Movies that have aged well

[Kenobi]

King of New York.

I never saw this movie until it got a remastered DVD release recently. If you haven't seen it, it's worth the 2 hours.

[Mglnbea]

Duck Soup
Murder By Death
The Cincinnati Kid
One-Eyed Jacks
A Night at the Opera
Burn!
Ordinary People

[Revolt]

Blade Runner

Yes! Great movie.

[Lithium858]

Jurassic Park is a good one. But I don't think it's old enough for this list.

[YanksFC]

Blade Runner

Word.

[Scarecrow]

Platoon and Full Metal Jacket.

I always liked West Side Story.

[zman31]

The Sting
Midnight Run
The Great Escape


I have to 2nd Dr. Strangelove and Bridge on the River Kwai.

[servotron]

Dune (I have to bring that up in every movie thread, as it's my favorite movie)

Big Trouble in Little China (again...the humor is still funny, the action is still good, and the characters are still lovable)

Total Recall (not THAT old, but still blows 99% of all action movies since it completely out of the water)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (a true all-time classic)

[oman]

The Sting
Midnight Run
The Great Escape


I have to 2nd Dr. Strangelove and Bridge on the River Kwai.

I guess I am getting the definition wrong. When I think of movies as "aging well", I think they are as emotinally fresh, but also as technically effective, as the first time I saw them.

In the case of Dr. Strangelove, which has a clean B&W appearance and River Kwai, with its beautiful "technicolor" appearance, both have the same emotional clarity as well as the same clarity on the screen.

The Great Escape was never a very great movie to begin with, and when you watch it now, to me it looks not only aged and technically bypassed, but its also really really trite -- much more so that when we first saw it when we were younger and didn't care about it all that much.

Similarly, The Sting had that great soundtrack and felt very slick when I saw it on the big screen. It's still a great movie but it feels a bit dated, especially in the early scenes. But its a closer call.

Maybe we are more likely to think that the movies we saw which were already older when we first saw them are less likely to age.

I saw Paths to Glory about 15 years ago for the first time and its black and white cinematograhy is just as crisp and you are transported back to a young Kirk Douglas. Those are the kinds of movies that seem to age well.

[SirManchester]

2001 (my fave of all time)
Deliverance
All Hitchcock films in my opinion, hell even all Kubrick films as well.

[Alan S]

2001
Blade Runner
The Hudsucker Proxy
Schindler's List
Chariots of Fire
Caddyshack


Clockwork Orange - but more as a prophetic tale (from the 1970s) about the future we are living in now, with terrorists, violent movies and kids video games. People now a just totally numb to the violence around them like the ending of the movie. In fact, I doubt a kid today would even get what this movie was about. But, a prophetic movie is not the same as one that ages well, I'd guess.

[Ray Luca]

Lawrence of Arabia.

Ten commandments

Best years of our lives

Can see them all a thousand times and still love them

[Ray Luca]

The Shining

Apocalypse Now

Blazing Saddles

Blazing saddles and Young frekenstrin see them 1000 times and you still laugh

[Ray Luca]

I was having a conversation with a friend about movies that have aged well. By that, I mean an older movie which if watched today does not seem silly, but for the hair styles and maybe the clothes, it could be put on today, almost word for word.

Here are a few I think aged well:

1. From Here to Eternity

2. The Manchurian Candidate

3. 2001

4. To Kill a Mockingbird

5. The Godfather I and II

See the original Manchurian canadate today day for the first time still a shocking movie

[Ray Luca]

there's tons, maybe im sayind that because im a film buff, but there's A Bridge on The River Kwai, Singing in The Rain, and Gone with the Wind just to name a few...

Singing in the rain if you are into musicals that is the one to see.

Then see Clock work oranges version of singing in the rain.

[Ray Luca]

- The French Connection - likewise, it's been imitated so it's not as fresh as it was when it came out, but whatever, still very watchable.


I watch the french connection all the time because of Gene Hackmen great in that movie plus a friend of mine was in it Benny Marino played the garbage man who bought the car at auction the Brother of the candy store owner Tony Lo Bianco

I have home movies of benny getting hit with a baseball bat by my brother :-)

[Ray Luca]

Dr. Strangelove has kept up well.

Best part of that movie sellers played the German guy with the bad arm. He is messing with it and Riussian guy is laughing the only one that is laughing and they left it in the movie which made it much funnier.

[Ray Luca]

[QUOT

I always liked West Side Story.[/QUOTE]

They made part of it on the east side in East Harlem.

The basketball court was there. I was there they asked my older Brother to be a jet he was a member of a real gang called the Red Wings. My npw very business like brother told them to f themselves :-)

Remember the scene were a shark spits on a Jet in the beginning of the movie. They could not photogragh being hit by spit. So that was actually a capsule that hit the jet. Check it out.

[Ray Luca]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (a true all-time classic)

That was the movie I took my future wife to see on our first date over 35 yrs ago.

[Belgian guy]

Raiders of the lost ark

Blade runner

The 39 steps (considering it's a 1935 release)

Bringing up baby (works better that almost all modern day romantic comedies)