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0 pointsBroken_Hippo9y ago0 comments

To me, it goes so much further than just something like the HD.

It looks old the same way an old photograph looks old. The colors are all off: The jokes aged. The sound seems weird. The special effects - even if they were amazing at the time - were off. The movies were obviously made for a different time.

Granted, there are exceptions - a few movies age well, but the vast majority do not.

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wj9y ago

I agree with your last sentence but there usually is a reason a classic is a classic. Same applies to literature.

However if there is one thing I have learned is that everyone has different tastes. My wife cannot watch any film made before she was born while my golden age of film is about 1940 to 1970. I will take All About Eve, Double Indemnity, the Thin Man, and anything with Humphrey Bogart over anything released these days. That is not even getting into classic foreign films.

A key component of classic films is that they weren't able to distract special effects, or even colors for some, so plot was that much more important. I can't imagine that mumblecore will survive the test of time but I could be wrong.

euroclydon9y ago

Except Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Christmas Vacation, which are perfect.

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