FredCDobbs Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I've been trying to watch them, but they put me to sleep. 2 hours of boring, slow-moving, rehash of the plots of old movies, but stretched out to 2-hours. These films should have been limited to 1 hour, and shown as double features. That's why old double-feature films were not boring. We got 2 different kinds of movies, a cartoon, a short, and a newsreel, all for .10 cents for kids and .25 cents for adults. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted January 12, 2012 Author Share Posted January 12, 2012 "Once a Thief". Man, I'm glad I didn't waste any money on this film seeing it in a theater in the '60s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 > {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}We got 2 different kinds of movies, a cartoon, a short, and a newsreel, all for .10 cents for kids and .25 cents for adults. Fred, you should have been working on your decimal notation instead of going to the movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 Ok, ok... 10? and 25? I guess nobody agreed with me about the '60s movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayallen Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Fred, I want to say I kind of agree with you, as a matter of fact if I had to choose between watching only B&W or color movies from here on out, I'd definitely choose the former, but I can't say I dislike *all* movies post 1960. My favorites, as a whole, a certainly from the 50's and before (and in black and white), but I also love *Planet of the Apes*, *The Natural*, *A Christmas Story* and *The Odd Couple* to name a few. So, I do mostly agree, I just can't eliminate all from 1960 and up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audreyforever Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 > {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} I guess nobody agreed with me about the '60s movies. I agree with you Fred! There may be a handful of movies (no more than 8 or 10) that I enjoy made after 1960, but I'm with you, they could be limited to an hour in length. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 Thanks to both of you. I like several movies from the 1960s, but just average movies from the 60s are very boring to me, and they are generally way too long. I often mention "Three on a Match", from 1932. It's sort of an average movie but it's great and it's only 63 minutes long. Very interesting, filled with interesting things happening. Compare this list of films from 1965: http://www.myvideostore.com/content/movies/year.html?client=&year=1965 With this list from 1935: http://www.myvideostore.com/content/movies/year.html?client=&year=1935 I would like to see every one of the 1935 films, but almost none of the 1965 films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Rayallen, two of the four movies you mentioned are NOT post '60's. And there are several really good "post '60's" films. The Hospital Harold and Maude American Graffitti The Godfather The Godfather 2 Serpico Dog Day Afternoon Slapshot One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Blazing Saddles Soylent Green Network Caberet Star Wars Rocky I'm sure some of you can add to this list. Not ALL movies made after the '60's sucked. Matter of fact, I've a brother-in-law who thinks movies past the '50's were a waste of time. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 >Not ALL movies made after the '60's sucked. The ones that were on today, did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 Here are some of the films from Page 1 of 1932 films: http://www.myvideostore.com/content/movies/year.html?client=&year=1932 Alias The Doctor Richard Barthelmess The All-American Richard Arlen American Madness Walter Huston The Animal Kingdom Ann Harding Are These Our Children? Eric Linden Are You Listening? William Haines Arsene Lupin John Barrymore As You Desire Me Greta Garbo Back Street Irene Dunne The Beast Of The City Walter Huston Beauty And The Boss Marian Marsh Beauty Parlor Barbara Kent Behind The Mask Jack Holt Beyond The Rockies Tom Keene The Big Broadcast Stuart Erwin Big City Blues Joan Blondell The Big Stampede John Wayne A Bill Of Divorcement John Barrymore Bird Of Paradise Dolores del Rio Black King A.B. Comethiere Blessed Event Lee Tracy Blonde Venus Marlene Dietrich Blondie Of The Follies Marion Davies The Boiling Point Hoot Gibson Border Devils Harry Carey Broadway To Cheyenne Rex Bell Broken Lullaby Lionel Barrymore The Broken Wing Lupe Velez But The Flesh Is Weak Robert Montgomery The Cabin In The Cotton Richard Barthelmess Call Her Savage Clara Bow Carnival Boat Bill Boyd Central Park Joan Blondell Chandu The Magician Edmund Lowe Children Of Montmartre Madeleine Renaud Come On Danger Tom Keene The Conquerors Richard Dix Cornered Tim McCoy The County Fair Hobart Bosworth The Crash Ruth Chatterton Crime At The Canal Ann Todd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayallen Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 > {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote}Rayallen, two of the four movies you mentioned are NOT post '60's. And there are several really good "post '60's" films. Yes, you are correct...I read it as "post 1960"...or movies in the 1960's or later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 Yes, I meant it as post-1960. Meaning 1960 and later. -------------------------------- (I just went back and changed the title of my OP to "post-1960". Sorry for any confusion.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 For me there is no good or bad decade, all has movies I like (and a LOT I don't). From 1898 to 2011. Do admit. MOST films from the past 20 years are real duds. Oh well, there's ragchewing and gadjet building if nothings on. Edited by: hamradio on Jan 12, 2012 11:06 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowanMartin68 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 1965 had a lot of good movies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 Today's films: Hysteria (1965) was just awful. With a highly contrived and ridiculous plot that made no sense until the last few minutes. A very unrealistic and absurd murder plot. Inside Daisy Clover (1965). An really dull boring nonsense film. Joy In The Morning (1965). 1920s setting with 1960s clothes and hair styles. With Richard Chamberlain and Yvette Mimieux, two nice looking actors who have no range at all. They always play the same characters. Mimieux was playing exactly the same type of girl she played in Light in the Piazza. Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), another contrived plot that makes no sense until the last few minutes. Ok, so Bunny Lake is missing, and I?m sure her mother will find her before the end of the film. It?s a story that?s not worth more than 60 minutes of air time. A more interesting version of this could have been made by the original Twilight Zone team, with the full story told in 25 minutes. Once A Thief (1965), a very unhappy, unsatisfying film in which everyone looses. Most people don?t like to see this kind of film. The Cincinnati Kid (1965). Yawn, snooze, zzzzzzz. 1960s clothes, 1960s hair styles, 1960s train engines, 1920s and ?30s cars. And anyone who knows poker would NOT bet on the hand Steve McQueen bet on, and if he needed a loan so he could play poker, then that?s a hint that he?s not a very good poker player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunny75 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 1967 was the greatest year ever for movies?! You must be kidding. Here is a partial line-up from 1939: Stagecoach The Wizard of Oz Gunga Din The Women Gone With the Wind The Four Feathers Ninotchka The Hunchback of Notre Dame I'm sure I've left out a dozen other classics that also came out in 1939. Yes, 1967 had some good movies, but nowhere near as many of the same quality as 1939. There are probably other years in the 1940s and 1950s that had as many classic movies as 1967. I agree in general with Fred, I prefer watching movies from before 1960 to those made after 1960. And before you assume that's because I watched those movies in theaters as a kid, I never saw any movies until the 1960s, and only became a devotee of pre-1960 movies after I started watching them on the old AMC and TCM. TCM, keep showing those pre-1960 movies! That's why I watch TCM. Edited by: Sunny75 on Jan 13, 2012 12:16 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smileys Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 *1967 was maybe the greatest year ever for movies.* db Absolutely! *The Big Mouth* , *Good Times* , *Valley of the Dolls* , *Ultraman* ... It doesn't get any better than this. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowanMartin68 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 1967 was a great year in movies: The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Barefoot in the Park, Cool Hand Luke, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of The Night.. ect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxreyman Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Actually Fred there were some very fine films made during the 1960's. I prepared a listing of my top ten films from each year over on the Favorites Forum on my LISTS thread. 1962 and 1964 are the two best years of the decade as far as I am concerned. Plus all of these films listed here were a whole lot better than what you got to see today. Here is the list: 1960 The Apartment Elmer Gantry The Gallant Hours Inherit the Wind The Magnificent Seven Psycho Sink the Bismarck! Spartacus The Sundowners Swiss Family Robinson 1961 The Absent-Minded Professor Breakfast at Tiffany's The Children's Hour The Guns of Navarone The Hustler Judgement at Nuremberg The Parent Trap A Raisin in the Sun Two Rode Together West Side Story 1962 Cape Fear Lawrence of Arabia Lonely Are the Brave The Longest Day The Manchurian Candidate The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance The Miracle Worker The Music Man Ride the High Country To Kill a Mockingbird 1963 Billy Liar Charade From Russia With Love The Great Escape The Haunting Hud Lilies of the Field McLintock! Sunday in New York Tom Jones 1964 The Americanization of Emily Becket The Best Man Fail-Safe Goldfinger A Hard Day's Night Mary Poppins Seven Days in May The Train Zulu 1965 36 Hours The Agony and the Ecstasy The Bedford Incident The Flight of the Phoenix In Harm's Way Mirage Repulsion The Rounders The Sound of Music The Spy Who Came in From the Cold 1966 The Battle of Algiers Blowup Born Free Fantastic Voyage The Fortune Cookie The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly A Man for All Seasons The Professionals The Sand Pebbles Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? 1967 Bonnie and Clyde Cool Hand Luke The Dirty Dozen El Dorado The Graduate Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Hour of the Gun In Cold Blood In the Heat of the Night Point Blank 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey Bullitt The Lion in Winter The Odd Couple Once Upon a Time in the West Planet of the Apes Romeo and Juliet Targets The Thomas Crown Affair Will Penny 1969 Anne of the Thousand Days Downhill Racer Easy Rider Midnight Cowboy The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Support Your Local Sheriff! They Shoot Horses, Don't They? True Grit Where Eagles Dare The Wild Bunch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Yes that's a good boring list. Who wants to watch "The Cincinnati Kid"?? That's like watching "Poker After Dark". I never like anything that has people playing poker, cards, gambling, etc. What's the point? More recent movies i.e. "The English Patient", "Under the Tuscon Sun" are simply not my cup of tea. Wonder that English patient charactor didn't ask Jack Kavorkian to put him out of his misery for being in the film and reading yawn that script. But the 1930's can be a bore like "Raffles" (1930) which can cause one be put in a comatose state. Plot: A gentlemen cricket player by day, thief by night that's known to cause apoplectic fits at Scotland Yard. I would watch "Inside Daisy Clover" if it was a CSI episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 h4. 13 Friday h1. 7:00 AM h2. [Apartment, The (1960)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/16634/Apartment-The/] An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress. *Dir*: *Cast*: , , . BW-125 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format h1. 9:15 AM h2. [Any Wednesday (1966)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24781/Any-Wednesday/] A young businessman catches his boss keeping a mistress in the company apartment. *Dir*: *Cast*: , , . C-109 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format h1. 11:15 AM h2. [sunday in New York (1963)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91903/Sunday-in-New-York/] A philandering pilot gets real moral, real fast when his sister contemplates a premarital fling. *Dir*: *Cast*: , , . C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, h1. 1:15 PM *BOY'S NIGHT OUT (1962)* h2. A psychology student researches infidelity by becoming a platonic kept woman for four buddies. *Dir*: *Cast*: , , . C-113 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format h1. 3:30 PM h2. [bachelor In Paradise (1961)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/977/Bachelor-In-Paradise/] A writer moves into a housing development to study married couples. *Dir*: *Cast*: , , . C-109 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 In the Favorites forum I listed what can be called my "top" movies. I had not noticed the range of years. For my top ten half of them are post-1960. They are: Kuroneko (1968) Nikita (1990) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Yojimbo (1961) Fahrenheit 451 (1967) For my top ten American movies only four of them are post-1960. They are: The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) All That Jazz (1979) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1990) How to Steal a Million (1966) I can understand that people will disagree with me on whether these are great and wonderful movies. I can not identify with their views as I can when people disagree with my views on religion, politics or food. I believe there is no definite cut-off date for great movies. Has any person researched the number of movies released each year and what percentage of them were poor, good or great? I suspect the apparent dearth of good movies after 1960 is because of studios making fewer movies and tailoring the ones they made to suit the least common denominator. In such an environment a person could expect a lower number of great movies and a slightly lower percentage of great movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowanMartin68 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Friday is gonna be awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicalnovelty Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 > {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > > > > I guess nobody agreed with me about the '60s movies. I agree COMPLETELY with everything you've said here, Fred! 1930's - Yes! Post-1960 - NO!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audreyforever Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 > {quote:title=RowanMartin68 wrote:}{quote}1967 was a great year in movies: > > The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Barefoot in the Park, Cool Hand Luke, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of The Night.. ect. > While all are good films, some great and revolutionary, none of them except Guess Who's Coming to Dinner interest me. I found The Graduate to be iniquitous and just bad, but I'm a very traditional, conservative fellow, so it makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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