Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#1Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 4:39pm
From Charlie Chaplin to Bette Davis, from Orson Welles to Akira Kurosawa, from Walt Disney to Quentin Tarantino, how many of these 200 classic films from the past 100 years have you seen?
Check off every film that you’ve watched all the way through
#2Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 4:49pm79
--Aristotle
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 4:55pm95 but I question some that are on the list and others that did not make the cut.
ARTc3
Broadway Star Joined: 8/5/13
#3Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 5:07pm152 out of 200. I'm actually surprised. I'm pretty well versed in classic movies. I thought I'd have done much better.
#6Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 5:50pm105
#7Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 5:57pm34
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#8Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 6:19pm
136. I, too, question the list: how can a movie made within the last 5-10 years be a "Classic"? It has yet to stand the test of time!
I was suprised how many of the films I had never heard of, however. That easily accounts for 15-20 of the ones I haven't seen.
#9Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 6:22pm175
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
#11Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 6:43pm121
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#12Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 6:44pm121, there are some classic movies on that list that I almost embarrassed to admit I've never seen!
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#14Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 7:03pm
185.
They list crap like UNFORGIVEN and FORREST GUMP as classics. Whatever.
#15Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 7:04pm115, though I'm happy to say that I don't believe there were any (or more than a handful) I hadn't heard of; at least my roadmap ahead is varied enough to know what to look forward to!
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#16Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 7:07pm69. But I question many on the the list, especially some of the newer films.
#17Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 8:54pm80, which disappointed me in a way - though at least I have plenty left to look forward to, which is good.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#18Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 8:57pmHard to believe but I have never seen It's A Wonderful Life or Mr Smith Goes To Washington.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#19Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 9:26pm
"Hard to believe but I have never seen It's A Wonderful Life or Mr Smith Goes To Washington."
Communist!
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#20Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 9:29pm
What can I Say
I also like Wildhorne which is worse.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#21Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 9:36pmI love It's A Wonderful Life. It's so schmaltzy.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#22Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/6/14 at 9:39pmI will add it to my bucket list.
#23Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/7/14 at 1:21amNotwithstanding the fact that Touch of Evil is a fine film, in 1958 The Defiant Ones was a much more important film.
#24Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Posted: 4/7/14 at 2:25am
I actually respect most of the list. Knowing the tastes of the people who actually had to curate the list, this is not necessarily corresponding with their personal tastes.
Touch of Evil gets ranked by Sight & Sound (which recently ranked Vertigo, another 1958 film, as the best and although that got some feathers ruffled in critics circles it is definitely a classic film) and, like a lot of Welles post-Kane, got critically resurrected. Stanley Kramer films were of a certain political point of view of a certain time. He's closer to an Edward Zwick/Paul Haggis figure of that period.
I just hope people are questioning the films they have seen than the ones they haven't. I did a whole senior thesis on The Battle of Algiers so I am certainly going to go postal on people who go all, 'What's The Battle of Algiers?' Well, I'd first recommend getting the informative Criterion Collection disc but if I hear complaints about subtitles and it having no stars in it, then yes, I will go postal.
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