Do you have a cutoff for oldest movies you'll watch?

[Dad]

If I do 70-80’s I gotta know off rip it’s a CLASSIC.

I’m not wasting time on an obscure film

 

[Dad]

So ya'll in here fronting like ya'll never watched The Wizard of Oz?

Wiz

 

[Piff Huxtable]

I can watch 12 Angry Men so the cutoff is 1957

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

The Hustler with Paul Newman was my first black and white movie. That flick was GOAT

Can anyone recommend movies like that?

 

[HHR]

FWIW, I think the oldest film I've seen is the Fantomas series. A French silent crime story.

1913

 

[CarltonJunior]

So ya'll in here fronting like ya'll never watched The Wizard of Oz?

Hate the Wizard of Oz AND the Wiz. fukk them both.

 

[nieman]

I'll watch almost anything, and I enjoy stuff from all decades. Y'all never watched the Universal Monster classics from 20's & 30's? You're seriously missing out.

 

[bnew]

i don't have a cutoff. i tend to watch anything with an interesting plot or performance.

 

[SunZoo]

Interesting, I'm the other way around.

TV was pretty much antenna only until the 90s, so all of those old shows were subject to FCC censorship.

Movies had a lot more creative freedom

I think part of that comes from me being a night owl and watching nick night like a fukking fiend lol

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

70's gave us some interesting surreal films from the all over the world..

 

[Cal Cutta]

Nah. There's legit cool stuff in any era. This is from 1933 and was done entirely with backlit pins behind a screen:



That's just one example. The surrealist movement around the same time was some of the coolest film work I've ever seen. And with each generation, new great artists and discoveries.

 

[re'up]

I don't watch a lot below the 50's, and it goes lower, and lower until the 30's. The rest is like film class stuff, which I did watch when I was in those.

Gaslight, Suspicion, there's good movies in all those eras, Nosferateau

 

[HHR]

Just throwing this out, but Buster Keaton is one of the greatest stunt actors ever.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Nope. I'm trying to get into the biz, so every movie is schooling. I'd still watch older movies even if I wasn't trying to break in.

 

[Breh the HitMang]

I can watch 12 Angry Men so the cutoff is 1957

damn that was a dope movie, had to watch it in class