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Posts: 2778 (02/19/08 11:26 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Dude, everyone's making these lists. I am a huge movie buff, so I'm making a list of 30 movies you probably haven't seen but should see because they're awesome. And why are they awesome? Because I said so. Starting with #30: Nothing Sacred (1937) - Carole Lombard, Frederic March Carole Lombard was a goddess. She was beautiful, she was funny, and she was married to Clark Gable. Sadly, she died in 1941 in a plane crash. But the reason she isn't as well-known today as other screen goddesses of her time was that she was mostly a comedienne, and while she looked glamorous in still photos, in her movies she was endearingly zany and goofy. Her best known film is maybe "My Man Godfrey" but many people have seen that film. Not many have seen the equally funny "Nothing Sacred," in which the divine Carole plays Hazel, a girl ostensibly dying from radium poisoning. Frederic March is the reporter who has to parade the "dying" Hazel around the country. This is one of my favorite Carole roles. I love her because she was never afraid to look stupid for the sake of comedy. And by stupid, I don't mean "she musses up her perfect hair." I mean screeching, drunk, knock-down drag out batshit crazy stupid. This gem of a screwball comedy can be bought on Amazon for less than $10. Last Edited By: growsonwalls 02/23/08 3:16 PM. Edited 3 times.
AidanAcello		#1	[-]
Posts: 457 (07/06/71 2:03 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I haven't seen that one.
growsonwalls		#2	[-]
Posts: 2779 (02/19/08 11:53 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	You should! Have you seen "My Man Godfrey"?
Romber Rulz		#3	[-]
Posts: 531 (02/19/08 11:54 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I'm quite sure I won't have heard of any of these movies, but I guess that is the point of the thread anyway haha. I'm so jaded by current movies that old movies feel like shit to me.
louie77		#4	[-]
Posts: 13519 (02/19/08 11:57 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Black and White movies <3
AidanAcello		#5	[-]
Posts: 459 (02/20/08 12:09 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I like to watch in color O_O gow, I haven't seen "My Man Godfrey" but it sounds familiar for some reason.
growsonwalls		#6	[-]
Posts: 2780 (02/20/08 12:15 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	"Nothing Sacred" is actually in color. Technicolor, so nowadays it looks kind of awkward, plus the print has really faded and TPTB haven't deemed it necessary to do a restoration. Nevertheless, it is in color! "My Man Godfrey" is available on Criterion and is probably the most well-known of the Lombard screwball comedies.
Cuauhtemoc Gilmore		#7	[-]
Posts: 11776 (02/20/08 12:48 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I like to watch in color O_O
Us Kids Know		#8	[-]
Posts: 2833 (02/20/08 1:00 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Damn, I actually haven't seen that one. I'm sort of a movie nerd so I figured I'd be able to destroy the thread title's accusation. adds to must watch list
GnarlsInCharge		#9	[-]
Posts: 335 (02/20/08 1:23 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	<3 Carole Lombard <3 A classic I haven't seen yet making the list
A Dying Clown		#10	[-]
Posts: 5407 (02/20/08 4:28 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I've seen all the movies on this list so far. Lombard > all reality TV blondes I think 'Nothing Sacred' is public domain so you can legally download it for free.
Cassidy666		#11	[-]
Posts: 7014 (07/06/06 2:03 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Good idea for a thread. And no, I haven't seen any Carole Lombard film. Looking forward to seeing what other great movies I haven't seen yet...
growsonwalls		#12	[-]
Posts: 2781 (02/20/08 12:08 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	#29: Daughter from Danang (2002) What happens when a documentary tries to film an emotional reconciliation between long lost loved-ones, and the loved-ones turn out to be mostly selfish and despicable? "Daughter from Danang" is the result. It's a documentary about an Amerasian girl born to a Vietnamese woman and an American G.I. After the war the Vietnamese mother made the hard choice to give up Heidi for adoption, since she was told Heidi would have lived a life being shunned by Vietnamese society. Heidi's life in America was not much happier, as she is estranged from her adoptive mother. The film reunites Heidi and her birth mother and her Vietnamese relatives. "Daughter from Danang" is very heartwarming until it's revealed that Heidi's Vietnamese family are kind of greedy freeloaders (maybe not their fault considering they live in abject poverty), and Heidi herself is a spoiled, cold princess. Exhibit A: when she admits her contempt at her mother's surroundings at a food market where her mother is buying food for a feast she is cooking special for Heidi. Later on, she admits that since she's returned from her visit she hasn't even tried to contact her mother again, with the cruel comment, "I don't know them." Only Heidi's birth mother comes out of the film with her dignity intact, as she tries to ward off her greedy relatives and bond with her daughter, to no avail. She wanted to give her daughter a better life, and then she wanted to reunite with her daughter, and she gets neither. It's a really sad documentary, and in my opinion required viewing for anyone interested in the Vietnam war. Last Edited By: growsonwalls 02/20/08 12:13 PM. Edited 1 times.
AidanAcello		#13	[-]
Posts: 463 (02/20/08 12:29 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I haven't seen this one either but I <3 ppl documentaries. This movie sounds sad. I hate to see disrespect for one's parents.
Lurlene McDaniels		#14	[-]
Posts: 480 (02/20/08 1:40 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	It'd be funny if Tokyo Story was one of them. It's a pretty obscure movie here in America (though aparently popular in Japan). It's kind of reaaaaaallllly boring though. Daughter from Danang sounds really good though. I'll have to look for it.
growsonwalls		#15	[-]
Posts: 2782 (02/20/08 2:46 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	It'd be funny if Tokyo Story was one of them. It's a pretty obscure movie here in America (though aparently popular in Japan). It's kind of reaaaaaallllly boring though. Daughter from Danang sounds really good though. I'll have to look for it. Tokyo Story is not on the list since: 1. too many people have seen it and 2. it's not even close to being my favorite Ozu movie
growsonwalls		#16	[-]
Posts: 2783 (02/20/08 3:10 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	#28: Waterloo Bridge (1940) - Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor This was Vivien Leigh's personal favorite film (over "Gone With the Wind" and "Streetcar Named Desire," both of which nabbed her Oscars). It's one of those movies that's greater than one would expect, given the storyline, which is pure 1940s wartime melodrama/weepie. A ballerina falls in love with an officer in WWI, and all is well until she is dismissed from the company and then she mistakenly believes that her lover has died in the war. In desperation she becomes a prostitute, and ... well, just watch the movie. And while "Waterloo Bridge" definitely has many weaknesses (the American actor Robert Taylor was a pretty face and nothing more, and he doesn't even try for a British accent, and Leigh stretches credibility as a prostitute), Leigh's performance makes it a much more than a maudlin tearjerker. Those who only know her from "Gone With the Wind" or "Streetcar Named Desire" might be surprised that she could play more than a tough-as-nails bitch or a delusional Southern belle. And also, is she not the most beautiful woman to ever step in front of a camera? (Look above.) *I have a soft-spot for all Vivien Leigh films, partly because of her tragic personal life. She was bipolar and had tuberculosis, and then Laurence Olivier left her. She died a couple years later, saying, "I would rather live a short life without Larry than face a long life without him." When Olivier himself was an old man he would pop in movies of Vivien Leigh and cry. Waterloo Bridge can, again, be found on Amazon for pennies. Last Edited By: growsonwalls 02/23/08 3:13 PM. Edited 2 times.
Lurlene McDaniels		#17	[-]
Posts: 483 (02/20/08 3:41 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Re: Tokyo Story 2. it's not even close to being my favorite Ozu movie I don't blame you. It's a really long movie for being about pretty much nothing.
Dr Will Hatch two point oh		#18	[-]
Posts: 2625 (02/20/08 3:48 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I hope "A woman under the influence" makes this list, its one of my favorites
growsonwalls		#19	[-]
Posts: 2784 (02/20/08 4:00 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I don't blame you. It's a really long movie for being about pretty much nothing. I think it's the most seen Ozu film because it was the first one released in the West. But it's definitely not the best intro to Ozu, in my opinion.
Dr Will Hatch two point oh		#20	[-]
Posts: 2626 (02/20/08 4:02 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	The to films of Ozu I've seen are Tokyo Story and Floating Reeds. Are there any other good ones?

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