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I'm 42 and I love old black and white films from the 1930s and 1940s. And I love the music in those films and the music from that era in general. And I love the romance from that era, and I love many of the celebrities from the 1930s and 1940s. Is this all normal for someone 42 in 2018?
My favorite actress of all time is Ingrid Bergman. I really think she was one of the most beautiful and talented women to star in movies. I have seen many of her films from early in her career (1930s-40s) and plan on watching her entire body of work. She always struck me as a remarkable individual and kind intelligent compassionate person, both personally and professionally.
aww yes the great depression and wartime. how romantic. eating belts and killing nazis. sounds like youre happy tho. keep it up.
That is seriously how you look at the thinking of 1940s Americans? Yes, people weren't always happy due to the depression and war, but Americans stuck together, had much better values, were much more real, and didn't live in the obnoxious, superficial world of today, and they didn't feel the need to talk about sex everywhere they went either. They were less about superficial qualities in people and looks than so many people today. People definitely trusted each other more. More people actually got married and believed in a little thing called romance. Romance is totally gone today. And the movies and music was much better then.
Well, it isn't that simple. Conformity to the letter was expected in clothing, personality, career choice, purchases and almost everything. Creativity was usually squashed, and recreation was almost non-existent. The forties were austere times. Please know that the romanticism in the old movies was there to help people forget about their misery for a few hours. It was not real.
People did watch films back then to forget their troubles of the depression and then of the war, but there really was more romance than today. And statistics will show that more people got married and stayed married than today. My grandparents, and many other people I'd known from older generations got married and stayed with their partners. I'm sure not everyone did, but they did more than today.
Well if you're only gonna pick out the bad points then every time period was shit.
Stalingrad, Hiroshima and Dresden, real halcyon days. Don't forget the institutionalized racism and poliomyelitis.
People put up with more back then with the depression and the war, but they were more sensible and held it together better. People today freak on each other over the littlest things, and they whine about much stupider things today than people did then. The only thing more old fashioned people whine about is how much better it used to be, but they're right!
It was the halcyon days in the movies, but certainly not in real life with the Depression, a lot of old time racism, and then World war 2 beginning at the end of it. They always said how the movies were always an escape from it all back then.
the amounta music in them ole movies is obnoxious
its always the same orchestral score and its always exaggeratedly followin the characters movements a bit too closely and cutely
once i noticed this i couldnt unnotice
id still take that over any comic book based cgi laden superhero movies
I knew a lot of people wouldn't be on the same page as me on liking old films and music, the music was not obnoxious. And some other commenters automatically assuming I liked Nazis because I like the 1930s and 1940s, seriously? 1940s Americans hated and feared Germany. I don't understand people's thinking today, I relate to the old stuff much better than the modern, I was obviously born too late.
i does still like lotsa old movies but dont like the scores
myall opinion
yalls is opposite
fair enough
i thinks key largo was a fuckin masterpiece
far as nazi talk goes i cant speak to that
yall should watch some ole 3 stooges movies they was jewish and lovedta make funa nazis
Oh I know you didn't say anything about Nazis, I was just commenting on several different people's comments. I just hate the way the world today is, and watching older movies of an old and different world and people is much more of an escape than watching modern movies of the same world and types of people that I see every day.
I can appreciate them. I think a lot of old movies had to be more creative with story writing and had better acting, because they had to compensate for the primitive technology.