I could never pick a single favorite anything. There are different reasons to like many different things and nothing ever stands out as a favorite above everything else for me. There are great movies from every decade all the way back to the 20s.
Stand By Me is one of my favorites as well. Another favorite from around that time that is somewhat similar is White Water Summer. I saw it at a very young age, so I am probably biased, but I still love it today. It's definitely nowhere near as good as Stand By Me, but it's very close for me because of the nostalgia.
Edit: One of the oldest "favorites" of mine is The Kid (1921). There's 6 or 7 other silent films I like a lot, but this one left the biggest impression on me.
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I love The Kid. I like all the old Chaplin, but that one takes the cake
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Rock-a-Doodle (1991)
I rather miss Don Bluth animations. They always had a lot more substance to them than most anything else out around the same period. Nevermind his more distinctive works, like The Secret of NIMH. Especially feeling the loss of such titles of late, what with the questionable quality of recent Disney films, and the fact that in the past half-decade Dreamworks, Disney, and Pixar have all seemed intent on releasing almost nothing but sequels and remakes.
And now, this.
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I love the old fun family classics - Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
and the Crazy comedy Parody - Spaceballs
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2000 is old? Man, I'm very old..
but the answer is of course the blues brothers. and star wars.
btw for me the late '70s, the '80s and the early '90 is the best time period of all time, for movies. period.
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It's weird that a movie "BIG" like the blues brothers has never been done in more recent times, with all the money and technology that they have now. I mean, all those cars destroyed, an entire mall built and destroyed just for a scene, a fucking nazi car launched from a crane..
No recent movie have stuff like this (without CG, of course)
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Heh tell me about it, man. 90% of the movies that have been mentioned so far were made when I was old enough to see them at the movies basically.
Blues Brothers FTW
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Yes, Blues Brothers. One of my all time favorites.
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Old is a relative word. Everyone will have their own opinion on what is old to them. There's plenty of people on this site that weren't born when that movie was released, so I could understand if they consider it old.
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I have no idea. I just figured because it's a site about gaming that there would be a lot around 15-20. I'm not sure if there is any way to figure that out other than a poll and I think there was one asking about age within the last year or 2.
Edit: Here's one from 5 years ago.
4 years ago
Another from 4 years ago
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Jurassic Park, i love that one, i love dinos and i love Roberta (the t rex.) so much <3
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Wow The Phantom Menace is now old.... haha
Faves would be Alien and Star Wars.
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Aliens and Empire Strikes Back :)
...and T2, and Robocop and Willow and Roger Rabbit and Starship Troopers and Back to the Future 1 - 2 and... and...
Btw,
Next year, The Phantom Menace will be as old, as the original Star Wars was when The Phantom Menace came out!
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Ergh thanks for that - needed that reminder of aging haha :P
And yes, good taste in movies ;)
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Options include:
Born to Dance 1936 Feat. Jimmy Stewart, Eleanor Powell, Una Merkel & Buddy Esben
Alexander's Ragtime Band 1938
Balalaika 1939 See this as well.
Mad About Music 1938
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House 1949 Trailer.
Second Chorus 1940 (Public Domain).
Let Freedom Ring 1939 Trailer Starring: Nelson Eddy Virginia Bruce Lionel Barrymore Edward Arnold
Mr Lucky 1943 Trailer
His Girl Friday 1940 Review Review
Hers to Hold 1943
Quicksand 1950 (Public Domain.)
Yankee Doodle Dandy 1943 Trailer.
Meet John Doe 1940 (Public domain.)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Trailer Trailer 2 International trailer
Love on the Run 1936 Trailer Excerpt showing Amerlia Earhart's personal plane--the one she crashed in. (Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone)
Midnight 1939 Trailer (Claudette Colbert John Barrymore Don Ameche)
Idiot's Delight 1939 Trailer (Clark Gable Norma Shearer)
Johnny Apollo 1940 (Tyrone Power Dorothy Lamour Edward Arnold)
12 O'Clock High 1949 Trailer
and
the climax of Girl Shy (1924)
W C Fields in The Bank Dick (1940)
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Lately I have been watching some REALLY old movies as in black&white old, my favorite black and white movies are definitely 12 Angry Men (it's a classic) and I found Harakiri also very interesting even though it's in japanese.
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Random list and haven't included anime movies.
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
La vita è bella (1997)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Modern Times (1936)
The Truman Show (1998)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
The Matrix (1999)
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Kagemusha (1980)
Ikiru (1952)
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^^^The Gods Must Be Crazy! watched when i was 10 and thought it was the best movie ever. watched again with friends when i was like 16, way more naked people in this movie then i remember, friends also enjoyed it.
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Wow, this movie. Completely forgot about it. Definitely have to watch it again.
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Gods Must Be Crazy is one of the few films I've gone out of my way to watch more than once, so that's a recommendation in and of itself. Even more impressive, given its high general acclaim and solid reception, is that it's a South African film, with a South African director and cast, financed only by local sources.
Though it (and its 1980 release date) also really highlights the fact that there are so few internationally notable films that have come out of South Africa- other than District 9 and Invictus, both in 2009, nothing else really comes to mind. [This is of course ignoring films which only filmed in South Africa, but didn't involve the South African film industry, writers, or directors, like Hotel Rwanda].
Side note, I could never find The Gods Must Be Crazy 2 on VHS/DVD, and never got around to tracking it down online.
I should see if I can manage to do that, soon. ..Maybe after a fresh rewatch of TGMBC. It's about that time, again. ^.^
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It's lacking off so many things from today's film industry and even of its time's standards but perhaps that's the thing that make the movie so unique. And I love how the presentation was like a documentary.
I believe the second movie is more famous than the first, maybe you can find it on Amazon or something, if you can find it locally accessable it maybe worth to try, though could be not cheap. Also you can find the original soundtrack on Discogs as vinyl I guess. :)
Hotel Rwanda is another watch-worthy movie. (This one is for OP.)
I watched it again a couple of years ago so I should wait for it to be more faded away from my memory before I watch it again. ^^
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Gods Must Be Crazy [is] a South American film, with a South American director and cast, financed only by local sources.
Though it [...] really highlights the fact that there are so few internationally notable films that have come out of South Africa .
Now I'm confused.
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Sorry-- I added emphasis to clarify my confusion. I should not have been so opaque, especially with what appeared to be a simple mis-typing.
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To which I can only reply with:
Fuck mornings, fuck 'em all to hell.
(Also: Fixed.)
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Meet Joe Black (I even have it on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray :D) and Le comte de Monte-Cristo (1953)
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I dont watch old movies much. Usually 90's is as old as I go for movies..
But I do remember watching Predator a lot. My cousin and I used to watch it several times a day as we had VHS for it. One of my childhood memories I still have remaining
There are definitely numerous classics that are considered works of art worldwide and I would just be repeating 90% of people here if I would start listing all the movies I find good... But Predator is the one that has the most nostalgic feel to it for me
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Léon (not so old : 1994)
I can watch it over and over again 💙
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One of my absolute favorites, and still the best in its [extremely niche] genre. Moreover, most of the others that have gone into the concept have been anime, like Gunslinger Girl, which further makes Léon stand out by way of its being live-action; Nevermind its top-tier core cast of Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and Natalie Portman (who displayed rather compelling acting skills in the film, despite it being her film debut and her only being 12~13 years of age at the time).
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😊👍
I love the whole cast, they are amazing, especially Natalie Portman. I haven't heard of "Gunslinger Girl", I'll have to take a look at it.
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Escape from L.A. (1996) with Kurt Russell aka Snake Plissken
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964) with Louis de Funès
Logan's Run (1976)
Any movie with Jackie Chan
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+1 Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez!
I watched when I was little and now my children too. It's timeless.
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Indiana Jones Trilogy
The Goonies
Forrest Gump
Back to the Future Trilogy
Die Hard
The Abyss
Terminator 1 & 2
Blade Runner
The Shawshank Redemption
Alien(s)
Leon
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This was just on two nights ago after watching a show from a DVR, and I ended up watching about an hour of it. It's hard not to watch any of it. My wife can't believe how many quotes I know from it.
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After rewatching some old movies this weekend I would like to ask: What is your favorite old movie? (1940's-2000) lets say.
One of my favorite movies growing up and that I rewatched was Stand By Me, with River Phoenix when he was a child. That movie is so real and brings out your emotions and keeps you gripped with happiness and sadness, and its just a roller coaster, but really holds a meaning to it. Another one of my favorites is The Naked Gun, a comedic detective spy movie that's always held a place in my heart. So the question stands, what is YOUR favorite old movie?
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