# Am I alone in not really enjoying most old ("classic") movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-not-really-enjoying-most-old-classic-movies/540078 "2010-05-20T00:44:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 100
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-not-really-enjoying-most-old-classic-movies/540078/100 "2010-05-22T01:53:18Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Good. It’s on in a couple hours and I’ve got popcorn ready to pop. * * * Leave Her to Heaven\*\*\* is a deeply flawed movie. But it’s one I can watch any day; I preordered it on Amazon when it FINALLY became available on disc, and I’ve made lots of friends watch it. For all the holes in the very thin plot, the emotional intensity can be overwhelming, and I honestly don’t know of a femme fatale in all of moviedom who beats Ellen Berent for evil–for understandable, human evil grown out of self-hatred and jealousy.But even more than that, it’s an extremely rare example of a Technicolor film noir. I’m sure there are more, but I can’t think of any just now. Gorgeous, just breathtaking. Between the cinematography and the convincingness of the pure human evil, plotholes be damned. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-not-really-enjoying-most-old-classic-movies/540078)._