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Is it nostalgia or old age?
Watching old movies from when I was young. Yeah the special effects were not that great and no cgi but…the feel of real is there.
Roger moores James Bond movies- okay given compared to books not close, but they were very, and still are, fun and nice to watch. In reality not possible, but it’s totally believable.
Actually all but Daniel Craig’s bond movies are good in there own right. Daniels are a little too gun happy, lack bond gadgets, and lack romance. Nice to watch if your into it I guess.
Sci if movies from then, 1984 dune whose sound track by Toto , a pop group, whose father conducted and orchestrated before he died, Patrick Stewart and a few others. Cannot replace this movie, yes the new ones are more inline with frank herberts story.
The black hole, good story and plot…cheap graphics for a Disney movie, but tron few years later cult classics.
Star Trek movies with original crew. Awesome!
Original Star Wars movies when all actors were young…awesome
Many tv shows that had that …gotta watch them, how many anxiously waited for the next episode in a weeks time?
Out of left field movies, Smokey and bandit? The last starfighter? The list goes on.
Thing is you can sit through whole movie and rewatch them multiple times without the need to fast forward.
New movies….ehhh not so much.
Not saying the new movies are bad…it’s just half of them you have to see title to remember what it is…and sometimes read synopsis.
There is older movies and tv shows that are quite good…if you can find them. Riverboat for example, a young Burt Reynolds’s and davin McLeod. Sound of music with a young singing Christopher Plummer! Original miracle on 34th street brings us a glimpse of New York, and In Truth many other cities, at that time!
The list goes on and on.
But…
It brings warmth to see a glimpse of “the good times”
It also brings a bit of heartache to see those we loved that have passed too.
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Nostalgia ?
I think Nostalgia is a polite way of saying old. But weren’t those times back then great!
My younger brother was addicted to those old Boris Karloff, Long Chaney monster movies that played late on TV Saturday night. How he would scream (and our parents would yell at me) when I sneaked up behind him and grabbed him at the appropriate part of the movie.
My older kids were into horror movies made during their generation, I would sit with them and watch and found the only entertaining thing about those was to watch for the tropes. There’s always a woman running from the monster/demon/badguy that falls down and instead of getting up tries to crawl away faster, while the monster/demon/badguy always catches them by only walking slowly.
My oldest two told me once that Freddy Kruger was the scariest monster of all because he comes at you in your dreams with his knife glove. I asked them why doesn’t anyone dream they have a gun. Guns trumps knives.
James Bond gadgets were cool. I think most everyone thought Sean Connery was best. The new ones with Daniels are probably more realistic but the old movies were much more fun to watch.
New movies, once in a while they do hit with a good one, but for the most part I’m surprised there are enough people going to see new movies for them to make any money. And speaking of New movies, the remake of True Grit? Don’t, just don’t, remake any more John Wayne movies please!
Sci-fi? My favorite genera, The original Buck Rogers! Yes you could see the strings holding up the space ship and the exhaust form its engines looked like someone lit a sparkler and stuck it in the back but it was great to watch him defeat Ming the Merciless every weekend on TV.
We the willing, led by the unsure. Have been doing so much with so little for so long,
We are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Lol
Most people think of the seventies remake but I do know you mean by original buck rogers. Strange how every planet or asteroid had plenty of air?
Wrong hero
It was Flash Gordon wot defeated Ming the Merciless, not Buck Rodgers.
After all these years it is easy to get these all mixed up.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Penny
LOL
I was waiting to see if anyone would catch on and how long it took. Yes Ming was Flash Gordon's enemy :)
We the willing, led by the unsure. Have been doing so much with so little for so long,
We are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Life was a lot simpler when I was growing up
No computers
No internet
and importantly, No anti-social media.
2 or 3 or at most 4 TV channels!
Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
Samantha
The Good Old Days??
At 5:30 pm sharp the husband would come home from work; dinner would be on the table ready to eat and the wife would be waiting in a dress wearing her pearls.
Michelle B
la la
la la la la
oh yes,
oh yes those were the days.
Life really was so much simpler then, one choice of baked beans, the UK stood a chance on Eurovision, The Saint, Randall & Hopkirk (deceased), Vesta on Saturday night before proper scary Dr Who with John Pertwee, flares, double denim, platform shoes and that was everyone..... OTOH there were power cuts, fuel shortages, weekly middle east wars, the 3 day week so it wasn't all rosy but on balance i think Those were the days, my friend, that i'd happily relive.
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Buck Rodgers - and the
Buck Rodgers - and the original book, "Armageddon 2519 A.D.". (It's a yellow menace novel, much like Robert Heinlein's "Sixth Column" )
I'd like to reply with a line from Billy Joel - "The good old days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems". Yes, there were a lot of good movies in the past, but much like music, _at the time_, there were a lot of horrible movies. (Many of which are now watched just for the laugh factor).
Right now, I think the main thing is that we're at somewhat of a holding point. Until copyright is fixed, where the creator _is_ the owner, and not faceless corporations, and it expires at a reasonable point, there will be a constant threat of lawsuits everywhere for any new piece of work. (look at all the copyright strikes on Youtube. FranLab has even had people try to claim copyright for her posting _public domain_ NASA film, that she converted from the original film herself. )
This means that what little real new content we have coming out to the greater public is as banal or radically different as they can manage, or straight cloning of previous works, to avoid random "you stole my XXX"
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Olde movies -- Ah yes.......
I am relieved to know that I am not the only one who collects such memories. I have a "large" collection of DVDs of those older movies and shows.
Miracle on 34th St.... good show. told well for the time it was created, and if one holds that period of time in mind it is still a good show.
I'm a bit partial to "Harvey". I played the part of "Harvey" ( off stage - of course ) and we did the show as a senior play in high school... with a few "slight" amendments. "Harvey" had some speaking parts and I voiced them into the sound systems at a low volume. That show, by the by, is where I picked up my alter-ego name "POOKA".
Good times... good shows... beiievable if one had the slightest ability to imagine.........
God Bless ----
POOKA
Oh my god! You have all eaten
Oh my god! You have all eaten the Member Berries!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJoQJKTc3nM
(You have to watch the video to get it)
I member my favorite films Highlander - 1986 and Aliens - 1986 , a good year
Leeanna
No nostalgia
I have no nostalgia for everything you've listed cause I lived in the different world. But I have watched some movies not so long ago. Like Star Trek TOS just less than a year ago. And it's really good compared to what was created later.
Short answer? Yes
Long answer? Hoo boy, better grab a Snickers, a Moon Pie, and an RC.
First up: no CGI, etc.? We had to use our imagination to fill in what was behind the door (HT to Stephen King)
Also, the movies and serials had to have plots and be well written, not the schlock we have too much of today. And, OMG! Reality shows? they should be ejected into the sun to die a slow painful death! ahem, sorry about that, as I was saying...
As with all movies, the soundtrack can have a big impact. Just adding a bass thump over the actors trying to speak destroys everything, including a lot of people's interest in continuing watching, or even trying again.
Finally, we are losing the ability to step out of ourselves and laugh. At us, the absurdity of the seriousness, or even to empathize with the protagonist, antagonist, or even the bystanders. It may also be why the only comedies I can usually find are rom-coms. /sigh
Funny you should write this today, keep hearing my favorite songs as kid now popping up in commercials and ruining my memories. Anyways, be safe and be well. Off to find some clouds to yell at /hugs
"We had to use our
"We had to use our imagination to fill in what was behind the door" -- either that, or you got a face-full of special-effects make-up.
-- Daphne Xu
As Robin Williams put it, "We
As Robin Williams put it, "We got stoned and watched the radio"
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
This song says it all
This song says it all
1985
Bowling for Soup
Debbie just hit the wall, she never had it all
One Prozac a day, husband's a CPA
Her dreams went out the door when she turned twenty-four
Only been with one man, what happened to her plan?
She was gonna be an actress, she was gonna be a star
She was gonna shake her ass on the hood of Whitesnake's car
Her yellow SUV is now the enemy
Looks at her average life and nothin' has been alright
Since Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she's uncool
'Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19
1985
She's seen all the classics, she knows every line
Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, even St. Elmo's Fire
She rocked out to Wham, not a big Limp Bizkit fan
Thought she'd get a hand on a member of Duran Duran
Where's the mini-skirt made of snakeskin?
And who's the other guy that's singin' in Van Halen?
When did reality become TV?
What ever happened to sitcoms, game shows?
(On the radio was)
Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she's uncool
'Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19
1985
She hates time, make it stop
When did Motley Crue become classic rock? (Classic rock)
And when did Ozzy become an actor?
Please make this stop, stop, stop
And bring back Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she's uncool
'Cause she's still preoccupied
1985 (woo-hoo-hoo)
Since Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she's uncool
But she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19
1985
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Jaret Ray Reddick / John Lowe Kenneth Allen / Mitchell Allan Scherr
1985 lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Leeanna
It's all about story telling.
I am now 61 years old. Since I was in my very early teens, I have enjoyed foreign (non-English) language movies. As the years have gone on, I have found myself watching fewer and fewer English language films, and watch almost no big budget movies. With very few exceptions, foreign movies work on a fraction of the budget, so can't spend huge amounts on special effects. This means they have to put more effort into the script and acting side of film making.
I watch something like 5 or 6 movies per week, and can't remember the last English language movie I watched. I don't think it was this year, though.
As for nostalgia, as the saying goes, "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."