2006-08-23 08:17:17 · 16 answers · asked by JunAlo 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Loved it then, love it now. It isn't overlaid with a ton of meaningless (but annoying) four letter words. There is depth to the characters, and the plot and underlying subplots are classic. So let's 'play it again, Sam....'
2006-08-23 08:24:10 · answer #1 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What amazed me the first time I saw the movie (which was only a few years ago) was how timeless it really is. You don't have to adjust to any outdated speech patterns or diction, the humor works as well now as it did then, and the plot and themes are still accessible even today; it's lively, it's spirited and fresh, and as someone who's slept through more than his share of movies old and new, Casablanca kept me awake and along for the ride all the way through. If Casablanca didn't exist back then, and it was made, just as it is, right now, it would still be considered a great movie...I don't think you can say that about many of the other movies we consider "classics." It would take a moron to not appreciate what a feat it is to make a movie that still "works" today--not as a nostalgia piece or a cultural artifact, but as a movie, as it did sixty-four years ago. Lets see your crappy "Snakes on a Planes" and "High School Musicals" do that.
2006-08-23 15:39:02 · answer #2 · answered by themikejonas 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's always a risk when a film is labelled "classic" that it becomes a sacred cow, impervious to criticism, and then when one finally actually sees it it turns out to be fair-to-middling (or worse).
That's what I feared when I finally saw the film last year...but I loved it. Claude Rains alone makes it worth seeing.
2006-08-23 15:24:16 · answer #3 · answered by -j. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great movie. Considered the best romantic drama film ever. Always in the top five of greatest movies of all time.
2006-08-23 15:22:37 · answer #4 · answered by Glenn N 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the best movies of all time...it has a script, acting, good guys, bad guys,(sort of) Humphrey Bogart, Nazis, Ingrid Bergman,
It is one my 4 favourites of all time along with "The good, the Bad, and The Ugly", "Scarface", "Cool Hand Luke"
P.S. Asian Topic....Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler were in "Gone with the Wind"..sorry
2006-08-23 16:16:07 · answer #5 · answered by DukeDxBlue 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's my all time favorite movie.Set against the backdrop of WW II, it has romance, a hint of infidelity, great actors, a great song, intrigue. Over all, a classic for the ages.
2006-08-23 16:42:23 · answer #6 · answered by brainstorm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ITS there on Second place in AFI's 100 YEARS 100 MOVIES list !
2006-08-23 15:29:48 · answer #7 · answered by rockinghard 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its brilliant. Look at the period when it came out. It was an extraordinary piece of filmmaking.
2006-08-23 15:23:08 · answer #8 · answered by mistress_piper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is easily one of my favorite old movies - and a lot of it has worked its way into American culture (and rightfully so).
2006-08-23 15:23:05 · answer #9 · answered by TJ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Years & years I have been listening about this movie !
I don't know when to watch it ?
2006-08-23 15:23:33 · answer #10 · answered by citizen high 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋