Biggest cultural gap between new movies and old?

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You can only pick one!


I think no cell-phone presence in movies from the mid 80s and earlier would be my pick.



How often does internet matter in a story right?
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[tinoynk]

Cell phones? Really? It's not like modern movies set pre-1990s have people on cell phones. I doubt you'll see any in Django Unchained or Les Mis. Will that bug you? Maybe I'm misunderstanding.

The most tangible thing has gotta be the stuff movies can get away with these days, in terms of language, violence and sexual content. I mean Hitchcock was about as racy and shocking as big mainstream movies got until the 60s, and there's very little graphic violence, no harsh language and only lots and lots of implication and innuendo when it comes to sex.
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[DontTazeMeBro]

One thing that really jumps out to me is how in really old movies the men have these really deep voices where the women have these soft high pitched voices. I'm always wondering if people really sounded like that back then.
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[MonserinNC]

[Kiltman]

Pacing/editing is the biggest difference

You sit an average person under 25 down, in front of older films they will have a tough time with the slow pace....and lose interest.

Attention spans are less and less and with that cuts/edits are much much quicker nowadays.

It will take more people out of a movie then.... "Well why dont they just use their cell phones?"...not saying that was a bad example though

#2 would've been Filming techniques...we have a much more active & dynamic camera style today. It use to be much more stagnant obviously.
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[He Hate Me]

The scores/music of a lot of older music makes me so sleepy. I hate some of the music in them.
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[tom cody]

I agree. The movies of today have a much faster pace than the old time movies.
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[stillersenat]

The six-shooters of old that had endless ammunition and the guns that have limits of today.
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[Tzimisce]

From a writing standpoint, it's the Keyser Soze reveal.
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[Tom Shean]

The cheesyness of dramatic moments.
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[NextBigThing]

It is constantly evolving.

-Terminator 2
-Jurassic Park
-Forrest Gump
-Pulp Fiction
-The Usual Suspects
-Toy Story
-Independence Day
-Titanic
-Saving Private Ryan
-a TON of films in 1999 (the matrix, Star wars, the mummy, austin powers, american beauty, the sixth sense - what a great year that was)
-Gladiator
-Spider-man
-Lord of The Rings
-The Dark Knight

All of those movies exercised incredible influence over the genre. The Matrix, The Dark Knight, Spider-man, and Gladiator probably being the most influential. They changed styles, they changed the way films were shot, the way they were marketed; for Spider & gladiator - jump started dead genres.

The mid to late 1990s saw the rise of 'one liners' almost exclusively due to the success of Terminator, Forrest Gump, and Independence Day. As a result, films in the years at followed were full of them; with big time releases like BATMAN & ROBIN & Armageddon practically having one liners exclusively.

The matrix made slow mo cool.
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[bucsfan333]

Gore.

Older movies would show a scream and a splatter of blood. Nowadays, you see all sorts of disgusting things.
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