that wouldn't come along until 1934). No blue or yellow here - primarily shades of red, green and turquoise. However, the colors look amazing is this restoration. Much of the film's original camera negative still survives and that was the primary source used, though when other source prints were used, the difference in quality is apparent. Though the soundtrack appears to have survived intact, a few missing minutes of visual material are represented by black & white still photographs. A disconcerting fact is, for whatever reason, the men wear just as much overdone makeup as the women. All that rouge and lipstick! Yegh!

It's also Bing Crosby's film debut (as a member of the singing trio, The Rhythm Boys), and aside from all the face paint, you'll see why the studios made him wear a toupee when he became a Hollywood leading man a short time later.

This film turned up on cable at least 30 years ago; that's when I first saw it. King of Jazz fascinated me, though it was choppy and somewhat shorter. I think the (unrestored) copy floating around YouTube may be similar to the one I saw years ago. Regardless, if you've never seen the film, only see the restored version! The difference is like night and day. And they really don't make them like this anymore.

Check this out:



Some things in the film might be considered politically incorrect by today standards, but I say, what the hell! You've been warned.

Now if I could just get past Rhapsody in Green...


Signor V.

The Quiet Man.

How about 13 Rue Madeleine and Shake Hands with the Devil? Both Cagney films.

Cagney was amazing. Here are some of my favs.

The oaklahoma Kid - Meyer would like that, its a Western.

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Fighting 69th

Frisco Kid

So many more, I think he made over 60 movies.

James Cagney is my favorite actor of all time. He could do it all. Drama, comedy, dance, action. And he did it all well!

"Yankee Doodle Dandy" is the movie I've watched most in my life and I never tire of watching Cagney's movements and energy. But it is "Angels with Dirty Faces" that really impressed me. Cagney grew up on the eastside of NYC, and he was a tough kid, a product of the streets.He was already an established star when "Dirty Faces" was being filmed. The "Dead End" kids had become 'famous' at that time (mainly from their portrayals of tough city kids in the wonderful movie "Dead End") and they were a rowdy bunch who were enjoying their newly found fame and notoriety for being "hooligans". They disrupted the movie set with their raucous and wild behavior and they thrilled with doing it. They picked on co-star Humphrey Bogart (who had also co-starred with them in "Dead End") and Bogey could not control them. Well, Cagney was different. He was a REAL tough guy and he single-handedly whipped the kids into shape by physically taking a tough stance with them (see the film clip below) and once the actors realized what was happening they quickly behaved themselves.

But it was Cagney's acting that won that movie for me. Did he help out his old pal, Pat O'brien, by "turning yellow" so as make the kids ashamed of him, or was that all an act?? In my mind there is only one answer.

Watch Cagney's little actions in this clip..... he was really man-handling the "tough kids".

Don Cardi, ya beat me to it with Man of 1000 Faces!

One of my (many) favorite Cagney films. I first saw it on TV when CBS aired it for the first time in the NYC area sometime around 1968. (Remember The Late Show? The Late Late Show? The Late Late Show II? Award Theater? Heheheheh... I'm showing my age.)

Not very historically accurate, Cagney was way too old for the role, the re-created Lon Chaney makeups bore little resemblance to the originals, the script was pure 1950's soap opera, and yet...

...I still think it's a great film and much of that is because of Cagney.


Signor V.

Two Cagney movies I didn't enjoy are The Gallant Hours and One, Two, Three.

One of his that is overlooked, but which was very good is A Lion in the Streets.

i remember i once watched the 30s scarface movie
also a movie about the mob in chicago from the 50s i forgot the name
it was nice movie too

Good stuff..... now I want to watch them all