There was a brief period after the arrival of sound when films became noticeably more "stagey", but directors quickly adapted. If you think that "old films" look like filmed plays you haven't watched many "old films".
>nice to look at.
that scene of them all dancing after Death was nice to look at, plus it has plenty of themes about God and Death in it to keep you interested and most of the characters are well written
i didnt find the themes very interesting. i found the finale scene were they did the "dance of death" a bit cringe inducing to be completely honest. i speak fluent swedish and the acting is quite good for that era imho but its not enough to carry the movie.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>i didnt find the themes very interesting.
Yeah, death is a pretty boring and uninteresting topic that isn't really discussed too much in the world. > "dance of death" a bit cringe inducing
It's based on real plague art you fricking zoomer moron.
2 years ago
Anonymous
> It's based on real plague art you fricking zoomer moron.
is that supposed to make it better? i dont really understand how that makes it any better
2 years ago
Anonymous
>is that supposed to make it better? i dont really understand how that makes it any better
You said it was cringe. It's based on how the people in the actual plague interpreted the plague as art. If you don't understand that you are just as dumb as I thought you were.
The Searchers is pure kino simply because John Ford knew how to use John Wayne by casting him as a bloodthirsty racist who's motivations go deeper than even he understands. It's similar to the way The Sopranos used Frank Vincent. Wayne's character is pretty much at war with the Indians until he dies.
>Sunset Blvd. >Bridge on the River Kwai >Grapes of Wrath >Wizard of Oz >Seven Samurai >Rashomon >White Heat >Public Enemy >A Face in the Crowd
Zoomers are literally the trash of the earth.
Yes, but it's watchable and the style isn't too different.
>All Quiet on the Western Front >Scarface >It Happened One Night >Captain Blood >Bride of Frankenstein >The 39 Steps >La Grande Illusion >Adventures of Robin Hood >Wizard of Oz >Double Indemnity >Miracle on 34th Street >The Postman Always Rings Twice >The Treasure of the Sierra Madre >Sunset Boulevard >Rear Window >Seven Samurai >The Killing >Invasion of the Body Snatchers >The Fly >12 Angry Men >Paths of Glory >North by Northwest
There, a comprehensive list of pre-1960s films that DON'T suck. Ignore the other pseudo-intellectual midwits in this thread trying to recommend you silent movies and arthouse snoozefests.
Pretty vanilla list. Add this: >Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a Little Hilarity (1902) >The Boys Think They Have One on Foxy Grandpa, But He Fools Them (1902) >Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) >Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) >Tarzan and His Mate (1934) >Münchhausen (1943) >Kolberg (1945) >Stray Dog (1949) (the superior Kurosawa film, fight me c**ts) >La Beauté du diable (1950) >The Band Wagon (1953) >To Hell and Back (1955)
>Yes, but it's watchable and the style isn't too different.
Not sure what it is, whether it's the format or the editing but it felt almost parody-like.
>Intolerance >Captain Blood >Metropolis >The Quiet Man >The Egyptian >Cyrano de Bergerac >Samson and Delilah >The Ten Commandments >Ivan The Terrible >Sabotage
>All Quiet on the Western Front >Scarface >It Happened One Night >Captain Blood >Bride of Frankenstein >The 39 Steps >La Grande Illusion >Adventures of Robin Hood >Wizard of Oz >Double Indemnity >Miracle on 34th Street >The Postman Always Rings Twice >The Treasure of the Sierra Madre >Sunset Boulevard >Rear Window >Seven Samurai >The Killing >Invasion of the Body Snatchers >The Fly >12 Angry Men >Paths of Glory >North by Northwest
There, a comprehensive list of pre-1960s films that DON'T suck. Ignore the other pseudo-intellectual midwits in this thread trying to recommend you silent movies and arthouse snoozefests.
12 angry men and Seven Samurai (but not the 12 hours cut, the theatrical) are both still watchable. I re-watched them recently. I agree, in general, very old movies aged like milk.
some I enjoyed >North By Northwest >The Big Sleep >The Man Who Knew Too Much >The Maltese Falcon >North West Frontier >To Catch a Thief >39 Steps >Dracula >The Hound of the Baskervilles >The Lady Vanishes
What was so great in 1960?
'70, I'd say
Yes
No
Maybe
I don't know
Citizen Kane is pretty good and feels modern
he utilized several camera techniques to make the movie more cinematic. other movies of the time were still being directed like stage plays
>other movies of the time were still being directed like stage plays
No they weren't you fricking moron
Yes they were you blithering idiot.
There was a brief period after the arrival of sound when films became noticeably more "stagey", but directors quickly adapted. If you think that "old films" look like filmed plays you haven't watched many "old films".
What about babe (1995)?
The first narrative film ever made is from 1892 called Poor Little Pete about a cuck. Some things never change.
Movies made after 1959 are unwatchable.
Then how come I can watch them?
*1985
Fixed that for you, OP
>12 Angry Men
>Seventh Seal
>Rear Window
>The Searchers
>On the Waterfront
i like 12 angry men and rear window but i dont think the searchers and seventh seal are that great. havent seen on the waterfront.
>havent seen on the waterfront.
What a zoomer homosexual you are.
>getting filtered by The Seventh Seal
Sad
what makes it special? its not very entertaining or nice to look at. i really like von sydow as an actor but the movie as a whole is a bit meh
>not very entertaining
Go watch a Fortnite dance, moron.
what the frick are you supposed to watch movies for then?
>nice to look at.
that scene of them all dancing after Death was nice to look at, plus it has plenty of themes about God and Death in it to keep you interested and most of the characters are well written
i didnt find the themes very interesting. i found the finale scene were they did the "dance of death" a bit cringe inducing to be completely honest. i speak fluent swedish and the acting is quite good for that era imho but its not enough to carry the movie.
>i didnt find the themes very interesting.
Yeah, death is a pretty boring and uninteresting topic that isn't really discussed too much in the world.
> "dance of death" a bit cringe inducing
It's based on real plague art you fricking zoomer moron.
> It's based on real plague art you fricking zoomer moron.
is that supposed to make it better? i dont really understand how that makes it any better
>is that supposed to make it better? i dont really understand how that makes it any better
You said it was cringe. It's based on how the people in the actual plague interpreted the plague as art. If you don't understand that you are just as dumb as I thought you were.
That doesn't make it any better.
I have never seen a great Bergman.
From how many? Great films are pretty rare anyway, and he's got plenty of very good ones in a long, fascinating career.
The Searchers is pure kino simply because John Ford knew how to use John Wayne by casting him as a bloodthirsty racist who's motivations go deeper than even he understands. It's similar to the way The Sopranos used Frank Vincent. Wayne's character is pretty much at war with the Indians until he dies.
>12 Angry Men
Kino
>Seventh Seal
Hipster garbage
>Rear Window
Kino
>The Searchers
Boring
>On the Waterfront
Decent
I disagree
>Pre 1990s
>Movies are great
>Television is god awful
>Post 1990s
>The reverse
What happened?
television sucks now so you're wrong
>television
>great
Try breathing through your nose once in a while.
Can’t take movies pre 1960 seriously because of the overly theatrical acting.
Meandering plots. People rambling on endlessly like it counts as a conversation. Abrupt ending with some instruments playing.
Classical Hollywood films are far more tightly plotted than modern films
I used to think that when I was 15 as well. You'll grow out of it, kid.
>extremely old movie
>over the top music plays whenever a dramatic scene happens
Ruins the immersion
t. only watched old hollywood
Try watching something not made in America
>Ruins the immersion
I bet you're not immersed if there aren't smartphones and trannies every scene? Dumb homosexual.
Actually, a lot of them are available digitally now.
Hehhehheh
Movies made after 1999 are unwatchable
I used to feel the same way. you just have to watch the actual kinos.
"To be or not to be" by ernst lubitsch is a great movie for example.
try reading books instead
> movies before 1969 unwatchable
> books after 1969 unreadable
has anyone ever noticed this?
potential novelists realized where the money was and became scriptwriters
zoomies short bussin fr
Skill issue
>Sunset Blvd.
>Bridge on the River Kwai
>Grapes of Wrath
>Wizard of Oz
>Seven Samurai
>Rashomon
>White Heat
>Public Enemy
>A Face in the Crowd
Zoomers are literally the trash of the earth.
watch Casablanca or Touch of Evil
moron.
Movies made after 2014 are unwatchable.
Correct.
1900-1919 - Watchable
1920 - 1939 - Unwatchable
1949 - 1945 - Watchable
1946 - 1959 - Unwatchable
1960 - 1965 - Watchable
1965 - 1969 - Unwatchable
1970 - 1979 - Watchable
1980 - 1989 - Unwatchable
1990 - 2000 - Peak of Kino
2001 - 2007 - Unwatchable
2008 - 2011 - Watchable
2011 - 2021 - Unwatchable
2022 - Present - Watchable
>1990 - 2000 - Peak of Kino
>2001 - 2007 - Unwatchable
>2008 - 2011 - Watchable
homie...
Compulsion (1959) is absolute kino
Great taste
Wrong homosexual OP.
>The sweet smell of success (1957)
Pretty much all I watch anon.
Have you had your test checked?
I get where OP is coming from. A lot of movies before "New Hollywood" seem more like TV shows.
>A lot of movies before "New Hollywood" seem more like TV shows.
Name a few examples, moron.
Why do people on Cinemaphile LARP as boomers?
Why do zoomers pretend to hate boomer shit while literally offering nothing of quality of their own for comparison?
>pretend
that's the difference millenials are thinking about zoomers all day long, while still getting bullied by babyboomers
our parents were boomers and we imitate them?
t. millenial
North by Northwest was released in 1959.
movies made after 2017 are unwatchable. and most made before that just plain suck. and op is a gay.
>after 2017
After 2012.
>After 2012.
ok millennial
No. The Passion of Joan of Arc feels fresh to this day.
Nah, you just have ADHD.
The Lost Weekend is better
Polish movies made after 1989 are unwatchable (except Ogniem i Mieczem for obvious reasons)
>Ogniem i Mieczem
Compared to Wolodyjowski and Potop it's really weak though.
Yes, but it's watchable and the style isn't too different.
Pretty vanilla list. Add this:
>Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a Little Hilarity (1902)
>The Boys Think They Have One on Foxy Grandpa, But He Fools Them (1902)
>Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
>Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
>Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
>Münchhausen (1943)
>Kolberg (1945)
>Stray Dog (1949) (the superior Kurosawa film, fight me c**ts)
>La Beauté du diable (1950)
>The Band Wagon (1953)
>To Hell and Back (1955)
>Yes, but it's watchable and the style isn't too different.
Not sure what it is, whether it's the format or the editing but it felt almost parody-like.
>*begs to differ in you're path*
Rare correct take from a frogposter
passion of joan of arc
it’s a wonderful life
rashomon
all hold up
>Intolerance
>Captain Blood
>Metropolis
>The Quiet Man
>The Egyptian
>Cyrano de Bergerac
>Samson and Delilah
>The Ten Commandments
>Ivan The Terrible
>Sabotage
>All Quiet on the Western Front
>Scarface
>It Happened One Night
>Captain Blood
>Bride of Frankenstein
>The 39 Steps
>La Grande Illusion
>Adventures of Robin Hood
>Wizard of Oz
>Double Indemnity
>Miracle on 34th Street
>The Postman Always Rings Twice
>The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
>Sunset Boulevard
>Rear Window
>Seven Samurai
>The Killing
>Invasion of the Body Snatchers
>The Fly
>12 Angry Men
>Paths of Glory
>North by Northwest
There, a comprehensive list of pre-1960s films that DON'T suck. Ignore the other pseudo-intellectual midwits in this thread trying to recommend you silent movies and arthouse snoozefests.
>pseudo-intellectual midwits in this thread trying to recommend you silent movies and arthouse snoozefests
Like what?
for me it's The Adventures of Prince Achmed
they are essentially old time law and order episodes
Japanese cannot act
Stop worshipping samurai movies
I still prefer badly acted homogeneous Japanese movies over badly acted diverse western ones. Japs are at least trying.
movies made before 1996 are unwatchable
>t. memellennial
No anon, you are unwatchable.
12 angry men and Seven Samurai (but not the 12 hours cut, the theatrical) are both still watchable. I re-watched them recently. I agree, in general, very old movies aged like milk.
Wrong
some I enjoyed
>North By Northwest
>The Big Sleep
>The Man Who Knew Too Much
>The Maltese Falcon
>North West Frontier
>To Catch a Thief
>39 Steps
>Dracula
>The Hound of the Baskervilles
>The Lady Vanishes
It's always been the same, no matter the decade.
Over 95% of films are shit, decent stuff is always hard to find.