Good old movies are better than new ones

i always watch old films when i can, right now i am watching the original 1950 'day of the triffids'. earlier on today i watched the original 'time machine'. in the past there were not so many movie effects so the story lines had to be extra good to wow the audiances. i love films both new and old but i never get fed up of watching a good old movie especially sci-fi.

i NORMALLY DON'T WATCH MOVIES THE 2ND TIME UNLESS I HAVE FORGOTTEN I HAVE SEEN ONE TILL IT;S HALF WAY OVER, LOL. i THINK THAT'S CALLED OLD AGE. tHE ONLY MOVIE I HAVE EVER INTETIONALLY WATCHED MORE THAN ONCE IS gone w/the wind. I really don't know how many times i have watched that but it's a bunch. That is my favorite movie of all i have ever seen. Have u seen it, Marg?

Hi there. I really love Australian movies. I'm not terribly fond of old, old movies as I find them a bit dull. Movies I grew up with are the ones I love, say from the 60s to the 70s and onward. I recently purchased the DVDs for Breakfast at Tiffany's and Sabrina. I'm not familiar with the movies or actors you mention.

Without a doubt old movies are generally better than modern ones for the simple reason they focussed on telling stories rather than trying to wow you with big action scenes, CGI and star names. As someone who is an admitted Movie Geek I've now got into the habit of recording random old movies off of TV which I know little about and 9 out of 10 times I end up more entertained watching these than modern movies.

Hiya margi, Yes I like those Movies but I like much better the old films of "Lola Flores" I think she was such a down to earth person. I always liked the way she was and a very spirited Woman. The Film I most cherish is in English of the Oldies I mean. I love the Film "Ivanhoe" the old version. I have recorded it a few weeks back now I am going to put it on Dvd. It´s in Spanish but it´s all the same to me nothing translates like those eyes of Robert Taylor or the look of love in the eyes of Rebecca of York (Elizabeth Taylor). It´s a timeless romance I think that Ivanhoe really felt something for that Girl Rebecca of York. But for Spanish Oldies as I said before the Films of Lola Flores and her Daughters are now starting to become just like her too as she was before very curious that. Also the Films that the now passed over Singer Rocio Jurado I really like her powerful voice for me no other can sing like that and her Films were good too. Not that I don´t like other Films like "Marisol" They are cute Films but I prefer the ones I have mentioned.

If I can't find anything that looks good on the shelf, I'll rewatch a film. Can be something I watched an year ago, can be something I watched 20 years ago (oh wait I wasn't born then...) All right, 10 years then! One thing I will not watch are crap movies. Movies with cliched dialogue, predictable story lines and poor acting.

I love movies in general, so I will say that both recent and old movies can be good or bad. The thing is there are certain types of movies that were especially popular in a certain era. Dance movies are one of those special cases, they had their golden period in the 30s to the 60s. There were all types of movies, and dancing styles with dancers like Gene Kelly(An American in Paris is beautifully done), Fred Astair(His dance sequence in Royal Wedding where he dances on the wall and ceiling is amazing)and Leslie Caron(Gigi is beautifully done) to name just 3. It was an era of musicals from things like West Side Story to Singing in the Rain but then for a while very few were made. The seventies was All that Jazz(very well done) and Fame. The eighties had some well known dance movies, like Flashdance, Tango, White Nights(has two of my favourite dancers Gregory Hines and Mikhail Baryshnikov) and Dirty Dancing. Were as the nineties has two of my favourite 'newer' dance movies which are Strictly Ballroom(the last 15 minutes are very well done) and Shall we Dance?(A beautiful Japanese film by Masayuki Suo that was redone with Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere). In the 00s there were several dance movies I liked, Billy Elliot, Take the Lead, Step up. I have to thank you, I have never seen this particular movie, though I have limited knowledge of flamenco dancing I do admire Joaquín Cortés having seen two of his shows it is a beautiful to watch.

There are lots of old movies I like that probably wouldn't get made nowadays as they are too experimental and wouldn't make enough money. But they say more about society at the time they were made than many of the big budget films made around the same time. The latest one I've seen is a film caller "Performance" with Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, apparently it wasn't very popular when it came out as it's quite hard to understand what's going on at first and Mick jagger doesn't appear until about half way through. But it is a really good film and shows what it was like in London for many people at the time it came out.

We sat down with our eight year old daughter not too long ago and watched ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ the old black and white with Gregory Peck. Our daughter loves it for some reason and has picked up the moral of the story. I still love ‘Gone with the Wind’, ‘The Sound of Music’, ‘My Fair Lady, ‘Casablanca’ and ‘Mary Poppins’.

I am an avid movie watcher. Some of my favorite films are not the recent ones. They may have more action and great special effects to their credit. i still prefer to watch a lot of the older movies. Some of the classics just have that somerthing special that can still draw you in. Gone With the Wind is a timeless movcie that i could see again and again. The romance and drama of older films just can't be matched in today's films.

There are some movies that are really good before but when it comes to features, there are a lot of movies that are way better than what they had a long time ago. When it comes to story, there are also old movies that are really better than the movies now.

There are a few movies from the old days that I like to watch such as: Arsenic and Old Lace, Rebecca, Lawrence Of Arabia. But I think that I would rather go for the movies that are coming out these days, because for one I don't really like black and white movies. And two, I think that the reason why we keep making movies is because we are a changing society. Yeah, the old movies are good to watch and to look on from the old days, but what are our grandkids going to watch if we didn't make our movies too? :)

Some classic old films are my favorite. While i cann't refuse charms and fantasties of our New films which use 3D skills. Some old films will never die due to it unique story or charactoristics.

People complain that old movies are better then new ones because of expectations.. they expect the 'Newer' one to be so amazing, then they get slightly disapointed and think the old one is better, for example.. Die hard 1,2,3,4, some people will go Die hard 1 is better then 4 simply because it was out in there day, or some odd bizzar reason, but honestly.. 4 is better. I mean! The cinematics and explosions and acting of newer movies are simply better then old ones!

i don't think old movies are better than the new ones. there are still new movies that are really good that after a decade would become one of great movies of all times. i feel people consider movies like a bottle of win. the older it gets the better it gets. i watch whether old or new. as long as i enjoy it i will consider as one of the best.

I've rented several DVD's because my friend criticized me for having little interest in new movies.So,I've watched several movies made in 2005-2009 with good reviews.These movies were different, an action movie, historical drama, one comedy and one horror movie.Same old stories,bad acting and worst sound I ever heard.BAD ACTING is killing nowadays.I have a list of actors that make me sick when they appear on the screen.Yuck. I can watch Fred Astaire dancing million times.I can watch Chaplin million times.Some of my friends think that I'm old as the Titanic story.Well, I just like good old stuff.

Memorable good old movies to me are Dirty Dancing and Ghost. I just love Patrick Swayze.

hi,yes i will accept this disscusssions.old movies are better than the new movies.because the new movies aim are not correct waythey are taking movies in old as they possible.so old movies are watching them to better.the new movie songs are not good because the lyrics are not understood as well as they are putting words in improperly.theyr included the more bad worda. and then that words they should avoid because the children's are memorize the lyrics so that they use more not proper words.they do not want to use these type of words so they surly watching old movies.

Old movies are much more better than new one. Nowadays, we can not see the movies with family members because many illegal things are included with today's films. All are going to cinema theatres with their friends or lovers only. They are afraid to go with their family. Even when watching TV with my family also we felt uneasy when any illegal scenes came. So my vote is for old movies only. Old is Gold.

yes its true that good old movies are better than new one..!! old movies had stories in it..,the importance was given to the story part..!! now a a days story is not much important but importance is given to glamor. that is why i found now days movies are meaningless to see. but recent all movies are not bad..,some of these movies are really very good to see..,but number should increase...!!!