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Or we could fall back to watching movies made from the ‘30s to the ‘50s, that’s what I have been doing for more than half a year now and it has been wonderful f
by paganel 5y ago
Or we could fall back to watching movies made from the ‘30s to the ‘50s, that’s what I have been doing for more than half a year now and it has been wonderful for my mental well-being (they really knew how to make comedies back then, even after the Hayes code).
- vimy 5y agoAny recommendations?
- brink 5y agoSome Like it Hot is hilarious.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agoThe intruder with William Shatner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci4dQ2QzBhE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci4dQ2QzBhE The story depicts the machinations of a racist named Adam Cramer (Shatner), who arrives in the fictitious small Southern town of Caxton in order to incite white townspeople to racial violence against black townspeople and court-ordered school integration.
- godfreyantonell 5y agoShatner doesn't get his due. That guy's got chops.
- andrew_ 5y agoAnything Marx Brothers is hilarious
- dangerbird2 5y agoWord of warning that Day at the Races has a "minstrel show" scene that's pretty offensive even by 30s standards. Other than that, the Marx Brothers are easily the greatest comedy troupe in American history, and their films are still some of the funniest ever made
- gverrilla 5y agoThe best comedy I know!
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoArsenic and Old Lace
- snewman 5y agoA thousand times this. Best screwball comedy ever. Also You Can't Take It With You. Now you've seen one Cary Grant and one Jimmy Stewart. To finish up you can get both of them with Catherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story.
- lttlrck 5y agoGregory Peck made a lot of great movies. Charade and North by Northwest are both very good.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agoI'm surprised how well NbNW holds up.
- hardwaregeek 5y agoThe Naked City by Jules Dassin is a really good police procedural. If you like stuff like Law & Order, this is the progenitor. The Third Man is classic, classic noir. Between the on location shooting in Vienna, fantastic performances by Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, and really distinctive cinematography, it's just stunning. A Man Escaped. To quote Godard, "He is the French cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German music". If you like simple, but beautiful films, watch Bresson. A Man Escaped makes all other prison break films, with their endless plot twists and convolutions, seem utterly pointless. Instead Bresson focuses on the character, the drama and the methodical process of breaking out.
- NegativeLatency 5y agoDr Strangelove, All About Eve, Singing in the Rain
- germinalphrase 5y agoCasablanca Dead of Night Modern times The third man
- Shermanium 5y agoHIS GIRL FRIDAY, THE AWFUL TRUTH, the SHERLOCK HOLMES series with Basil Rathbone
- zem 5y ago'desk set' holds up remarkably well. some great performances and dialogue.
- excalibur 5y agoNot enough is said about this. The amount of TV available for free (with an internet connection) these days is mind-boggling, and the vast majority of people ignore these options altogether.
- oblio 5y agoPeople are social. I don't only watch a movie or a TV show for the intrinsic entertainment quality, I also do it so that I can talk about what I watch with others. That artsy Swiss movie from 1929 is not as popular a theme as the latest episode of Ozark.
- breakfastduck 5y agoI get your point but I don't think not having friends to talk to about a piece of media with is necessarily a good reason not to engage with it.
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- oblio 5y agoTime is limited.
- brightball 5y agoOur whole family has been doing that this year. Watching older movies and TV shows is much more pleasant all around. This was tougher growing up when kids all watched the same shows and talked about them, but with content so all over the place now that common thread seems to be mostly gone at school (outside of internet video stuff).
- abcc8 5y agoSame here, but we haven't gone as far back as the 50s. Mostly we've been enjoying family movies from the 70s, 80s, and early 90s, back when sets were elaborate and most effects were practical. Many of these older movies have really stood the test of time. Hook, The Goonies, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Muppets movies, Ernest Scared Stoopid, Willy Wonka, etc are all family favorites.
- brightball 5y agoYep. Agreed completely. Even early 2000’s shows like Smallville and The Flash have been pretty safe and fun.
- hboon 5y agoI’m being pedantic, but the 2 Flash series ran during the 90s and mid-2010 :)
- vanderZwan 5y agoIt's a comic book adaptation. Nerds being pedantic about it is part of the deal ;)
- vanderZwan 5y ago> Watching older movies and TV shows is much more pleasant all around. My girlfriend somehow grew up completely unaware of Star Trek, so I introduced her to The Next Generation last year and we've been watching it (rewatching in my case, but for the first time in over two decades) one episode a day. It's so relaxing, in a way that almost no modern TV is. No end-of-episode cliffhangers or other mechanisms trying to make you binge-watch. We can just watch one episode to unwind, discuss it a bit if it's one of the better thought-provoking ones, and then go to bed.
- ggggtez 5y agoI've seen a few myself. They probably don't hit as hard as when they were new, but certainly a few still hold up acceptably. Especially compared to some mass produced content today which is cringey and predictable.
- psychomugs 5y agoReminds me of "breaking bread with the dead" by turning away from the constant deluge of content and looking at works of the past. https://harpers.org/archive/2020/10/no-time-but-the-present-breaking-bread-with-the-dead-alan-jacobs/ https://harpers.org/archive/2020/10/no-time-but-the-present-...
- DrBazza 5y agoI've just made this comment myself. It's amazing how much casual violence there is in modern films that you just don't notice because it's everywhere. I've watched more black and white classics in the last 15 months than I have in the last 20 years. Particularly the old sci-fi, horror, and slapstick films. Harold Lloyd, The Three Stooges, and Chaplin. Plus all the old St Trinians, and Sherlock Holmes. Abbot and Costello and so on. So pleasant to watch.
- jxramos 5y agooh yah, my family totally dropped out of modern media, and man whenever we go to visit extended family and other stuff and they happen to be watching something on TV or a movie or whatever holy smokes it's pretty incredible how resensitized we have become to that violence. I can't stomach it. Probably took several years to happen quietly in the background, not even doing anything particular other than not consuming such media.
- jxramos 5y agoNow that I think about it, I've come to realize that a large fraction of entertainment operates at the extrema of human experience, otherwise it would be too mundane and unentertaining. But if most of those so called entertaining things took place in front of you they'd be crazy intense, too intense for daily living. Even something ordinary like a makeup commercial, if you had women staring at you like they do in those shoots that be pretty out of the ordinary. In that regard everything is sort of exaggerated.
- gentleman11 5y agoAlmost every episode of every show now has somebody vomit. Watch for it, it cannot be unseen, you wouldn’t notice it until you can’t stop noticing it
- spaetzleesser 5y agoThe violence is getting to me too. God forbid children could see any kind of nudity but killing dozens of people, torturing and beating up people is totally OK.
- hardwaregeek 5y agoI love old movies, especially around the 50's-70's, but I'll admit that you're not gonna see a whole lot of diversity in that era. I'm not meaning to moralize. It's just hard to find movies that say, have an Asian character that isn't a horrible racist caricature.
- keyboardCowBoy 5y agoAwe yes diversity. Can't go a day with out reading this ever lasting buzzword. Is that really your determining factor while deciding to watch a movie? It isn't mine. I watch a movie because its a good movie, I don't go searching for diversity, I like watching a movie because of its entertainment value. You should try it.
- et-al 5y agoIf you're a minority, it's nice having a relatable positive role model in the media you consume.
- godfreyantonell 5y agoOr, at a minimum, to not have a negative role model.
- hardwaregeek 5y agoYeah I'd just settle for not-racist-caricature, looking at you Mickey Rooney
- godfreyantonell 5y agoOr Bugs Bunny for that matter.
- throwaway3699 5y agoForced diversity is one of the big issues with modern media. Instead of making an actually diverse character, yano, with human thoughts and feelings, they just tick some skin and gender boxes and leave it at that. It's just another form of stereotyping.
- NegativeLatency 5y agoBuster Keaton is a favorite of mine
- pjc50 5y agoWe've had a regular "bad movie night" throughout the pandemic, and there are a lot of these that are available to pirate up to about the 90s on Youtube (or occasionally dailymotion) simply because their distributors no longer care about them.
- throwitaway1235 5y agoI do the "bad movie night" with family too. I suggest Titanic 2 on Tubi. It's amazing in sheer awfulness.
- enterdev 5y agoWhy do you spend time watching bad movies?
- throwitaway1235 5y agoI find humour in very bad movies. Not like run of the mill garbage, like "so bad it's good" stuff.
- shard 5y agoHave you ever watched MST3K? I think I have several dozen MST3K movies in my collection.
- throwitaway1235 5y agoYes. Used to watch with my father when it ran on scifi channel.
- ctdonath 5y agoOr just watch whatever one service provides. My queue on any service is always way longer than what I can get thru. YouTube & others provide a large library for free (with ads). I assume most here are Amazon Prime members anyway, so that vast library is practically free. Apple TV always has some good $5 movies. As I get older, the less I care about seeing the latest stuff - as there's always more I want to watch than I can get to. (And if there really isn't enough for you to watch, you really need be doing something else.)
- WorldMaker 5y agoMovies from the 30s to the 50s are still mostly captured under copyright now. It's directly movies from the 30s to 50s that are possibly one of the biggest reasons to oppose Amazon buying MGM, because it is one of the larger 30s to 50s back catalogs in general, but especially it was one of the larger 30s to 50s back catalogs not directly associated with a specific VOD streaming service and so open to and optioned by many of them. Amazon consolidating that to Amazon Prime will potentially be a huge blow to the general availability of older films.