Anybody remember the movie Lt. Robin Crusoe, USN? I do. Me and my family used to watch it a lot when we were young, and we still quote this movie all the time, but I'd mostly forgotten about it until I stumbled across a an article on Dick van Dyke today. It was an awesome retelling of the Robinson Crusoe tale, but with island girls and drunken monkeys, so it's better.
Everything is better with island girls and drunken monkeys. Trust me on this.
Turns out Netflix has the movie available, so I'm gonna have to rent it again for old times sake. I hope the years haven't rendered it stupid and unwatchable for me, like they did with Weird Science. LT. RC, USN was funny as can be when I was a kid. Hopefully it remains so.
While I'm at it, I've been going over some movies to put into my Netflix queue. I usually only get Netflix for a month at a time because I quickly go through all the movies I want to watch and by the end of the month I'm getting a bunch of crappy b-movies that I'm invariably disappointed with. So before I start up my Netflix again, I'm going to have a big stock to choose from.
The only problem is, I have nothing to watch.
Modern movies are usually not worth the time, but there are still a bunch of old movies out there that I've either never seen or haven't seen in a while. On my queue right now, I have a handful of old movies like Operation Petticoat, In the Good Old Summertime, The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and Strangers on a Train. For starters.
Anybody got any ideas for some good, old movies I can rent?
By old I'm talking movies made before I was born. The '60's or earlier. Once Hollywood got into the seventies it was all turtlenecks and afro hair and swankyness and chickawakka chickawakka music. Oh yeah, and Joe Don Baker, which I will never forgive the '70's for. No thankee Mitchell.
No, the seventies are best forgotten. I'd rather watch movies from an earlier, less obnoxious time. I like action movies, war movies, pulp, film noir, mystery movies, and even some comedy, unless it has Jerry Lewis in it.
Gimmee some ideas, folks.
2 comments:
I have lots of good ideas. Just come one over and we can talk for hours. In fact grandma gets a magazine she can show you with lots of old movies to give you ideas. "Bridge of the River Kwia", "African Queen", "To Have and to Have Not",. I could go on and on. I liked Philadelphia Story w/Cary Grant. That's an all time favorite too.
There are some good movies that came out of the 70's like The Sting.
Good luck with your search.
I bet that movie is even more funny now. I would love to watch it again.
You should watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Again. It got more funny as I got older.
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