"Classic" Movies that you've never seen

[El Kabong]

1st off, Matty Casablanca and Its A Wonderful Life are great pictures....Godfather 3? Not so much.

Damn guys I've seen pretty much all those movies. All of Kubrik's movies are class!

Now if we're talking specifically classic movies I'm going to have to think a while
-Paths of Glory one of the few Kubrik movies I haven't seen.
I've missed a couple Hitchcock movies but I'll get around to them I'm going to see 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' tonight.

If you like a certain genre let me know and I'll suggest some flix for you.

How about movies before the Hayes code was eliminated? I think around before 1968? I just felt that Hollywood back then had more creativity before the gratuitous sex and violence started getting out of hand. I'm not a prude by any means just thought that Hollywood had much better quality of movies from that particular era.

For example I just got done watching the 1945 version of the Picture of Dorian Gray with Angela Lansbury and thought it was much superior than the newer 1970s version which had copious amounts of sexual matters and drug use. You know what they say, sometimes less is more. The '45 version just hinted what were the sins of Dorian instead of showing it like the 70s version, surprisingly it's also rated much higher by critics.

Oh you're spot on the money. Now'a'days you've got gratuitous sex and violence so much so that film makers and directors have all but forgotten that people experience movies by more than just watching them. Great movies make you use your imagination and the lack of special effects made directors think harder about how to shoot something. Look at 'The Public Enemy' (the James Cagney one not the newer movie) Cagney kills Putty Nose in a scene and you never actually SEE the murder but you hear a shot and a scream of pain/terror...its little stuff like that which can spark your imagination wondering how Putty Nose finally bought it.

I love all the old crime movies...bad guys were bad guys, good guys were good guys, and the actors that played them were great: Cagney, Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum...there's nobody that can touch those guys today.

[Master]

I have and never will see ET.