Comments on: All old movies suck

By: Jacqueline Hill as Sandy Lavery in The Comedy Man (1964) « Jacqueline Hill

Jacqueline Hill as Sandy Lavery in The Comedy Man (1964) « Jacqueline Hill — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:13:38 +0000

[...] intellectual relationship”. Creepy? You decide. I will simply link you to this fine blog post, “All Old Movies Suck”, over at I Blame The Patriarchy. Share this:MoreLike this:LikeBe the first to like this [...]

By: EJ

EJ — Mon, 30 May 2011 23:24:49 +0000

The original post and the comments that followed are beyond ridiculous not to mention ignorant, are you people for real? WTF??!!

By: Parker

Parker — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:10:22 +0000

I totally agree. Especially with the commenter who mentioned ‘The Philadelphia Story’ – I consider it to be a horror film really: http://fnweep.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/the-philadelphia-story/

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:43:48 +0000

The level of ignorance found in the original piece and the comments that followed it is absolutely astonishing.

By: roesmoker

roesmoker — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:41:53 +0000

re: Women going to sleep/waking up with full makeup – peeves me too, and now there’s new “Maybelline(tm) SuperStay” 24-hour makeup! Because gawd forbid there be a single second of the day or night when TEH MENZ could be terrified by how haggard and awful we must really look under that mask of chemicals.

When I saw that commercial I thought, “There’s an IBTP post in the making.”

I have so many movie peeves (old and new) I can’t even list them all. Luckily y’all got most of them for me above.

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:55:26 +0000

Name a movie where the protagonist is an adult woman, and she ends up
1. Alive and healthy
2. Happy
3. Not in love

Year of the Dog

By: Laughingrat

Laughingrat — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:39:07 +0000

Andy reveals a remarkably unsophisticated grasp of cinematic history, too. Ever read a damn book, Andy? There are many fine books about film history at your local library. I recommend them, although books take longer than ten seconds to read and are therefore automatically “boring.”

I wonder if this guy ever actually watched a movie made before 1960. I wonder if this guy is really just a troll. Maybe I’ll go watch something by Fritz Lang instead of feeding him–something like “Spies,” which has lots of interesting editing, racy themes, on-location filming, unusual sets, and variety in camera angles and lighting. Of course it’s a silent, so even though it has all the things that Andy insists all old movies lack, it is still boring, because Andy would have to actually read in order to get what was going on.

By: Jill

Jill — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:24:58 +0000

Andy reveals a remarkably unsophisticated grasp of the cinematic arts.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:19:43 +0000

One of the reasons I hate old movies, especially black and white movies from the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s is that they look they were shot on an extremely low budget. They rarely filmed somewhere outside on location…almost all scenes take place inside an obvious Hollywood studio with boring lighting. Also, they also seem to all start with opening credits with the same orchestral instrumental music…I swear all the music sounds the same! Nothing dark, dreary, or exciting! Just a lot of strings and trumpets playing. It’s like every musical score was just a copy of the previous one, unlike today where there is much more variety with the music. Also, the editing was based on very long takes, where the same shot of someone talking would last 30 seconds to 2 minutes, without a cut to someone else’s face or putting the camera in a different position. Today it is rare for any cut to last longer than about 10 seconds. Doing these long takes over and over again bores the viewer, and makes the scene feel much longer than it really is. The stories are also mostly boring, as they were not allowed to delve into interesting topics involving anything “impure” like violence, sex, politics, drugs, or any other vice in human nature.

By: K

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:36:02 +0000

A woman peeing on film: Maria Schneider in Last tango in Paris.