Classic and Modern

[MonsterHugger]

Today's key words: Bigger, stronger, faster, meaner...and the list goes on.

Yesterday's key words: Authenticity, efficiency, integrity, simplicity...and the list goes on.

[ChattyLMS]

B&W is totally over looked as an art form.  Unusual camera angles.  The creative techniques that were used to to make the movie real.  There was no technology then.  Everything had to be done the hard way.  CG has made the movies less fun because I can't think about how it was done.

[Caveman]

CG has made the movies less fun because I can't think about how it was done.

You put your finger on something so true, ChattyLMS! The fun is gone.

[Scatter]

I refuse to acknowledge that any films were actually made after the mid 80s.

[bigbud]

I refuse to acknowledge that any films were actually made after the mid 80s.

For the most part I'm with ya Gary! Thank goodness there is so much wonderful stuff to enjoy before the 80's!   Buddy

[ChattyLMS]

Welcome Caveman! 
We think alike!  We're both geniuses!

[Paul L]

I refuse to acknowledge that any films were actually made after the mid 80s.

What bigbud said. I would extend this to popular music as well.

[Haunted hearse]

I refuse to acknowledge that any films were actually made after the mid 80s.

Considering how much I like "Sleepy Hollow" "Mars Attack" and other films made since 1990, I won't go that far.

[Terry]

I would say too much reliance on CGI and wire-work stunts, and too little time building empathy with the audience. As visually spectacular as CGI can be, they tend to be pushed to the extreme (think of Van Helsing, a movie I felt wasted it's potential with endless implausible CGI-based stunts). If one CGI monster is good, dozens must be better, even though the eye has trouble registering what it's seeing with the shakey, quick-edit camera-work they use. A hero can't just fight a monster, it must do several back-flips over the monster, and probably pause in mid-air for a while. Tough to relate to a hero / heroine who doesn't even seem human to the audience.

Totally agree.

[neonnoodle]

I refuse to acknowledge that any films were actually made after the mid 80s.

That's...that's silly, though.  I mean, there WEREN'T any films made after the mid-80's, were there?  I don't seem to recall...  Please pass the forgetfulness juice around again.

[Elisabeth]

The "Classics", and  the serials had real, honest to Gosh ACTORS then.  Clive had been doing "rep" work and bits for 10 years, before JOURNEY'S END, and Karloff had been barnstorming for  twice that long.  So had actors like Charles Middleton, Wheeler Oakman and Montague Shaw.  What ever the actors were given was treated with respect, and it showed.

Now it seems to be girls, boys, cell phones and beds...with a lot of computer generated action shots..  What with all the grousing coming out about BLACK SWAN, you begin to wonder how much of THAT was real...

I'd rather watch Leo G. Carroll play a film with a TARANTULA, than some of the modern stuff.

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