Past Movies and the Current Generation

[Binker]

When it comes to classic movies, such as the well known popular films of the 1970s such as Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars, & Superman, and even before that in the '60s and before that in the '50s, do the current generation of people know or have seen these films? Do they even care for them?

 

[Drizzle]

I've seen all (or most) of the well-known films of the '70s and up. Star Wars, Jaws, Superman, Rocky, The Godfather, all of those. Only a few from the '60s, like the Sean Connery Bond films. The '50s and below are pretty much blanks except for a few exceptions like King Kong, It's A Wonderful Life and The Wizard of Oz. I don't really have any interest in seeing most stuff from that era. Movies back then (the 30s-50s) seemed like carbon copies of each other. Loads of detective stories. At least there's a lot more variety from the '60s onward.

 

[The Kid]

Everything from the old days was better.

Look at mary poppins, people.

Why don't they make movies like that anymore? because disney's dumb, and lost its sense of artistic integrity. I turned on my tv today and saw a fat raven samone jumping around like she was on drugs. I nearly vomitted.

long live the classic disney.

And all the cool bogart movies

 

[Tempest19]

When it comes to classic movies, such as the well known popular films of the 1970s such as Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars, & Superman.... do the current generation of people know or have seen these films? Do they even care for them?

You've gotta be kidding me right? EVERYONE knows and cares about those movies. Especially Star Wars.

If you said, 'North by Northwest', 'Maltese Falcon', etc. You might have something.

But, dude- the fckin' films you named are considered CLASSICS and are EMBRACED by nearly everyone.

 

[Addendum]

You also had excellent comedy: The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang (later the Li'l Rascals), Abbott and Costello

And there were some excellent full-length comedies as well- Arsenic and Old Lace, The Philadelphia Story, just to name a couple

 

[danoyse]

I was so lucky growing up because my folks watched old movies all the time. Even now, if I find a James Stewart movie on TV, I'm watching it. He's one of my favorite actors, even though he died awhile ago.

You watch old movies, and they can still be funny or sad, or still totally relevant today, like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or To Kill a Mockingbird. I was glued to Gone With the Wind when I saw it a few months ago.

I miss movie musicals. The ones we get today are pale comparisons to their stage versions. Could they really get away with The Sound of Music today?

To me, those movies are just required viewing for any decent movie fan. They're all on Netflix, people. Start watching them! t:

 

[DACrowe]

I certainly think the '70s produced better movies than Rocky and Superman, which are seen as well as pop classics like Star Wars and Jaws.

But theree was also
-The Godfather
-The Godfather Part II
-Taxi Driver
-All the President's Men
-Marathon Man
-Network
-Midnight Cowboy
-The Sting
-Young Frankenstine (which I think has lived on in pop culture)
-Blazing Saddles (Has not, unfortunately)
-The Conversation
-Mean Streets
-The French Connection
-All that Jazz
-Caberet
-Patton
-Close Encounters of the Third Kind

And many others. And that was just Hollywood. There was the French New Wave in full drive with the likes of Truffaut and Day For Night. the best movie about filmmaking, ever.

The '70s was a brilliant decade for cinema.

But I do think that there is a mindset in culture today that if it was made before the 1980s it was bad. When it is quite the opposite. For American filmmaking the high points were easily the 1930s, 1940s and 1970s. But even in the '70s most only name Star Wars, Jaws and Rocky. In the '60s you are lucky to find anything past The Graduate and maybe Easy Rider.

But the '40s were an amazing decade and every decade offered some classic cinema. Whether it be American or Italian realism, French New Wave, Russian Golden Era (silent but great) and many others.

Alas.

 

[Warhammer]

What sucks is when you have that one friend that says "Why do you watch those old ass movies? Today is about the new movies. Watch today."



The sad thing is I know somebody who is like this.

 

[Movies205]

When it comes to classic movies, such as the well known popular films of the 1970s such as Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars, & Superman, and even before that in the '60s and before that in the '50s, do the current generation of people know or have seen these films? Do they even care for them?

It makes me laugh you consider Star Wars, JAws, and Rocky old considering there the films which set the standard for the films you watch today... None the less as for the current generation, there's plenty of people who have enough taste, an open-mind, and initative to discover the gems known as older movies. To those who don't, it's really there lost... Hell now a days I think the flms I watch that came out before 1990 is something like 6 to 1, and the films I watch that came out before 1970 is like 3 to 1. Older films > that new stuff and it has nothing to do with studios making better films way back when. It simply that there is over 80 years of cinema out there, hundreds upon hundreds of great films waiting to be seen, why waste it on the mediocre crap that Hollywood peddles out?

 

[Bat Attack]

Yes, I enjoy films of the past faaaar more than anything being put out today.

 

[DieSmiling]

I'll be the first to admit that I'm a product of my generation. I'm accustomed to modern filmmaking techniques and typically don't like old movies...

But everyone has seen Star Wars, Rocky, Superman, Jaws, the Godfather, etc. At least anyone who watches a lot of movies. Good movies never get old.

 

[Dwarf lord]

Movies back then (the 30s-50s) seemed like carbon copies of each other. Loads of detective stories. At least there's a lot more variety from the '60s onward.

That statement really makes you sound completely clueless

 

[Movies205]

Movies back then (the 30s-50s) seemed like carbon copies of each other. Loads of detective stories. At least there's a lot more variety from the '60s onward.

You have no clue what your talking about so let me fill you in...

Early 30s-50s, each studio had a very distinct genre they did. Universal had it's horror/monster films, WB had it's gangster/detective pictures, and MGM had it's romantic-comedies/musicals, then of course there were other studios making various things. However within these genres there was a wealth of depth most of which is what inspired the films you watched today... THEY WERE FAR FROM CARBON COPIES OF EACH OTHER... Three gangster pictures made within 30s were Petrified Forest, Angels with Dirty Faces, and Little Ceasar all put out by WB, all three are RADICALLY different gangster pictures with three very different stories. Same goes for Universal with there monster films. Don't make comments that have no basis

 

[Mr. Socko]

I still watch movies of the past. Great movies never get old.

You have no clue what your talking about so let me fill you in...

Early 30s-50s, each studio had a very distinct genre they did. Universal had it's horror/monster films, WB had it's gangster/detective pictures, and MGM had it's romantic-comedies/musicals, then of course there were other studios making various things. However within these genres there was a wealth of depth most of which is what inspired the films you watched today... THEY WERE FAR FROM CARBON COPIES OF EACH OTHER... Three gangster pictures made within 30s were Petrified Forest, Angels with Dirty Faces, and Little Ceasar all put out by WB, all three are RADICALLY different gangster pictures with three very different stories. Same goes for Universal with there monster films. Don't make comments that have no basis

Are you a film student? You seem so by all of your knowledge of movies.

 

[Movies205]

I still watch movies of the past. Great movies never get old.



Are you a film student? You seem so by all of your knowledge of movies.

It was cool just a month ago back before I took my first film studies class ... Because then I could avoid that label... But alas, it was inevitable... Yes I am a film student, I'm also an English major to boot But for the most part I just watch a ridiculous amount of films and read a lot about film.

 

[Dwarf lord]

It was cool just a month ago back before I took my first film studies class ... Because then I could avoid that label... But alas, it was inevitable... Yes I am a film student, I'm also an English major to boot

Do you know a good college where I could go to for film studies/history as a masters degree? I'm going to college right now for a bachelor's in history, but I want to go onto specialize in either film or music.

 

[Movies205]

Do you know a good college where I could go to for film studies/history as a masters degree? I'm going to college right now for a bachelor's in history, but I want to go onto specialize in either film or music.

I'm only a freshman... Or I guess a sorphmore... I finished my first year and I'm currently taking summer courses. NYU, USC, and BU all have great film-programs except for the fact they cost quite a bit as well as probably being highly selective.

 

[The Kid]

I think the idea that "because it's old, it's classic and deserves to be watched over modern movies" is shortsighted.

A lot of what's considered classic from the 30s I'd say laughably bad by today's standards. As will be many films we think are awesome today some decades from now.

what we think is great kids of tomorrow will think is garbage.

 

[Mr. Socko]

I think the idea that "because it's old, it's classic and deserves to be watched over modern movies" is shortsighted.

A lot of what's considered classic from the 30s I'd say laughably bad by today's standards. As will be many films we think are awesome today some decades from now.

what we think is great kids of tomorrow will think is garbage.

Course not, no one thinks A Plan 9 From OS is a classic.

 

[Dwarf lord]

I think the idea that "because it's old, it's classic and deserves to be watched over modern movies" is shortsighted.

A lot of what's considered classic from the 30s I'd say laughably bad by today's standards.

And that's not shortsighted?

 

[chaseter]

Everything from the old days was better.

Look at mary poppins, people.

Why don't they make movies like that anymore? because disney's dumb, and lost its sense of artistic integrity. I turned on my tv today and saw a fat raven samone jumping around like she was on drugs. I nearly vomitted.

long live the classic disney.

And all the cool bogart movies

Oh heavens I love Mary Poppins...I thought I was weird for loving it. Truly truly truly a great film and a classic in every sense of the word. Just a great movie that never gets old.

 

[chaseter]

I think the idea that "because it's old, it's classic and deserves to be watched over modern movies" is shortsighted.

A lot of what's considered classic from the 30s I'd say laughably bad by today's standards. As will be many films we think are awesome today some decades from now.

what we think is great kids of tomorrow will think is garbage.

What is even creepier is the fact that our grandchildren will think we are weird because we are listening to classic rap Ohhh that Jay-Z and his hip hoppity.

 

[The Kid]

i don't think so, Dwarf. Look at star trek, for instance. I love the old show but I won't act like it's not really outdated.

 

[The Kid]

Oh heavens I love Mary Poppins...I thought I was weird for loving it. Truly truly truly a great film and a classic in every sense of the word. Just a great movie that never gets old.

Indeed. Not weird, smart.

I don't think hollywood today is even daring enough to make a film like that again. That movie had prettymuch everything. Singing, dancing, romance, tragedy, great music, classic performances. It's definitely a classic. Disney at his best, I say. RIP, ol' walt.

I really like how unconventional the film is and how it reveals poppins to be the most straight forward and normal of all the people in the film despite her having magic powers... My favorite part is when the kids' father loses his job. It's all in the performance. No cgi or fx, just pure character. I like that.

I never got into Jay-Z stuff myself, but yeah I'm pretty sure generations from now it'll be looked back on as lame. Then again, if it's truly classic I'd wager it'd never get old.

 

[Shuley]

40's and the 70's were the best decades for movies...and 1939 is considered the best year for movies ever.