I understand that a lot of teenagers get on this site and haven't had time to watch a lot of movies before there time. But, every once in a while, I want to scream "Please watch one or two movies before 1980 before you respond!"
Does anybody else ever feel this way?
2006-11-08 14:31:19 · 11 answers · asked by LilyRT 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I know I'm being catty, but I've been reading "best of sci-fi", "best romance", "best comedies", and "most influential" questions. The answers are just making me feel so old.
2006-11-08 14:34:51 · update #1
Star Wars, Rocky, and the Godfather all came in the seventies.
But let's face it the Eighties were a decade of movie change so i have to admit I don't go back further than that decade to find great movies.
2006-11-08 14:51:52 · answer #1 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im 17, and i love all the classics, in music and movies, breakfast club is my personal favorite! oh and 16 candles! so funny!!! i love the foreign kid omy gosh i've seen that movie a million times and it still makes me laugh. i think alot of the older movies and music are alot better then the stuff we have now. music from the 80's was about talent, now the bands are all show no one seems to care about the actual music they just care about how "in" the band is. there are only a few recent bands that i listen to now and they are all by people who are a lot older and are influenced by the 80's. i think some of my all time favorite bands are actually from before the 80's. all in all i'm kinda sad i missed the 80's it seems like it was such a fun period of time. i wasnt born untill the last year of the 80's so i didnt get to enjoy it properly. Anyway i do agree with u in a sense alot of my friends wont even try listening to the music or watching the movies because its supposedly "uncool" but its there own loss, they dont know what they are missing.
2006-11-08 22:46:43 · answer #2 · answered by *Beach*Babe* 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm a teenager and i thought Animal House is one of the funniest movies ever. i think that came out late 1970's. also Apocalypse Now and Chinatown but NONE compare to A Clockwork Orange which is my all time favorite movie ever. (i was born in 1989 fyi).
also some other great movies pre 80's -
The Exorcist (1973)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Godfather (1972), The Godfather 2(1974)
Jaws (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
and of course Star Wars (1977)
2006-11-08 22:34:43 · answer #3 · answered by chris p 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I am a huge film buff and own a large collective, dating back to the 1920's so I do understand your mindset.
I won't go into a debate about the "timing" of films because we all have our favorites, based on genre, actor, actress, director, etc.
Some of the earliest films ( my opinion ) are classics to me; before color, before tv and phone, especially the internet. I wonder what celebrities from yesterday feel about today and the comparisons and differences in regards to film making.
The part that gets my goat, is when I write about movies and no one knows what the hell I'm talking about, like I am from the dark ages. ( I'm 35 ) ( Not like I care, but when I get a thumbs down for stating my favorites ) Some folks have this notion that the current movies are " it." I see nothing new in todays filmmaking that hasn't been done. I love movies but I love good movies even more. Thank you for reading my answer and allowing me this opportunity to write.
2006-11-08 22:51:31 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some of the movie that were made after 1980 were based back before the 1980 like the oringal scarface that movie was origaly made in the 1920s but the remade it in the 80s.
2006-11-08 22:35:41 · answer #5 · answered by ando ciompa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I know and I do feel this way I just wish they would hit the spell check button so I knew what they were asking.
I have many favorites Gone with the wind rear window Mrs minever 7 brides for 7 brothers
2006-11-08 22:34:45 · answer #6 · answered by dianehaggart 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Teenagers live in the moment, so the latest movie they saw was the best movie ever. They will learn when they get older, just as the rest of us did.
2006-11-08 22:33:30 · answer #7 · answered by Aaron 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A teenager myself, and yes, I ask this too. Alot of movies that are pre-80s, are classics that many need to see.
2006-11-08 22:34:16 · answer #8 · answered by StreetPunk 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In regards to music, i do
It's like "There was music before Nirvana? Really?"
2006-11-08 22:32:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
chill out a little. Dont be so pancakish
2006-11-10 01:16:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋