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Post by Grabthar's Hammer on Jan 8, 2019 5:36:45 GMT
I don't care either way of someone else's viewing choices but just struck me as odd and also all the classic movies they are denying themselves. They are so use to movies being in color and are so close minded that it is extremely off putting to watch a movie that is in black and white. I think it is that simple. I've been somewhat guilty of this from time to time. Not so much an aversion to black and white films, but the feeling that I've grown so accustomed to modern films that it's difficult for me to get into classic films I've never seen before.
Luckily, I still love to watch the classics that I watched growing up, which was quite a lot because we always had cable and movie channels.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 8, 2019 7:20:04 GMT
I knew a girl who refused to watch anything that was not new. So Im guessing Black and White was not her thing either.
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Post by mslo79 on Jan 8, 2019 7:44:46 GMT
Grabthar's Hammer Yeah, but I think it's that modern movies are just more polished than the old stuff in general. like there is a far higher volume of modern movies that stand out than ones from pre-1960's, at least if you ask me. or look at it this way... ask a random person whether they like A)Pre-1960's or B)Post-1960's movies more and I am almost certain the vast majority would prefer Post-1960's. I would guesstimate 80%+ of people would choose Option B (i.e. Post-1960's). if it's not AT LEAST 70%+ I would be quite surprised even though I think it's more in the 80%+ range would side with Post-1960's. but like I said before... something about pre-1960's movies start to become quite a bit different overall than movies over say the last 30-40 years or so. I think it's something to do with the emotion etc that modern movies have that's pretty much missing from the old days and just the all around style/visuals etc. I can't quite put my finger on all of the details though but it's something to do with that as I can't really say it's a acting problem, at least not for the most part. so I think when you said... "I've grown so accustomed to modern films" ; probably has something to do with what I was saying in that modern movies are more polished in general (in how they are made/style/emotion etc) and it can be a rather abrupt change (in a negative way) going back to pre-1960's movies etc. plus, a lack of color I would imagine has a negative effect on most movies especially if they are lacking in other areas that a modern movie typically does better. but I can't outright write of a movie off for being black-and-white. p.s. I am not suggesting that 1960 is amazing and 1959 is crap, but that it's just a general observation I noticed as if you have to draw a line, in terms of decades, that's pretty much my cut off point in that I sort of see the 1960's as the beginning of more modern movies even though I would say roughly the 1980's (maybe 1970's on some level) more obviously resembles today's movies. so while I don't have a exact cut off point on this sort of stuff that's roughly how I see things in terms of movies.
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Post by miike80 on Jan 8, 2019 9:45:32 GMT
I know people that think that if a movie is from 2010-2011 is old, so..yeah
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Post by jamesbamesy on Jan 9, 2019 16:45:56 GMT
Eh, they just dismiss them for not having colour making it less appealing to look at. I watch more modern, coloured movies than I do B&W, but I don’t have a huge problem with B&W.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Jan 11, 2019 1:14:58 GMT
whereas b&w produces a distancing effect. You say that like it's a bad thing  I feel like I can connect more with the characters on film when I see them in full colour. Like I said, I do watch b&w movies sometimes, but colour is just a personal preference. |
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Post by mslo79 on Jan 11, 2019 4:14:53 GMT
I know people that think that if a movie is from 2010-2011 is old, so..yeah
Damn, that's pretty bad as it's still the current decade. so I don't even see that being remotely close to being old as, while I don't know exactly where one would draw the line, I would imagine to claim even somewhat old you would probably have to go back maybe 20-ish years or something like that but anything within a decade or so can't be 'old' in my mind.
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Post by louise on Jan 11, 2019 16:37:00 GMT
I think it is sad as they are missing so many great films. But then I was accustomed to watching black and white tv as a child - colour didn't come in until I was about eleven I think, and many programmes continued to be made in black and white until I was about thirteen - I remember I was thirteen when the first colour series of Dr Who aired, and the first colour series of Dad's Army. And even then many people were still watching in black and white as not everyone had a colour telly. So I can't understand why anyone should object to watching black and white films.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jan 11, 2019 16:48:30 GMT
They're missing out.
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