| quarashi said: On the Waterfront (Please don't respond haven't seen because someone has and let them rate it, just wait for one that you have seen, it isn't that hard!) |
I know what you mean, quarashi, but it doesn't work. I think we have to accept the fact that only few site members have seen movies like On the Waterfront (I give it a straight 10 by the way) or even Some Like it Hot, which I mentioned a few posts above yours. I think to a lesser extent it has to do with the average age of site members but the real reason imo is more the fact that many, many people (young and old) don't watch lots of old movies anymore nowadays.
People don't grow up with television and watching old movies on Sunday afternoons anymore and today old movies are only shown on special channels or deep in the night anyway. The commemoration of old cinema is dying much faster than the commemoration of old music (which is understable as music was always the most direct and the most easily accessible of all arts).
In other words: 200 years later people are still listening to Mozart, Beethoven & Chopin, but Wilder's and Kazan's movies will be gone in a few decades.
