[knarf]

I remember seeing that!

Am I THAT old?

BTW .. I remember it being a very entertaining and enjoyable flick.

[RobRoy]

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.

[RobRoy]

And Big Fish. And Grand Torino. And Forest Gump.

Etc.

[Sans-Culotte]

At 53, I was brought up on the Golden Age of Hollywood. I have over 300 DVDs and over 70 Blu-rays and the majority are pre-1980 films. Interesting take by Colson on why movies are not as good after standards became more permissive.

That said, The Godfather rocks, and it does not fit his mold.

[ConorMacNessa]

They just don't make them like this anymore:



Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Mostly because just as McCarthy warned: Hollywood was taken over by near-communists. For the most part.

Now it’s just propaganda.

[Clock King]

It’s all special effects now.

[discostu]

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.

[jocon307]

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.

[Chode]

i think one of the sexiest scenes ever filmed was in In Harms Way when Patricia Neal slipped of her shoes when she and the Duke decided she was going to spend the night...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***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).

[dighton]

“Excuse me, lady, but that upon which you sit is mine.”

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[NavyCanDo]

The movies from the 1937 to 1948 period has always been my favorites and occupy over half of my 2400 DVD library. But most of the censorship imposed on the film industry hurt not helped the pictures IMO. Not the language, I was fine with that - but the dress code was ridiculous. If you wanted to see a Hollywood hottie like Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, or Carole Landis in a tight sweater or two piece bathing suit you would have to look up to see what was painted on the nose of a B-17 flying overhead.

[Moonmad27]

TCM shows One Night often. All these shows are viewable on that channel. I’ve discovered so many NEW favorites - for instance, Joel McCrea in the 30’s and 40’s was gorgeous and his scene on the front steps in The More the Merrier is one of the sexiest ever!

[Inyo-Mono]

It Happened One Night was a great film. I first saw it on TV back in the late '50s and it is said that the carrot crunching scene with Gable was the inspiration for Bugs Bunny. A very sexy movie without showing actual sex or nudity. I haven't seen it in a number of years but I think that is the film where Gable says to Colbert: "Do your eyes bother you? Well they bother me!"

[Cvengr]

At least they could tell a story.

Take a look at “The Pacific”. Spielberg and Hanks can’t make it through any 45 minutes of plot in the miniseries without a 15 minute sex scene.

Just think of having to compress a 3 year World War in the Pacific theater from before Pearl Harbor to after Nagasaki into 7 or so 1-2 hr segments, yet over 10% to a quarter of the film time is dedicated to sex scenes.

Speaks volumes to the incredibly perverted leadership in the film-making.

[gogogodzilla]

I call this bull. There were horrible movies made under the code... and great movies made without it. (and vice versa)

Just a few that are made for the ages and made after the code:

2001
A Clockwork Orange
Logan’s Run
Blade Runner
Star Wars
The Godfather
Fiddler on the Roof
Goodfellas
Schindler’s List
Amadeus
Full Metal Jacket
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Rocky
Patton
Unforgiven

...just to name a few.

[Desdemona]

I'm very disappointed that no one has mentioned "On the Waterfront" on this thread. In all the stupid rankings that come out, it's always behind some big snoozers. It still has a plot that's never been repeated and much better directing than Lawrence of Arabia, even if two of the most memorable scenes were the rehearsal shots.

The actor who had the most to say about censorship, oddly enough, that I've seen, was Karl Malden. At least one movie he did didn't violate the code, but was pulled out of theaters due to pressure from the Church.

The Golden Age was the Golden Age because the movies were a new thing and the edge of the envelope was constantly pushed. It also helped to have really educated writers (seriously). Personally, I think some of the "great" films that are considered essentials are overrated and there are some, like "The Snake Pit" that aren't on anyone's list.

But, that's just me. After Casablanca, The This Man series, musicals and Raphael Sabatini adaptations are my preferred viewing from this era.

[wtc911]

Silly theory. Post war sensibilities and TV ended the “Golden Age of Hollywood” long before 1968.