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Originally Posted by Graham44
Just watched the 1975 classic Jaws. I'm finding that I prefer the older movies now (70's, 80's and 90's), less trying to fulfill some imagined 'political correctness' and more about telling a good story, with good characters. Take Jaws for example, essentially three guys take on a giant fish, they tell 'sexist' jokes, drink beer, argue and blow the s***e out of a great white, can't see that being made today, not without extensive re-writing. Going to watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind tomorrow.
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AMEN. I see movie after movie, in replay/streaming/whatever today that could never be made today. Can you imagine
Blazing Saddles? Or about almost any other worth-watching movie?
Phllllbffffttttttttt....I just did a Thin Man binge for the ninety-millionth time; did a Philo Vance watcherooni; rewatched Perry Masons (the real one with Burr and of course, all the movie versions, none of the RDJ crapola, which would have been fine if they'd just named it something else instead of mooching 4-5 names and nothing else!), and so on. I can sing along with the 1959-> PM's now, though. I need to take breaks between 'em.
(When recently incarcerated in a physical rehab facility--fractured my back, don't ask, sigh, yes, I've been MIA again, another medical/physical thing!--I became reacquainted with all the late 50's, early 60's western shows.
HAHAHAHAHHA! Boy, there ain't no "fill" in those stories; it's wham, bam...well, you know the rest. But they sure don't waste your time in terms of plot fillers, side stories, and all that. The depth of a teaspoon, to quote Hermione Granger, but there you go.)
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