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« Reply #30 on: May 06, 2005, 07:02:27 AM »

"So I guess we all have foolish people in our lives. Its just how much we ridicule and embarrass them for being fools that defines us!!! [I do alot]"

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« Reply #31 on: May 07, 2005, 08:58:17 AM »

Wow, really trying to get into heaven aren't you dean? ;-)  When people haven't heard of , time and time again, very well known movies, that is crazy. When they don't watch movies made prior to the 80's, foolish, simply because the convenience that hollywood will give them a modern remake and that older movies all eventually go out of style and are lame. It's almost an attitude hollywood is responsible for, and perhaps current day society as to giving kids everything they want and everything must be brand new. Nobody refuses to go to a museum because the painting is too old and lame. A foolish attitude is one who assumes that new is better. That seems to be the motto of most young people today.

Now many of those my age may not have seen all the older movies i have, but they certainly have heard of them. My generation grew up on tv where friday and saturday nights were old movies, b movies and you were grateful because there was no cable and we didn't always have the money to go to the movies. Now on weekends or weeknights those same channels, including uhf no longer show old movies, let alone any movies at all. The main cable channels focus mainly on recent and popuar stuff. It is pretty sad tah through the next generation of kids coming up, most of these really popular films will have been forgotten, simply because they don't wanna watch anything old, and god forbid it's black and white.

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« Reply #32 on: May 07, 2005, 10:15:42 AM »

Susan,

You do speak a sad truth.  Many people of my generation (20-30) just want to see the newest and flashiest flick out there.  Few of us ever take the time to go back and watch the classic films.  

It's funny that you mentioned Clash Of The Titans.  When I was in school, I would say that I probably saw the film five times or so.  We had one teacher in middle school who was overly strict until the end of the school year when he would let us watch films from his collection.  The guy was a burly weight lifting football coach but he would let us watch Legend, Clash Of The Titans, Star Wars, etc.  I'll never forget the groans that would issue from the class when he would announce that we were going to watch Clash Of The Titans again.  I was always sitting there smiling.

I was introduced to a whole lot of musicals throughout those years as well.  We had the same music teacher from 1st grade right up until 8th.  I remember him as being a happy guy when he first started teaching us, but by the time we hit 7-8th grade he had gone through a divorce and pretty much hated teaching us.  He would just throw on Fiddler On The Roof or Sound Of Music and let us watch one of those.  I would say for an entire school year we had a contstant repition of those two films.

As High School hit, I took a film literature class my freshman year.  I convinced the teacher to let me take it each year of high school and get credit each time.  We watched some great films: Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Alien, Maltese Falcon, etc.  

My wife unfortunatly is one of the types of my generation that will not watch anything made before 1980 (preferably 1985).  Case in point - She bought me Duel on DVD for my birthday but refuses to sit down and watch it being as it was made in the 70s.  And, if the film is B&W then forget about it.



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« Reply #33 on: May 07, 2005, 10:19:12 PM »


The whole Black and white 'debate' is oh so very sad, yet quite appropriate.

I know I'm a cruel bastard for doing this, but one of the only other friends of mine who actually had the balls to sit and watch Plan 9 From Outer Space, he watched the colourised version.  So I sort of forced him to watch my black and white copy, so he could get the original feel for the whole thing.

Also on the topic of flashy and fast films of nowadays: at least there's alot of wannabe film buffs out there who are studying up on the older films.  I don't know if I could handle not having a friend who is obsessed with Spaghetti westerns and anything involving Clint Eastwood, a friend who loves crappy horror films and sub-standard B-grade movies, and a friend who is anime crazy.  That and my entire cinema studies department at uni, as to which I wouldn't the genius of 80's musicals.

But like the person I mentioned earlier who needed to be taught religion [btw I wasn't preaching, maybe I should throw in a few trick questions to her next time, just to mess with her head!]  I can really imagine her not knowing any movies made before 1990 that doesn't include a pop-driven, thumping/exciting soundtrack and big name actors.

Maybe my next lesson should be on John Waters, and theories of the absurd.

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« Reply #34 on: May 08, 2005, 12:51:01 PM »

Somebody thought it was worth colorizing Plan 9. Kind of misses the point, doesn't it?

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« Reply #35 on: May 09, 2005, 12:27:58 AM »

Whoa, I never heard there was a colorized version. Couldn't you just turn the color setting on your tv all the way down? Now that I mention that, I might try that to see if it lends proper atmosphere to certain shows.
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« Reply #36 on: May 09, 2005, 09:18:38 AM »

They. Colorized. Plan. 9. from. Outer. Space.?!

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« Reply #37 on: May 10, 2005, 10:48:27 AM »

But why? That's what I'd like to know.

There can't be that many people sitting around thinking "I'd really like to watch something old, badly made and ridiculous, but it's gotta be in colour."

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« Reply #38 on: May 11, 2005, 01:22:18 PM »

> Barbarella
> Clash of the freaking titans!
> Flash gordon
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> I was making joking references from these movies in a personal
> email and he was oblivious to the joke until i questioned him
> and found out the truth - he's never seen them. Wasn't clash of
> the titans one of those movies that they showed in almost every
> 8th grade class to introduce kids to greek mythology?

That IS kind of weird Susan, I mean, I'm just a year older than that guy and we learned a bit about Mythology (and yes, saw a part of Clash of Titans) in ninth grade.  (Course, I was in the "Advanced" English class, dunno what the guys in English Lite were doing.)  But still, Barbarella I might be able to understand, but Clash of Titans??  Even if he didn't recognize the title, he should have AT LEAST seen parts of it.

Did you say something, "Well, you know, that movie with the Medusa??"  

(And if he stares at you blankly and asks what a Medusa, then he really IS an idiot...)  

Course, I feel the same way about some people I know when I mention books... I mean, I'm dont' exactly read all the old classics and stuff, but hell, even I know, for instance, who Ahab was....

Just it's a death of culture thing.. too many people these days are more style over substance these days (which explains why so many people, for instance, left the theater of The Day After Tomorrow going, "Wow, that could really happen!!" )

Don't even get me STARTED on that subject...

Mike

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George
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« Reply #39 on: May 11, 2005, 02:41:20 PM »

I work with a lady who called the latest Stiller / Deniro film "Meet the Faulkners"

Kind of loses the joke when you say it that way.
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« Reply #40 on: May 11, 2005, 03:17:02 PM »

I know people who actually thought the title was "Meet the F*ckers." And that asterisk is not an O.

Yeah, it's supposed to sound like that, but come on.

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