Originally Posted by
Mattrick
Originally Posted by
T-Dogz_AK47
Well those films do not stand the test of time and with a contemporary viewing, they look very dated and clichéd.
These films only look cliche because they came first i.e. everything else borrowed from them. The Day The Earth Stood Still is fantastic and the remake was a blight to mankind. As as for being dated, all films from the 50's etc. look dated. Are you saying fantastic film like Rebecca, All About Eve or The Apartment (Best Pictures winners from 1940, 1950, 1960) are dated, which make them inferior films?
Those films were great in their own time but their impact diminished as cinema evolved. It's not just the photography or set design that makes these films dated, it's also the style of acting. Can you honestly say that the acting in
Rebecca is as good as the acting in
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)? Personally, I think the acting in
Rebecca comes across as wooden and stilted when compared to such a film. Or how about comparing the sweeping visual grandeur of
Out of Africa (1985) against the simplistic tableau of
All About Eve - which of the two has more impact? Or the raw emotion and narrative drive of
Braveheart (1995) compared to the lack of such substance in
The Apartment - which of those two has the bigger impact?
Best Picture films of the 40's, 50's and 60's just cannot compare to Best Picture films of the 70's, 80's and 90's.