did you ever Re-watch a movie (nostalgic feeling)

 

And get a real reminiscent or nostalgic feeling?

I often think of things past from conversations.

This week it was Fort Apache The Bronx.

So I bought the DVD for $6 and watched it.

I saw it in the theater and was underage. This was a time when it was possible to sneak in to other theaters and see maybe 3 movies on 1 ticket.

A couple things became apparent--from memory, where I thought the film began was 45 minutes into it (the scene where a guy changing a tire at night gets killed).

This tells me I must have snuck into the movie as a little kid.

Then, it felt a bit sad knowing most of the actors have passed away, yet they weren't that old in the film.

Paul Newman would have been 56, and his love interest 23. That love interest in real life is 63 now!

Also depressing, how the South Bronx looked in 1980 or so, resembles Phila. today, and I think, how can that be.

yup

I do it from time to time, sometimes the movies are just as good, or better, than I remembered them, sometimes I wonder why I liked them the first time.

And then there are the ones I wish were made with todays super high definition picture and sound capabilities.

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Yes

Reruns can be good!

Old Movies

I frequently get a feeling of nostalgia when watching old movies & TV shows that picture cars from the 50's and 60's. I was a kid back then and could name the make, model and year of every car on the road.

My wife gets a kick out of it when I recite the details of the cars we see in these old flicks.

Now days, I can't tell a Chevy from a Mazda. They all look alike to me.

About the only thing different on cars these days…

…is the name badge or logo on the front or rear of the car. You can’t hardly tell them apart otherwise. I do like the old films though. They bring back memories of a quieter, peaceful time. And the cartoons. You knew that when Wile E. Coyote fell off the cliff while trying to catch the Roadrunner, he was going to be back in about 3 seconds with another great idea that would fail also. And we knew that it was not real. So many kids today can’t separate the real from the fictional in today’s world.

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movies

i built a place for dvd's and bulrays that cover a whole wall in my puter room and every once in a while i see one i liked and and watch it again and some of them are like new movies i never saw before !

Movies

Mine is Field of Dreams. I've watched it over and over. I can't get enough of it. Lol.

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Mine are

Dirty Dancing and Indiana Jones, Raiders of the lost ark.

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Same here

bdhsfz6 wrote:

I frequently get a feeling of nostalgia when watching old movies & TV shows that picture cars from the 50's and 60's. I was a kid back then and could name the make, model and year of every car on the road.

My wife gets a kick out of it when I recite the details of the cars we see in these old flicks.

Now days, I can't tell a Chevy from a Mazda. They all look alike to me.

I agree with you about the 50's and 60's cars. Back then, cars were cars compared with today's sissy cars.

Phil

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Road to Perdition

Funny you should mention rewatching a movie you hadn't seen in years, and it was a Paul Newman movie. I don't rewatch a lot of films I've seen before much anymore, but last week I rewatched on Netflix a favorite film from 2002 I hadn't seen in at least 15 years, and it was Paul Newman's last major film role: "Road to Perdition." Great performances from a great cast. Tom Hanks is the lead, but it's not a typical Tom Hanks role, as he plays a mob enforcer--very convincingly! Also features Jude Law, Daniel Craig, Stanley Tucci, and Tyler Hoechlin. Dark and moody cinematography by Conrad Hall. Directed by Sam Mendes. Music by Thomas Newman. A lot of cinema pedigrees there. Wonderful film.

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My husband is the World champ at re-watching Movies

There are movies that my husband has watched at least 30 times. He loves watching movies and now that he is unable to do much he sure enjoys his old movies. I have to find something to sew or paint to keep from going bananas while they are on after the 5th or 6th time.
I am so glad he loves them as it is very good he has something he loves that he can do.
Before the pandemic we would go to the movie every week. Now we have Hulu, Prime, HBO, Acorn, Disney+, Netflix and I don't know what else! He has plenty to watch now!
Mary

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They just don't make movies

They just don't make movies like Airplane I & II any more.... kids today have no clue what they're missing.

I just did too! Cool Hand

I just did too! Cool Hand Luke!

Movies theater when child

My husband lived a couple of miles from the River Oaks Theater.
He would walk there every Saturday and watch the feature several times.
There was a drainage ditch on the way and he would cut across peoples property and walk part way in the ditch. He had a friend that lived near him who would go with him a lot. The theater had a coke machine that coke and cherry. He would make half coke and half cheery from the machine to drink.
When he was ready to come home he would go next door to Spencer's Pharmacy and put his nickel in the pay phone and call home. He would let it ring one time then hang up and spend the nickel. His parents would come pick him up when the phone rang once.
He has such great memories and has shared them with me several times.
If you have sweet memories share them with someone you love so they can live on.
Mary

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totally

zx1100e1 wrote:

They just don't make movies like Airplane I & II any more.... kids today have no clue what they're missing.

From memory...I think the actress' name is Julie Hagerty, the flight attendant? I can see her playing the guitar and hitting the IV line of the girl she's playing for on the plane...and also the scene with the inflatable co-pilot hahahahahahahaha

edit: p.s. my memory failed me, it was the other flight attendant who played the guitar! But Julie Hagerty blew up the inflatable autopilot with the manual inflation nozzle...

https://youtu.be/RMh9hPGNGKE

https://youtu.be/1IS6DEUZ_gs

I was

mgarledge wrote:

My husband lived a couple of miles from the River Oaks Theater.
He would walk there every Saturday and watch the feature several times.
There was a drainage ditch on the way and he would cut across peoples property and walk part way in the ditch. He had a friend that lived near him who would go with him a lot. The theater had a coke machine that coke and cherry. He would make half coke and half cheery from the machine to drink.
When he was ready to come home he would go next door to Spencer's Pharmacy and put his nickel in the pay phone and call home. He would let it ring one time then hang up and spend the nickel. His parents would come pick him up when the phone rang once.
He has such great memories and has shared them with me several times.
If you have sweet memories share them with someone you love so they can live on.
Mary

Our parents had an evening engagement (formal at a UN embassy) so they left us alone to go about in Manhattan, even as little kids. My brother was tiny as he was 10 years younger. I decided let's go to a movie. The theater was called the Regency. So we went in, and what was playing was "The Last Picture Show." I thought hmmm...this seems old, is that Cybill Shepherd?

Turns out the Regency was a "revival house." It played old movies. I just googled it and this will give you an idea, it closed in 1987!

https://youtu.be/1ibAAJecyT4

nice!

ceevee wrote:

I just did too! Cool Hand Luke!

HUD is on my top ten list...

old movies

i was watching a few very old movies horror ones and as i watched i could see the strings holding up the bats that were flying around and making the wings flap when i was younger i didnt see them the first time i seen the movie in the movie house.

Yes, also some TV networks

Yes, also some TV networks showing shows/movies that are classics.

I have an annual viewing of.....

Slaphot.

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Saw Airplane I last night...

Saw Airplane I last night... Ahh the good old days. Many would probably be offended by it today....Airplane 2 tonight.

We were Soldiers

The one movie I'll watch whenever it's shown is "We Were Soldiers" with Mel Gibson. It's not that old, 2002, but it strikes a chord, maybe because I'm a Vietnam Veteran.

Phil

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channel 13

Every Saturday, channel 13, airs a classic movie with no commercials.

I do it all the time.

I am chronologically enhanced and have CRS disease.
So, watching it over again is seeing it for the first time.
Benefits of being CE.

I think

bsp131 wrote:

Every Saturday, channel 13, airs a classic movie with no commercials.

This is how I first got interested in film. I know I was sneaking into R rated films as young as 14.

Within the last 10 years I found a booklet from the MPAA. I used to write letters and ask for autographs. It was a program from the Academy Awards and a note was written (dating myself) from Jack Valenti's secretary.

She said enjoy John, maybe someday my autograph will be worth something! --Ellen Goldstein

I truly hate to think about time passing by and people passing on. Actually I saw a pic on my computer of when I bought my new car in Dec. 2006, posing with the salesperson and she's giving an AOK sign. I googled the saleswoman in the pic, and she passed away 12/21 at the age of 59. I suddenly was overcome with sadness....nostalgia.

Old cars were distinctive.

bdhsfz6 wrote:

I frequently get a feeling of nostalgia when watching old movies & TV shows that picture cars from the 50's and 60's. I was a kid back then and could name the make, model and year of every car on the road.

My wife gets a kick out of it when I recite the details of the cars we see in these old flicks.

Now days, I can't tell a Chevy from a Mazda. They all look alike to me.

I remember in High School (80s) I knew the model and make of most cars just looking at the shape of their headlights. The cars these days all look the same. It is hard to tell them apart. I see Lamborghinis and Maseratis some times. They look like any other car on the road. Old cars were distinctive.

I will watch old movies just to see the cars. The plot lines of the movies usually are not that good.

^^I'd like to think my

^^I'd like to think my stinger is a bit unusual. Had the car for just over a year now. Can count on one hand (several fingers really), how many other stingers i've seen this heavily populated area.

But yes, most cars look similar... They're all mostly suv's of one sort or another.

when

I see those huge American cars driving as fast as they can in films, say The Seven Ups where I think it was Pontiacs (I think this had the best car chase scene ever captured, better than Bulitt and French Connection), I cringe even for the stuntman.

One of the weirdest styling attributes I see today, is rectangular exhaust outlets, and literally, it's a blank. There's no opening for an exhuast. How dumb is that? I first saw it on an Audi SQ5, and did a double take walking past. But more cars do that.

my pick ...

johnnatash4 wrote:

I see those huge American cars driving as fast as they can in films, say The Seven Ups where I think it was Pontiacs (I think this had the best car chase scene ever captured, better than Bulitt and French Connection), I cringe even for the stuntman.

~snip~.

The Blues Brothers.

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here it is

imho the absolute best.

Funny I remembered they're Pontiacs after all these years.

https://youtu.be/9vACWV5sRcY

Interesting, same producer as Bullitt and French Connection, but he directed this film, makes sense.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/archived/the-pontiac-chase-in-...

Cars

plunder wrote:

I agree with you about the 50's and 60's cars. Back then, cars were cars compared with today's sissy cars.
Phil

Actually cars then were deathtraps, lousy brakes, lousy suspensions. no seat-belts, air bags and a steering column that would kill you in a frontal collision.

See this clip between a 1959 Chevrolet Belair and a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ5PcWziXT0

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Value of a 1959 BelAir

Melaqueman wrote:
plunder wrote:

I agree with you about the 50's and 60's cars. Back then, cars were cars compared with today's sissy cars.
Phil

Actually cars then were deathtraps, lousy brakes, lousy suspensions. no seat-belts, air bags and a steering column that would kill you in a frontal collision.

See this clip between a 1959 Chevrolet Belair and a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ5PcWziXT0

Wouldn't be surprised if the 1959 Belair was worth a lot more money than the Malibu (before the crash).
Mark

The coolness factor

Melaqueman wrote:
plunder wrote:

I agree with you about the 50's and 60's cars. Back then, cars were cars compared with today's sissy cars.
Phil

Actually cars then were deathtraps, lousy brakes, lousy suspensions. no seat-belts, air bags and a steering column that would kill you in a frontal collision.

See this clip between a 1959 Chevrolet Belair and a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ5PcWziXT0

So one measly dummy eats his steering wheel. So? Nah, I meant the coolness factor. Big engines, big exhausts, big fins, big bubble skirts, rag tops; just cool lookin'.

Phil

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Yup!

plunder wrote:

So one measly dummy eats his steering wheel. So? Nah, I meant the coolness factor. Big engines, big exhausts, big fins, big bubble skirts, rag tops; just cool lookin'.

Phil

I fully understand the coolness factor and loved those cars in their day. But I also know you were unlikely to get 100K miles on them without a major engine or transmission overhaul/replacement (likely both)! It is not uncommon on today's cars to get 200000 miles or more with just ordinary scheduled maintenance. On today's cars the body or chassis usually falls apart before the drive train fails.

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movie

I just watched the first Godzilla Movie with Rayman Burr.

yeah

alandb wrote:
plunder wrote:

So one measly dummy eats his steering wheel. So? Nah, I meant the coolness factor. Big engines, big exhausts, big fins, big bubble skirts, rag tops; just cool lookin'.

Phil

I fully understand the coolness factor and loved those cars in their day. But I also know you were unlikely to get 100K miles on them without a major engine or transmission overhaul/replacement (likely both)! It is not uncommon on today's cars to get 200000 miles or more with just ordinary scheduled maintenance. On today's cars the body or chassis usually falls apart before the drive train fails.

I recall my parents celebrating when odometers turned 100k. So I did too when my wife's did maybe 2020? But it's not a huge deal anymore. 300k and maybe someone is interested.

My mom's car I saw a YouTube they decided to work on the tranny at 500k, it was starting to leak. Some folks just let it leak lol I mean one of my cars (different gen) in the stable has an example with over 1,000,000 on YouTube.

On the old cars, it took me a very long time to relate to small v. big block. No one in my family ever had a big block. Today's cars? The "580" model is a 4 liter lol 20 years ago that would have mean 5.8 liters. But these days marketing is about fooling the consumer. When I was a little kid I would read through ruh roh it was not Chilton but it was a repair manual which showed the different displacement and had the torque and hp numbers, and I'd remember seeing the AC compressor and knowing we didn't have one in our car. 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 for a GM V8, I learned at age 7. I couldn't tell you what it is on my toyota.

edit: just googled 3UZ-FE and the firing order is the same. question, are all V8's 18436572? This is the only V8 I have personally owned so I don't know...lol

edit2: I googled ford v8 and it's different

car

the first car i remember riding in was a ford woodie i think it was a 1943 in 1948 it was my uncles car we couldn't afford one but we also didnt need one living in the bronx we had the subway and the El that would take you any ware in NY and movies where we went were only 11 cents on saturday and you got 3 full length movies and 20 color cartoons you spent the whole day there

I agree

alandb wrote:
plunder wrote:

So one measly dummy eats his steering wheel. So? Nah, I meant the coolness factor. Big engines, big exhausts, big fins, big bubble skirts, rag tops; just cool lookin'.

Phil

I fully understand the coolness factor and loved those cars in their day. But I also know you were unlikely to get 100K miles on them without a major engine or transmission overhaul/replacement (likely both)! It is not uncommon on today's cars to get 200000 miles or more with just ordinary scheduled maintenance. On today's cars the body or chassis usually falls apart before the drive train fails.

I totally agree, but you missed one. The cool cars rusted out after a few years: bumpers, wheel wells, door bottoms, etc.

Phil

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My sister and I watched

My sister and I watched Terminator 2 over 20 times on tv channels. We just liked it.