Movies Released Prior to 1963 that you have enjoyed watching...

I grew up being a big science fiction fan. I loved, "The Thing from another world." there would be a remake of it, "The Thing," staring Kirk Russell. Also "Them," about huge ants, the 1950's was full of movies about radiation enlarging things to include rabbits. The original "War of the Worlds" staring Gene Barry was excellent. also the Blob with Steve McQueen.

I still spend a lot of time watching movies from the 50's. After all, they were what I grew up with.

 

I remember watching THEM when I was very young. I still love that movie. One of my earliest memories of a Science Fiction movie is some guy getting eaten by a dinosaur while walking on a ledge. Maybe journey to the center of the earth... I know I was three years old or less but can still remember watching it.

Currently I'm recording and watching all of the original Outer Limits series.

 

I do not disagree that it is a good movie. I find them too disturbing to be entertaining.

I would be more likely to watch this, as it is a bit ironic and since it is likelier to happen with more consistency, possibly with other than this particular topic, I find some sick humor in them. I may or may not openly laugh, expecting all that happens before it actually occurs in the movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036377/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

 

Watched them on Saturday nights on a black and white television. It was a show similar to Svengoolie. Horrible humor was the order of business and movies from Nesferatu into the Frankenstein, Dracula, Mummy and others from the '30s - '50s. I was up to about 5 years old. Mum wanted me in bed. An older brother, much older, was up with me and watched. I probably fell asleep and he took me to bed. I don't remember the endings very well. lol

Edit: the movies were black and white anyway, so no matter.

 

Not to diverge too much but you might check out the book, The Five Love Languages. Some women would rather you pull weeds than bring them flowers.

 

I know it. I simply haven't read it. I learn best by reading and doing. I will quickly forget. I also believe women are individuals and they can either tell a man or simply lose him, believing he is stoopid. It's usually the latter, since most want a man who can read them very well. This is a small percentage of men. The rest simply have wives who know a man can't read a woman's mind. lol

Truly, I miss someone caring for me, but I am in no shape, financially, physically, mentally or emotionally to have any sort of relationship. I do not, nor ever have believed in ONS. I have never had one. I'm 56+ years old. I probably won't change. It isn't worth it. When it was, in my twenties and thirties, I was either with a woman I met at age 15, or divorced and studying, working toward what I thought would be a career, paying child support and college tuition by proxy, and had very little extra to spend on a relationship. I have less now, so it's completely out of the question.

However, I miss women dearly and the softness they brought to my life. Though, there are few women like that today. Most seem to be more like "men lite", sort of like the beer with no calories or flavor, though usually a little skunky tasting. Laws today are not conducive to men, so it's safer to stay away. All it takes is a rejected woman and the law will believe them before a man. It's the end of his life, then.

Let's face it. I'm not of this era, nor of the past. I truly pray for death to come quickly. God has not allowed me to be tortured enough, yet. I guess? I don't know.

 

It's fun to escape with an entertaining movie. Let's please continue with the theme of the thread. It's much more fun.

 

I'm sorry to hear this. I had to put a gun to my head before changing my life. Life is a choice.

 

If someone had told me ten years ago, or even 6 years ago, what my life would be like today, I would have said they're nuts! I would have bet a year's wages that it wasn't possible. You'd be amazed at what can happen if you make up your mind to do whatever it takes to change your life.

The only option is to wait for death. Been there done that.

 

I loved them all and still do. Bella Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Boris Karloff. I think Christopher Lee was my favorite Dracula, even through today. For the funny, humor, horror flicks, there was Abbot and Costello meet the invisible man, Abbot and Costello goes to Mars, Abbot and Costello meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and my favorite one, Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein which had all the monsters in it.

Then there was Vincent Price, a horror favorite. James Arness of Gun Smoke got his start in these old sci-fi horror flicks along with Peter Graves of Mission Impossible fame. The TV series. Perhaps my favorite director was Roger Corman. He made so many cheap horror movies, but all scared the dickens out of me as a kid.

 

On tonight... TCM, King Kong 1933

 

Only in part. We can choose so many different ways, it's pretty much a crap shoot what will happen without some help from others. When that help is negative, and we are naïve enough to believe in the good in others, we tend to lose. We don't play the game of life as it should be, with a determination and fight that will cripple the weak. I never played that way. I lost. And, I've been there, but never went that far. I have simply realized the truth of my life. There is little joy and lots of hurt. I await what comes with anticipation, not sorrow.

 

I don't know what else to do. I've tried as many ways as I know. I am old and in this era, irrelevant. I'd rather think of what's next. It's more fun and filled with hope.

 

TCM is great and where I do most of my watching. It was even better about ten years ago when Robert Osborne was the host. He had some great stories to add to the excitement. Many of the actors, he interviewed personally before they passed away. It isn't the same today and seems to have become a place that shows more movies of more relevance to the current social climate. Those movies don't "take me away" like many others.

I remember when I first saw the movie. I felt so sorry for kong. I wanted him to avoid capture and be left alone. Once he escaped, I wanted to see him back home. It was a sad movie for me. I'm weird.

 

To Kill a Mockingbird
Forbidden Planet
Casablanca
Godzilla
African Queen
It Happened One Night

...I can go on for a while

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040613/

This poor guy........lol.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039041/?ref_=nv_sr_1

This one was a bit disturbing. It is a sentiment held by many before the U.S. got involved in WWII. Natalie Wood was in it and played a sweet little girl deeply hurt. Orson Welles was okay, but his character was an odd bird. I felt there was a bit of ham in his acting, as well as Colbert. I have always thought that of Colbert's acting. She is usually not a favorite of mine, though I thought she did well in the romantic comedy I posted above. Yeah, the one she felt wasn't well acted. I imagine she held her nose at eye level instead of over her head. I haven't researched much about her, though. Can't be sure. It's an impression I keep getting.

 

I haven't watched one recently that I thought should go here. I'll have to pay a bit more attention.

Here's a little something for you crazy kids. Not sure if I posted this before. There's lots of fun there, so no big deal.

Tonight at 8 pm EST..........Terror Out of the Sky.......muahahahaha

http://svengoolie.com/

 

The Best Years of Our Lives
Casablanca
Spartacus
Gigi
The Music Man
Shane

 

Anyone watching those noir films on TCM? Some of them are pretty good. Most seem like 'B' movies. I enjoy them, though.

Tonight, The Long Haul.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050653/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt

 

A true CLASSIC!

 

I always enjoyed the campy thriller from 1959, Plan 9 From Outer Space:

 

Vampira - the original will always be the best.

 

Ben Hur

 

the original remains the best:














Ramon Navarro, 1925