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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Audrey Hepburn (was: *How* did you meet your SO)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.194004.10311@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 19:40:04 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.161253.9134@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> smith@ecs.comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith) writes:
- >
- >cocoa@net.com (Little 'e') writes:
- >
- >> My SO was telling his parents that I should talk to them because I like old
- >> movies and know of actors and actresses he's never heard of. I watch current
- >> television shows and movies on occasion, but they don't seem nearly as
- >> interesting on average as old movies do. Anyone else have this same feeling?
- >
- >You know, I've never really felt that way. Whenever I watch an old movie, it
- >usually feels really dated to me.
-
- [...]
-
- I have to agree with Aahz on this one--older movies often seem better because
- most of the truly awful ones (except, oddly enough, in the genre of horror/SF)
- have had time to vanish without a trace. Really good movies are still being
- made today, but they're still very much in the grip of Sturgeon's Law (90% of
- everything is crap) and are fairly few and far between.
-
- The good older movies don't seem dated to me at all--it's hard to imagine
- Jose' Ferrer's Cyrano ever seeming out of date; same thing with a lot of
- the movies made by Gary Cooper and James Stewart (no doubt they made some
- awful films too--but we just don't see those as a rule); and I suspect that
- the movies MGM made based on George Bernard Shaw's plays when he was still
- alive and actually on the set to keep the movies within the spirit he saw
- in his plays won't seem dated for a few more centuries.
-
- Trygve (Hmmmmm...on second thought, I can't say that the older movies
- we see are always better than the general run of movies now--
- there are at least a few Danny Kaye movies I think I could
- happilly live without.)
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