Your favorite movies from 1980 and earlier......

Blues Brothers
Max Max (original)
Godfather
Apocalypse Now
Star Wars

 

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Separately, The Flight of the Phoenix. 1965.

 

A bridge over the river Kwai.

 

Hud

 

Hmmm, off the top of my head...

Bogart:
Big Sleep
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Key Largo
Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
Dark Passage
African Queen

Cagney:
Public Enemy
White Heat
Angles with Dirty faces
Mister roberts
One Two Three

Bill Holden:
Sunset blvd
wild bunch
Bridge on the river kwai
stalag 17
bridges at toko ri

General old movies
Hells angels
some like it hot
to kill a mockingbird
psycho
vertigo
north by northwest
grapes of wrath
dr strangelove
double indemnity
chinatown
the third man
the quiet man

any chaplin silent flick - especially the kid, city lights, gold rush


Shut up. I like old movies

 

Yes. And I'll add The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance to the list.

 

That's a great movie.

 

Old fashioned humor: Life with Father, Pillow Talk. Never get old.

 

I like to do comparisons. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, both the 1956 and 1978 versions were good! Same with both versions of "The Thing" although the remake came out in 82. Operation Petticoat (1956) was a fun WW 2 flick, as is Kelly's Heroes and The Dirty Dozen. Classic Sci Fi with Forbidden Planet (also 1956) or the original Day The Earth Stood Still, or the Rod Taylor version of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. Definite yes to the original "JAWS", of course .
Don't forget, also, that Alien came out in 1979, and you can finish it up with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the ultimate car flick....Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!!!

 

Many of my faves are already mentioned, but I will add Watcher in the Woods.

 

Yup.

 

Excellent list.

 

Cool Hand Luke

 

Slap shot

 

Seven Samurai.
The Italian Job.
The Blob.
2001 A Space Odyssey.
Forbidden Planet.

 

Where Eagles Dare
The Valachi Papers
Play Misty For Me
Magnificent Seven
The Great Escape
The Outlaw Josie Wales
West World
Omega Man
Marathon Man
Midnight Cowboy
The Dirty Dozen
Death Wish

Damn there are sooooooo many!

 

Goddamn is that a great movie. Who would have thought Newman could be such a cad?

 

Saw Third Kind recently. It hadn't aged well but to each his own. Neither did American Werewolf in London...


Surprised no one mention Life of Brian for MP. Their best movie!

Papillon (The original)

Raging bull

Bond movie: Live and let die

Philadelphia Story and most anything with James Stewart.

And on....

 

Some of my favorites:

Star Wars (obviously, and who hasn't seen it?)
Blazing Saddles (same)
Young Frankenstein (but not nearly as good as Blazing Saddles)
The Jerk
Meatballs
Stir Crazy

I started to add Stripes as well, but I looked and that was 1981, so doesn't count.

Man, comedy was so much better in the 70s and 80s than it is today.

 

You have to watch the Trinity movies.
Posting the slap scene in the Youtube thread.
It never gets old.