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  • #31
    The Lady Vanishes
    Night Train To Munich
    Double Indemnity
    Libel (Dirk Bogarde)

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Abby Normal View Post
      By genre, but some are hard to categorize, or fall into multiple ones, but here goes:

      Comedy:
      American graffiti
      This is spinal tap
      Neighbors (ackroyd and belushi)
      A Christmas story
      Christmas vacation
      16 candles
      Men in black
      Sideways
      Groundhog Day
      The hangover
      Planes, trains and automobiles
      Fast times at ridgemont high
      Young Frankenstein
      Manhattan murder mystery
      Monty pythons holy grail
      Gung Ho



      Fantasy:
      Lord of the rings
      The wizard of oz
      Jason and the argonauts
      Spirited away(animated)
      Pans labyrinth
      The thief of Baghdad
      The seventh voyage of sin bad
      Clash of the titans
      The ant bully(animated)
      Company of wolves
      The jungle book(animated)
      Naked lunch
      Beetle juice
      Willy wonka and the chocolate factory
      Peter pan(animated)
      A Christmas carol (Alister sim)
      Sante sangre

      Other genres to follow...
      Forgot beauty and the beast (1946)!!!! For fantasy genre.
      One of the first movies I ever recall seeing. It gave me wonderful dreams and horrible nightmares. A truly magical fantasy if ever there was one.
      Last edited by Abby Normal; 12-11-2014, 05:34 PM.
      "Is all that we see or seem
      but a dream within a dream?"

      -Edgar Allan Poe


      "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
      quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

      -Frederick G. Abberline

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      • #33
        My top 20 science fiction movies from the 1950s with date of release:

        20-Revenge of the Creature(1955)
        19-The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951)
        18-Them!(1954)
        17-Creature from the Black Lagoon(1954)
        16-Return of the Fly(1959)
        15-Destination Moon(1950)
        14-The Atomic Submarine(1959)
        13-Earth vs. the Flying Saucers(1956)
        12-It Came from Outer Space(1953)
        11-Forbidden Planet(1956)
        10-When Worlds Collide(1951)
        9-The Fly(1958)
        8-Invaders from Mars(1953)
        7-20,000 Leagues Under the Sea(1954)
        6-The Incredible Shrinking Man(1957)
        5-The Colossus of New York(1958)
        4-The Blob(1958)
        3-The Thing from Another World(1951)
        2-The War of the Worlds(1953)
        1-Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956)
        This my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, that is, if I'm not joking.

        Stan Reid

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        • #34
          Originally posted by sdreid View Post
          My top 20 science fiction movies from the 1950s with date of release:

          20-Revenge of the Creature(1955)
          19-The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951)
          18-Them!(1954)
          17-Creature from the Black Lagoon(1954)
          16-Return of the Fly(1959)
          15-Destination Moon(1950)
          14-The Atomic Submarine(1959)
          13-Earth vs. the Flying Saucers(1956)
          12-It Came from Outer Space(1953)
          11-Forbidden Planet(1956)
          10-When Worlds Collide(1951)
          9-The Fly(1958)
          8-Invaders from Mars(1953)
          7-20,000 Leagues Under the Sea(1954)
          6-The Incredible Shrinking Man(1957)
          5-The Colossus of New York(1958)
          4-The Blob(1958)
          3-The Thing from Another World(1951)
          2-The War of the Worlds(1953)
          1-Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956)
          Awesome list.

          Did you ever see This Island Earth? It's one of my favorites.
          "Is all that we see or seem
          but a dream within a dream?"

          -Edgar Allan Poe


          "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
          quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

          -Frederick G. Abberline

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          • #35
            Originally posted by Steadmund Brand View Post
            Hello there, Fun list, actually made me laugh as some of my favorite filmmakers are on your list, but you picked some of my least favorite films of theirs (not that they are great films... they are, but for each i would have picked other films )

            for instance Elephant Man- David Lynch- I would put Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Wild At Heart, Blue Velvet and Fire Walk with me over Elephant Man.

            Barry Lyndon (which is a very underrated and almost forgotten film!!) By Stanley Kubrick- i would have put Killers Kiss, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, and Full Metal Jacket above it though.

            Fanny And Alexander- Again, great film, and I am a Bergman Freak...Being an American, I had only seen the "American Theatrical release of this film for years, and thought it was blah, very overrated, then, I bought the box set and got to see the full film.. wow.. it is amazing....but I would put several of his films above F &A- Seventh Seal ( which is there), but also, Wild Strawberries, Sawdust And Tinsel, The Magician, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence, Persona, Hour of the Wolf ( I'll stop there, see I am a bit of a Bergman fanatic)

            and Mean Streets- another great film by Scorsese- But I would put Taxi Driver , Raging Bull and the King Of Comedy higher then Mean streets..

            these lists can be great fun..

            Steadmund Brand
            Sometimes it is hard to say which film is better than another... if both are great. This list was really off the top of my head. I think I have to disagree about Lynch, Scorcese, and Kubrick though.

            I do love the Shining, and Clockwork Orange, but I certainly think BL is better than Killers Kiss, full Metal Jacket, and Dr. Strangelove. Barry Lyndon, incidentally, is one of Scorcese's favorite films.

            For Scorcese.. I find Mean Streets to be his most honest and powerfully raw film. It is the closest to an art film, in my opinion. Raging Bull is great, and Taxi Driver is great. I also like Kundun and Age of Innocence. But some of his later films, including Good Fellas and Casino, follow a sort of formula laid down by Raging Bull. They lack something that makes Mean Streets special. ("You calling me a mook? What's a mook?")

            I bow to your superior knowledge of Bergman. I do like several of his films, including Monika, and Scenes from a Marriage. I also like Eric Rohmer, Antonioni, Fassbinder. I could really go on for hours about films I like.

            For Lynch, I do like his more Lynchian stuff... Inland Empire, Twin Peaks, etc. But the Elephant Man, I feel, is an odd mixture of his weirdness mixed with a seriousness and an emotional power and honesty that his later films lack a bit.

            I am also a huge Hitchcoock fan, and could have added several more: the Birds, the Lady Vanishes, Blackmail, Murder!, Rebecca, etc. Some of his spotty films still have great qualities, like Jamaica Inn and Young and Innocent. Again, his more Hitchcockian films, like North by Northwest or Rear Window are, I think, not among his best. His early British films have an aura that I have never found in any other film. Even some of the lesser known ones, like Murder are pretty fantastic.

            RH

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            • #36
              Originally posted by Abby Normal View Post
              Awesome list.

              Did you ever see This Island Earth? It's one of my favorites.
              This Island Earth is the ****.
              The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

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              • #37
                Originally posted by Scott Nelson View Post
                Your #18 there --that alien Lattis -- aka Susan McConnell, was something else, eh?
                I quote that movie like, every day. It's a whole shtick now between me and my fiance.

                Like right before bed, he announces "I sleep now!" and I respond "I never liked you!"

                It is the most brilliant thing ever. I have had four Halloween costumes from that movie.
                The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by lynn cates View Post
                  Hello Jeff. Good Lor'! A Sim fan. Hmmm.

                  Cheers.
                  LC
                  Hi LC,

                  I've been a big fan since the 1970s. Such soulful poached egg eyes, that you knew had an ulterior motive. It was "Scrooge" and "The Green Man" that I liked so much that convinced me, along with "An Inspector Calls" (the best name for a mysterious detective, "Inspector Goole"). I also liked some films he was in that were not well received - Hitchcock's "Stage Fright" and "The Millionairess". His final film appearance, as the dotty bishop in "The Ruling Class" was a nice cameo.

                  Jeff

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by MrBarnett View Post
                    The man liked his scarves. I remember watching Hue and Cry at Saturday Morning pictures. Some great shots of the blitz ravaged London.

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                    I was told that when Alec Guiness portrayed "Professor Marcus" the criminal mastermind of "The Ladykillers", he based his appearance on Sim.

                    Jeff

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                    • #40
                      Alec Guinness:

                      Tunes of Glory
                      Last Holiday
                      The Man in the White Suit
                      The Lavender Hill Mob
                      Kind Hearts and Coronets
                      The Bridge On the River Kwai
                      The Detective


                      Peter Sellers:

                      I'm All Right Jack
                      The Naked Truth
                      Two Way Stretch
                      Heaven's Above
                      The Mouse That Roared
                      The Waltz of the Toreadors
                      The Wrong Arm of the Law
                      Lolita
                      Dr. Strangelove
                      The Pink Panther
                      A Shot in the Dark
                      The Wrong Box (Cameo part, but a wonderful one - as is the film)

                      Terry-Thomas:

                      Make Mine Mink
                      Too Many Crooks
                      Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

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                      • #41
                        vanishing

                        Hello Robert.

                        "The Lady Vanishes"

                        Hmm, must show THAT one to my wife. (heh-heh)

                        Cheers.
                        LC

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                        • #42
                          Sir Alec

                          Hello Jeff. Thanks.

                          Good grief! When I watched "The Lady Killers" I was struck by the fact that Sir Alec looked SO much like Sim. Thought it was just my odd notion.

                          Cheers.
                          LC

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                          • #43
                            Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
                            Ivan the Terrible Part I (1944)
                            The Ghost Writer (2010)
                            1941 (1979)
                            The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)

                            Dressed to Kill (1980)
                            Rosemary's Baby (1968)
                            Amacord (1973)
                            Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1920)
                            Moby Dick (1956)

                            Alphaville (1965)
                            Rolling Thunder (1977)
                            Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
                            The Formula (1980)
                            Bombshell (1933)

                            Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
                            Lolita (1962--Kubrick's greatest IMO)
                            All That Jazz (1979)
                            Shoot the Moon (1981)
                            Octopussy (1983)

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by Mayerling View Post
                              Alec Guinness:

                              Tunes of Glory
                              Last Holiday
                              The Man in the White Suit
                              The Lavender Hill Mob
                              Kind Hearts and Coronets
                              The Bridge On the River Kwai
                              The Detective


                              Peter Sellers:

                              I'm All Right Jack
                              The Naked Truth
                              Two Way Stretch
                              Heaven's Above
                              The Mouse That Roared
                              The Waltz of the Toreadors
                              The Wrong Arm of the Law
                              Lolita
                              Dr. Strangelove
                              The Pink Panther
                              A Shot in the Dark
                              The Wrong Box (Cameo part, but a wonderful one - as is the film)

                              Terry-Thomas:

                              Make Mine Mink
                              Too Many Crooks
                              Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
                              G'day Jeff

                              Under Peter Sellers, you should just say, "Everything".
                              G U T

                              There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by Abby Normal View Post
                                Did you ever see This Island Earth?
                                I have seen the film. It would probably be in my top 25.

                                Globally, I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't more than 100 Sci-Fi films made in the 50s especially if you include some questionables like Around the World in 80 Days and The Naked Jungle, which are both very good btw. For whatever reason, I would have trouble naming even 5 Sci-Fi movies made in the 1940s
                                Last edited by sdreid; 12-12-2014, 06:14 AM.
                                This my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, that is, if I'm not joking.

                                Stan Reid

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