Who enjoys movies made before your time?

[skubrick]

ME!!!!

The lack of classic films is why I have only purchased TWO blu-ray movies to date (Casino Royale and The Fountain). I just can't justify spending $30, in most cases, on movies that will be forgotten in five years.

It's EASILY justified to spend $30 on a movie that has stood the test of time and will always be regarded as a classic. I want to help widen the BR/HD sales lead, but I can't do that until they start releasing old movies.

I mean, seriously, what classic movies are on BR now? And no, I don't mean a movie like Blazing Saddles. When I say classic, I mean Gone with the Wind...On the Waterfront...Notorious. I would instantly buy pretty much anything from Hitchcock or Kubrick (excited to get these in October). And I'd get some John Wayne, Bogart, Cary Grant for sure!

Please put old movies on BR....ASAP!!

[Sane]

I watched "Seven Samurai" a couple of weeks ago (1954 Japan) which is often ranked in the top (if not #1) for best martial arts movie of all time. I really did like it! You can easily see why so many movies have been influenced by it!

My friend who lent it to me paid $40 for it! (Criterion Collection)

[RUR]

Originally Posted by skubrick

I mean, seriously, what classic movies are on BR now? And no, I don't mean a movie like Blazing Saddles. When I say classic, I mean Gone with the Wind...On the Waterfront...Notorious. I would instantly buy pretty much anything from Hitchcock or Kubrick (excited to get these in October). And I'd get some John Wayne, Bogart, Cary Grant for sure!

Please put old movies on BR....ASAP!!

If you're a John Wayne fan, I heartily recommend The Searchers. Mind-bendingly restored, you'll think you're sitting in a theater in 1956.

[CptGreedle]

I paid for Seven Samurai too, i love it.

Also.. Snow White
Pinocchio
Sleeping Beauty
Oklahoma
Black Rain (Japan)
Cinderella


Oh so many great films!

[TJandBLU-RAY]

Originally Posted by Sane

I watched "Seven Samurai" a couple of weeks ago (1954 Japan) which is often ranked in the top (if not #1) for best martial arts movie of all time. I really did like it! You can easily see why so many movies have been influenced by it!

My friend who lent it to me paid $40 for it! (Criterion Collection)

That is a classic film. I love older films, but that is because my parents were in them. Bit roles here and there...nothing too large...so I grew up with a appreciation for the films.

B&W, mono; both are fine. Heck, I even dig Silent. It's part of being a film buff for me...hence why I just love films. Don't care which format it's in, as long as I can get it.

My dad once drove a cab up the steps of the Lincoln memorial as part of a scene in the film MY SON JOHN. And I wish it was out even on BETA; I have only seen it once on late night TV back in the '80s. There are so many classic films that are not out even on DVD. I wish that the studios would release some of the long lost classics before the elements all turn to dust.

[buckshot]

i'm 24. some of my favorite movies are (in no particular order): citizen kane, ben hur, ten commandments, lawrence of arabia, chariots of fire, hell I love the original version of rollerball.

my favorite movie is the departed which dethroned braveheart. I love complexity in characters so loa is close to departed but damn I loved that movie.

[Matt X]

I am a huge fan of the recent Warner Gangsters/Film Noir sets. It amazed me how many movies the dickead colonel from The Dirty Dozen was in back in the (B&W) day (Robert Ryan). Plus I had to revise my top 5 actors list to include James Cagney. that guy was straight up O.G. and Robert mitchum was really good too. My faves out of those sets was "The Petrified Forest" and "White Heat". Dialogue just seemed so much better back then, for some reason. everything people said was interesting. Not like these days, where most movies need to throw in an action scene before the audience's attention wavers.....................and those were well before my time. I'm pretty much a child of Star Wars & Indy Jones, but if you look hard you'll start to notice cool s&*t like Seven Samurai..............

[Iceman_II]

I love old movies, even black and white.... the thing I like best is that the actors and actresses actually had to ACT! You couldn't fix things in post production, or add a special effect to take attention away from the fact that the leading man has all the acting ability of a cardboard box (Keanu Reeves)

If you haven't seen the searchers on BD, you are missing out. The biggest problem is that to fully take advantage of the BD transfer, they should use a good restoration copy to start with... while I am not necessarily a big fan of musicals, I think the restoration of "My Fair Lady" they did about 10 years ago would look AMAZING on BD!

As for 7 samurai.... films weren't "influenced" by it, they out and out COPIED it! Hell, they even had an actor that kind of looked like James Coburn! Come to think of it, the Magnificent Seven would look wonderful in BD as well.

[tron3]

Originally Posted by RUR

Ah, a classic. Terrific to see Peter Lorre and Raymond Massey in comedic roles!

Ahh, Peter Lorre. What a classic actor. Remember his appearance on the original Bugs Bunny cartoon? Was the classic gangster one with "Mugsy" and hiding in the gas stove.

"They made me laugh. .... Ehh HEH!" A dead pan Peter Lorre / Looney Toons

[WickyWoo]

One of the main reasons I support Blu-ray is for the chance of seeing these classic films the way they should be seen, as many persons haven't ever seen them outside of NTSC video. The closest many of my friends have seen the 8 channel Ultra-Panavision 70mm Ben-Hur to the original is on 290i video. Or when they saw the pod race in Phantom Menace in theaters!

I'd love to see Ben-Hur in proper 70 anamorphic. I saw Lawrence in 70 on the last reissue and it was a revelation

On Wed I saw the Flynn Robin Hood in 35 for the first time, breathtaking

[Kristin Simard]

I like good films from various eras. I do have a hard time getting interested in old silent pictures. I seem to have a particular fascination for films of the late 60's and the 70's to early 80's, from Europe mostly. They seem to represent the most refined state of analog film making, before things became digitalized. Special effests were optical (now they often look silly, but I'm not really interested in films that rely heavily on special effects) editing and sound were analog and forget about CGI. Digital film making is really a whole new art. The analog films seem more "hand crafted". Not that I would make a film that way now.

[gvortex7]

The vast majority of movies and like, watch, collect are from 1979 to present, but there are some notable movies from the past that are timeless and classic and just have to be in every true collection.

Some of these movies are: Nosferatu, Dracula (with Bela Lugosi), Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, Spartacus, Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, Psycho, Vertigo, Easy Rider,The Good the Bad and the Ugly, 2001 Space Odyssey, The Andromeda Strain, Godfather I and II, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Serpico, Westworld, Chinatown, French Connection, Dog Day Afternoon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The first three Dirty Harry movies, Taxi Driver, Star Wars (episode IV), Logan's Run, Coma just to name a few.

[Belloche]

I love movies period. Here are a few of my favorite oldies -
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, King Kong, The Wizard of Oz, Night of the Hunter, and Creature from the Black Lagoon.

[movieeddie]

I love allmost all the epic films,back when they were shot in large film formats.Iam 40 now and I still wish I was at least 18 when CINEMASCOPE was introduced.Those were the times of great film making.Grand Theatres with hugescreens and balconys.Epic movies like BEN-HUR and LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.I recently saw Lawrence in a preaty large house(525 seats is large these days)and it blew me away.Give me epics any day.Wish I can go back in time.Give me more epics on BLU-RAY.Iam so there.Peace.

[blackhawktraffic]

Classic movies are the best, in some cases surpass most the crap that comes out now a days. And yeah they need to start releasing more of the classics in High Def. And on a side note Criterion's are worth paying more for, either cant find the movie anywhere else and or the quality is top notch.

[zachhar]

I was born in 1988 and i love the classic horror movies of the 30's, 40's and 50's.
From Frankenstein to the black cat. I also love other genres from the same period and beyond, like star wars and The Man With No Name Trilogy.

[red_5ive]

I'm not a huge fan of older films so here's my small list:

Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Any Clint Eastwood Western/Dirty Hairy flick
Anything with Audrey Hepburn

Edit: forgot a few...
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[Coltboy]

Any of the old War movies

[ishouldcoco795]

I am 21 years old and a lover of cinema from every age. To me, film's merits come not from the abillity to identify with my times as much as "universal" human stories that probe the depth of the human experience. A lot of it has to do with the director and if you were to look through my collection you would see a lot of Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, and Martin Scorsese but I'm also a fan of those other fantastic directors who are just masters of their craft like Steven Spielberg, Alfonso Cuaron, Edgar Wright, Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, and Terry Gilliam. I find it endlessly annoying when people look at the date on any given movie and refuse to watch it because it's too old. There are so many timeless films that have yet to be explored by so many people that it's amazing. I am a lover of film and Blu-Ray has reinvigorated my passion for movies. I can't wait until they release all of my current SD DVDs in the format they were meant to be viewed in.

[JonD7]

i'm 19 and I am alittle crazy about older films, I have a thing for the 1930s/40s, I watch alot of horror films, just the classics actually because I HATE new horror films, I love Dracula/Vampire films, or Frankenstein or even Freddy Kruger or Friday The 13th, to The Night Of The Living Dead(I personally prefer the newer one from 91)
my favorite horror film from the 80's has to be The Shining
like recently I have been watching alot of older films from Laurel And Hardy and I just got Dick Tracey, in my opinion what the new generation is missing is character and style, everything back then was done perfectly.