Cinema–Kinejo

[Warbodog]

Are there any classic movies referenced in Red Dwarf that you feel you should probably get around to checking out one day – for the reference or for your own enrichment – but more likely won’t bother without more motivation?

Or ones you want to say that you have seen and enjoyed?

This successful thread is the solution you didn’t know you needed.

Yeah, I haven’t got any shows going at the moment. I’m going to try some of the ‘Kryten’ ones.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I have always intended to watch Easy Rider and Rebel Without a Cause. But I just haven’t. 

[Flap Jack]

Casablanca seems like the obvious one. I have seen It’s A Wonderful Life! and Blade Runner (not that Blade Runner is necessarily old enough to qualify as “classic”). Both of them were pretty good!

It’ll probably be a while before I feel the urge to look up Ishtar or the Doug McClure filmography.

[Dave]

It’ll probably be a while before I feel the urge to look up Ishtar or the Doug McClure filmography.

Yes, this.

Rebel Without A Cause is one of the few referenced ones I can think of that I haven’t seen but would like to at some point.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

(not that Blade Runner is necessarily old enough to qualify as “classic”) filmography.

It’s 40 years old. What’s your threshold for qualification?

[Warbodog]

The Wild One was pretty fun, even if I admittedly lost some interest in the second half (after he said the thing). The Red Dwarf takeaway was that it was funny how Kryten wanted to dress like and “be” him, like an excited child.

I went through a phase of watching tons of old films a few years back and really enjoy the kind of tame, stagey, pre-70s style.

It’s a Wonderful Life didn’t enthral me as much as I’d hoped, but maybe it’ll get there. Casablanca did nothing for me as a complete non-romantic. I like Citizen Kane, adore 2001. Love Blade Runner in the really-elaborate-music-video sense.

[Flap Jack]

  It’s 40 years old. What’s your threshold for qualification?

Well, it was only 27 years old when Red Dwarf referenced it, but also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Hollywood_cinema

[Warbodog]

Well, it was only 27 years old when Red Dwarf referenced it

Near contemporary with The Last Day and debatable Thanks for the Memory Implants.

[si]

It’s A Wonderful Life is a festive must, and I only discovered it as a direct result of following the adventures of the Crimson short one. And, of course, having made myself familiar with the movie, the Bedford Falls plot of the Dwarf novels makes much more sense. 

[Nick R]

I finally, very belatedly, watched It’s a Wonderful Life when it was shown on Christmas Eve two months ago. It’s a good film! And I would have watched it much sooner if I’d known that it features a cool raven.
Looking through Ridley’s (of this parish) Letterboxd list of films referenced by Red Dwarf, sorting by popularity and average rating:
https://letterboxd.com/ridley/list/the-red-dwarf-filmography/detail/by/popular/
The most famous ones I haven’t seen are:

* The Sound of Music
* The Elephant Man
* The Bride of Frankenstein
* Godzilla
* Now, Voyager
* Gone With the Wind
* Rebel Without a Cause
* Easy Rider
* Friday the 13th
* Birdman of Alcatraz

I also haven’t seen Kubrick’s Lolita or any of the Shakespeare adaptations included in that list. But the Red Dwarf lines are referring to those as books/plays, rather than to specific film versions.

[Warbodog]

“Swivel on it, punk” was never a quote then, but a Kryten original.

[Ridley]

I’m on 41/95 apparently.

Only seen Godzilla and Bride of Frankenstein of

* The Sound of Music

* The Elephant Man

* The Bride of Frankenstein

* Godzilla

* Now, Voyager

* Gone With the Wind

* Rebel Without a Cause

* Easy Rider

* Friday the 13th

* Birdman of Alcatraz

But now aghast that Knickers hasn’t watched those two specifically!

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