Famous Classic Movies You've Never Watched

[pood]

Tried out that music on cats and they do seem to like it.

 

[pood]

I’ll start a separate thread on this topic.

 

[bilby]

This is off topic (maybe worthy of a separate thread?) but some thinkers have speculated on the idea that maths are not universal and intelligent aliens may do maths in ways completely foreign and even incomprehensible to us, and vice versa.

Well, back in the early 1500s, the Aztecs were found to have developed an entirely new method for calculating the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter, that was radically different from anything used by European mathematicians.

Sadly, the pope declared it heretical, and the Conquistadores systematically destroyed all record of it. So, bye bye, Mesoamerican pi...

 

[pood]

New thread here

 

[ideologyhunter]

I would say it isn't. I would say it's a science fiction action movie with a romance subplot.

Next you will be telling me that Die Hard isn't a Christmas Movie.

Well, that’s just plain silly. Die Hard is the best Christmas movie ever!!

It is a fine Christmas movie, but in my opinion it is eclipsed by the finest of all Christmas movies, Female Trouble (1974), even though the Christmas segment in that film is only about 5 minutes of the runtime and is followed immediately by the scene where Divine rapes herself in a dump. Still, if you want the true meaning of Christmas in America, well, you'd better screen Female Trouble. If you've seen it, you know what I mean.

 

[Spacetime Inhabitant]

This is off topic (maybe worthy of a separate thread?) but some thinkers have speculated on the idea that maths are not universal and intelligent aliens may do maths in ways completely foreign and even incomprehensible to us, and vice versa.

I find this implausible for two reasons. Firstly our basic maths is based on nature and physics.
Secondly, we ourselves have variant forms of maths, many of which are incomprehensible to an ordinary person.
In regard to the music question, sound is a form of energy. If aliens have computers and sensors they can convert sound to other energy forms, just like we do with radio transmissions of sounds. Also we have many other forms of energy conversion.

 

[pood]

This is off topic (maybe worthy of a separate thread?) but some thinkers have speculated on the idea that maths are not universal and intelligent aliens may do maths in ways completely foreign and even incomprehensible to us, and vice versa.

I find this implausible for two reasons. Firstly our basic maths is based on nature and physics.
Secondly, we ourselves have variant forms of maths, many of which are incomprehensible to an ordinary person.
In regard to the music question, sound is a form of energy. If aliens have computers and sensors they can convert sound to other energy forms, just like we do with radio transmissions of sounds. Also we have many other forms of energy conversion.

See the new thread I started.

 

[Spacetime Inhabitant]

This is off topic (maybe worthy of a separate thread?) but some thinkers have speculated on the idea that maths are not universal and intelligent aliens may do maths in ways completely foreign and even incomprehensible to us, and vice versa.

I find this implausible for two reasons. Firstly our basic maths is based on nature and physics.
Secondly, we ourselves have variant forms of maths, many of which are incomprehensible to an ordinary person.
In regard to the music question, sound is a form of energy. If aliens have computers and sensors they can convert sound to other energy forms, just like we do with radio transmissions of sounds. Also we have many other forms of energy conversion.

See the new thread I started.

I looked at your new thread before I posted my response, but I had already pressed "quote" on your original post, so did the reply here.
What I will do is copy and paste my post above into your new thread so that it can be discussed there.

 

[Swammerdami]

This is a thread about high-rated movies an Infidel dislikes or hasn't bothered with. A few years ago we did the opposite -- low-rated movies the poster loves. (If anyone responds to this, should it be by re-activating that old thread, accessible via the link following?)

... here are seven films that rank high on my personal list but do not have particularly good IMDB ratings.

Across the Universe (1970)
Bound (1996)
Spy Game (2001)
The Gods must be Crazy (1980)
The Interpreter (2005)
Good Thief (2002)
Third Miracle (1999)

In some cases it's the acting I enjoy. Robert Redford in Spy Game, Ed Harris in Third Miracle, Kidman and Penn in The Interpreter.
(I crossed out two films that only make this list because of their music.)

Bound is a low-budget gangster story made great by the performances of Jennifer Tilly and Joe Pantoliano. Wikipedia calls it a "neo-noir erotic crime thriller ... which has developed a cult following, particularly among LGBT+ audiences."

Anyone else especially fond of any of my choices?

What low-rated movies are among your personal favorites?

 

[ZiprHead]

I have never watched Gone With The Wind.

Never did, either, No interest in doing so, either.

Me either. I know of it, but frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

 

[WAB]

This is a thread about high-rated movies an Infidel dislikes or hasn't bothered with. A few years ago we did the opposite -- low-rated movies the poster loves. (If anyone responds to this, should it be by re-activating that old thread, accessible via the link following?)

... here are seven films that rank high on my personal list but do not have particularly good IMDB ratings.

Across the Universe (1970)
Bound (1996)
Spy Game (2001)
The Gods must be Crazy (1980)
The Interpreter (2005)
Good Thief (2002)
Third Miracle (1999)

In some cases it's the acting I enjoy. Robert Redford in Spy Game, Ed Harris in Third Miracle, Kidman and Penn in The Interpreter.
(I crossed out two films that only make this list because of their music.)

Bound is a low-budget gangster story made great by the performances of Jennifer Tilly and Joe Pantoliano. Wikipedia calls it a "neo-noir erotic crime thriller ... which has developed a cult following, particularly among LGBT+ audiences."

Anyone else especially fond of any of my choices?

What low-rated movies are among your personal favorites?

There's a horror film called Burnt Offerings which is almost always trashed by critics, but I think it's quite well done and pretty creepy, with a very jolting finale. Stars Oliver Reed, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, and Betty Davis in her final role.

Breaker Morant is not low rated but not nearly as celebrated as it should be. One of my favorite films.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Bette did 9 TV movies and 6 theatrical features after Burnt Offerings. Plus TV work. She worked long after her health problems were glaringly obvious on the screen.

 

[WAB]

Bette did 9 TV movies and 6 theatrical features after Burnt Offerings. Plus TV work. She worked long after her health problems were glaringly obvious on the screen.

Oh geeze, sorry. I must have heard it somewhere...

 

[thebeave]

This is a thread about high-rated movies an Infidel dislikes or hasn't bothered with. A few years ago we did the opposite -- low-rated movies the poster loves. (If anyone responds to this, should it be by re-activating that old thread, accessible via the link following?)

... here are seven films that rank high on my personal list but do not have particularly good IMDB ratings.

Across the Universe (1970)
Bound (1996)
Spy Game (2001)
The Gods must be Crazy (1980)
The Interpreter (2005)
Good Thief (2002)
Third Miracle (1999)

In some cases it's the acting I enjoy. Robert Redford in Spy Game, Ed Harris in Third Miracle, Kidman and Penn in The Interpreter.
(I crossed out two films that only make this list because of their music.)

Bound is a low-budget gangster story made great by the performances of Jennifer Tilly and Joe Pantoliano. Wikipedia calls it a "neo-noir erotic crime thriller ... which has developed a cult following, particularly among LGBT+ audiences."

Anyone else especially fond of any of my choices?

What low-rated movies are among your personal favorites?

There's a horror film called Burnt Offerings which is almost always trashed by critics, but I think it's quite well done and pretty creepy, with a very jolting finale. Stars Oliver Reed, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, and Betty Davis in her final role.

Breaker Morant is not low rated but not nearly as celebrated as it should be. One of my favorite films.

Hopefully, Burnt Offerings is better than that Joan Crawford classic, Trog. Must be pretty sobering to receive accolades for work done in your youth, then have to resort to mediocre B horror films in your senior years (to stay busy and/or pay the bills, I guess?).

 

[ZiprHead]

All the Harry Potter shit, if that qualifies as classic. Same with Lord of the Rings. Also haven't read one sentence of the books in both cases. Hearing about both, superficially and at a distance, from the fans, I concluded that these were not worlds I wished to wander into.

I knew nothing of LotR. I enjoyed each of the movies quite a bit. Even the extended versions, well after they were in the theaters.

Harry Potter is enjoyable, but pop movie.

I read both The Hobbit and LOTR in the 80s. I was pleased with the LOTR movies. The Hobbit, not so much.

 

[Politesse]

I keep meaning to watch all of Scorcese's movies, just so I can say I have, but they aren't my schtick.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

All the Harry Potter shit, if that qualifies as classic. Same with Lord of the Rings. Also haven't read one sentence of the books in both cases. Hearing about both, superficially and at a distance, from the fans, I concluded that these were not worlds I wished to wander into.

I knew nothing of LotR. I enjoyed each of the movies quite a bit. Even the extended versions, well after they were in the theaters.

Harry Potter is enjoyable, but pop movie.

I read both The Hobbit and LOTR in the 80s. I was pleased with the LOTR movies. The Hobbit, not so much.

I couldn't even get through the first Hobbit film. It was clearly being padded.