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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2017 0:18:15 GMT
I'm not using only age to certify what a classic is. I used age to let people know I'm specifically talking about the oldies that have survived in the public consciousness and remained relevant through the decades, weathering every change society has made in that time. If that isn't describing a classic that continues to strike a chord with people, then I don't know what does. This isn't rocket science.
It goes without saying "Mars Needs Women" isn't a classic and is so far removed from the examples I'm asking for that it isn't even in the same hemisphere. Do not assume I was discounting a certain degree of quality or value. I am assuming BOTH those things AND age. I am asking for examples from a bygone era of Hollywood (or another country's film industry) whose reputations, technical feats, musical scores, writing, acting, and what-not are still The Gold Standard. If someone were to say "The Incredible Strange Creatures That Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies was my first classic," I would be the first to say "That's not a classic." And yes, that is the title of a real film, I am sad to tell you.
The codifier I am going with is: Great Film That's Considered a Classic by Both the Masses and Critics Alike + 50+ Years of Age, regardless of the age of anyone replying to this topic. If you got to see these great films in their original runs: awesome! Wish I could have, too.
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Post by neurosturgeon on Feb 26, 2017 0:45:53 GMT
My parents took me to see GWTW on New Year's Day 1968. Two days later, I talked my Mom into taking me to a local revival house to see the double bill of "The Petrified Forest" and "Arsenic and Old Lace," but none of those films would have been 50 years old at that time.
My family went to the drive-in almost every weekend, so I saw a lot of movies that are now considered classics. I van remember seeing "North by Northwest" on a double bill with "Rear Window" when I was 5.
"Wizard of Oz" was only about 25 years old when we went to my granfather's house to watch it. He had an early color TV, so that was special. I later saw it on the big screen when it was 40 years old.
When I was about 11, I started seeking out Cary Grant films, and saw a lot of his early Paramount films , like "Gambling Ship" on KTLA.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2017 0:58:10 GMT
The Wizard of Oz is probably every millennial's answer. I was born in '86 & I probably watched it when I was 4-5.
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Post by moonlight91 on Feb 26, 2017 5:02:01 GMT
I think it would be easy to say any Disney film prior to 1989 or Ten Commandments, but for me it would be Rebecca. I say Rebecca because that is the first film I have an early memory of (I think I was 4 or 5) due to it being B&W where the others it never clicked until I looked the dates later on.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 0:34:32 GMT
The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Sound of Music where the two films which sparked my interest in films pre-1970's, and it only grew from there. Later I would discover both these films had the same director.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jul 22, 2023 11:51:08 GMT
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Post by GiantFan1980 on Jul 22, 2023 11:59:34 GMT
Probably 4 or 6 when I saw this. The anti hero Captain Nemo was a hell of an introduction on the outlook of life.
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Post by timshelboy on Jul 23, 2023 19:24:16 GMT
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Post by divtal on Jul 23, 2023 22:55:55 GMT
I thought that I had responded to this, recently resurrected, thread. I didn't see my response, so it might have been from the "old" boards. My memory of seeing my first movie is vague. However, my parents recalled the experience in minute detail. I was a tiny-tot, and my parents wanted to see Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Jose Ferrer. It was playing at a local drive-in, and they made their plans too late to find a babysitter. So, they created a nursery in the back seat, with all the comforts that would lead little divtal into "nonny land." Little divtal, however, was overcome with awe and curiosity ... - Those people who we were seeing were so big! - That one man had such a big nose! It was never-ending commentary, and questioning. It was, also, the only time that they took me to a drive-in. When I was in high school, a small group of us went to a drive-in. When my date ... a long-time BF ... picked me up, my Dad said to him: "Don't count on it." I think that my first in-theater, movie was Bambi.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jul 24, 2023 0:09:50 GMT
The Wizard of Oz seems likely. Unless it was an older animated movie like Pinnocchio.
I think the first one I actually sought out was Titanic (1953). I'd just seen the Cameron movie and was obsessed with it. Though now that I think about it, that movie would have only been 44 at the time.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jul 24, 2023 1:44:39 GMT
I can't be sure what my first old classic was. Either The Wizard Of Oz or The Ten Commandments.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jul 24, 2023 6:33:24 GMT
I think that the first one was... the Wizard of Oz. That would be the first one I did see.
And I thought that film sucked!
Believe it or not, there's only one reason why I never seen it again. And the reason is because I thought it sucks.
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