Moves that HAVEN'T Stood the Test of Time (but in a good way)

[Walloon]

@Push You Down

…Umm…

[Anaamika]

@ivylass

War Games with Ally Sheedy and Matthew Broderick. Yeah, the technology is obsolete, but it’s a good movie anyway.

I tried to watch it a couple of years ago for the first time and was immensely bored, I’m afraid.

[MaddyStrut]

People Will Talk. The amount of shame that poor woman felt over being unmarried and pregnant seems way over the top now. Still a great movie though.

[Laughing_Lagomorph]

@Anaamika

I tried to watch it a couple of years ago for the first time and was immensely bored, I’m afraid.

I’m glad to hear this because when it came out I was apparently the only person in the Western hemisphere that didn’t think it was The Greatest Movie Ever Made TM

I haven’t seen it since.

[Cartooniverse]

@betenoir

How 'bout Rocky Horror Picture Show ? Whic I realize a lotof people can’t stand and other people give only grudgig repect for the audiene participation part, but I think it’s a great, funny, shlocky movie all on it;sown…and more to the point definatly refective of the decadent '70’s, only just post Stonewall, very pre gay marriage, camp mentality…which I miss (ok, I was, like, four at this point in the heyday, but I still miss it).

To me, a lot of the tone and themes are present in Hedwig And The Angry Inch, which was released in 2001. I saw it last spring. Quite a brilliant film.

[adhemar]

@Exapno Mapcase

In Arsenic and Old Lace, along with many other films of the day, one of the characters is insane and believes himself to be Teddy Roosevelt. Everyone accepts this as a perfectly harmless eccentricity. For plot reasons they want to commit him to a sanitarium, though, and its director is worried because they already have too many Teddy Roosevelts and another one might be disruptive. They’re short of Napoleons, however.

I somehow doubt there ever was a time in which insanity took this form or that troops of Napoleons and Roosevelts smiled at their attendants in the Happydales of the world, but the attitude toward mental illness in all the old films is appalling by today’s standards.

Of course we are still making movies with this same attitude. Bubba Ho-Tep was about two guys one who believed he was the "real’ Elvis and a black John Kennedy. They were in an old folks home instead of a sanitatium. and IMHO am awful movie.

[a35362]

I first saw Tootsie when I was 17 and thought it was great stuff. I saw it again when I was 27 and thought it was terribly dated and silly. No one would be intimidated by Dabney Coleman today - he’s a pathetic old dinosaur!

Also any older movie with lots of smoking and drinking. I grew up on sitcoms where the man comes home from work every night and has a martini. Huh? That Jean Harlow movie - Platinum Blonde ? - where the heiress marries the working-stiff newspaper reporter. There’s a scene where we see him go into work, and every single reporter is smoking at his typewriter. There’s a haze hanging about 5 feet from the floor - you want to duck and grab a breathing mask.

[descamisado]

@Askia

The entire blaxpolitation genre of the 1970s, with its emphasis on petty criminals, thieves, pimps, hustlers and thugs as people to be admired. Thankfully there are other roles for blacks out there, and the open admiration for the thuglife seems mostly confined to the gangster rap subculture.

The comedic partnership between Jack Benny and Eddie Anderson (as Rochester) is essentially unreplicable today.

Hab mussy, and tank de lawdy gawd!