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Poll Suggestion: Movies from the Past Worthy of an Unchanged Revival
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Some movies from past decades were successful because they were genuinely great - and they still hold up by today’s standards. These are the kind of classics that could be brought back to the big screen today with little or no alteration, because their stories, characters, and dialogue still work perfectly. Excluded are historical movies, literature films and musical/opera.
Which of these classics would you most like to see revived unchanged?
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I have to get a little hard in criteria.
Before 1990s, at least a rating of 6/10, less than 30.000 ratings. No historical or literature films, musicals or opera. The dialogues should be good, which means no movie that only consists of snipits of vokabulary or screaming. The movies should have good dialogue or be at least complete silent movies. Historicalalso means biograpy and documentation.
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TheOldJalapenoman
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22 days ago
I have been doing a personal marathon of Audrey Hepburn films the past few days (she has always been one of my favorites). Two of her films meet your criteria as being nearly perfect movies that could be shown today without cutting or alteration and be successful:
Roman Holiday
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Other films that I believe can stand the test of time:
The Great Escape
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Butterflies are Free
I don't know how you define "historical." The Great Escape was made to chronicle a prison escape that took place only eighteen years in the past of the filming (so still a recent event for the filmmakers).
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