Active Users:321 Time:03/05/2024 04:22:38 PM
Bah; I am notifying the Movie Authorities! Joel Send a noteboard - 20/08/2013 04:35:19 PM

You may have to resign your Adminship. Kind of like Moses in the movie, I suppose.

Seriously though, movies were so much BETTER back then. Frequently including the acting. It is truly amazing what quality actors are capable of when they have no CGI—nor even Industrial Light and Magic—and must rely solely on trivial inferior things like ABILITY. Jimmy Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Bing Crosby (who was not even primarily an actor, but still a darned good one) and those are just the really big ones off the top of my head. Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Gary Cooper, the Barrymores (sorry, Drew is very cute, and has some talent, but not like her forbearers.) We have SOME great actors (Spacey comes to mind as someone who can play a broad range of roles at a very high, convincing, level,) but they had a host.

Really, you are depriving yourself if not enjoying as many of those old films as possible; that is before we even get into the writers, directors and producers who wrote the book of film making, then repeatedly took it to a whole other level. "Double Indemnity" is a good case in point, directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by he and Raymond Chandler, with Robinson, MacMurray and Stanwyck in the lead roles. It is hard to imagine DiCapprios "Titanic" airing annually across America in 60 or 70 years time like "It's a Wonderful Life" (Capras films were amazing, too) and "The Ten Commandments." I mean, c'mon, DeMille; guy was so good he could make the same film the years biggest film in TWO DIFFERENT GENERATIONS! If Coppola remade "The Godfather" would it be the top grossing film of 2013?

Um... sorry; I did not mean to get preachy. Just, do not let obsolete cinematography cost you some of the best dramas and comedies ever made.

EDIT: Oh, and I doubt DiCapprio matches Robinsons total of over 100 feature films either. Those guys worked their tails off, yet a dazzling number STILL managed to be routinely mesmerizing. And while I did not mention any women, there were just as many of them; I just identify with them less. Still, it says something that the two most famous Southern Belles in film were BOTH played by a Brit (though her theater background likely helped her as much as it did the Barrymores, and the eerie similarities between Etonian British and Piedmont Virginian dialects did not hurt.)

Honorbound and honored to be Bonded to Mahtaliel Sedai
Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.

Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!

LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
This message last edited by Joel on 20/08/2013 at 04:48:25 PM
Reply to message
So I Finally Saw Something Really Awesome on Twitter - 20/08/2013 12:02:36 AM 1202 Views
That's pretty cool - 20/08/2013 12:24:11 AM 818 Views
Twitter was begging for a good trolling. - 20/08/2013 02:14:55 AM 766 Views
really that drivel is what youhave been waiting for? - 20/08/2013 02:57:28 AM 736 Views
Interesting. Next Inkblot. *NM* - 21/08/2013 04:59:11 AM 486 Views
Next time put a damn disclaimer on it - 20/08/2013 03:43:12 AM 913 Views
Wanting Thompson and Schwarzenegger to stay out of office offends even the "vaguely right wing"? - 20/08/2013 04:54:12 AM 820 Views
Yeah, that was what I found offensive - 20/08/2013 06:13:36 AM 897 Views
Assume what you like. - 20/08/2013 06:35:16 AM 853 Views
It is like I have to explain basic courtesy to you - 20/08/2013 08:34:18 PM 1557 Views
Not at all. - 21/08/2013 11:13:38 PM 809 Views
Is that actually funny? - 20/08/2013 06:37:34 AM 856 Views
I thought so, but apparently I am an SOB; YMMV. - 20/08/2013 07:28:30 AM 764 Views
Not bad - 20/08/2013 08:43:05 AM 706 Views
I do not tweet, and yes, it has much to do with the problem Oswalt highlighted so neatly. - 20/08/2013 09:31:50 AM 909 Views
Rico? I don't get it *NM* - 20/08/2013 10:27:22 AM 452 Views
"Little Caesar" - 20/08/2013 11:51:51 AM 938 Views
Yeah, not much into old films, sorry *NM* - 20/08/2013 03:54:13 PM 417 Views
Bah; I am notifying the Movie Authorities! - 20/08/2013 04:35:19 PM 739 Views
What a surprise, a rant! - 20/08/2013 11:29:02 PM 886 Views
Everyone needs a skill; do not belittle mine. - 22/08/2013 12:29:07 AM 769 Views
the only thing that was mirror of is how twisted the left's understanding of the right is - 20/08/2013 11:40:11 AM 709 Views
Are you saying some of those sentences would never be uttered by the right? - 20/08/2013 03:57:35 PM 768 Views
Yeah, good luck with that. - 20/08/2013 04:37:13 PM 890 Views
Are you saying that you should judge groups by the actiosn of a few? - 21/08/2013 01:28:34 PM 738 Views
What on earth is "clumsy change"? - 20/08/2013 05:29:29 PM 2494 Views
A facetious term for "climate change," I assume. - 20/08/2013 06:18:59 PM 1047 Views
I guess I have to be American to get it? - 20/08/2013 07:31:53 PM 912 Views
Like Jens? - 20/08/2013 08:23:05 PM 750 Views
I've been called worse *NM* - 20/08/2013 09:38:31 PM 423 Views
In some quarters "un-American" is the worst possible insult. - 21/08/2013 11:15:23 PM 763 Views

Reply to Message