How come my generation doesn't seem to want to watch older movies?

I repped you because I'm happy you're posting again, but don't test me.

This guy gets me.

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I just had to come and say that both are terrible and dated.

Well, not dated, just terrible

That's... that's... movie prostitution!
They don't deserve to be your friends, then.
Which only shows the level of most people who go to movie schools.
I was born 94 and I struggle to watch anything post 2000.
Not as sheetty as you make it out to be!

F*cking plebeians are to be found everywhere. You shouldn't waste your time on them. If you love films then watch and love them for yourself, because that's the point, you're not watching them for others. If your friends can't appreciate older films, then watch newer flicks with them, or don't watch anything at all. Some people feel like they have some holy mission to enlighten the masses. But masses are stupid. And following flickering gold, even if it's just crap wrapped in luminescent paper. Try to enlighten and inspire people who've already towered above the masses. Or maybe your target group is just plain wrong, and you're trying to make literature buffs get into cinema. As in, real freakin' literature buffs, not some pleb Hunger Games-level neophytes. *masturbates in glory and realizes his own doggedness*. f*ck this thread im gonna listen to some Inuit Throat Singing while contemplating Rothko paintings. and crying in the corner, because my friends don't even know what good art is

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

The catch is that it's easier for the bad old movies to fade into obscurity while we're constantly being bombarded with bad new movies, which makes old movies as a whole look better in comparison. I reckon it'd be okay as long as the old-movie crowd acknowledged that instead of acting like filmmaking as a whole went to sh*t when Star Wars came out.

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This is a good point. Let's face it: most movies suck. Too many people giving their opinions, bad scripts that have been revised 100 times, schedule/budget changes, and actresses complaining about the director 'filming their ugly side'. The old classics we enjoy now are the one or two good films released that year in the midst of countless mediocre films.

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Granted, if an older film stands the test of time then that does imply that watching it is a secure investment of one's time and money, which is understandably a deciding factor for people who want as little chance of wasting their time on a movie they don't like as possible. Still, going from there to assuming that all new movies are bad is...not good.

well again no biggie, it bunch of fag that ive known for years, so it still on friendliest corridor, them being playful and not confrontative. the case which could happen whatever [insert stuff] goes with your friends. But again in context entertainment or media prefrence/taste/obsession, itself, there that gap between us.

i sense the edge of frustation

@resopamenic You don't talk to normies. You shoot 'em!

i "shoot" em with LOUDSPEAKER!!

Just something that happens with every generation really. I didn't the greatness of Boggey and Becall till after I was 20. It requires both an inquiring mind and some help. I put my nephew on Casablanca and he loved it...as he should of course. But really, it just takes time and a slow passing on. Don't thrust it at them, encourage them...my lure is usually "its cool for men, women hate it"...gets the younger guys every time.

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I watch a LOT of new films. And I've made a big effort to check out new stuff ever since joining MoFo. I think I'm well diversified in my movie watching.

But if some people only want to watch new block buster films, that's their choice, it doesn't bother me at all.

My post was in direct reply to Velvet who said categorically that he hated ALL old movies and they all suck...And that old movies are for old people