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Post by vanhagar3000 on Aug 3, 2005 4:17:09 GMT -5
Okay, here's a question. Do movies have to be able to stand the test of time, or do they have to be judged solely on how movies were made at the time? I was thinking of this while watching Space Travellers on MST3K (Marooned). I thought maybe for the time it was innovative, but now the movie comes off somewhat poorly. Should I still consider it a good movie even though if it was released today it wouldn't be well recieved?
What do you, the viewers at home, think?
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Post by spacechief on Aug 3, 2005 9:57:28 GMT -5
To a point movies should be able to stand the test of time, but I never hear anyone complaining about how fake King Kong looks in the original movie. Acting is also key to the film. Only a few sci-fi movies made it out of the 50's when you consider how many that were made, but the best ones came out mainly to do with their acting. Like this on "Twilight Zone" epsiode I saw starring William Shatner and he's seeing this gremlin on an airplane (It's called "Terror at 20,000 Feet" I think) anyways at one point you can see the wire holding this gremlin up when it flies onto the plane, but the acting was so good as was the writing that it scared me to a good extent. So back to the original question: No great movies dont have to stand the test of time, but the best movies do.
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Post by donmac on Sept 6, 2005 15:39:57 GMT -5
Just saw The High and the Mighty, a John Wayne movie from 1954. Although regarded as a "classic" by some, it's actually astonishingly dated, klunky, and not so great. So I think every movie gets dated in some way, the truly "Great Ones" don't suffer because of it. The ones that aren't great, though, just look like outmoded relics from another era. |
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Post by bonfiregal on Sept 7, 2005 7:01:17 GMT -5
Rather than movies standing the test of time, what about scores or soundtracks? Music is not as subjective as movies are. Classical music stands the test of time, why not movie scores?
You take the acting out, you take the plot, script and dialogue (all which can be dated) out and you're left with music that stands the test of time. And that's proven already possible by the publics love of classical music.
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