My pick is Friday the 13th (1980). Visually pleasing, especially when viewing it on blu-ray with the fresh pristine print they used, F13 looks like it was filmed last week. Of course it is filled with the 1980s, but not distractingly so. Even Adrienne King's haircut gets a pass
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and surprisnigly, they picked more or less timeless outfits to wear. The only thing that makes it old is apparently seeing a young Kevin Bacon.
Flash Gordon. I don't care that the visuals are very 80ish I still love it and think it looks awesome. Best science fiction film ever made. Ever!
Jurassic Park.
MY COUSIN VINNY never gets old!
the evil dead
The Third Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr. Strangelove.
I could, go on and on.
There's plenty of examples, but the first that comes to mind is THE DARK CRYSTAL. The movie has no actors except from some scenes from afar, instead it's nothing but puppets. You'll think it would look terrible and cheesy but it's actually dazzling. The skeksis look particularly scary for children.
Clueless. It was the biggest movie in our world the summer between tenth and eleventh grades and it holds up today. Where John Hughes '80s movies seem historical, Clueless feels....if not now then not that far away. Somehow it feels more current than Mean Girls, which was made almost a decade later.
Quote from: ER on February 11, 2020, 12:10:33 AM
Clueless. It was the biggest movie in our world the summer between tenth and eleventh grades and it holds up today. Where John Hughes '80s movies seem historical, Clueless feels....if not now then not that far away. Somehow it feels more current than Mean Girls, which was made almost a decade later.
My best friend at school loved this movie. Looking back, that should have raised my suspicians.
Pulp Fiction (1994), Alien (1979), Seven Samurai (1954), It Happened One Night (1934)
there are a ton of other older films that still hold up
i'm with you there,bob. arsenic and old lace, harvey, bringing up baby, the philadelphia story, suddenly last summer, bell book and candle...like you, i could g on and on.
even more -- Lawrence of Arabia, Barry Lyndon, The Great Dictator and Sherlock Jr.
and pillow talk, diamonds are a girl's best friend, holiday inn...we're gonna get in trouble for taking over this thread, bob, lol! :cheers:
Dr. No, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, The Phantom Carriage
Quote from: bob on February 09, 2020, 10:44:50 PM
The Third Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr. Strangelove.
I could, go on and on.
Excellent choices.
NETWORK has aged well, though it's loaded with contemporaneous cultural references, it's as relevant as it was 45 years ago!
Quote from: Gabriel Knight on February 10, 2020, 07:06:32 AM
There's plenty of examples, but the first that comes to mind is THE DARK CRYSTAL. The movie has no actors except from some scenes from afar, instead it's nothing but puppets. You'll think it would look terrible and cheesy but it's actually dazzling. The skeksis look particularly scary for children.
THE DARK CRYSTAL is wonderful! :thumbup:
here's even more -- Metropolis, The Wages of Fear, City Lights, Modern Times, Cat People, Bitter Rice, Ikiru, Tokyo Story
older classics like these rock :smile:
Quote from: bob on March 01, 2020, 11:07:12 PM
Alien (1979)
Yep :thumbup:
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