The Movie Thread

[vienna]

Originally Posted by tmccarthy

More and more I've found that to be true. I've been looking back to the culture, movies and music from the years 1975-2000. It's amazing and seems like a very special time. I don't see how you could ever compare it to the years 2000-2020. But I'm sure that there are people who will and do see it otherwise.

If you want to boil down a special time to a single year, 1939 would be well in the lead:

Gone with the Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Dodge City
Wuthering Heights
Stagecoach
Drums Along the Mohawk
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Women
Another Thin Man
Dark Victory
The Rules of the Game
Ninotchka
The Little Princess
Destry Rides Again
Of Mice and Men
Union Pacific
Gunga Din
Beau Geste
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
The Four Feathers
Gulliver's Travels
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Man in the Iron Mask


...an impressive list, to be sure, and there were other notable films that particular year...




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[Eisenwurst]

"Fraulein Doktor" - A WW1 Spy Thriller movie starring Nigel Green ( the big Sgt from "Zulu" ) as the head of German Intelligence, and the lovely Suzy Kendall as the Mata Hari/Female James Bond title character.

Mustard gas attack. Here censored, but in movie, skin peels away in agony.

[tmccarthy]

[Jimbuna]

[mapuc]

yesterday I saw a classic movie.

It's one of these anti movies.

Starring
Willem Dafoe
Tom Berenger
Charlie Sheen

Markus

[Jimbuna]

^ Not sure if this is meant to be a quiz question but in the absence of a movie title might you be referring to Platoon?

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

^ Not sure if this is meant to be a quiz question but in the absence of a movie title might you be referring to Platoon?

It was Platoon.

I thought by only writing some of the actors I was pretty sure you knew which movie it was.

I see it as an anti-war movie.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

In 2011, British television channel Channel 4 voted Platoon as the 6th greatest war film ever made, behind Full Metal Jacket and ahead of A Bridge Too Far.

[Eisenwurst]

A great re worked trailer for this classic. The lovely Honor Blackman was always a good choice to play the Queen of the Gods.

[Jimbuna]

[Gerald]

[Jimbuna]

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[tmccarthy]

[stork100]

^ Great film this. Very moving. It's so insightful to look at these post-war Italian films and observe the society and culture, because what you see is so completely genuine. You can see and feel the pain of the nation coming through. Even the buildings still carried the visible scars from the bullets and shrapnel. Mix that with geniuses like De Sica or Rossellini and you get masterpieces like this.