#48 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie ListMy favorite Hitchcock film. The color in this movie is fantastic. I know that we've been mainly doing color films for about 50 years now, but can't modern directors still pay a little more attention to color, please? I mean, come on. In the 50s Hitchcock did, and that's basically like cavemen times or something. Also, I love Bernard Herrmann. This is the last film from my list to be from before 1960, so sorry all old film buffs. I am very pedestrian. Also in the olden days they were stupid so great films like this one were a rarity.
RATING: 88%
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Old movies are boring.
I've always wondered why I prefer modern movies that take place in the past to older movies that are just old. Hmmm...
Here's a few suggestions that might change your mind about those old films that current films like to steal from (The new Batman film repackages James Bond's previous plane extraction from the 1960s and Return of the Jedi's speeder bikes of the early 1980's hoping that most viewers won't notice that it has been done before and better as well).
1920's: The Big Parade, Metropolis, Greed, The Gold Rush, The Crowd, Battleship Potemkin, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu (without this one, would there ever be a Dracula movie?), The Wind, Hallelujah, The Ten Commandments, etc.
1930's: M, The Front Page, Modern Times, The Blue Angel, Bringing Up Baby, Grand Illusion, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Scarface, Freaks, I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, King Kong, It Happened One Night, The Thin Man, Bride of Frankenstein, The 39 Steps, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Adventures of Robin Hood, My Man Godfrey, Mutiny on the Bounty, Only Angels Have Wings, Destry Rides Again, Gone With the Wind, Angels With Dirty Faces, Ninotchka, Roaring Twenties, Slyvia Scarlett, City Lights, Vampyr, etc.
Also watch Captain Blood with Errol Flynn and see where the inspiration for the Pirates of the Caribbean really came from.
These are just a few from the 20's and 30's, I won't even start with the greats of the 1940's.
John, no longer in Daejeon
Here's a few suggestions that might change your mind about those old films that current films like to steal from (The new Batman film repackages James Bond's previous plane extraction from the 1960s and Return of the Jedi's speeder bikes of the early 1980's hoping that most viewers won't notice that it has been done before and better as well).
1920's: The Big Parade, Metropolis, Greed, The Gold Rush, The Crowd, Battleship Potemkin, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu (without this one, would there ever be a Dracula movie?), The Wind, Hallelujah, The Ten Commandments, etc.
1930's: M, The Front Page, Modern Times, The Blue Angel, Bringing Up Baby, Grand Illusion, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Scarface, Freaks, I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, King Kong, It Happened One Night, The Thin Man, Bride of Frankenstein, The 39 Steps, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Adventures of Robin Hood, My Man Godfrey, Mutiny on the Bounty, Only Angels Have Wings, Destry Rides Again, Gone With the Wind, Angels With Dirty Faces, Ninotchka, Roaring Twenties, Slyvia Scarlett, City Lights, Vampyr, etc.
Also watch Captain Blood with Errol Flynn and see where the inspiration for the Pirates of the Caribbean really came from.
These are just a few from the 20's and 30's, I won't even start with the greats of the 1940's.
John, no longer in Daejeon
Well, I like a lot of older films. Certainly the ones that are still around today are (for the most part) the ones that are fundamentally great. Metropolis made my top 100 a little earlier on in the list, and I love M, just to mention Fritz Lang.
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