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Yeah and additionally, most silent movies were garbage. Even the good ones are total crap by modern standards. Who would have watched them again? A few weirdos
by jowdones 3y ago
Yeah and additionally, most silent movies were garbage. Even the good ones are total crap by modern standards.
Who would have watched them again? A few weirdos and only a tiny random subset chosen by random criteria. Might as well watch the 25% that was preserved and is waay too high anyway.
Some things must just go away.
- Aloha 3y agoSome did reach the same production values as modern films - but Silent Film was functionally a completely different art form than Talkies.
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoHot take: Those TikTok meme slideshows or compilations of images with music over them? Where the music isn't synced to anything? Silent movies.
- Aloha 3y agoSilent Movies did often have semi-synchronized music.