Originally Posted by
divemaster
Watch some Kurosawa. Sure, there are no killer robots or superheroes in search of magic rocks. But there is some great human drama. If only a "few" films from the '60s are "watchable," I'd say that speaks more to today's 30-second attention span phone addicted viewers than it does film quality. Sorry to be blunt, and I'm drunk off my ass. But take a film like Hara-kiri. I know; I know--the majority of the movie is a guy sitting on a mat telling a story. But I'd watch this 10 times over before most of the modern pabulum being foisted upon us as entertainment.
It's like the comments I see on the Netflix reviews. "I started watching but it was in black and white so I stopped. ZERO stars." Or, "no one told me it was subtitled. This movie sucks. I turned it off after 5 minutes."
I'll weep for humanity while I have another drink.