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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 18, 2018 15:26:08 GMT -5
You don't have any favorites in the 20's  No, I really don't. I'm aware of Metropolis, which is the '20s, right? And The First Men In the Moon, which is 1910s, I think. But I've never watched either. I tend to think of early cinema like that in the same way I do about Golden Age comics: they're just a little too primitive for me to enjoy. I'm with Confessor on this too. (Though Wizard of Oz isn't that important to me.) King Kong is the oldest movie I can think of I enjoy. I tried. I mean I really tried to watch Metropolis but due to the primitive filming and it being a silent film, I made it through it, but it took multiple sittings. Movies for me start in the late 40's and into the 50's, with Key Largo being one of the most memorable non-scifi films (my father's side of the family are huge scifi fans so I got exposed to a lot of them) I remember watching as a youngin. Still love watching it. But I don't think I could articulate a reason to pick one film out of an entire decade, except maybe Key Largo out of the 40's. Edit: Thanks to Slam_Bradley's reminder I have seen the Universal monster movies, but I wouldn't say many hold up to me. Dracula and Wolfman are the only two I remember much about. I guess I'd have to watch them again to give them a fair judgement. |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2018 15:57:32 GMT -5
adamwarlock2099 ... Metropolis is a groundbreaking epic Silent Movie with great photography and story that truly puts you on the edge of your seat. I've seen that movie about a dozen of times and at first -- I couldn't watch the whole movie at once and that's was when I was in my late teens. Couple years later in the early 80's ... I loved this film for all its worth and it's really set the standard of future filmmaking and this movie was intense and has memorable scenes that truly mesmerized me.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 20, 2018 10:06:13 GMT -5
adamwarlock2099 ... Metropolis is a groundbreaking epic Silent Movie with great photography and story that truly puts you on the edge of your seat. I've seen that movie about a dozen of times and at first -- I couldn't watch the whole movie at once and that's was when I was in my late teens. Couple years later in the early 80's ... I loved this film for all its worth and it's really set the standard of future filmmaking and this movie was intense and has memorable scenes that truly mesmerized me. I most certainly recognize the efforts and talents in it and that because of its amazing contributors how it came to be such an influential film. I even get the importance of the story told in it. Silent films are just really hard for me to enjoy. It's too old of a format that I never lived through. It was like convincing either of my boys to watch s film/show simply because they didn't want to because it was B&W. Something that even though I wasn't alive for; I was exposed to numerous times. |
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 10:55:45 GMT -5
adamwarlock2099 ... Metropolis is a groundbreaking epic Silent Movie with great photography and story that truly puts you on the edge of your seat. I've seen that movie about a dozen of times and at first -- I couldn't watch the whole movie at once and that's was when I was in my late teens. Couple years later in the early 80's ... I loved this film for all its worth and it's really set the standard of future filmmaking and this movie was intense and has memorable scenes that truly mesmerized me. I most certainly recognize the efforts and talents in it and that because of its amazing contributors how it came to be such an influential film. I even get the importance of the story told in it. Silent films are just really hard for me to enjoy. It's too old of a format that I never lived through. It was like convincing either of my boys to watch s film/show simply because they didn't want to because it was B&W. Something that even though I wasn't alive for; I was exposed to numerous times. Well Said, and I understand your points perfectly clear. |
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Post by Batflunkie on May 25, 2018 17:24:41 GMT -5
I'd also like to mention if I may, posthumorously in this case, Orson Welles' "Chimes At Midnight" from 1965
It is everything you expect out of a classic Shakespearean tale and more. Can't recommend it enough, especially given how much Welles' had fallen in love with the character of Falstaff
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Post by berkley on May 27, 2018 1:09:50 GMT -5
Where is everyone looking to find decade by decade lists of films, any site in particular? Wiki seems to have year by year, which is exhaustive but would take forever to go through. Or are you just going by memory?
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2018 2:18:19 GMT -5
Where is everyone looking to find decade by decade lists of films, any site in particular? Wiki seems to have year by year, which is exhaustive but would take forever to go through. Or are you just going by memory? Most was from memory, but I did a google search for movies of the 30s, movies of the 40s etc. and it displayed movies from those decades, which served as a memory jog of sorts, and helped me sort some things that were on the cusp of two decades if I didn't recall the exact release year. -m |
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Post by coke & comics on May 28, 2018 22:58:22 GMT -5
Where is everyone looking to find decade by decade lists of films, any site in particular? Wiki seems to have year by year, which is exhaustive but would take forever to go through. Or are you just going by memory? Letterboxd is my filmsite of choice. It lists films by decade. letterboxd.com/films/decade/1920s/And it's easier for me as I've already loaded my viewing history into the website: letterboxd.com/chris_coke/films/by/release-earliest/ |
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Post by Batflunkie on May 29, 2018 9:38:02 GMT -5
Hey coke, good to see you back dude
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Post by coke & comics on May 30, 2018 2:23:00 GMT -5
Hey coke, good to see you back dude Thanks. I'm never too far. |
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