Star Trek 2: The Chest of Khan is being rereleased in September:

http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/star-trek/266760/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-to-be-re-released-in-theaters

Still debating if I'm going to go see it. 2 hours in a seat at a theatre is kind of iffy for me. Especially with all those Star Wars fans you know are going to show up and be annoying.

Starwars

True. That does describe what I was feeling when watching it very well :D

Back To The Future 1-3 ARE timeless classics IMO. Never watch one without the others, it's a great trilogy to blaze through.

Oldies I'm looking forward to seeing, Battleship Potemkin from 1925. I have the bluray sitting here. Just need to crack it open.

Not quite what the thread is for, but I'm looking forward to watching some old movies again with my kids who will be seeing them for the first time. A few months ago my 9 year old son and I watched the original 1968 Planet of the Apes. He loved it and asked if there were other really old movies that are good. I went through a bunch of my favorites and so far he's most interested in Jaws, Spartacus and Predator.

Vertigo and a few other Hitchcock films i either missed or was too young to remember.

Thanks for reminding me that I have to watch Blade Runner. I know.

You're crazy. #2 is a very good. #3 is ok.

Everyone knows that movies made after 1979 cannot be considered classics, they are just movies that are a little bit older but really good.


I watched 12 Angry Men for the first time a few weeks ago. I loved it. It's not for everyone but I found it surprisingly compelling.
I totally agreed. Tried watching it a few days ago. Got about 40 minutes into. I had aged 18 months.

In my to-do list I've had quite a lot of obscure and quirky movies which seem to have a cult following (some are considered good, some bad, some I don't know):

Eraserhead
Naked Lunch (I've seen parts of it, but not the whole movie yet)
The Machinist
Banlieue 13 Ultimatum (I loved the first (French) movie, so need to see the sequel; the American remake was stupid)
Lady Snowblood 1-2
Chocolate (a Thai martial arts movie from 2008)
Grave of the Fireflies (not sure if there are two separate movies of this, one with live actors and one animated?)
Metropolis (1927)
1984
Salo (120 Days Of Sodom)
Savage (2009)
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Phantasm horror movies
Suicide Club 1-2
etc.

Then there are lots of Japanese violent (horror?) movies where I've gathered courage to watch, but maybe also felt what is the point if their main point is try to just shock me with graphic violence. I recall watching glimpses of one, seeing a scene of woman's nipples being cut off, and thought "OK! I think I have seen enough!". :D

Not sure if all these belong to this group

Ichi the Killer
Audition
etc.

I like the phychological horror, but not necessarily graphic violence.

*sigh* but lol that was good :)

Have you seen The Host? I thought it was excellent. It's Korean though not Japanese, and it does qualify as horror I think (well it's a monster film and the monster kills people in awful ways), but it's pretty light on the violence from what I remember.

which one?

Lady Snowblood has been filmed?! :-O Of course, there is Tarantino's ripoff Kill Bill, which was alright. Unless the violence is too nasty, my interest has been piqued.

There's these series of DVDs coming out here in Brazil called Cinema Samurai and Cinema Yakuza, each edition comes with 6 various classic japanese movies about the themes and I'd love to get my hands on them. The problem is that they're fairly expensive each and there are already a bunch of volumes of each (the Samurai one alone has 5 volumes, I think).

I'm not entirely sure about what are all the movies in those collections, but I know there's a lot of good stuff in there.

Loong time ago! No idea if they are any good, but it might be indeed I got to know them due to the Kill Bill movies, now that I think about it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158714/?ref_=nv_sr_1

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072157/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcTP7YWPayU

But good to know there is also an older version (and maybe even an earlier before that, a BBC TV version?). It is a bit like I consider the 80s version for "Little Shop of Horrors" as the classic movie, even if it is apparently also a remake.