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I have somehow never seen It's A Wonderful Life, Mr Smith Goes To Washington was great though

 

Go watch it. It's incredible.

 

Movies like It's A Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington are important to watch at least once if you are serious about movies, but they are far too cheesy and antiquated to be enjoyed compared to a lot of other older films.

 

Another truly incredible movie

 

Lost Horizon might be my personal favorite Capra, but It's a Wonderful Life is so stellar. I don't mind cheesiness in art, and a lot of what some might call cheesy I find more to be an earnest sentimentality. Which, if too overt or rallied behind a cause I'm apathetic about, can be too much. But It's a Wonderful Life earns every second.

 

Lost Horizon I just couldn't get behind. It came off so lumbering and stiff. I should give it another shot.

Have you seen You Can't Take It with You or Lady for a Day?

 

Not yet. Though come to think of it Arsenic might be my favorite Capra now that I remember it.

 

On this topic, what're everyone's thoughts on The Sound of Music? I did not grow up watching it and I can only assume I wouldn't like it now.

 

Never seen it myself

 

I missed out on/neglected a lot of the classics growing up. I really need to make up for lost time

 

YCTIwY is pretty much the peak of the "one big kooky family" type. Lots of fun and very charming. And Lady for a Day is surprisingly odd for him. Just a wonderful world of oddballs and ruffians in every corner of the story.

It's not as good as it's original messianic reception. It's also way better than the people who shit on it now would admit. Incredible song score. Beautiful cinematography. Worth the watch as long as you aren't expecting a My Fair Lady/West Side Story level masterpiece

 

Just read this entire thread and Halloween is a masterpiece and holds up fantastically well imo. I watched it again last fall and was impressed all over again.

Keeping with the horror theme, The Invitation was so boring and no better than any of the c-list horror on Netflix. Don't breathe was also not good.

 

I loved The Invitation

 

I'm a fan of slow burners so I was waiting patiently and the payoff wasn't worth the wait at all for me. I root for LMG so I was hyped to like it but oh well.

 

some great songs, haven't watched in a while but I'm not sure how the Nazi plotline would sit with me, I imagine not well

 

Wait...why?

 

the love story with Rolfe was what I was thinking about, he was Hitler youth right? I know that was sometimes conscription but still I could be wrong, either way 16 Going on 17 is still great

 

Yeah he is a Nazi. But I think that's more about innocence vs. corrpution, tbh. The movie is very much not pro-Nazi. Haha

 

People bad talk The Sound of Music? This is news to me. I think it's as wonderful now as it was when I was a kid.

 

I'm sure most dont care about Call of Duty, but Modern Warfare 3 is the best in the series

 

How so? The multiplayer was a mess, campaign was average and the co-op was half baked.

Though, I would agree that it's probably the best out of BO2, Ghost, AW, IW.

 

Well multiplayer I think it's the best. Campaign is just okay and I didn't touch Spec Ops that much, But I had the most fun playing MW3 on multiplayer. Mainly because I really liked Specialist, Face Off, and the switch from streaks being strictly kills to also playing the objective. While it still had some guns that were better than others, they actually buffed guns to make them more competitive. I also really excelled with the really bad guns like the Dragunov, AA-12, and MG36. My favorite class from any CoD was my P90 class because that was the class I could just melt people with. I just have a lot of better memories with that game over the other ones. If Black Ops II had better maps, then that probably would have been my favorite, but the maps is what holds that game back (and the awful connection)

 

The MP to me just felt like a bad copy/paste of MW2. I really enjoyed the infected mode and played that a ton, but everything else just felt off to me. But I can definitely see what you enjoy it!

 

Watching a movie more than once within a month or so on purpose confuses the fuck out of me

 

See I never got the copy/paste aspect because it added a lot, even if some of it was only in this game, like Kill Confirmed, Point Streaks, Team Defender (lol), Infected, Drop Zone, Recon, Stalker, Weapon Proficiency, Face Off, it was the first that had a level system for co-op. But I can see why some found it flat though