I saw that recently, and after having seen a few old movies which put modern movies to shame I was expecting quite alot from the #2 movie of all time.
but it was no better than a #102 movie of all time.
Although it was a good movie and I finally found out where all those saying come from like "heres looking at you kid" and there are many of them in this movie, i though it was just an average old movie, nothing special.
im thinking it just got overly popular because it came out right after the war and it was fresh on peoples mind, what boggles my mind is how it was voted #2 50 years later.

3/22/2006 5:23:29 PM

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"im thinking it just got overly popular because it came out right after the war"

What war would that be?

3/22/2006 5:25:26 PM

back then i guess a bunch of movies sucked really bad so i guess gwtw was good or something

3/22/2006 5:27:16 PM

vietnam war







wwII of course,

3/22/2006 5:27:23 PM

well lets see

which war was a little more than 50 yrs ago?



gone with the wind was made before WWII

[Edited on March 22, 2006 at 5:28 PM. Reason : oops]

3/22/2006 5:27:30 PM

I didn't realize WWII ended in 1939.

3/22/2006 5:29:39 PM

yeah, 1939, ok right near the war

3/22/2006 5:29:56 PM

Please teach me more about film and history.

3/22/2006 5:30:12 PM

well they didnt have daylight saving till 1953 so technically the war started in 1936


uhh hem, cough

[Edited on March 22, 2006 at 5:31 PM. Reason : .]


but that doesnt matter, the subject in the movie was the war, as if it was on the tail end of it


and one question when did the war for europe start?

[Edited on March 22, 2006 at 5:32 PM. Reason : .]

3/22/2006 5:30:50 PM

I believe Gone With The Wind was the first movie shot in color (at least presented in color)

3/22/2006 5:34:42 PM

3/22/2006 5:35:03 PM

The fact that the first talkie was only 12 years earlier kinda puts it into perspective to me...just the sheer change in production value/scale in such a relatively short time is pretty amazing. I find with a lot of classic books and movies you watch they seem kinda cliche or obvious, but a lot the time its because they started trends or have been borrowed from or given homage in subsequent literature/film so much that its hard to realize thats where a lot of things originated.

^^
I thought the Wizard of Oz was the first feature length one, although I believe they were actually shot around the same time using the same camera (there only being so many color film cameras). There were several full color short films for a while.

[Edited on March 22, 2006 at 5:45 PM. Reason : ...]

3/22/2006 5:35:31 PM

The book is better.
I've never been able to stay awake during the movie.

3/22/2006 6:51:59 PM

Hattie McDaniel (Mammy) was the first african american to win an academy award, and it took some 20 years after that for another to get one.

"Here's looking at you kid" is from Casablanca. Shouldn't we be talking about the Civil War since this is Gone with the Wind?

Casablanca >>> Gone with the Wind

3/22/2006 7:09:08 PM

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"heres looking at you kid"

i could've sworn that was casablanca

3/22/2006 7:11:44 PM

I'm so fucking confused by this thread.

1. I'm not sure if it's a joke or not. See pointss 2 and 3.
2. If it's a joke, meh. The End.
3. If it's not, see questions 4, 5, 6.
4. What does WWII have to do with the Civil War, other than the fact that they're both...um...wars?
5. When does someone say "Here's looking at you, kid" in Gone with the Wind?
6. Is this thread actually about Casablanca?

3/22/2006 7:15:17 PM

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"#2 movie of all time."

on the AFI list?

Yeah, this thread's about Casablanca.

What a n00b.

3/22/2006 7:18:12 PM

WOULDN'T IT BE FUNNY IF THIS MOTHERFUCKER IS TALKING ABOUT CASABLANCA

3/22/2006 7:19:25 PM

zings

3/22/2006 7:57:16 PM

OH ShiNAanigas My bad i dont know what i was thinking, i mean casablanca

what ever they both sound like the same,

my point is still very valid

3/22/2006 7:58:07 PM

ahaha

3/22/2006 7:59:17 PM

casablanca
gone with the wind

you're right

when i say them quick

they do sound similar

3/22/2006 8:00:29 PM

I WAS COMPLETELY WRONG

BUT MY POINT STILL STANDS

3/22/2006 8:02:05 PM

I don't think your point is valid at all.

Then again, I didn't confuse a color Civil War epic with a black and white movie about a nightclub.

3/22/2006 8:02:42 PM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089759/

3/22/2006 8:05:58 PM

Please I have a match tonight.

3/22/2006 8:11:56 PM

casablanca is a great fucking movie. i can't really think how it might be revolutionary, though.

3/22/2006 9:02:34 PM

^^^

Quote :

"Linda Griffiths .... Computech Apollonia James"

3/23/2006 12:26:02 AM

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"Then again, I didn't confuse a color Civil War epic with a black and white movie about a nightclub."

OH SNAP!


Casablanca is a good movie.

3/23/2006 12:27:43 AM

whatever, casablanca is all hype, you all think its good cause the AFI told you so
its a good movie no more,

by the way this makes my first point about being made after the war right

3/23/2006 12:42:43 AM

THE LIBERAL MEDIA

ps, casablanca was released in 1942

SO YOU ARE STILL WRONG

[Edited on March 23, 2006 at 12:45 AM. Reason : ````]

3/23/2006 12:44:07 AM

lafta is a chunk of shit

I don't give half a fuck what AFI or anyone else thinks. I've seen the movie, and I like it because it is a good movie.

Also, WWII did not end before 1942.

3/23/2006 12:47:51 AM

i liked the matrix but i dont think its #2 movie of all time
that my only point,it oughta be spectacular to be #2

final word: casablanca, nice date movie, ronny, history nazi

3/23/2006 12:58:27 AM

hahahaha

dude just compared the matrix to casablanca

and is somehow suggesting the matrix wins because it is more, what was the word he used, "Spectacular"

3/23/2006 12:59:45 AM

my movie iq is second to none in tww, i'll make a list of the top 100 movies so ya'll can finally know what you should like

ok lets start with #1

#1 - Ben Hur

3/23/2006 1:13:40 AM

second to none eh?

i think your movie iq is closer to none, rather than second to it

3/23/2006 1:16:43 AM

this is the funniest thing ive read all day

3/23/2006 1:22:15 AM

i hope he keeps listing sword & sandal pics

~

3/23/2006 1:24:30 AM

yeah i realised something was terribly wrong when someone said a black lady won an oscar in that movie, i was thinking there was no black women in the movie, let alone on enough to win an oscar

3/23/2006 1:25:01 AM

im not going to check, because i dont really care

but it would be hillarious if it didnt even win an oscar

3/23/2006 1:27:01 AM

Nothin' says lovin' like an epic that loses its narrative verve right when it should be peaking. Great choice!

^^^ I'm hoping for the Liz Taylor "Cleopatra".

[Edited on March 23, 2006 at 1:28 AM. Reason : d]

3/23/2006 1:27:15 AM

casablanca won 3 oscars

picture, screenplay, direction

3/23/2006 1:29:11 AM

3/23/2006 1:30:10 AM

this thread is dangerously close to 2 pages

3/23/2006 1:31:35 AM

indeed

3/23/2006 1:32:01 AM

This thread LITERALLY killed me.

3/23/2006 1:33:54 AM

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"well they didnt have daylight saving till 1953 so technically the war started in 1936"

AHAHHAHAHAHAH

3/23/2006 1:35:32 AM

WOW.




just...WOW.

3/23/2006 2:26:20 AM

the tennesse stud was long n' mean

3/23/2006 2:38:52 AM

IDYIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

3/23/2006 4:29:21 AM