Time to confess

don't like Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver or English Patient although I would recommend you watch Pulp Fiction, it has a unique style to it. English Patient is boring and Taxi Driver is nasty. I do prefer old movies, Casablanca, It's A Wonderful Life, The Comancheroes, North By Northwest etc are among my favourites. I used to feel how you did about films I havnt seen, but now I'm over it

I saw all the films you mentioned because I wanted to see them. Not because anyone pressured me to see them. you should see a film because it sounds good or you like the plot. It shouldn't matter if it is a classic or not.

The old classic movies can explain how people felt during the time. For example, Casablanca opens the door on occupation by the Germans and why people rose up against being oppressed. This movie was more than just a romantic film or a film that contained many most memorable quotes of all time. This film was a masterpiece and a huge step forward for the motion picture industry.

hey don't feel uneducated for movies you have not seen... there are so many good movies how can we see them all! And when people discuss about movies, they discuss only hollywood movies there are some great Japanese, French, Dutch basically European movies too, there are some good chinese ones and some good Hindi and Latin American ones too. We just are so much used to people discssing the same things we often forget there are other countries in the world too which are making good movies! When it comes to movies we are stuck with Hollywood. Could we not branch out? But I did like the style of Pulp Fiction and the other two I have not seen and I will not see it because people say it is a classic I will see it only if I feel like and there are always a person's own opinion about the a movie being a classic, so your taste could very much defer from mine. I love the movie Life Is beautiful it is a contemporary movie but it about a a father's sacrifice for his son in a concentration camp, it stirred so many emotions in me I did not sleep for the whole night the last scene kept playing in my mind forever, it still does! I feel a movie that can elicit any kind of positive emotion is a classic. I did not watch Wizard Of Oz till some years ago when my friend told me to watch it and lent me her copy of Video it was awesome, I don't think I would have appreciated this movie in my younger age much. I have to say I find new movies like Finding Nemo in the same category of a classic maybe not now but in another few years everyone will put it into the category of classic it is one of the best movies I have seen in recent times.

I can agree and disagree with your argument. I love the old classics too, but you have to at least give the "new" classics a chance. Some of them are fantastic genieus films but you have to at least try them out. Like they say, "Can't knock it til you try it." Then you don't have to feel uneducated and you can give your own critique of the film. Well, that's just my opinion.

Hey there, I feel exactly the same way. In fact, I just posted my own discussion regarding the classic films and how I find them much better than the films of today... Although I get interested with the current flicks, at the end of the day I would still go for the old movies. They just exhibit some beauty that can be hardly seen in our lives, in general, as of now.

I love films of all generations and genres, but there are a lot of classics I've not seen, either. Sometimes it's because something about the movie doesn't interest me, and sometimes it's because I "never got around to it." I've never been able to sit through "Gone With the Wind," nor "the Wizard of Oz." And maybe one day,I will appreciate and enjoy these films, but not up to this point in my life now. As for newer films, it took me years to see "Good Will Hunting," though I had wanted to see it since it was released. On the other hand, I've seen "Casablanca" at least 20 times, if not more, but there are a lot people who are self-proclaimed movie buffs who have never seen this movie. If asked if I like old movies or new movies better, I'd answer old movies, and my top three films of all time were all made before 1950. However,here is my take on the subject between old classics vs new classics. It's really hard to find old movies, thus as the years go by, only the more "popular" classics remain in the public memory. There are lots of "sleeper or minor classics," but due to age, the newer ones are still remembered, but the older ones are forgotten. This is one reason why it's okay to bypass the newer classics if you have no interest in them. As time goes by, some of these newer classics will not pass the test of time. As far as feeling uneducated or unsophisticated, don't. Movies are for our enjoyment and even the most popluar and best made films won't appeal to everybody. Heck, I think Ghandi and Citizen Kane are two great, well made films, but not only are they not among my favorites, once was enough for both of them.