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How is not wanting to watch a movie that looks bad willful ignorance?

Let me think - you don't want to watch it "because it looks bad". Unless you've got some other reason you haven't mentioned or admitted to, you won't see it simply because it's old and black-and-white. Night of the Living Dead, whether you like it or not, is the quintessential classic of the zombie genre. I'm not saying you have to like it once you've finished watching it, but to say you simply refuse to watch it at all (especially for such trivial reasons as the "look" of the film) really does seem rather narrow-minded.

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I can not see your point.

Old and black and white movies seem bad to me.

If the movie looks bad i will not go and see it.

I don't know what weird reason that stops other people from watching a movie, because last time i checked people decide what movie to watch based on what they see.

Just because they seem bad doesn't necessarily mean they are bad. God knows how many classics you've probably dismissed simply because "they look bad so I don't want to see them".

Plus, with forty years' worth of outstanding acclaim from both critics and audiences alike, I'd say there's more to it than meets the eye.

So you are willing to watch every single movie ever made then?

Yeah, and I intend to start with the good ones.

I get not watching a movie because it looks bad. I mean, I don't intend to ever see Norbit, for example. But 'looks bad' and 'is in black and white' are absolutely not the same thing. Are you never going to watch Schindler's List or Psycho either? Or is there more to it than it being in black and white, and if so, what?

This post sums up everything that King likes about "new movies" (which seem to be the only kind he watches) and he dislikes new movies for supposedly lacking the qualities he mentions in that post. I'm a little skeptical over whether he limits himself to colour movies because he names American History X as one of his favourites, which has a substantial number of scenes shot in black-and-white.

Unless of course he fast-forwards the black-and-white scenes for being too boring...

Its not the actual "black and white" to a movie that i don't like. "Black and White" is pretty much a metaphor for old time movies, which im not a fan of. But of course if i see and old movie which looks good it being black and white will not stop me from watching it.

Black and white is just a metaphor for old time movies.

I couldn't care less if a movie is black and white, unless the movie is gorry OR if the movie is actually new and is shot in a "dark" way just so it can look smart but in reality just be a pain in the ass if you have a crappy TV as you can not see what the hell is going on (eg. Sin City).

In that case, I have to ask - what's so wrong with Night of the Living Dead that you won't watch it? If you liked Day, and plan on seeing Dawn, why not go with Night?

How old is 'old time'? Pre-Star Wars?

That is surely a problem with your tv, not the movie. I saw Sin City at the cinema and it looked great

Also, why bother referring to all old movies as "black-and-white" when you can just call them "old"? Not to mention the fact that not all old movies are in black-and-white.

Im just not one for old school horror.

Yeah i would say old time is pre-star wars

Yeah well i do not actually have a cinema screen in my house.

Fair enough.

(But how do you know? )

Ah the old Depression days eh? Yeah, the 70s were pretty rough.

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First of all, I believe that you should be able to watch whatever you want. However, I tell everybody to watch as many different kinds of movies, from as many different countries and eras as possible. It certainly cannot hurt anybody and you hopefully will be pleasantly surprised, at least some of the time. I'm not really sure how long you've been loving movies or who may have influenced your viewing habits, if anyone, when you were younger. I've been showing my daughter movies of all kinds now for about six years, and she's 17 now and just applied to several colleges, including the film schools at NYU and USC.

Secondly, you are probably going to watch all the Dead movies, so you might as well watch Night. It's made by the same director as the other Dead movies and was one of the more graphic films made up till that time. Hey, I'll be the first to admit that I don't even think it's a very good film, and it's low-budget, but I've seen it at least six times, and it certainly has some shocking scenes. It would be more fun for everybody if you watched it so we could discuss it for real instead of just imagining that it's beneath discussion. Besides that, it's only 96 minutes long, and you can watch it for free here. Remember to turn the lights out.

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Here is my time era of film

2004+: New
1998-2004: Middle
1988-1998: Kinda old
1978-1988: Old
1972-1978: Pretty Dam Old
-1972: Ancient History

So you're parents are ancient history? You have time to come up with arbitrary time frames but you can't watch a certain movie while doing it?