I saw Naked Lunch when I was 10...don't really remember it much.
I would say to me classics predate 1989...which reminds me of Runaway which was supposed to be what Terminator was..

Great era/genre of movie making right there, I liken those movies to alot of Samurai films.

Oh yea that reminds me, the entire http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227912/

There is a condensed and a longer mini series version. Go for the mini series in its entirety. Truly an epic. And those battle scenes are just amazing! :toughninja:

Some trivia: I read at the time that it's a remake of the French film "Wages of Fear". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wages_of_Fear

While a bad film by what I have a heard, has anyone seen Stars Wars the Holiday special?

Soylent Green (1973)
Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson('s final film).

The Day the Earth Stood Still ( the fifties version
The last man on earth
Birth of a nation

A Clockwork Orange... is all you need...

LOL, no. Have to disagree there.

Check out some obscure classics like:

The Man Who Would Be King

Little Big Man

Dillinger

Being There

Papillon

Wag The Dog (not too old)

One, Two, Three

Amadeus (Not really obscure, but alot have never seen this movie. Milos best work)

etc.

Amazing work of cinema for the time. You see stuff made 20 years after it that doesn't reach the same quality.

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
The Time Machine (1960)
Jason and the Argonauts
Yojimbo
Seven Samurai
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)(1978)
Runaway.... Just to see what people thought would have been better than Terminator at the time.
Brazil
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Prodigal Son

Great films.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Conan the Destroyer (1984)
Masters of the Universe (1987)

Masters of the Universe is actually a pretty terrible movie, but I like it because it's campy.

Conan the Barbarian is one of my favs of all time so many good scenes. And the sound track is so good by Porus Basil, I think.

Conan the Destroyer, on the other hand is such a steaming pile of crap.

Fun facts:
The Conan movie series was orginaly slated to be an on going epic, something similar to the Bond films. (info from the extras on the collector's dvd)

Gerry Lopez is better known as a pro surfer but played the roll Subotai, the archer rouge type in Conan the Barbarian.

Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan, was pen pals w/ HP Lovecraft and is credited w/ creating the sword n sorcery genre. At roughly the same time I believe Tolkien was creating his world of high fantasy as well. Alot of people say he was pretty crazy too. But hey, who's not?

Conan the Destroyer is entertaining if you don't take it seriously.

ya I was being harsh. It is just going from the serious atmosphere of Barbarian to the reader's digest version in Destroyer, was so jarring.

Wilt Chamberlin and grace jones are tight though

I never took Conan the Barbarian seriously either

"The treasure of the Sierra Madre"
"Rear Window"
"Marathon Man" amongst others...

The Man with the Iron Mask and NOT the version with Leonardo DiCrapio

Kansas City Bomber (1972)
Raquel Welch

This is what a healthy young woman looks like.

I was gonna quote all the movies I saw that I liked but there are just too many. So I'm gonna stick with saying:

The Man Who Would Be King
Blade Runner
The Man with No Name trilogy
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Jeremiah Johnson
Dr. Strangelove

Probably a lot more that I'm forgetting, but that's good enough for now.

The Bad Seed - A black and white horror film from '56. Great movie with an unexpected plot.

Whoa!

I thought I was the only one on earth still alive who saw that! The only caveat to this one is that you' better have your listening ears on...it's a mile a minute banter

As for a classic that I haven't mentioned in a while, how about The Longest Day? That film can truly b called epic.

But, to me, I think retro is now the 80's, so here's a link to some goodies (subjective) from then...

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/80s-best-movies.html

All of Costners post-apoc movies

*blinks* Well its interesting to see such a long thread sparked off my nativity *blinks* I'm going to have to look through some of these movies (after I get my hands one the Dark Crystal and Labyrinth) Some of these really seem really unique and something 'new' is always interesting

PS- thanks Zak for calling me out

If early 80s is retro now, then Scarface and Road Warrior are good. Of course, since they're so popular, I imagine most of you have seen them.