3 Notable movies you’ve never seen

Completely agree. We randomly watch old movies and it’s crazy how they made these amazing movies in like 5 weeks.

 

Has anybody *not* seen the Wizard of Oz?

 

Brown Bunny ... now there's an old-school SJ meme that was lost to the ages.

 

Star Wars
Top Gun
Gone With the Wind

 

I was born in the ‘70s, so that’s part of it. I have an appreciation for the craft (though I largely disagree that the acting is great), but older movies are products of a time I can’t identify with. There are some I enjoy, like stuff from Kubrick and Hitchcock, and when my son was younger, we loved watching old Chaplin movies together. But something more “traditional,” like It’s A Wonderful Life, makes me want to vomit.

I also think the “gentleness,” “restraint” and “tameness” of the time was nothing but a disingenuous smokescreen, but that’s a conversation for another day.

I like violence. I like cursing. I like sex. I don’t like sanitized versions of life — and that’s exactly what a ton of older movies look like to me.

 

I knew I had the SJ Style Guide somewhere ...

Brown Bunny (or Going Brown Bunny): An exceedingly flattering or glorifying piece of journalism about a person or subject. Or, for the Algonquinian set, what halfmiler / fotf would call a "hagiography." Named for the 2003 movie co-starring Chloë Sevigny, who performed an graphic on-screen act of admiration upon Vincent Gallo.​