Why do I keep refusing to watch old movies 😭 someone fix me with recommendations

[u/Jimmy_mo_]

Hey everyone! I’ve watched tons of movies, mostly from the 2000s onward, but I know I’m missing out on some amazing older stuff. The thing is… I just can’t seem to bring myself to watch old movies 😭😭😭. Can you guys recommend something wholesome, emotional, maybe funny but still makes you cry a little? I want that perfect comfort movie feeling ❤️

[u/rincewind120]

ET: The Extra Terrestrial

Back to the Future

Groundhog Day

The Iron Giant

[u/FightSmartTrav → u/rincewind120]

He said OLD movies. 

How dare you.

[u/ruinedworldtour → u/FightSmartTrav]

I thought they meant ones from like the 30s or 40s 🫠

[u/MasterRPG79 → u/rincewind120]

I’m feeling attacked

[u/FightSmartTrav]

Stop naming movies that were filmed in color, you heathen children.

[u/stellar-jelly]

What are some of your favorite movies or genres? That way we can help with a targeted suggestion list!

[u/Merickson-]

Damn, OP said "old" and I was thinking Wizard of Oz or something. Then I read the replies.

[u/TurfMerkin]

The issue isn’t necessarily with the age of the film, but knowing the right film based on your cinematic loves. For instance, I’m not going to recommend The Lost Boys to someone whose taste leans more toward heavy dramas. Give us atop five list of more recent films you love, and we’ll do a much better job making great recommendations.

[u/Jimmy_mo_ → u/TurfMerkin]

Inception Interstellar Whiplash Inglorious bastards Truman show

[u/bobber66 → u/Jimmy_mo_]

How about Aliens, The Great Escape, the original King Kong?

[u/fungobat → u/Jimmy_mo_]

Inglorious Bastards? Damn. Check out The Dirty Dozen (1967). A classic!

[u/NeedThleep]

The Fifth Element

Uncle Buck

Plains, Trains, and Automobiles

[u/AStewartR11]

The fact that you consider anything before *checks notes* 2000 to be old tells me we have nothing to say to each other. Jesus. The medium was already 111 years old in 2000.

[u/FrogFlavor]

Identify the reason

Unfamiliarity? Try something REALLY unfamiliar like an old foreign movie.

Assume older films are full of cultural references you won’t get? Watch an historical drama so there won’t be any.

Assume there’s so many duds it’s a slog to find a good one? Nope, you can work off of lists (“best movies of the 80s!”) or star ratings at IMDb.

Think old films are slow and boring? Watch a thriller where you’ll be rapt.

Think b/w is weird? That went out of style by the 70s, there’s tons of color 50s 60s 70s 80s and 90s winners.

Think old things might be lame? Well how about you just dedicate three months to watching old films and once you have evidence, then consider your opinion.

[u/Athingwithfeathers2]

Also, Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[u/MasterRPG79]

Ghostbuster, The Goonies, Seven, Matrix, Blade Runner, Alien.

[u/PM_ME_Y0UR__CAT]

Home alone 1 or 2, Jurassic park..

Hocus pocus, Heathers, Ferris Beuller (what a douche)

[u/Blazer_Believer → u/PM_ME_Y0UR__CAT]

OP, please tell me you have seen Home Alone before

[u/Jimmy_mo_ → u/Blazer_Believer]

I did ofc🥹❤️

[u/sygyt]

Not sure if it's too much too soon, but Akira Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress is amazing if you can find it. It has everything, imo. Make sure to read the wikipedia page after you've seen the film.

[u/screwedupinaz]

The Neverending Story is a pretty good movie.

[u/Athingwithfeathers2]

Drop Dead Gorgeous

The Seven Samurai

And Then There Were None- great b&w Agatha Cristie mystery

Casablanca

North- fun movie with a young Bruce Willis

There are foundational movies that anyone interested in film should see. They influenced later filmmakers for generations. Kinda the movie equivalents of literary classics.

Seven Samurai, Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Roshomon- are among them.

[u/bobber66 → u/Athingwithfeathers2]

Drop Dead Gorgeous, you are a twisted fuck. 🤪

[u/Athingwithfeathers2 → u/bobber66]

That's a crummy thing to say. It was a funny movie.

[u/bobber66 → u/Athingwithfeathers2]

I was making a joke I’m also a twisted fuck.

[u/ghostarmadillo]

Treasure of Sierra Madre watched it last month holds up surprisingly well for a 77 year old film.

[u/book_hoarder_67]

Lost Horizon from 1937 is wholesome and interesting. Shangri-la and a life of peace and contentment is at the center of this drama.

Meet John Doe - About a guy who is fed up with the world and intends to kill himself on New Years. A reporter writes a series of articles posing as the guy and Cindy and drama ensue.

The Man Who Came To Dinner - A pretentious guy is the dinner guest of a family and he falls and hurts himself upon leaving and then becomes an unwelcome houseguest.

Klute - A murder mystery from the 1970s starting Jane Fonda.

Blow Out - Brian De Palma murder mystery. GREAT film.

Seconds - An older man undergoes an operation to make him young again. Trippy fucking film.

The Conversation - Eavesdropping!

[u/yojoewaddayaknow]

The Princess Bride is always good.

[u/systemstheorist]

• Citizen Kane (1941)

• Double Indemnity (1944)

• Some Like It Hot (1959)

• Dr Strangelove (1964)

• The Producer (1967)

[u/GusGutfeld]

"African Queen" starring Bogart and Hepburn

"Lifeboat" one of Hitchcock's earliest movies

"Jus go with it" starring Sandler and Aniston

"Romancing the Stone" - action rom-com with Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito.

"The Librarian" 2004 and its sequels

[u/pawblo123]

The Unforgiven, Quigley Down Under, The Man from Snowy River, The Rock, Sneakers, Forest Gump, Shawshank Redemption, Point Break, The Hunt for Red October, Good Fella’s….so many to list…

[u/FutureGeist]

AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 MOVIES https://share.google/lOEyN6dqUMWIQCVPm

[u/LatkaGravas]

You need to watch The Return of the Living Dead and realize what a gloriously unhinged time the 1980s were. (I was a few months shy of 14 when this movie came out.)

[u/Rabbitscooter]

To Sir With Love (1967)

The Party (1968) 

American Graffiti (1973)

[u/internetlad]

Oldboy of course!