40 years from now...

[Tweek]

What movies from say... 1980-now do you think will be playing on channels like AMC?

[Tayzlor]

Raging Bull
Fargo
Amadeus
Leaving Las Vegas
Magnolia
American Beauty
Titanic
Do the Right Thing
Thelma & Louise
Unforgiven
Schindler's List
L.A. Confidential

[Hucksta G]

American Beauty
Goodfellas
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Schindlers List
Saving Private Ryan
Raging Bull
The Shawshank Redemption
Gladiator
Stand By Me
Dances With Wolves
The Green Mile
Glory
Braveheart
The Silence of the Lambs
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Good Will Hunting
Forrest Gump
Platoon
The Shining
Blade Runner
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Empire Strikes Back
A Beautiful Mind

[p1phillips]

Probably the same ones they're playing now!

That's an exaggeration, but it always seems to me as if the movie classic channels have rarely broadcast anything made after 1960. I've had access to such channels for just over 10 years now, and the most recent they've gotten is Poltergeist (1982).

In forty years time I'd say we'd be seeing a lot of what Tayzlor had on their list, as well as perhaps A Beautiful Mind, Erin Brockovich, Shakespeare In Love, Forrest Gump. I guess I'm thinking more along the lines of "feelgood" films.

But who knows? In forty years time, stuff like Con Air and Bad Boys could be considered the height of cinema! I'll be in my sixties by then, so I hope I'm still into action films then!

[Hannibal21]

Raging Bull
Unforgiven
Forrest Gump
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
The Age of Innocence
Fargo
Titanic
Dances with Wolves
Born on the Fourth of July
Goodfellas
Braveheart
Glory

[Cronos]

The Shining
Shawshank Redemption
Scarface
Dances With Wolves
Blade Runner
Schindlers List
Lord Of The Rings
Gladiator

[micah4]

American Beauty
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
The Shining
Collateral
The Usual Suspects
Shawshank
Last of the Mohicans
L.A. Confidential
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Dances With Wolves
Schindler's List
Titanic
Mystic River
Silence of the Lambs
The Matrix
Spidey 1+2
Jerry McGuire
Road to Perdition
As Good as it Gets
Unforgiven
Apollo 13
Forrest Gump
Seven
Gladiator
A Beautiful Mind

[bigred760]

Originally posted by p1phillips
Probably the same ones they're playing now!

That's an exaggeration, but it always seems to me as if the movie classic channels have rarely broadcast anything made after 1960. I've had access to such channels for just over 10 years now, and the most recent they've gotten is Poltergeist (1982).

In forty years time I'd say we'd be seeing a lot of what Tayzlor had on their list, as well as perhaps A Beautiful Mind, Erin Brockovich, Shakespeare In Love, Forrest Gump. I guess I'm thinking more along the lines of "feelgood" films.

But who knows? In forty years time, stuff like Con Air and Bad Boys could be considered the height of cinema! I'll be in my sixties by then, so I hope I'm still into action films then!


I don't know about you, but I've seen several movies on Turner Classic Movies that were made way before 1960: Errol Flynn movies - Captain Blood and Adventures of Robin Hood, Hitchcock movies - North by Northwest, Vertigo, Rope, and many more. AMC has diverted from most classics but I don't like that channel anymore since it went commercial.