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What are some aspects of the movie-making industry you remember from your youth that just don't exist any more?



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Posted - May 17, 2019
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  • 10639
    * Quality (mostly crap nowadays)
    * Allowed one to use their imagination (to much CGI nowadays)
    * Real "G" movies that weren't cartoon  
      May 17, 2019 10:55 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Movie theatre seats that itched with that fake velvet material. 

    Those big cameras with the old fashioned lenses.  

    Drive In's  (are mostly defunct) 

    Looney Tunes cartoons before the show.

    Couch casting 

    Lots of tap-dancing musicals

    Al Jolson Blackface 

    Slapstick comedy

    Women must be stupider than men in any role they played 

    Photoplay Magazine    (oh yeah, and only white women were beautiful enough to be movie stars back then, no minorities)  



    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at May 18, 2019 9:31 AM MDT
      May 17, 2019 11:21 PM MDT
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  • 53509

      Thank you.  These are great entries, except the one about the theatre seats. They are not part of the movie-making process.

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      May 17, 2019 11:58 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    It is if you consider going to the movies part of the process.  Without an audience, why make any? 
      May 18, 2019 12:32 AM MDT
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  • 11005
    Couch casting doesn't exist? Does the name Harvey Weinstein ring a bell?
      May 18, 2019 4:57 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Yeah.  They don't call it that any more though.  Now they call it rape.  
      May 18, 2019 8:32 AM MDT
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  • 19937

    What are some aspects of the movie-making industry you remember from your youth that just doesn't don't exist any more?

      May 18, 2019 1:37 AM MDT
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  • 11005
    He might mean that our youth doesn't exist anymore. If not, Randy's identity may have been stolen.
      May 18, 2019 4:56 AM MDT
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  • 53509
    Doh!

    Thanks for catching my error, it has been fixed. 

      May 18, 2019 6:31 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    My pleasure. :)
      May 18, 2019 9:11 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    Well I don't know anything about movie-making but does seem they make them now for an entirely different audience than we were.  Hasn't been really anything I could get into since the 1970s.  With a few exceptions in the 80s.  Movies since then - I just don't understand why anybody cares to watch them. 
      May 18, 2019 5:39 AM MDT
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  • 44614
    I'm surprized nobody chose black and white movies. (A few B&W movies have been made since. Example 'Schindler's List'.)
      May 18, 2019 9:35 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    You would have been better off saying NO color movies yet.  Because we have plenty of black and whites still.

    15 Great Movies Purposely Made in Black and White

    1. Psycho (1960).
    2. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).
    3. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
    4. The Last Picture Show (1972).
    5. Eraserhead (1977).
    6. Manhattan (1979).
    7. Raging Bull (1980).
    www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/15-great-movies-purposely-made-in-black-and-white/
    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at May 18, 2019 10:13 AM MDT
      May 18, 2019 9:41 AM MDT
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  • 44614
    Awesome.
      May 18, 2019 9:45 AM MDT
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  • 22891
    not sure
      May 18, 2019 4:39 PM MDT
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