Here's my list for what it's worth ... some previously mentioned, some not.
Cannonball Run
The Sting
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Kelly's Heroes
Slingblade
Murder In The First
Yellowbeard & everything else by Monty Python
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Slapshot 1
Blazing Saddles
Silent Movie
Young Frankenstein
Long Riders
Rob Roy
The Name of The Father
High Fidelity
The Hustler
The Color of Money
Schindler's List
Animal House
Blues Brothers
Hang 'Em High
Easy Rider
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
Dirty Dingus McGee
Cry Freedom (great movie about Steve Biko ... good Kevin Kline performance)
The Year of Living Dangerously (still my favourite Mel Gibson movie)
Nell
Last edited by Ford Prefect; 03-18-2008 at 10:23 AM.
For a really old one, check out The Third Man, starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten. Good movie.
A lot that I like have been mentioned--the first two in the Alien sequence, Blade Runner, etc.--though I wouldn't call those "old."
Honestly? If you think you don't like really old movies, check out Casablanca, Stagecoach, The Maltese Falcon and Rear Window. You won't be disappointed.
Haven't read the whole thread so possibly all of these have been mentioned. Anyway.....
The Great Escape
North by Northwest
Vertigo
Rear Window
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The China Syndrome
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
The Sting
The Spanish Prisoner (bad acting by a few of the players but good story)
The Graduate
Local Hero (Dated now but still a great movie)
Young Frankinstein
Blazing Saddles
Dr. Strangelove
Bonnie & Clyde
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Goldfinger
From Russia with love
(Other Connery Bond films)
High Fidelity
The Shawshank Redemption
The Usual Suspects
Stand by me
Sleuth
Twelve Monkeys
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Crimson Tide
The French Connection
Chinatown
The Producers
The Changeling
The Shining
It's a mad mad mad world (kinda silly, totally slapstick, but good fun. Tons of great comedians of the day in this one)
Glengarry Glen Ross
House of Games
OLD BUT BRILLIANT....
12 Angry Men
Strangers on a train
Casablanca
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Big Sleep
The Man who knew too much
The 39 Steps (1939) Yeah it's really old but it's really good too.
Inherit the wind
Wow, there's so many it's not even funny. I'll add more as I think of them.
Some pretty awesome phrases in there too. Makes you wonder why Hollywood can't make movies like that anymore.
Oh for sure, more memorable scene/lines than pretty much any new movie I've seen recently, apart from random cheese. I mean legitimate GOOD lines which really stick in you.
And "I think I know why they call you Dirty Harry."
[Harry Callahan has to explain why he shot a man] Harry Callahan: Well, when an adult male is chasing a female with intent to commit rape, I shoot the . That's my policy. The Mayor: Intent? How did you establish that? Harry Callahan: When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher's knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross!
[walks out of the room] The Mayor: He's got a point.
