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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1724664" data-attributes="member: 2205">Huh.  I'm 32, but I guess I watched a lot of old movies as a kid; some of my favorite "classics" really are classics.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The Adventures of Robin Hood  Quite possibly the best swashbuckler film ever made, back when Errol Flynn was still young enough to be swashbuckly, Olivia de Haviland was an incredibly beautiful teenager, and Basil Rathbone...  well, Basil Rathbone is simply Basil Rathbone.Captain Blood  Pretty much the same cast as Robin Hood named above, but to really get swashbuckling, you do need some pirates, after all.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Hatari!  My favorite John Wayne movie ever, where he works in Africa with a small outfit of guys that catch wild animals to fill zoo orders.  The opening scene on the savannah, which culminates in "the Indian" getting gored in the leg by a rhino, is still breathtaking today, IMO.  I also vividly remember staying up late to watch this when it came on TV; after all, this was before VCRs.Sound of Music  To this day, when I think "musical" this is the musical I think of.  Although I think I like Singing in the Rain a little better now.Star Wars  I think I saw this seven times in theaters, although I was only five or six when that happened.  I particularly remember one time at a drive-in; that was fun.  Speaking of drive-ins; just about any movie that I saw at a drive-in takes me back, including The Black Hole and Murder By Death.Any of the classic Disney cartoons.  Again, remember before VCRs it was a big deal when one of these was pulled outta the vault and sent back to theaters.  Sleeping Beauty was always my favorite.  Probably 'coz I like that big dragon, previewing my future life as a gamer.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Die Hard  Yeah, loved this movie.  Use to watch it over and over.Any of the 80s teen movies.  Most of them kind run together, but Ferris Bueller stands out as does Better Off Dead.  And I think Pretty in Pink has the best soundtrack, although it's otherwise one of the more forgettable of the 80s movies, IMO.Where Eagles Dare  Who can't resist Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton opening up their best cans o' whup-ass on a bunch of Nazis in the Bavarian Alps?  Has some good spy stuff going on too; and I even really like the theme song.  I also particularly remember that when this first came on TV, before my dad bought his own copy, that I was reading in another room, and despite repeated attempts from the family to get me in there to watch with them, I couldn't be bothered to put down whatever schlock fantasy novel I was reading at the time.  But after about 20 minutes of non-stop explosions and machine gun bursts, I came out to see the grand finale.  I've since watched that movie I don't know how many times; in fact, I busted out my DVD last night for a little while.Raiders of the Lost Ark  I still remember seeing this in theaters several times as well.  After seeing Harrison Ford in this movie (and, of course, remembering him as Han Solo) he became my favorite actor in Hollywood for years and years, an affectation that almost every guy in my generation seems to have had at some point.</blockquote>

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