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Latley I have started to watch some older movies that has went under my radar during my life time. I have collected lesser known movies that has a good average rating score and until now I have been quite disapointed.
Some famous old movies such as the Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 and Paths of Glory 1957 has aged well in my opinion, but many other "classics" not so much.
Heaven Knows Mr Allison 1957, is time I wish I could have spent on other projects. Instead I struggled until the very end and hoped for something that never came. A marine and a nun alone on an Island is a formula that could have developed in to something more sinister than the valiant borefest that sadly was the main theme from start to finish. I was hoping for Robert Mitchum to morph in to rape mode and the japanese soldiers coming for Deborah Kerrs rescue. Is it me or the time that is now that has lost track with our humanity? 5/10
The Haunting 1963, has been louded as one of the most scary movies ever created. If I can recall my childhood, I think I saw it when I was a child. But it wasn´t scary enough to be a permanent resident in my memory bank. And sadly it wasn´t scary at all when I saw it yesterday. This is an example of older movies praised for no aparent reason. While Heaven Knows Mr Allison fucked with my moral compass, this one was in my humble opinion just a pure snorefest. I was not preparing for blood and gore, I was preparing for a psychological horror using shadows and smart camera angles with a good plot. But instead it focused to much on Julie harris neurotic meltdown(she was neurotic before she set foot on Hill House), to the degree it became annoying. 4/10
So what say you Mayberry. What movies that stood the test of time would belong to your lists?
Future or maybe not list.
The Train 1964
In the heat of the Night 1967
The Battle of Algiers 1966
The Innocents 1961
Some famous old movies such as the Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 and Paths of Glory 1957 has aged well in my opinion, but many other "classics" not so much.
Heaven Knows Mr Allison 1957, is time I wish I could have spent on other projects. Instead I struggled until the very end and hoped for something that never came. A marine and a nun alone on an Island is a formula that could have developed in to something more sinister than the valiant borefest that sadly was the main theme from start to finish. I was hoping for Robert Mitchum to morph in to rape mode and the japanese soldiers coming for Deborah Kerrs rescue. Is it me or the time that is now that has lost track with our humanity? 5/10
The Haunting 1963, has been louded as one of the most scary movies ever created. If I can recall my childhood, I think I saw it when I was a child. But it wasn´t scary enough to be a permanent resident in my memory bank. And sadly it wasn´t scary at all when I saw it yesterday. This is an example of older movies praised for no aparent reason. While Heaven Knows Mr Allison fucked with my moral compass, this one was in my humble opinion just a pure snorefest. I was not preparing for blood and gore, I was preparing for a psychological horror using shadows and smart camera angles with a good plot. But instead it focused to much on Julie harris neurotic meltdown(she was neurotic before she set foot on Hill House), to the degree it became annoying. 4/10
So what say you Mayberry. What movies that stood the test of time would belong to your lists?
Future or maybe not list.
The Train 1964
In the heat of the Night 1967
The Battle of Algiers 1966
The Innocents 1961
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