# The Sting (1973), 50 years later; movies that’ve held up well **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [March 19, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359 "2023-03-19T14:47:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/41 "2023-03-20T00:52:14Z")
I thought for sure you were mentioning _From Russia With Love_. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/42 "2023-03-20T01:04:40Z")
Well, I really like the movie, but it has two of the biggest plot holes in the history of Cinema (Only challenged by _The Eiger Sanction_) that kinda take some shine off it with reviewing. But yeah, it’s always fun to watch. ---
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/43 "2023-03-20T01:05:39Z")
“Is it Mary?” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/44 "2023-03-20T01:17:42Z")
No, that is what the [wind cries](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AyVXGHxHec). ---
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/45 "2023-03-20T01:20:05Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > > > Yet it fits really well, and spurred a revival of ragtime in the 70s. One of my cousins was a concert pianist at the time and I remember him playing The Entertainer in his shows because of this film. > > We had a talent show at my grade school in '75 or '76. Five different kids all performed _The Entertainer_ on the piano. 😉 I remember those days, too. My wife can still play a bit of it. I didn’t know any better at the time, but I remember seeing the movie on TV when I was in my twenties, and realizing it was set in the '30s, not the ragtime era. The Joplin piano music seems out of place to me. They could have had very good soundtrack with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Bing Crosby, Bennie Goodman, Fats Waller, and Louis Armstrong. ---
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/46 "2023-03-20T01:22:18Z")
[“She certainly drinks like one.”](https://youtu.be/ySqec8WrEQQ) “Get up, that’s no way to go into a speakeasy. That’s the way you come out.” ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/47 "2023-03-20T01:23:19Z")
I’m still surprised, having seen it again recently, how the 1920s version of ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ is still amazing. Oh wait…not 70’s or older, but 70s. Hmmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/48 "2023-03-20T01:26:43Z")
May as well mention _Casablanca_ at over 80. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/49 "2023-03-20T01:31:01Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Yeah, the whole plan falls apart if Lonagan had just asked for clarification on that point. Lonnerman. Linnemin. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/50 "2023-03-20T01:33:37Z")
:: Belch :: btwm ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/51 "2023-03-20T01:41:40Z")
_The Graduate_ (1967) is so good that when I saw it for the first time, I gave it a standing ovation in my living room. That would have been around 2011. It’s held up. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/52 "2023-03-20T01:49:52Z")
“One word: Plastics.” ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/53 "2023-03-20T03:49:14Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > For darn sure it’s easier for any film set in its own past to age better than a film set in its own future. Imagine how a _Sting_ made in 1973 but set 40 years in the then-future, so n 2013, would seem to us now. It will not have aged very well. I’m not so sure. How is _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_ aging? How about the original _Back to the Future_? _The Princess Bride_ will hold up forever. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/54 "2023-03-20T04:10:55Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > I’m not so sure. How is _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_ aging? Based on the reaction of my then 15F and 13M kids who saw it during the COVID lockdown, pretty damn well. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/55 "2023-03-20T04:17:52Z")
My kids are in their 30s but when they were in their teens, it held up pretty well back then. It’s a winner. “_Do you have a kiss for daddy?_” ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/56 "2023-03-20T04:21:12Z")
My Cousin Vinny (1992) holds up pretty well too. “_Oh yeah, you blend._” And it must be seen in the uncut version. F bombs must not be cut out. Especially for the prison scene. “_Oh excuse me but I think a modicum of gratitude would not be out of line here._” ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/57 "2023-03-20T04:21:59Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > _The Princess Bride_ will hold up forever. Most definitely. Anybody want a peanut? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/58 "2023-03-20T04:51:01Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > And it must be seen in the uncut version. F bombs must not be cut out. Especially for the prison scene. [Kids in Mind](https://kids-in-mind.com/) has a rating for the movie but, being from 1992, it is not nearly detailed as much as currently done. For MCV the _Language_ rating is 6 (of 10) with merely, \* Four-letter words abound, in impeccable Brooklynese.\* ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/59 "2023-03-20T05:12:14Z")
For some movies, the swearing is simply swearing for swearing‘s sake. But in My Cousin Vinny it truly adds color, and humor that is lost without it. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sting-1973-50-years-later-movies-that-ve-held-up-well/981359/60 "2023-03-20T07:20:50Z")
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