What are the Top Ten Movie Classics Pre-1975?

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In summary: I've ever heard)Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone(just like the book: beautiful)Star Wars(all of them if I could, but I'll settle for this one, the first one: I'm talking about the original 1977 release(pre special effects: no jabba the hut, no extra scenes etc.).****ing brilliant)The Day the Earth stood stillThe Maltese Falcon( I'll have to watch this again, it's been a while)The Godfather(all of them if I could: but for me, this one is the best, with the best scene in all three: "just when I thought I was
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Top Ten Cult Classics

Rocky Horror Picture Show
THX 1138... or was it 555 1212? [one of my favorites]
Billy Jack [here too]
Ra Expedition
Chariots of the Gods
Everything that you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask
Deep Throat [never saw it]
Fritz the Cat [never saw it... really!]
Night of the Living Dead
Exorcist
 
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What does "cult classic" mean anyway?

Deep Throat? like the porno? Wasn't some guy in the watergate scandal called deepthroat?

I've only heard of three of those you listed.
 
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I was thinking of movies that had great success, but that were only popular for some quirky reason other than quality; though some cult films are quite good.
 
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Oh. The Rocky Horror Picture Show wasn't good? I bet it was fun... or stupid.
 
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Mentioned in another thread, some people saw it hundreds of times. They would all dress up [in drag] like characters in the movie , take rice and other stuff to throw, and the audience participated in and re-enacted the movie as it played.

I never knew about the drag queen business until I watched the movie for the first time last year. I thought people were just dressing like women in the movie, and not like men dressing like women...well...you know. Now I'm really glad I never went! :biggrin:
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Mentioned in another thread, some people saw it hundreds of times. They would all dress up [in drag] like characters in the movie , take rice and other stuff to throw, and the audience participated in and re-enacted the movie as it played.
I never knew about the drag queen business until I watched the movie for the first time last year. I thought people were just dressing like women in the movie, and not like men dressing like women...well...you know. Now I'm really glad I never went! :biggrin:
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the screen adaptation of "The Rocky Horror Show" which is a musical. The 'stock' audience participation stuff - rice, water pistols, and so on - were all part of that before they were part of the movie scene. I'm pretty sure that watching the movie at home is not at all like seeing it with a live crowd, or seeing a stage production.
Because audience participation is so central to the experience, going to, say, the 2000 Broadway revival of the "Rocky Horror Show" is going to be a very different experience from going to see it at the movie theater on Sunset Boulevard in LA.
 
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TOP WORST MOVIE CLASSICS

1. Gone with the wind (stupid romantic chick-flick, choked on my own vomit it was so stupid)
2. The wizard of oz (this would have been #1 if it didn't have flying monkeys in it)
3. The exorcist (not even remotely scary, just stupid)
4. Mary Poppins (painfully bad)
5-10. Any Disney cartoon (movies like these make children weak)
 
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NateTG said:
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the screen adaptation of "The Rocky Horror Show" which is a musical. The 'stock' audience participation stuff - rice, water pistols, and so on - were all part of that before they were part of the movie scene. I'm pretty sure that watching the movie at home is not at all like seeing it with a live crowd, or seeing a stage production.
Because audience participation is so central to the experience, going to, say, the 2000 Broadway revival of the "Rocky Horror Show" is going to be a very different experience from going to see it at the movie theater on Sunset Boulevard in LA.

There was something like this that my wife, Tsu, got into a bit. It was a play called Tim and Tina's wedding. The play was the wedding and reception, and the audience interacted with the wedding party as if they were guests at the wedding, and not the audience for a play. So basically it was a fake wedding that you had to pay to see! :smile: But the wedding party actors were highly skilled and apparently most entertaining as they interacted and even danced with the audience. And of course everyone got completely wasted, just like at real weddings. In fact, I'll have to ask Tsu, but I think that someone was even passing around a pot pipe at one showing.
 
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I know this is late but I can't resist.

Evo said:
Hey, this is about movies PRIOR to 1975.

Sorry Granny, but I'm barely prior to 1975 myself! :smile:
 
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Deep throat cost less that 100,000 to make and made almost a billion. Arguably the most successful movie ever made. plus it is sometimes funny. however it is before the bikini wax was invented.
 
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M*A*S*H (1970)

I can't believe everyone including myself forgot this one. My father took us to see it at a drive in. Interesting considering the scene with Hotlips in the shower when the side came off the tent, and i was probably about 13 years old and my brother was 12.

Quite a few parents thought my father was a bit nuts, or too progressive.
 
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In no particular order, and not necessarily my favorites, but I do think these are all good:

1. Godfather (I like the dual nature of these 2 films, "a family" and "the family")
2. Godfather II

3. Casablanca (Very witty dialoge)

4. The Birds (scenes from this movie have stayed in my mind for years. Brilliant use of sound editing of the bird noises, I forget the details of this, but I read it was very inovative.)

5. Arsenic and Old Lace (Charge! Extremely clever comedy. See this if you haven't)

6. Wizard of Oz (It's got flying monkeys. It also creates a mood and feeling of otherworldliness that I feel lifts it above most other early attempts to create fantasy lands, such as King Kong or the Land the Time Forgot.)

7. Mr Smith Goes To Washington (Dated and hokey, but I still like it. Watch the Senate Leader, his amusement over the drama is fun.)

8. Flight of the Pheonix (A toy airplane is something that you wind up and it runs across the floor...interesting power struggle.)

9. Jaws (Scary, even today. Oddly, it also captures the feeling of summer vacation.)

10. The Great Escape (the actual event that this movie was based on was a lot different from the movie, of course, but I still like the movie. Interesting characters)
 
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Astronuc said:
M*A*S*H (1970)

I can't believe everyone including myself forgot this one. My father took us to see it at a drive in. Interesting considering the scene with Hotlips in the shower when the side came off the tent, and i was probably about 13 years old and my brother was 12.

Quite a few parents thought my father was a bit nuts, or too progressive.

I've seen movies with full frontal nudity with my dad since I was seven or so (this was in an age where cinemas and censors were more lax about such things). There's nothing intrinsically harmful to a child in the naked human form.
 
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Mr. Roberts (1955) staring Henry Fonda, Jack Lemon and Jimmy Cagney. It's showing tonight at a regional theatre.

I'm feeling a bit notstalgic. :biggrin:


RIP Mr. Whipple. :frown:
 
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Never Ending Story, part 526
 
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Forbidden Planet
The Great Escape
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Day the Earth Stood Still
2001: A Space Odyssey
Alien
PredatorAnd for comedy... Young Frankenstein :D
 
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Animal House (1978)

(Three years off. Sue me)
 
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I just thought of another that might be added. Does anyone remember "On The Beach", which includes a non-dancing Fred Astaire?

PS. It's been quite a while since I was last on this Forum!
 
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Mr. Smith goes to Wahington
Casablance
The African Queen
On the Waterfront
Wizard of Oz
From Here to Eternity
2001: Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Star Wars Episode I
 
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The Hustler
Gigot
To Kill a Mockingbird
High Noon
Shane
The Searchers
Casablanca
Arsenic and Old Lace
Fort Apache
Slim
Dr. Zhivago
 
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