Movies that hold up

GWTW remains the Soap Opera of American Soap Operas, though it loses a good deal of cohesion after they burn Atlanta . . .

Casablanca

Kane

The Hustler

The original Manchurian  Candidate

there are plenty . . .

 

Dead on, on all accounts. Sixteen Candles is still funny, despite it being about the 80s, so I don't know if that counts. And for me, Porky's is great all these years later.

 

Goonie? I guess. It's still mediocre on repeat viewings then?

 

Lawrence of Arabia
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
2001
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Searchers

 

The Indiana Jones trilogy, especially Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Last Crusade. As long as those two items are at large, any way.

 

GWTW bites a large one in so many ways even before you get to the despicable racial politics. Gable and Leigh are the only two people in it who act well. (Olivia DeHavilland is wasted and Leslie Howard is a dolt. The minor supporting roles are ghastly bad, even George Reeves, who was better as Superman on TV).
Speaking of Olivia D, The Adventures of Robin Hood, a TCM feature this weekend, holds up as do most of the Errol Flyyn swashbucklers and the Tyrone Power "Mark of Zorro." Also Annie Hall, which I saw last week.

 

Caddyshack

 

Agree on "The Hustler"

I'll add on...
The Wild Bunch
The Game
The Great Escape
The Magnificent Seven

 

cool hand luke

 

:'( :'( :'(

Why must you say such hurtful things?

 

In this case, because I once was in Atlanta and grabbed a chance to see GWTW on the big screen. (I'd only seen it on TV prior to that.) So I sat in a theater and watched the unfolding horror. If you think it's bad on TV, watch it in cinemascope sometime. Leslie Howard gets to be a REALLY TALL stiff.

 

Oh, Howard's horrible. I could never buy that Scarlett could love that man.

But deHavilland's great, Gable and Leigh steal it, and not a week goes by where I don't say "But Miss Scarlett, I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies!" in my best Prissy voice.