Recommend me 50s themed movies

1up · Post by **1up** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:51 pm

Just realised how much I enjoy the 50s style in EVERYTHING

The theme in games like Bioshock and Fallout but also movies like Grease, the new indiana jones movie and back to the future, where theres these stereotype characters like the jock, greaser etc.

know any good movies that carries the 50s theme thats worth watching?

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:57 pm

Mars Attacks. It's awesome.

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:07 pm

Movies from the 50s.

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:07 pm

Angel Heart and The Man Who Wasn't There.
Both kind of unconventional though.

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:40 pm

Not really a movie but the Twilight Zone is a good sci-fi series. I suppose you could pick up some DVD collection.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:42 pm

Iron Giant.

hermosaguy · Post by **hermosaguy** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:16 pm

Pixel_Outlaw wrote:Not really a movie but the Twilight Zone is a good sci-fi series. I suppose you could pick up some DVD collection.

Best purchase I ever made off of Amazon. Have been chipping away at it a few episodes at a time, and still many more to go. I cannot recommend this highly enough, buy it now!

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:02 pm

30's are way better than the 50's.

See China Town and Maltese Falcon for reference.

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:04 pm

CMoon wrote:30's are way better than the 50's.

oh god yes! im a little fan of the Noir 30s crime fiction. somehting about that time is just kinda cool.

trivial · Post by **trivial** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:10 pm

But Kiss Me Deadly had a setting contemporary to its production in 1955, late in the history of the genre, and is unsurpassed IMO. Prompted a shift in narrative scholarship: the macguffin superseded the deus ex machina. God died and was finally dealt with. Coffin is come to Dunsinane.

1up · Post by **1up** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:08 pm

im not really interested in movies FROM the 50s, as they dont usually carry these stereotype characters,... well maybe rebel without a cause...

Iron Giant, absolutely love that one

Also, stephen kings IT is also pretty awesome with the part when theyre kids.

Twillight Zone might be a great idea. I remember watching some on tv when I was a kid

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:08 pm

FIDO - the most charming and familyfriendly zombie movie ever!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457572/

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:10 pm

I was thinking of American Grafitti, but that takes place in the early 60s, not the 50s.

t0yrobo · Post by **t0yrobo** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:11 pm

Stephen King's Christine. Good flick, and my girlfriends named after the car .

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:26 pm

The first thing I think of when I think of stuff set in the 50s, but not made in the 50s, is Happy Days, but that's TV rather than a movie.