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kyla:
Hi Guys!
I was watching 'Lolita' the other night.I was really grossed out!So much in fact that I had to switch the channel.My girlfriends were all on about how it's such a ''classic'',and how everyone should see it at least once.I can safely say that my idea of a classic would border more on the lines of ''Pulp Ficton'' or ''Rocky''.The most disturbing part I think is the fact that it's a true story.
So I decided to have a game of online poker instead.Now that's the way I like to but an end to my weekend when I'm dying of a hangover ;)
What movies would you describe as true ''classics''?Am I wrong in thinking Lolita is gross?
Sirharles:
Your not wrong in thinking that "Lolita" is gross. It's horrific, however it is still considered a classic because at bad as it is now, imagine when it came out in 1967. Shocking! People didn't talk about the nasty secrets that their neighbors did back then. It was shot beautifully and well acted. That is also what makes it a "classic". Kubrick was great a making people sit down and just stare at the screen with their mouths gaping open. Even "Eyes Wide Shut" would have been great if it didn't have *shudder* Cruise and Kidman in it.
Pulp Fiction and Rocky are great movies. But if you want true "classics" go back to the originals. Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Das Boat!
nacho:
--- Quote ---The most disturbing part I think is the fact that it's a true story.
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You mean Lolita? It's not a true story. Humbert Humbert and his prison remembrances are all just fabrication. But, yeah, sure, the theme is questionable. Though come on! Dominique Swain in the 97 version was just wonderful in that cringe-worthy way. Neither movie is really a classic, despite 1962's Kubrick-Sellers collaboration. The book isn't a classic, either. Sshh. The only reason it stands out is because it's OMG fucks a 12 year old! in the 50's. It would hardly be shocking today, and Nabokov wouldn't be able to hold a candle to anyone.
Classics are tough, though. It's easy to pull the Casablanca's out of the hat but, really, we all know it's Big Trouble in Little China and Carpenter's remake of The Thing.
Red Dawn. Princess Bride. The first Die Hard. Star Trek II. KHHHAAAANNN!!!
Oh, and, Chinatown. And Murder, My Sweet with Dick Powell in as Marlowe. He outshines Bogart's Marlow by miles, and both the book and the movie are direct inspiration for the Max Payne dream sequences which almost ruined that game.
Strangers on a Train, North by Northwest...
Oh, well, there are far too many classics.
Sirharles:
--- Quote from: nacho on August 14, 2007, 10:40:35 AM ---
--- Quote ---The most disturbing part I think is the fact that it's a true story.
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Oh, well, there are far too many classics.
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Well yes of course, I didn't even go into the western genre. Ahh Princess Bride that takes me back. "..Anybody want a peanut?"
nacho:
Oh! classic westerns. Okay... The Eastwood collection, of course. Though it's all about the pale rider duo of ghost stories -- High Plains Drifter, followed by the more sugary Pale Rider. Then a sort of equal-standing lump of his spaghetti westerns -- the Leone trilogy (though it's really all just about The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, no?). Those all time high-brow classics -- High Noon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance -- and that enjoyable third tier occupied by movies like Open Range. I'd even step down into the lower levels and call Quigley Down Under a classic.
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