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It is a great movie.

I saw it in the theatre when I was 9.

Now that is old.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 10:32 pm It is a great movie.

I saw it in the theatre when I was 9.

Now that is old.

You win. I was 8.

The Sting is legitimately great. I've watched it with each of my sons in the last few years when they were about 16 or so and both loved it. So, it doesn't give off too much of an air of "old movie" even though it IS and old movie and it takes place several decades before it was filmed.

That said, I've never seen Gone With the Wind or a bunch of other old classics. I only saw Casablanca for the first time earlier this year on a plane.

Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 11:22 pm The Sting is legitimately great. I've watched it with each of my sons in the last few years when they were about 16 or so and both loved it. So, it doesn't give off too much of an air of "old movie" even though it IS and old movie and it takes place several decades before it was filmed.

That said, I've never seen Gone With the Wind or a bunch of other old classics. I only saw Casablanca for the first time earlier this year on a plane.

I've never seen Gone With the Wind - except I think I've stumbled onto the last few minutes a couple of times. But I've seen Casablanca many times. In college, student groups would show movies on weekends as fundraisers in classrooms around campus. Casablanca was in the regular rotation. (This was in the days when most students didn't even have VCRs. If you wanted to watch porn, you had to rent the VCR along with the film.)

The Sting is a great, fun movie.

Casablanca is a great, fun movie.

If you haven't seen them, do yourself a favor and watch them.

As often as not, I seen my evenings watching really old movies. You really would not believe how many movies from the 30s, 40s, and 50s I've seen.

Watched Sting every Saturday:



Classic!

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:08 am The Sting is a great, fun movie.

Casablanca is a great, fun movie.

If you haven't seen them, do yourself a favor and watch them.

As often as not, I seen my evenings watching really old movies. You really would not believe how many movies from the 30s, 40s, and 50s I've seen.

Echo this. When then American Film Institute came out with their Top 100 movies of all time, back in the late 90s, I went and watched, or rewatched practically that entire list within about a year. There are a few I never got to. One great thing about Casablanca is they made an anti-Nazi movie in 1942, meaning they filmed in 1941, before America’s declaration of war. Keep in mind that there was not universal condemnation of Germany at that time. Ballsy.

Gone With The Wind is worth watching in the same way that you need to see the Mona Lisa if you go to the Louvre. I can see why it’s as regarded as it is, as the sets and effects are remarkable even 80 years hence. The plot is frankly problematic, especially now.

A_B wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 8:07 pm Confession: I’ve never seen the sting. I am woefully deficient in my 70s classics.

You should fix that. I went through a phase in college where my top 5 movies aside from Pulp Fiction consisted of The Sting, Serpico, The French Connection and The Confession.

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 7:25 pm Let's see, in the past three hours I've (i) appeared before a federal judge who's definitely and visibly younger than me,

We're hiring a new associate dean of the library. 3 of the 4 candidates hadn't graduated with their bachelor's when I already had my Master's and working as an academic librarian.

Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 11:22 pm The Sting is legitimately great. I've watched it with each of my sons in the last few years when they were about 16 or so and both loved it. So, it doesn't give off too much of an air of "old movie" even though it IS and old movie and it takes place several decades before it was filmed.

That said, I've never seen Gone With the Wind or a bunch of other old classics. I only saw Casablanca for the first time earlier this year on a plane.

Gone With The Wind is a really good movie.

Another couple of classics that everyone should see are All About Eve, Treasure of the Sierra Madre and High Noon. Some movies live up to the veneration - including Casablanca. Some like Maltese Falcon don;t age as well.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:07 pm Another couple of classics that everyone should see are All About Eve, Treasure of the Sierra Madre and High Noon. Some movies live up to the veneration - including Casablanca. Some like Maltese Falcon don;t age as well.

I like all those movies. The stories behind each of them is good, too.

Really? I think The Maltese Falcon aged really well. For you kids, it is the movie that made Bogart a major star. The ensemble of Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor and Elisha Cook Jr. was so great. Snappy dialogue, more than the plot, makes it fun.

As Ljam said, the plotline of sympathy for the Confederacy in Gone With the Wind hasn't aged well. (Unless one is a Trump fan.) But, the sets and the grandeur of the movie still hold up 81 years later.

I'm not necessarily saying that the Confederate focus is what didn't age well (which it obviously hadn't). It has more to do with my impressions of Scarlett. While I only saw it once about 20 years ago, I remember that she seemed to be someone pretty unsympathetic. I don't remember much growth from her from spoiled debutante to her adulthood. I don't even think she changed much after the sack of Atlanta, especially the very impressive crane shot of the wounded soldiers, when the horrors of the war were literally at her doorstep.

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:51 pm I'm not necessarily saying that the Confederate focus is what didn't age well (which it obviously hadn't). It has more to do with my impressions of Scarlett. While I only saw it once about 20 years ago, I remember that she seemed to be someone pretty unsympathetic. I don't remember much growth from her from spoiled debutante to her adulthood. I don't even think she changed much after the sack of Atlanta, especially the very impressive crane shot of the wounded soldiers, when the horrors of the war were literally at her doorstep.

Well, that throughline is the whole point of the movie. She wants what she can't have from the first scene until the last. Never satisfied.

As a creative artifact, I think it does fine with the Confederacy. After all, they do lose. Atlanta does burn. Just because we don't want to be like those people nowadays doesn't mean that wasn't how they were. Ashley is pretty anti-war in general. Rhett Butler just wants to make money.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:45 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:07 pm Another couple of classics that everyone should see are All About Eve, Treasure of the Sierra Madre and High Noon. Some movies live up to the veneration - including Casablanca. Some like Maltese Falcon don;t age as well.

I like all those movies. The stories behind each of them is good, too.

Really? I think The Maltese Falcon aged really well. For you kids, it is the movie that made Bogart a major star. The ensemble of Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor and Elisha Cook Jr. was so great. Snappy dialogue, more than the plot, makes it fun.

The Maltese Falcon was very claustrophobic as it took place on only a couple of sets. Didin't like it as much as I did when I saw it as a kid.

But The Postman Always Rings Twice is amazing.

And Double Indemnity? Fred McMurray as a tormented guy with a dark side? Fantastic.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:46 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:45 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:07 pm Another couple of classics that everyone should see are All About Eve, Treasure of the Sierra Madre and High Noon. Some movies live up to the veneration - including Casablanca. Some like Maltese Falcon don;t age as well.

I like all those movies. The stories behind each of them is good, too.

Really? I think The Maltese Falcon aged really well. For you kids, it is the movie that made Bogart a major star. The ensemble of Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor and Elisha Cook Jr. was so great. Snappy dialogue, more than the plot, makes it fun.

The Maltese Falcon was very claustrophobic as it took place on only a couple of sets. Didin't like it as much as I did when I saw it as a kid.

But The Postman Always Rings Twice is amazing.

And Double Indemnity? Fred McMurray as a tormented guy with a dark side? Fantastic.

The man knows his Film Noir!

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 5:27 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:46 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:45 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:07 pm Another couple of classics that everyone should see are All About Eve, Treasure of the Sierra Madre and High Noon. Some movies live up to the veneration - including Casablanca. Some like Maltese Falcon don;t age as well.

I like all those movies. The stories behind each of them is good, too.

Really? I think The Maltese Falcon aged really well. For you kids, it is the movie that made Bogart a major star. The ensemble of Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor and Elisha Cook Jr. was so great. Snappy dialogue, more than the plot, makes it fun.

The Maltese Falcon was very claustrophobic as it took place on only a couple of sets. Didin't like it as much as I did when I saw it as a kid.

But The Postman Always Rings Twice is amazing.

And Double Indemnity? Fred McMurray as a tormented guy with a dark side? Fantastic.

The man knows his Film Noir!

I have a B.A. in English (Film and Communications). I took an entire course on "American Film Noir." Other courses were "Documentary Cinema,"
"The Films Of Ingmar Bergman," "The Films of Sergei Eisenstein," " French New Wave Cinema," and "American Cinema of the 1970's."

So you see, when my son told me he wanted to study design and my daughter decided on "Arts and Humanities," I was in no position to demand that they study Accounting or Business!

Anyone want to talk some Claude Chabrol?

brian wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 8:23 pm I’m pretty good on classics but not seen The Sting myself.

The Sting is a super hero in the Marvel Universe movies, right? Spanish speaking guy in a bee costume?

The Sybian wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 5:56 pm

brian wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 8:23 pm I’m pretty good on classics but not seen The Sting myself.

The Sting is a super hero in the Marvel Universe movies, right? Spanish speaking guy in a bee costume?

Pruitt wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 5:57 pm

The Sybian wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 5:56 pm

brian wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 8:23 pm I’m pretty good on classics but not seen The Sting myself.

The Sting is a super hero in the Marvel Universe movies, right? Spanish speaking guy in a bee costume?

While I was joking, I never saw the movie. I know it's supposed to be a classic, but I didn't even know what it was about, or who was in it. I thought Steve McQueen, but it was Redford and Newman. What year did it come out? I'm seeing 1973 and 1977 on different websites. I don't think I've ever seen a Steve McQueen movie.

If you don't know what it's about, I envy you.

And a controversial opinion here - Steve McQueen is probably the worst big time actor in film history. He doesn;t act - he reads lines.

Oh my God. I think I would’ve let myself get bit by a bullet ant to take a class called “American Cinema of the 1970s”. I think I said this before, that out of the 50 movies that were up for Best Picture between ‘70 and ‘79, at least 40 hold up today.

FWIW, the poker on the train scene in The Sting is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. Just brilliant.

I was doing some filing tonight and found some my old tax form from the year I graduated college, 1992. I started my first real job as a computer programmer shortly after graduation. I had $16K in taxable income.

I've kept my Leave and Earnings Statements (LES) going back to when I initially enlisted. My first mid month 'pay stub' was $333 as an E-1 in 2001. I have it in my pile of papers back home. And here I am within 18 months of retirement. Can't wait to be done with it all.

It's the 20th anniversary of the PS2 release, at which time the Intellivision was 20 years old

So a friend texted me to let me know - "Dude, you are 60 now, right? Whole Foods just announced they reserve their first hour of business each day for 60 year-old and up customers!"

Never felt so elderly as when reading that. But, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

A good 60 can really clean up at those. It’s like when Nicklaus started on the Senior Tour.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:07 pm So a friend texted me to let me know - "Dude, you are 60 now, right? Whole Foods just announced they reserve their first hour of business each day for 60 year-old and up customers!"

Never felt so elderly as when reading that. But, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

You're 60?!?! I guess next time I'm in the Bay Area we will have to hit up an Early Bird Special. Sure, dinner at 4:30, but it's 50 cents cheaper!

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:07 pm So a friend texted me to let me know - "Dude, you are 60 now, right? Whole Foods just announced they reserve their first hour of business each day for 60 year-old and up customers!"

Never felt so elderly as when reading that. But, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

And look at the bright side - you'll be the youngest guy there.

brian wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 2:49 pm

I don;t know who either of these people are.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 3:33 pm I don;t know who either of these people are.

Bing it!

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 3:33 pm

brian wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 2:49 pm

I don;t know who either of these people are.

So you’d say you’re “Lost” then?

YOU HAVE TO GO BACK KATE

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 3:34 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 3:33 pm I don;t know who either of these people are.

Bing it!

Asked Jeeves - he told me they are actors.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 3:49 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 3:34 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 3:33 pm I don;t know who either of these people are.

Bing it!

Asked Jeeves - he told me they are actors.

You know, if a society disregards its fundamental rules in the face of challenges, it's not worth much.

Rules:

Virus worthy.

Until we watched "The Last Dance," my daughter (21 years old) had never seen basketball played without a 3 point line.

As I was about to type this, I realized that some of you guys may not have seen one either...

Antoine Winfield Junior

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:10 am Until we watched "The Last Dance," my daughter (21 years old) had never seen basketball played without a 3 point line.

As I was about to type this, I realized that some of you guys may not have seen one either...

I don't remember basketball without a 3 point line. According to Google, NBA added the 3 pointers in 1979, so I was 3. It said NCAA "universally implemented" 3 pointers in 1986, but I don't remember not having 3s. I was a Big East guy, not sure when they implemented it

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:10 am Until we watched "The Last Dance," my daughter (21 years old) had never seen basketball played without a 3 point line.

As I was about to type this, I realized that some of you guys may not have seen one either...

Ha.