1939: the best year in movies

[hunter_alien]

Veknoid_Outcast said:

hunter_alien said:
No, simply NO. Its getting tiresome that all movie snobs consider that pre-50's are the golden age of movies. Yes there where plenty of influential movies in those times, but movies evolved ever since. Just because we have a lot of commercial crap these days it does only mean that it is a commercially viable medium.

Also UK/US movies tend to be way to prude, and there are probably only around two dozen US movies that I would even consider in my top 100 of all times. Stop being so self-absorbed and widen your movie culture a bit

I hope you appreciate the irony in your post, but I'm sure you don't.

There's a reason the period between the 1930s and 1950s is considered the golden age of movies. Moviemakers made huge advances on the technical front -- cinematography, editing, production design, lighting -- and in terms of storytelling. But the greatness of the era goes beyond its historical legacy. Some of the most beautiful, moving, and timeless movies debuted during this time: Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Bicycle Thieves, Beauty and the Beast, Brief Encounter, It Happened One Night, The Third Man, The Best Years of Our Lives, Double Indemnity, The Philadelphia Story, L'Atalante, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Ivan the Terrible, etc. The list goes on and on.

So no movie snobbery here. If you're looking for pretentious and self-absorbed, I invite you to revisit your own post.

 

Funny... half the movies you listed there did not manage to hold up well in time. We should probably arrive at a point where we dont apreciate the classics just for being old. If they dont pass the test of time, give it a nod for its age, revolutionary status and get over it. IMO in the 60s alone there where more quality movies made than all the years before it. But allas, I might actually watch movies with a critical eye, and not rose-tinted glasses

Art is evolving, and sometimes the older forms just come off as primitive, when compared to its newer forms. Its a normal effect and it happenes everywhere.

Yes, I agree that it all comes down to taste, but sometimes we can actually try and apreciate a movie on its own, and dont try and analyze it back to its forfathers roots, and say that its a cheap imitation, just because a similar scene appeared in a long-forgotten 40's movie...