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I guess classic if this is just about the age of the movies. Today's movies mostly seem to be action and superheros, neither of which I really care much about. So I have to say classic. But a movie like "Weekend at Bernie's Two" doesn't seem like a classic to me.
There can be no doubt that special effects are usually much, much better now. My beef is that instead of getting beautiful movies we are getting spectacular CGI effects. Which brings up the zero sum game philosophy that is so often true: There is a almost always a price that is paid for "moving forward."
Lets face it, the vast majority of movie goers are far more interested in entertainment than what ivory tower critics value. What Top 25 movie isn't just as shallow as it can be? The Titanic? Maybe? But I don't think it was the love story that drove the unprecedented ticket sales.
Is a love story more complex than a war movie? Have to give Saving Private Ryan props for telling an intriguing
story. But it was likely the battle scenes that drove the sales. Hacksaw Ridge is just as compelling a story. The movie similarly well done I think. Ticket sales were nothing like Saving Private Ryan though it did quite well on DVD.
Gone With the Wind may still be the #1 movie all things considered. Would a similar movie fare so well today? Doubtful.
Movie popularity seems fickle to me. Some of the best movie experiences have been movies that I had never heard of. As for the Transformer series? Entertaining enough but Top 10 stuff? That is bizarre.
Both. Either. I enjoy the movies I enjoy. Classic movies could mean older movies. Older movies that are classic. High Noon (1952), a classic western. THE western, imho, and ymmv. Takes place in near real time. Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly get married (that alone makes it a must see) and find out a the Miller gang, Lee Van Cleef, Sheb Wooley (they guy who sang and wrote The Purple People Eater) (and another) are arriving at noon with revenge on their mind, on the day that GC turns in his badge and plans to leave town, but is OBE (overcome by events). Classic.
One thing that classic American movies prior to the 60s have hindering them though is the Hays Production Code. I like a lot of classic movies, but only to a certain extent for a lot of them because the production code could get in the way sometimes, of certain things, that might have told the story more effectively, had the code not existed.
The Hays Code coincided exactly with Hollywood's Golden Era. Movies are enhanced by sound values contrary to what the erstwhile skewers of our social fabric intend to promulgate. Hollywood actually lost money in the 60's after the Hays Code, which forced them into normalcy, was abolished.
My family was pretty avid movie goers. I'll never forget the horror my mom displayed when none other than John Wayne did something that was completely uncalled for. We didn't see another movie until I took them to see The Mission in the 80's.
While many enjoy the filthy orgy that Hollywood often promulgates, at the end of the day it costs them money.
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