This is Spinal Tap http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/

I probably haven't seen this movie in over 20 years and I found it today on TCM's On Demand Channel. I was shocked at all the actors I saw in the first 20 minutes of that film who later went on to bigger things and at least one old school actor in Patrick MacNee. You have Patrick MacNee as the head of a record company, Billy Crystal as the head Mime waiter at a party, Dana Carvey as another Mime waiter, Fran Drescher as the record company party hostess, Bruno Kirby as the Limo Driver, and Ed Begley Jr. as one of the original drummers. These are all I saw but I would not be a bit surprised if I missed a few.
Since it had been at least twenty years since I last saw it in its entirety I wanted to see if I would still like it and if it hadn't been for me having to leave unexpectedly I would have definitely watched it all the way through. For me anyways the storyline and the script still worked and I am looking forward to finishing the movie and seeing who else pops up unexpectedly.

What movie have you seen after a long period of time that you were surprised who was in it or that you felt still held up surprisingly well after so many years?


Wheels

Excellent question! For me, the movie that comes first to my mind is the 2 hour pilot for the original Battlestar Galactica. As some of you may recall, the 2 hour pilot for the original BSG tv show was actually released in movie theatres first before it was aired on tv.

Anyway, I saw the pilot again about 3 years ago which would have been 2009 and the previous time I saw it in its entirety was 1978! I was actually surprised by how good most of the performances were and the cheese factor wasn't nearly as high as I was anticipating. I had completely forgotten that a very young and quite hot Jane Seymour was in it.

1941

Seen it on TV a couple of times, it isn't even on sale on DVD here!
I downloaded it a while back and I will watch it soon!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078723/

Two good choices.

Jane was still in her twenty's when Battlestar Galactica was being filmed and she was definitely beautiful. IIRC, She filmed the James bond movie "Live and Let Die" in the same time frame.

Been a while since I saw 1941 but it's one of those movies I always watch when I see it's going to be on TV.


Wheels

Kelly's Heros. Of course.

"Stop sending out them negative waves."

Not suprised per say, but still moved by one of my favorite movies that I just watched again the other night.

The Mission

Probably my favorite movie I've seen Robert DeNiro in. Then you have Jeremy Irons and a younger Liam Neeson. And of course Ennio Morricone's score including the annointed "Gabriel's Oboe" theme.

I just discovered a new favorite scene and dialogue in the movie: The Catholic emmissary goes to visit Jeremy Iron's mission in the jungle at the Jesuit priest's request. The emmissary is taken back at how beautiful and successful it is and how the people's live's have been changed and enriched. But there are unfortunate political decisions already made in the emissary's mind that favor the interests of Spain and Portugal, specifically with the slave trade, and the successful Christian missions actually threaten these faction's success and fortune. (The decision to abandon the Jesuit priest's mission above the falls in the jungle means access to these lands and people by the slavers and certain death for the people)

The emmissary asks Jeremy Iron's character, "Why can't they just go back into the jungle". Irons replies "Because the mission is their home, they live here". Then two little children come up to Irons and speak. He interacts and talks to them. The emissary then asks, "What did they just say"? Irons says, "They said they do not want to go back into the jungle. They say the devil lives there". The emmissary asks, "And what did you tell them"? Irons replies, "I told them that I'd stay with them."

Beautiful writing and acting. With all of the failures and sins of man toward man, political and religious leaders acting not on behalf of what is right and certainly not what God instructs, them giving in to the selfish agendas of other political and religious-political entities, you have this little Jesuit priest behaving more like Christ in this one moment than any one of these other "official" religious individuals and so called "good" Catholic political men of ingenuine stature.

Great movie, very sad. Beautiful music and acting.

Our Man Flint (got 3/4 recorded) tomorrow?

WC

Live and Let Die was in 1973 and I believe Jane was only about 20 years old. Needless to say, Roger Moore was much older than her.

Zardoz with Sean Connery...

And my eyes thank me every day for it.

Silver Streak still hold up well today imo

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075223/