http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm What Qualifies as a Classic? Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:04:46 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm People throw around the term "Classic" randomly in movie generally, and in horror particularly. You can look at the Universal Horror, Hammer Horror, etc. and know for sure that you're talking about a classic... but I've heard movies less than 5 y[...] Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:04:46 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm#5 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm To me a classic has to have some "age on it so to speak" but there are movies that in my opinion are instant classics. The First Nightmare on Elm street was an instant classic. To me a classic makes you remember, it becomes part of the publics Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:04:46 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm#28 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm I think of the classics as movies that either started or redefined a trend in the genre. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:04:46 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm#800 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm In literature a classic is just a book 20 years old or older Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:04:46 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm#831 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm Yeah, but I don't like calling something a classic just cuz its old.  Alot of old stuff sucks -- even books.  Did you ever read Silas Marner -- if not, don't. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:04:46 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm#834 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm I agree with Pumpboy that just being old doesn't make something a classic.  I think for something to be a classic a it has to be widely appreciated or at least appreciated among people well-schooled in the particulars of the genre in question, and it h Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:04:46 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm#873 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm yea but whether or not something is good, well done or before for its time doesn't really make it a classic. I think people assume classic= good, amazing, awesome, but I think its just old. And yes you are right pumpboy some classics suck classi Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:04:46 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm#896 http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm So Molly's saying we should use a word like definitive or seminal  to describe the greats, not classic, cuz classic just means old, like antique.  Good point Molly. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:04:46 GMT http://ossuary.best-horror-movies.com/orca/topic/What-Qualifies-as-a-Classic-.htm#898