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What? One computer in the school? Luxury!
We had an abacus and we had to fight each other to get it!
An abacus?! That's when the rot set in! When my dad was at school classes were taught on the side of a rock in a cave. That was a childhood!
Also, films always took ages to come out on video or TV, the movie premieres on TV were always at least five years old, so I grew up watching films with Steve Martin, John Candy, Bill Murray etc which were already a few years old, and likewise the new releases at the video shop had been in the cinema about 4 years prior, now the DVD comes out within four months. Kids don't need to wait for anything anymore!
I'm pretty sure I saw the first UK TV showing of AVTAK and I think that was about 5 years after it came out!
Does that mean this guy will show up?
Anyway, kids today have too much. They have iphones, xbox's, their own PCs. When I was a kid the carehome I was in didn't even have a TV that worked for years, I was happy getting a football for christmas. When I was a teenager I was amazed by the n64.
Back in the earlys 90s there were 2000 murders in NY , now it's down to 400.....not everything was peachy then ;)
Red Foreman anyone ?
*chuckles*
Adam West said he should've invested in color TVs back then as they were selling like hot cakes due to Batman and other show being in color.
That's sad. "Old" movies are films in black and white, specifically silent films up through the 40s, 50s, and 60s. I don't call movies "old", I call them classic films. Old just sounds too derogatory a word for describing something I love so much.
I feel the 1970's was the last truly "classic" era of film-making. You had Scorcese, Coppola, Kubrick, Altman, Spielberg as the new generation of directors in their prime, and arguably the last great visionary group of directors.
Sure there have been good films made in the 80's, 90's,00's and in this decade. But film-making was classic in the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, and a lot of the 70's. I think it ended there. That's when all the old original studio owners started to pass on, and multi-national corporations starting to buy up the studios. Now companies like Time-Warner and Viacom basically own and run the film industry. Film as art, isn't what it was.
Up to a point this is true. But if you look at European cinema it remained strong through the 80s, 90s etc. There are still plenty of good films and film-makers out there, but they are not working for the major studios as a general rule. In the UK we have some excellent directors like Ken Loach and Mike Leigh whose films get barely any attention in their home country even though they are highly respected and regarded on the continent. Equally, there are European directors like Michael Haneke who are (IMO) producing films now to rival anything produced during any earlier period.
Well, I think 80s movies are old. Doesn't make them bad though, in any way. Still better than half the films released today.
That's only a 20/30 year gap. You all need to watch some classic black and white films. Best films out there.
Well, this should be on another thread ... I will try to find it. (fav old movie recommendations) ...
MacGyver is only repeat one's after it finished in 1992-1999 is when i saw it.
If you be born in 1999 you mabey know who The Simpsons, The A-team and Knight Rider be. But how much people known Airwolf and my self realynot remember much of the The Incredible Hulk.
Some movies look old, but that's why some of them are good. A lack of some experience of Brosnan with Goldeneye make GE one of my favorite movies. The experience have with Twine feels good for Twine, but possible i have liked GE les if he already got with his first movie.
The power of fames living people is big. With living i mean not only there stil be us but also in making movie's. On the old forums we got a simalar thread and i remember i said something about Sean Connery and Gary Grant.
Grew up with N8 (Mario and the blue men.) and N64 (Mario/Goldeneye), Sega 16 Bit (Sonic).
In the past your parents or parents & the goverment whant that you go to play outside, those days there do almoost everthing to stop that or on a lower level with people older then 12. And it not end there, closing musea, removing places for your bike or there remove your bike whyle you stil yuse it whyle not thinking about the idea to remove un needed traffic lights for bikes and high prices if you have car. Removing places for your bike is something for the major we have who also not like it if other people have fun.
Or how about Chinatown, Nashville, or Lawrence of Arabia?
Chinatown is also on my watchlist. Lawrence of Arabia has a long runtime, so I really have to get 'in the mood' of watching it. what's Nashville about ?
=)) That's great! I wonder what LFH thinks of that comparison.
Other than my mother always trying to scare me as a kid that the "yippies" (militant hippies) would get me if I kept hanging out with a kid whose parents were hippies (9 when I started doing that and it didn't work lol), I'm glad to say that my father wasn't too much like what the Lord describes. Not that he wasn't a bit racist when he heard minorities acting up, but he'd at least try to judge a person based on qualities other than race or religion. His father was from Texas, needless to say he didn't like certain races and used to constantly complain how lazy the blacks who worked for him were, although I can remember the few he did like were treated with respect. My mother's father though was the ultimate piece of work, Mom always used to say Archie Bunker had nothing on Grandpa, who hated everybody but WASP's, he wouldn't even let my Mom date an Italian and had a fit when she dated someone Jewish. Even worse for my Aunt when she got knocked up by her HS boyfriend, who happened to be black. He refused to acknowledge my cousin Jeff as his grandson, let alone allow him into the house even when he was a baby. He would have made an ideal Nazi, sorry to say.
Where I grew up (Media, PA), we had black families who had lived in town for generations. One of them recently joined this Forum and is like a brother to me to this day. Any of my friends of other races and religions are always welcomed in my life with affection and respect for who they are on the inside. Except for one racist black girl who moved out to our area from Philly (my black friends were embarrassed by how she acted), we all knew each other since we were little and hung out as equals. I never liked racism of any form and will always react negatively to anyone who is like that, whether it be the KKK or the Nation Of Islam. It's BS, people are people and Dr. King was right that your content of character is what truly matters.
Yes, there are so many 'older' films that I really need to watch, but I must get in the mood first.
Nashville is a film by the great Robert Altman, probably his best film. It's basically an ensemble story of all these characters and their experiences in the Nashville country music scene and how they are intertwined. You don't have to like country music to enjoy the movie. It deals with the issues of fame, life as a musician, family, idolatry. Lots of great scenes, almost feels like a documentary. Altman has a great sense of style. It's one of my favorities.
If you haven't seen any Altman, I also recommend MASH, The Player, or The Long Goodbye. Gosford Park is interesting but a little dry for my taste.
But you'll be in for a treat with Chinatown if you have any liking of Film Noire.
Seen much Hitchcock? North by Northwest is required viewing for any Bond fan as far as I'm concerned.
I heard for years about how Citizen Kane was praised as being one of the best films ever made, and I finally took the time to rent it, watch it, and absolutely love it. Truly one of the best.
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Some Like It Hot
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Niagara
In A Lonely Place
Films I want/NEED to see:
Network
The Caine Mutiny
The Hill
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
Se7en
Munich
Citizen Kane
Double Indemnity
The Usual Suspects
To Have and Have Not
Key Largo
Dark Passage
The African Queen
The Misfits
The Prince and the Showgirl
Asphalt Jungle
The French Connection
Psycho
Notorious
Rear Window
There are tons of artists in this current time that are talented, let's not generalize.
I will generalize because of this so called mtv generation. All the mtv awards programs show nothing but hip hop and rap artists. Like Kanye West for example/...are you serious?