Netflix and The Classics
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 - 9:24am
I joined Netflix in February this year. My main purpose for doing so was to grab a number of the classic films that I haven't seen, that everyone says are so good.
I have, thus far, rented and watched the following classics:
Casablanca
The Godfather, Parts 1, 2 and 3
Dr. Strangelove
Dog Day Afternoon
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Citizen Kane
The Great Escape
I also have these in my queue, waiting to come up:
Network
Doctor Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia
Gone with the Wind
On the Waterfront
The Maltese Falcon
The Caine Mutiny
I am looking for more suggestions. What classics am I missing that you can recommend?
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all of Akira Kurosawa's films
Edit: few more
M*A*S*H
Double Indeminty
China Town
The Graduate
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I had it on in the background while playing TF2, wasn't really paying attention to it, though. The reason I came up with this thread was because I let my Netflix account stall for about two months, and just this weekend started up again. The vast majority of the stuff in my queue is not classics, though, and I really want to use this to see the classics.
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The Deer Hunter (is that too new to be a classic?)
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1956)
Psycho
A Streetcar Named Desire
12 Angry Men
North By Norhtwest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Valley of the Dolls
But whatever you do, DON'T confuse this with Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
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FYI from what I've seen a good number of these classics are available through the Instant Download feature.
And thumbs up to ranalin for recommending Kurosawa right off the bat.
Check these out, too ... some of these may seem obvious, but I don't know what you've seen.
Anatomy of a Murder
Magnificent Seven
The Philadelphia Story
Rear Window
High Noon
The Birds
Hang 'em High
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Two Mules For Sister Sarah
I'll post more later if I think of any. Have fun!
Haha! For real.
Isn't that movie considered one of the worst of all time, right up there with Plan 9 From Outer Space?
Speaking of which, Plan 9 should be on the Netflix que as it's a "so bad, it's good" classic.
Sunset Boulevard
Notorious
Sweet Smell of Success
Paths of Glory
Raging Bull
Manhattan
Double Indemnity, Deer Hunter, The Graduate, Chinatown, Rear Window all seconded.
I also second the Akira Kurosawa comment, especially his non-samurai films (Stray Dog, Drunken Angel, High and Low, The Bad Sleep Well. . .. . .how good are these titles? Lol)
If you like the Hitchcock you can pretty much go through all of his films with pleasure and ease. Noteworthy films would be Rope, Psycho, Vertigo, Rebecca, Marnie, To Catch a Thief.
If you really get into the Noir you also can't go wrong, all the Netflix suggestions would hold water and some of the classics of the genre would include The Killers (burt lancaster version), Out of the Past, Touch of Evil, The Naked City, In a Lonely Place, Mildred Pierce, etc.
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Define "classics". Pre-1980? Pre-1960? Pre-2000?
Fedaykin98 wrote:
Pre-1980 would probably qualify. Anything after that, I've likely already seen, or determined that I don't want to.
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If 1980 is the limit then I'll have to push the date just a few years later to make sure you've seen Gandhi. Incredible film.
Not exactly classics, but still great old movies.
Bullit
The good, The Bad and The Ugly
High plains drifter
A Fistful of Dollars
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heroes
Where Eagles Dare
The Shining
Also concur with the following that othes have already mentioned
Chinatown
M*A*S*H
Two Mules for Sister Sarah
Psycho
Finally, if you haven't yet seen either of these, put them at the top of your list immediately. Seriously.
Deer Hunter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
LiquidMantis wrote:
I'll second this although I'd add Strangers on A Train to noteworthy.
Others to add to the list:
The French Connection
The Shining
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A Clockwork Orange
Inherit the Wind
Apocalypse Now
The Hustler
The Bicycle Thief
The Conversation
Fail-Safe
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Modern Times
Young Frankenstein
Nosferatu
The Third Man
Jaws
The Seventh Seal
The Sting
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Fedaykin98 wrote:
If you get Plan 9 you might want to get the MST3K version so you can watch the movie and laugh at the mocking of it at the same time.
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You and I think so, but try telling that to those bastards at the AFI.
LiquidMantis wrote:
And here I come, to be contrarian and pick movies that almost no professional film critic would consider classic, but hold up well and remain entertaining to this day:
Anyone who thinks John Wayne can't act hasn't seen these movies:
True Grit
Stagecoach
Rio Bravo
The Searchers
Trouble Along The Way
The Sands of Iwo Jima
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance has already been mentioned, but bears repeating
And, just to throw in some movies that don't feature John Wayne;
We're No Angels (the Humphrey Bogart one, not the Sean Penn one)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Operation Petticoat
Battleground
The Big Red One
Gunga Din
The Buccaneer (the version with Yul Brynner is really good, but the 1938 one is good too)
Patton
(I had Kelly's Heroes on the list, but Vic already mentioned it. Great movie.)
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Hey, that's awesome. I had no idea there was a MST version of that movie.
I'm definitely going to nab a copy.
The Big Red One is definitely worth watching
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Excellent additions.
I could smack myself for not remembering Patton. It only has one of my all time favorite lines. "Rommel... you magnificent bastard, I read your book!"
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George C. Scott was the first actor to refuse an Academy Award, winning for his role as Patton.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
I think he should have gotten one for his role as General "Buck" Turgeson, myself.
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Fedaykin98 wrote:
Why did he refuse?
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So I've added a few things queue, thanks to this list. Unfortunately, my queue already had some 200 DVDs of unseen classics as well as movies and HBO series I'd missed.
I think I broke Blockbuster.
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12 Angry Men seconded. All the way. Excellent movie.
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