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What are you watching?

Lobelia B. S-B said:
Might need to go farther back, if it's good stuff you're wantin'. (sniff!)
30s, 40s, 50s, 60s - great stuff then.
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I'd have to say the more recent ones are better. Not RECENT. But not like 100 years ago. Like MCU was amazing. Until 2020. When they made SAM captain america. Everyone knows who it should've been. So I'd say the 2000s to like 2016 were good. Lotr came out in the 2000s which was like the highlight. Also the dark knight came out in the late 2000s too. RIP Heath Ledger. W Joker.

I just watched 10 Things I Hate About You. Bad. But enjoyable. Had like a couple actors I knew.

Next I think I'm gonna watch contact. Or the ring. BUT I WANT SOMEONE TO WATCH IT WITH ME CUZ HORROR MOVIES R MEANT TO BE WATCHED WITH FRIENDS.
 
Lobelia B. S-B said:
(Sniff.)
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LIterally name me one good movie from the 30s to 60s. I didn't even think movies existed back then.


ALSO, I really wanna watch Deadpool. Has anybody here watched Deadpool? Was it good?

I'm also gonna watch the Matrix with my family. I heard it was really good. OH and Logan too.
 
Alexander Scamilton said:
LIterally name me one good movie from the 30s to 60s.
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No thank you. Not with the adjective "good" in there. (sniff) That just opens it up for argument.
I can name dozens and dozens of movies from that time period - many labeled as 'classics' and still watched eagerly by enthusiasts today. But this will not stop some, the moment one is mentioned, from saying "you think THAT is a good movie?" (shiff.) Whether it is or not isn't the point... the point is just to argue.

My suggestion to you is seek them out, and watch some. Determine whether you think them 'good' or not for yourself. They can't be any better or worse than many of the movies already mentioned above - in fact, if understood in the context of the technology and capabilities of filmography of their times, they can be enjoyed all the more,

Watch enough of them, and you'll realize the movies you're seeing today are just retreads of all the old plots and works from before. The technology employed may 'look better' to us (sniff), but that does not make a movie 'good' or 'bad' other than in a very superficial, visual way.

But - as with most youth through history, history is not there to learn from. It's there to ignore. (sniff)
 
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Lobelia B. S-B said:
Might need to go farther back, if it's good stuff you're wantin'. (sniff!)
30s, 40s, 50s, 60s - great stuff then.
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All About Eve
Laura
It Happened One Night
The Women
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Sabrina
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Big Sleep
A Touch of Evil
The Snake Pit
Dial M for Murder
Double Indemnity
Mildred Pierce
The Third Man
The Best Years of Our Lives
A Face in the Crowd
Night of the Hunter
Witness for the Prosecution
Sunset Boulevard
Rules of the Game
Grand Illusion
Marty
Twelve Angry Men
The Seventh Seal
Anatomy of a Murder
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Little Foxes
Jezebel
The Lady Vanishes
Suspicion
Strangers on a Train
Citizen Kane
The 39 Steps
Rear Window

. . . 'Way,'way too many to list, and most of this list is Drama or Noir; I barely touched on Comedy and Science Fiction/Fantasy
 
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Brava! Well said!😄
But - as with most youth through history, history is not there to learn from. It's there to ignore. And, I might add, to denigrate.
 
Deimos said:
omigosh, I forgot to mention LifeBoat.... great movie.
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Well, to be fair you did stick to some fairly specific genres - and you did say there were way too many to list.
Consider The Wizard of Oz, 1939, for example. Many flaws, but a classic and most enjoyable nonetheless.
Or the 1931 Dracula of Bela Lugosi fame, and the many similar movies like it.
On and on we could go. And after them, nothing but retreads...! (Though many retreads are worth watching in their own right.)
"Filmography" today takes an entirely different toolbox and skillset than it did in those days.
We who have experienced it along the way can enjoy it all. Our perspective is simply broader.

Unfortunately, I have not 'seen the world' yet though - only a few countries, and some of those in some of their more dire times,

And, I'm minus a couple teeth here and there too, so no doubt I'm lacking the right chops from which to enjoy movies the way they "should" be enjoyed.
 
Lobelia B. S-B said:
Might need to go farther back, if it's good stuff you're wantin'. (sniff!)
30s, 40s, 50s, 60s - great stuff then.
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I love the classic Universal (and some Hammer) monster horror films from those decades! With the Pluto TV app, I can watch these movies on the Universal Monsters channel for free, usually on a weekly cycle.

Over the last few months, I have enjoyed watching (for many of these, multiple times):

-Frankenstein (1931)
-Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
-Son of Frankenstein (1939)
-The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
-House of Frankenstein (1944)
-Dracula (1931)
-Dracula (Spanish version) (1931)
-Dracula (1979)
-Dracula's Daughter (1936)
-Son of Dracula (1943)
-House of Dracula (1945)
-Brides of Dracula (1960) (Hammer)
-Kiss of the Vampire (1963) (Hammer)
-Curse of the Undead (1959)
-The Wolf Man (1941)
-Curse of the Werewolf (1961) (Hammer)
-The Invisible Man (1933)
-The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
-The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
-The Mummy (1932)
-The Mummy's Hand (1940)
-The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
-Revenge of the Creature (1955)
-Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
-Abbott & Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
-Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
-House of Horrors (1946)
-Night Monster (1942)
-Night Creatures (a.k.a. Captain Clegg) (1962) (Hammer)
-Monster on the Campus (1958)
-Phantom of the Opera (1943)
-Phantom of the Opera (1962) (Hammer)

And the list continues to grow. It's interesting getting to know the "big actors" of the era and seeing them in various roles, and to become more acquainted with these stories. I also love silent films as well, such as the 1925 Phantom of the Opera, the 1912 and 1920 versions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Nosferatu from 1922. Being very much interested in acting myself, I love to study the physical movements and portrayals of the monsters and characters from the classics of the 1920's-40's. The style of acting from back then had a certain quality to it I don't find much in most modern movies these days.
 
Alexander Scamilton said:
i thought they like started in like 1970s
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Well, laddie or lassie or whatever.
Perhaps it might help if you were to be advised the oldest known thing classified as a "film" still having an availability, is the Roundhay Garden Scene, done in the UK on Octoer 14th, 1888. (sniff.)

So you've got a few more years to choose from, than from1970. Now. I know even 1970 is 'ancient history' to you, but I'd like to invite you there and backwards. You just might (sniff) learn something..
 
Alexander Scamilton said:
LIterally name me one good movie from the 30s to 60s. I didn't even think movies existed back then.
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Are you serious?
Casablanca (1942) - constantly referred to as one of the greatest movies of all time
Spartacus (1960)
Forbidden Planet (1957)
Rear Window (1954)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Double Indemnity (1944)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Dracula (1931)
Fury (1936)
You Only Live Once (1937)
Rope (1948)
Dial M For Murder (1954)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Just to name an extreme few. I wouldn't have enough room to post all the "good movies" from the 30s to 60s. And unless you've actually taken the time to watch any of these, you really have no right to say they're not good just as I wouldn't have the right to say something isn't' good unless I've tried to consume it.

Another Hammer fan (besides SES) on TTF? YAY
 
Ciderwell said:
isn't too far from the truth. The seventies gave birth to the movie franchise
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The statement implies (sniff) because the 'movie franchise' took over, things prior to it were not 'movies' or 'films'.
Please stand by - when I shake the water off my umbrella, I'll beat you with it. 😄
A Franchise is not a movie. It is the hawking of 'wares' tangentially related to the movie itself - an unfortunate offshoot of the inevitability of (sniff) unharnessed capitalism.

I can remember when our phone numbers were ours, and not the business empire's to use. I can remember when an email was mine to use to access the world, rather than a businesses (sniff) to use to access me. (These things took decisiond by government to allow, by the way. "Oh yes, I want the taxes, so PLEASE have free access to people's personal information.")

But we won't get political here.
Oh yes, things have changed.

But to think 'movies' started in the 1970s, is to say The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) is not a movie. (SNIFF)
(And anyone thinking of challenging it as a movie, well - just don't. I hear the argument coming... NO... don't.)
 
Erestor Arcamen said:
Are you serious?
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I'm somewhat afraid he/she might be. I hope not.
Now I know that long-winded Ent or flowery-mouthed Klaatu might deal with his response differently than me, but if he IS serious it's nearly criminal, (sniff).
Maybe a little 'tough love' is in order - the kind Grandma USED to give. Oh yes, I forgot. (sniff). That was 'back in the day' too.
 
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