Posted on 05/02/2010 7:12:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Am I THAT old?
BTW .. I remember it being a very entertaining and enjoyable flick.
Watch “the notebook”, Fried Green Tomatoes” or, my latest favorite, “The Time Traveler’s Wife”.
There are still great stories out there.
This is coming from a 56 year old that watched the original Star Wars 26 times in the theater. For me it is all about the story now. It is why I simply could not stomach the last three SW movies.
What would a modern remake look like ? What would a 21st century Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert do if they found themselves alone in a hotel room ?
And Big Fish. And Grand Torino. And Forest Gump.
Etc.
That said, The Godfather rocks, and it does not fit his mold.
Well, based on when the movie was made, it would make you at least 86, probably older unless you were very precocious. Unless you saw it on AMC, in which case you could be 10 for all we know.
Mostly because just as McCarthy warned: Hollywood was taken over by near-communists. For the most part.
Now it’s just propaganda.
It’s all special effects now.
The Code didn’t bring a golden age to movies. It brought a stupid age to movies. Just look at the lame ending they forced on Scarface.
Oh and It Happened One Night was filmed BEFORE the Hays Code was enforced, one of the last movies filmed before enforcement.
I thought “The Sixth Sense” was a great movie. Very clean, and just a good story.
This to me is one of the best “modern” movies.
Also “the Sting” is very good, a bit older and one of hubby’s faves.
Also “Tombstone” is very good and Val Kilmer is THE BEST in it. His final scene is one of the best of all time.
I’d hardly call the 40’s and 50’s in film a ‘stupid age’. Wow, there were so many great films made then.
But I love the pre-code dvd’s they’ve got out too. Barbara Stanwyck in Sadie McKee having sex with the railroad guard to be able to stay in the boxcar and get outta town. BUT, there was no sex scene. It was clearly implied.
Red-Headed Woman. Three On A Match, etc.
Netflix has the pre-code series.
***In recent years, much fun has been poked at the Code, which went belly up in 1968.***
When Bobby Kennedy was murdered, america went berzerk! The public and media placed the blame on ...guns, violence on TV, comic books, the Vietnam war, race riots, the NRA, and violnt movies.
So, comic books became less bold.
Tv shows dumbed down (Look at GUNSMOKE before and after the dumbing down in 1968).
The 1968 Gun Control Act became law (Today we make America safe by taking guns out of the hands of criminals!-LBJ when signing the act into law).
But the Movie industry’s Damage Control said they would police themselves! HOT DAMN! The Hays Code is dead Producem boys! And the most vile movies then began to be made as they all had a “rating” to ptotect children.
G-M-R-X!
then
G-GP-R-X.
Then
G-PG-R-X.
And now it is worse. Some 1969 “R” movies are now considered “PG”.
It is so bad that I don’t go to theaters anymore and I rarely watch new movies as the most vile language and way too much blood runs from the screen (compare THE TAKING OF PELLAM 1-2-3, 1974 version vs today’s version).
There were many great films made, but the ones that actually got effected by the Hays Code were damaged by it. Forced to do dumb things like send Scarface to trial instead of having him get shot, put married couples in separate beds, it even kept them from making anti-Nazi movies. The problem the Hays Code had was the same problem internet filters have, they were hooked on concepts without paying attention to context. The Code said bad guys had to face justice, but the people running the Code didn’t understand that getting gunned down WAS justice. They didn’t want sex on film, but they didn’t understand that if a married couple has kids we already know they do it, separate beds won’t change that. So they forced stupid changes.
Excuse me, lady, but that upon which you sit is mine.
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I saw “Big Fish” just the other day and was surprised I had never heard of it. A really good movie.
Also saw an oldie, “The Edge of the World” made in the 30’s and thought it was a great movie. Even in Black and White the scenery was beautiful.
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