Stu Recommends Old Movies Thread

cap · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:12 pm

commies

Johnny Tremain was a good movie

fruitdog · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:09 am **Posts:** 6504

Stu wrote:

Gods and Generals is a poor follow-up. Gettysburg is greatness. Stu has spoken.

The Gettysburg episode of Ken Burns 'Civil War' is on PBS right now, fyi. They just finished the Chamberlain part. Good stuff.

Sweet Greggo · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:37 pm

Tit Whistle wrote:

Sweet Greggo wrote:

You didn't like the Patriot?

um, no.

Not even the 20 minute Ledger death scene?

bigboy · **Joined:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 4:57 pm **Posts:** 7484

Diello wrote:

The Patriot, Gam? Seriously? It's a pile of shit.

I'm sure the part where the whitey and the black become friends is completely authentic.

or somesuch · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:41 pm

Sweet Greggo wrote:

You didn't like the Patriot?

1 star

Stu · **Joined:** Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:36 pm **Posts:** 3832

Tit Whistle wrote:

Sweet Greggo wrote:

You didn't like the Patriot?

um, no.

It sucked balls.

fruitdog · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:09 am **Posts:** 6504

I mildly liked it. I think I gave it 3 stars.

Stu · **Joined:** Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:36 pm **Posts:** 3832

Stu wrote:

Nothing good tonight. Mark your calendars on April 25. Glory followed by Gettysburg.

Tit Whistle · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:50 am **Posts:** 15284

Screw that. There's baseball on tonight.

Stu · **Joined:** Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:36 pm **Posts:** 3832

That was for the rest of you. I will be at the game avoiding hail.

Tit Whistle · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:50 am **Posts:** 15284

A hail of Lone Star Long-Balls?

Stu · **Joined:** Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:36 pm **Posts:** 3832

Sweet Greggo · **Posted:** Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:41 pm

fruitdog · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:09 am **Posts:** 6504

Stu wrote:

Nothing good tonight. Mark your calendars on April 25. Glory followed by Gettysburg.

So it's late at night and I'm watching Gettysburg. I fully stand by my original judgment. God's and Generals is not good and neither is Gettysburg. It is heavy handed and poorly acted and the production value is just as bad. Stu has never been more wrong on a film. Glory blows it out of the water. Stay away from this movie. Watch Glory or Ken Burns instead. It's just plain bad.

fruitdog · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:09 am **Posts:** 6504

In case I was unclear Gettysburg sucks balls.

fruitdog · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:09 am **Posts:** 6504

In fact I would say that God's and Generals is the better film by far and Gods and Generals ain't that great.

fruitdog · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:09 am **Posts:** 6504

fyi fuck gettysburg

fruitdog · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:09 am **Posts:** 6504

Tit Whistle · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:50 am **Posts:** 15284

Is it better than Crash?

fruitdog · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:09 am **Posts:** 6504

of course

fruitdog · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:09 am **Posts:** 6504

I know it has a lot of big names but watching Gettysburg is like what I think it might look like if a bunch of fatass old reenactors recorded one of their fake battles. So basically Gettysburg is on the same level as 40 year olds larping.

or somesuch · **Posted:** Tue Apr 26, 2011 10:24 am

*adds to netflix queue

*notices it's over 4 hours long

*deletes from netflix queue

Tit Whistle · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:50 am **Posts:** 15284

We should all pick our favorite character and grow a mustache like him.

Stu · **Joined:** Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:36 pm **Posts:** 3832

Gettysburg is good. Sam Elliott and Jeff Daniels are great in it. I like it. I never said it's better than Glory.

Diello · **Joined:** Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:27 pm **Posts:** 2878

The Civil War is overrated.

Tit Whistle · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:50 am **Posts:** 15284

Diello wrote:

The Civil War is overrated.

Sweet Greggo · **Posted:** Tue Apr 26, 2011 1:14 pm

Tit Whistle wrote:

We should all pick our favorite character and grow a mustache like him.

done!

fruitdog · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:09 am **Posts:** 6504

Why are you going around taking pictures of homeless people?

Sweet Greggo · **Posted:** Sat May 14, 2011 10:33 am

Watching Field of Dreams on Encore HD. I forgot how good Burt Lancaster was in this.

Stu · **Joined:** Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:36 pm **Posts:** 3832

Tonight at 9pm is Citizen Kane from 1941. Many consider this to be one of the finest movies of all time. Guess not because it lost the Best Picture award to How Green Is My Valley. Still, it's a good flick. 119 minutes.

Stu · **Joined:** Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:36 pm **Posts:** 3832

For fun, Tit's review of How Green Was My Valley

Tit Whistle wrote:

How Green Was My Valley - So you got a village in Wales with a coal mine. Everything's real traditionalist. Men work, women stay home and tend to the men. The focus is on one family, and a lot of things happen to them over the course of the movie. It's all seen through the eyes of their youngest son who mysteriously never ages, unless we're to believe things like marriages, births, and deaths all occur within about a one month period. It all moves at a snail's pace. I have no problem with a movie that takes things slowly, but this movie places no urgency in the events that place. So much happens to this family, but it's all treated like minor details. First, we never get to really know anyone in the family. It's more like we get to know the family as a character and the community as a character, but the only individuals who stand out are the ones who get more lines of dialog than the others. This makes it so when a major life event occurs to one of the characters, we don't feel much of an attachment and we miss out on the emotional payoff of the moment. A couple times, the mine runs out of work and some of the older sons are forced to split and move to America (fuck yeah!) They just kinda walk off and are never seen again. Another son dies in a mine accident. What's the next scene? The birth of his son. No funeral, no mourning, no payoff. Life just goes on. It's not a movie hated, I just don't have much admiration for it. I do like some of the Welsh names. More people should give their kids Welsh names. Next person on the forum to have a kid must name it Gwilym if it's a boy or Angharad if it's a girl. I have spoken.

Did it deserve to win?: No. There was a little movie called Citizen Kane that came out the same year. Not to mention The Maltese Falcon.

:beaver:

(out of 5)

or somesuch · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:20 pm

Stu wrote:

Tonight at 9pm is Citizen Kane from 1941. Many consider this to be one of the finest movies of all time. Guess not because it lost the Best Picture award to How Green Is My Valley. Still, it's a good flick. 119 minutes.

Could use a revisit.

cap · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:06 pm

or somesuch wrote:

Stu wrote:

Tonight at 9pm is Citizen Kane from 1941. Many consider this to be one of the finest movies of all time. Guess not because it lost the Best Picture award to How Green Is My Valley. Still, it's a good flick. 119 minutes.

Could use a revisit.

black and white. it sucks

Stu · **Joined:** Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:36 pm **Posts:** 3832

Tonight at 7pm is The Apartment from 1960. It stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley McLaine. I am not a huge fan of this movie, but Tit loves it. It won 5 Oscars including best flick. It was right in the heart of Billy Wilder's run as one of the top directors in hollywood.

Tit's review...

Tit Whistle wrote:

The Apartment - First off, Stu is wrong. Stu said this movie was just okay. Stu lumped it in with all the shit winners from this era. Stu made it sound like it was another piece of crap like My Fair Lady. Stu completely got it wrong. Stu misjudged this movie. Stu disagrees with me when I say this movie is really good. Stu is probably bothered by the casual infidelity portrayed throughout it, though it's nothing Stu hasn't seen on Mad Men. Stu is jealous of the manic comic charisma of Jack Lemmon. Stu feels uneasy in the pants gazing at a young, hot Shirley MacLaine. Stu has a good chuckle seeing a young Mr. Hand, but Stu reflects on Fast Times and the Phoebe Cates pool scene, which also made him uneasy in the pants. Stu really got this one wrong. Stu should not be trusted when it comes to judging the Best Picture winners. Stu needs to grow up.

Did it deserve to win?: Stu would say maybe Psycho or Spartacus deserved it more, but Stu at least agrees that a movie like Spartacus would never get the top prize the year after Ben-Hur. Stu knows Psycho isn't the kind of movie that wins these awards, despite its deserved classic status. Stu may disagree, but this movie holds up and is a worthy winner.

:sock:

(out of 5)

Tit Whistle · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:50 am **Posts:** 15284

They should remake that movie with Zac Efron and Selena Gomez.

cap · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:08 pm

Tit Whistle wrote:

They should remake that movie with Zac Efron and Selena Gomez.

they are remaking dirty dancing with those two

Tit Whistle · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:50 am **Posts:** 15284

Will he get to sing "She's Like the Wind...Through My Tree"?

cap · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:15 pm

Tit Whistle wrote:

Will he get to sing "She's Like the Wind...Through My Tree"?

since a mexican is playing co-lead, they should call it dirty sanchez

Stu · **Joined:** Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:36 pm **Posts:** 3832

We're going old school tonight.

The Phantom of the Opera from 1925 is on tonight on TCM at 9pm. This is a silent movie starring Lon Chaney. We all know the story of the phantom. This movie has one of the most iconic makeup jobs in the history of cinema. Great movie that's closing in on 90 years of age. 93 minutes.

Stu · **Joined:** Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:36 pm **Posts:** 3832

Wrong thread, douchey.

rowdyhatinwalt · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 12:04 pm **Posts:** 20439

Mallard Toss wrote:

Stu wrote:

Wrong thread, douchey.

who'd fucking know, rex reed?

watch it. He may yell at you.

Stu · **Joined:** Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:36 pm **Posts:** 3832

Tonight at 7pm, The Maltese Falcon from 1941. This is another of the greats that lost the Oscar to How Green is My Taint. Humphrey Bogart is Sam Spade. This is perhaps his best role. 100 minutes.

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