“And they’ll tell you the old kind of movies are too slow and BORING.”
Most movies spanning the entire history of motion picture are slow and boring :-). Seriously, look at the number of releases per year and look at the number of good ones. A very low percentage are “good” ... most are trash :-).
I do know people that won’t watch an older film because they think they are all boring and slow ... its their loss really :-).
My favorite movie spanning the entire history of the motion picture is Mel Brooks’ “History of the World, Part I”.
It spans the entire history of civilization! :-)
Slow and “boring” does have to mean “bad”.
There is “slow and boring” music that is good too.
And plenty of fast action c-r-a-p.
And big budget does not mean better than low budget or cheap (or no) effects.
There are people stuck in the mindset that today’s digital photographers are better than those that came before because everything is in focus (multi-focus, multi-image layered lighting exposure composite even).
Technical tools do not equal a good or better product.
George Lucas certainly has the budget, past skills, and actor and writer pool from which to make great films. And yet every time out of the gate it is a crapshoot if the film/movie will be any GOOD. So certainly the sum of its parts must be considered.
Short attention span sound byte raised yutes who cannot concentrate (let alone READ or think/contemplate) will find many older films “Slow” even if they aren’t.
A decade ago we were told that magazine journalism had to go to short summary articles rather than long form pieces because the audiences wanted their info quick and to the point.
These so-called “comic book movies” are a hell of a lot more simplistic than the comic book tales of the past 55 years.
“I do know people that won’t watch an older film because they think they are all boring and slow”
Especially those that center on intense dialog...like The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Two of the truly great films.
Screw ‘em.
Whe was the last time you saw anyone that was under 50 reading a book?