jimmydee Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 I like most think that classic Hollywood died after the 1960's so why do you show movies from the 70's up? Why don't you keep your station for the classics and trade these other films to AMC or TNT for there classic films you don't have. Case in point POPULAR SCIENCE Series & Unusual Occupations Series. Thanks Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Oh BOY! Here we go AGAIN, folks! (...where's Tootsie when ya really need her..err..him, HUH?!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Oh Boy!.... Isn't this EXCITING !!! ROUND 2 is About to Start.... Twink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Yeah...well...as Billy Crystal says in that movie(made after 1969, I might add)... "Have fun stormin' the castle!" LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 ...not to be a 'downer', but I'm watching SARATOGA with Jean Harlow right now and realize that she died while this movie was being filmed. Makes me realize just how 'short 'life is ! Twink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 >I like most think that classic Hollywood died after the 1960's so why do you show movies from the 70's up? Because unlike the older films, the newer ones are never cut short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 It appears you might be a new member here. Welcome. What you mention is one of the most debated topics at this forum. Note taht 1968 was the end of the code (censorship) era and that year is used to denote what I call the end of the studio era. I don't use the term 'classic' since that term is way too vague. Also note that a movie made in, say, 1970 is over 40 years old and many here feel being over 40 years old qualifies a movies a being 'classic' (well assuming the movie is good!). Note my POV is that TCM should limit post studio-era movies to no more than 20% (or so), of their programming. i.e. over 80% of their programming should focus on pre-1969 movies. But others here feel differently and that makes this a hot topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 >Also note that a movie made in, say, 1970 is over 40 years old Ha, ha, ha, yeah, and most 40 year old movies suck! A 40 year old car might be worth something of value, but not a 40 year old movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 babes'.........I agree Twink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 What? Know you not that 1970 was a banner year for film? Just gander at this (only partial list) of memorable masterpieces: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Count Yorga, Vampire Flesh Feast I Drink Your Blood Macho Callahan Party at Kitty and Stud's The Wizard of Gore One cannot help but hug oneself when contemplating that vast resevoir of cinematic excellence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Nice selective list there to prove one point, but here's another to debunk it: M*A*S*H* FIVE EASY PIECES TRISTANA CATCH-22 PATTON TORA! TORA! TORA! THE BOYS IN THE BAND THE GREAT WHITE HOPE LITTLE BIG MAN Again, only a partial list. And again, I'll repeat the fact that one could peruse the list of movies made in ANY decade and find ones that stunk up the place mixed in with those old classics that we've come to love and revere. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rewrite Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 A 40-year-old movie like, say, this one? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/?ref_=sr_1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Well, it says there that THAT one WAS made in the year 1972, now doesn't it, rewrite? And so, because 1972 is a whole 3 years AFTER 1969, then "of course" by "SOME folks' " definition, it "ain't no good", RIGHT???!!! LOL (...and so would you PLEASE stop askin' all these kinda "dumb questions" around here, dude?!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 One of the most? The most, by a wide margin. I can't believe we're debating this again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Well this is what happens when new members create threads. They don?t know the history and that this one has been beaten to death. Even if the topic was a cat it should be dead by now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 How come the bright boys in today's Hollywood aren't making war movies anymore??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 >Well this is what happens when new members create threads. They don't know the history and that this one has been beaten to death They are TCM subscribers too. The topic is important to them. The vast number of new board members who sign on the board to mention this topic should tell you how important it is to TCM subscribers in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 What FlyBack?! Did you miss catchin' my answer to you about this very same question you recently posed in another thread, and where I replied to it with three...count 'em THREE fairly recently done(which of course means, WAY after the year 1969) and very WELL done war flicks with the titles: "Three Kings" "The Hurt Locker" "Zero Dark Thirty" ??????????? (...yep, maybe you just didn't see my earlier answer to ya, huh?!...well, you didn't acknowledge my earlier reply to ya, so maybe ya DID miss seein' it, eh?!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 I looked, an' I looked, an' I looked, but I simply could not find an emoticon with its tongue in its cheek. Alas. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 A 40 year old car might be worth something of value, but not a 40 year old movie. You jest, but the percentage of 40 year old movies worth watching is way higher than the percentage of 40 year old cars that are still in one piece. And not even Last Tango in Paris is as bad as a 1973 Pinto, though admittedly it'd be a close call. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 I saw Last Tango in San Francisco. The theater was packed. All the advertising hyped Brando being naked with some dame. And that is all I remember about that turkey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Fred, you think the movies started to get bad, what about the music? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 I don't remember much about the music. I didn't see many films in the 70s. We had several retro theaters in San Francisco, and then Turner's old movie channel, WTBS, started on cable in 1976. I got to see one of the early edits of the Coppola Napoleon reconstruction when he rented a theater and a couple of extra projectors and showed it to a large test audience. He even added the two large side screens. It was so long, it had two intermissions. Funny thing about movies of the 1970s. Many turkeys which I purposely did not see at that time, TCM is now airing several, and some are repeated a couple of times a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 I was in Berkeley in the Summer/Fall of 1971 helping a friend set up bogus "film societies" on the UC campus in order to get cheap hall rent for his non-theatrical screenings of recent movies. At that point in Berkeley it was probably almost as easy to see movies from the 30's and 40's as it was to see then-current films. My friend's friend, the director Mark Lester, provided the biggest buzz of the season somewhere in San Francisco with his premiere of the Cockettes' film Tricia's Wedding, a lampoon in drag of Tricia Nixon's recent betrothals. You haven't truly lived until you've seen the "Kennedy Sisters" singing "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree With Anyone Else But Me". ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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