Do Young People Appreciate Old Classic Movies?

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

The King and I
The Sound of Music

I can't believe I forgot these movies! Good ones for sure.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

Not those exact words, but that was my exH's attitude when we visited during our honeymoon. We went, but he was more interested in the glass pyramids that were under construction at the time rather than what was inside.

I skipped going inside the Louvre when I was in Paris. I'm really not interested in art museums, no matter how famous. No need to see the Mona Lisa in person. I've read it's rather small and there's always a large crowd around it jockeying for a view. I took some photos of the outside, including the glass pyramid. That was enough.

I saw Citizen Kane back in college and was bored out of my mind. I liked Agnes Moorhead in the women's prison film Caged. And I saw her on an old Password episode from the 1960's last week.

 

[Moliphino]

I skipped going inside the Louvre when I was in Paris. I'm really not interested in art museums, no matter how famous. No need to see the Mona Lisa in person. I've read it's rather small and there's always a large crowd around it jockeying for a view. I took some photos of the outside, including the glass pyramid. That was enough.

It's so much more than just art. They have Egyptian/Greek/Roman/Persian antiquities, Napoleon apartments... I get bored by paintings pretty quickly, but I loved the Louvre. My favorite was actually the funerary sculpture.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

DH and I are both 45 and love "older" B&W-era movies. My favorite movie of all time is Casablanca; close behind that is Rebel Without a Cause, Singin' in the Rain, Some Like It Hot, stuff like that. DH owns all (I think) of Alfred Hitchcock's movies on DVD. We enjoy It's a Wonderful Life and White Christmas during the holidays - in fact, I think the most recent holiday movie we like is the 1999 Patrick Stewart version of A Christmas Carol (my favorite; DH likes the George C. Scott one from the 80s).

I would actually rather watch movies from "back then" than now. I feel like Hollywood is churning out a lot of remakes these days, like nobody has an original idea anymore.