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J Smoove · Jan 7, 2015

tigerchick46 said: ↑

I think the 12th angry man or woman, would be the LSU fans at the moment.
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No, A&M fans when they play LSU

furduknfish · Jan 7, 2015

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"The Wizard of Oz" is a favorite of my daughters' (in fact, it's in the theaters this Sunday, and my daughters are insisting on seeing it on the big screen.)

I took my 13-year-old to see "Gone With the Wind" and "It's a Wonderful Life" on the big screen in the past couple of months (the Cinemark theater near our house runs classic films every Sunday and Wednesday--so any time the girls see one advertised they'd like to see, we go.)

With that in mind, I ordered some classic films I liked when I was a kid off of Amazon last month to watch with my girls:

"The Best Years of Our Lives" (post-WWII drama about 3 soldiers trying to fit back into their former lives after returning from to war to a changed America)

"Stella Dallas" (a 1938 or 1939 film starring Barbara Stanwyck as a trampy sort of girl who marries "up," but ultimately gives up her daughter to the father after her lifestyle is not conducive to raising a "society" child.)

"The Pride of the Yankees" (the Lou Gehrig story starring Gary Cooper)

"The Greatest Show on Earth" (starring Jimmy Stewart and Charleton Heston, follows a season in the Ringling Brothers circus. It's a Cecil B. DeMille film, and even my 10-year-old loved it, after saying she wasn't interested at first.)

My parents always showed me classic films (probably because they didn't like any "new" ones when I was growing up. Regardless, I developed a strong appreciation for the genre, and my girls like the films, too--even loving that they now catch random references and allusions to some of the well-known films in movies they watch today.

I am different from my parents, in that, I don't reject new films as garbage, so my girls go to both with me and know how to discriminate pretty well. The old movies, however, serve as a terrific historical lesson for the them to see how people talked and lived long before they were born. The women had a very affected way that they spoke and carried themselves, for instance. Or the fact that most everyone smoked, etc. They even found the way that Snow White sang in the original Disney movie to be ridiculous, as the standards for a good voice and beauty have changed so drastically since the 1930's.
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Turner Classic and A&E, before they went all reality stupid, were great channels.

tigerchick46 · Jan 8, 2015

J Smoove said: ↑

Yeah, Debbie does Dallas. It's a classic.
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And from the late 70's.......everyone knows this, the discussion was from the 50's and prior, I place a premium on speed of thought, you fail miserably!

Herb · Jan 8, 2015

Got some 50's porn recommendations?

furduknfish · Jan 8, 2015

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Got some 50's porn recommendations?
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Why does every discussion here end up about porn? Not that I'm complaining...

TwistedTiger · Jan 8, 2015

Herb said: ↑

Got some 50's porn recommendations?
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Yes, don't look!

LaSalleAve · Jan 8, 2015

Herb said: ↑

Got some 50's porn recommendations?
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The Jungle Book???

tirk · Jan 8, 2015

LaSalleAve said: ↑

The Jungle Book???
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50s porn definitely jungle book.

Herb · Jan 8, 2015

wjray · Jan 8, 2015

Herb said: ↑

Got some 50's porn recommendations?
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Tilly Goes to the Dentist for a Drilling and a Filling.

Not that I've ever seen it, but as I recall, Lewis Grizzard, may he rest in peace, once claimed to have watched that film as a teenager.