ot movies old vs new

Case in point: Star Trek. The Motion Picture, Wrath of Kahn, just watched The Voyage Home for about the sixth time in 2 weeks.

The 2009 reboot, I might have seen it 6 times and I don't really care if I do again. Come on, of all the characters, Spock is the one who doesn't know the difference between damping and dampening?

Old media is like old cars, old tractors, and old recipes. They stand the test of time. There were some dogs in the day, but they didn't push it out the door in hopes of a quick buck. We gave up on T.V. service and have gone to what our internet streams. I've been watching "All in The Family" and "Barney Miller" this week. I'd be hard pressed to find anything current that compares.

I agree, not too thrilled with the 2 remakes.

(quoted from post at 02:51:42 02/03/16) Case in point: Star Trek. The Motion Picture, Wrath of Kahn, just watched The Voyage Home for about the sixth time in 2 weeks.

The 2009 reboot, I might have seen it 6 times and I don't really care if I do again. Come on, of all the characters, Spock is the one who doesn't know the difference between damping and dampening?

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You watched the same bad movie 6 times in 2 weeks???? Are you trapped in a windowless basement someplace? Let us know, we'll call for help.........

Just my opinion here... There are some new broadcast channels in our area that a carrying the old shows, like from the 60's 70s and 80s mostly. I'm not stuck in the past with my viewing habits and looking again at these I think they are so hokey and the acting is so bad I can't stand to watch them, even the old Star Trek episodes (original series) I can't stand. I guess I was never a big fan of the oldies anyway but did watch in the day when I could. One show more recent show I missed because it was on cable originally was Leverage, Ion TV is showing it all day on Sundays. Well acted, witty, interesting capers. I also try to catch Star Gate SG-1 but usually it's on too late to see it. I really mostly prefer the new things I've never seen before. We've become fans of some of the PBS and British mysteries and dramas and of course the cooking and home remodel shows on Create that the local PBS station carries on it's own channel.

Yup, sounds like a cry for help if I ever heard one.

Remember the series on the Civil War? Talk about stuck in front of your TV. Best old star trek.....City on the edge of forever. Also Who morns for Adonis. The original with Kon is good too. Next Gen the one that just just tore me apart was [the inner light]. That is why I cruise over to TCM.

I don't think I could watch any movie 6 times :lol: . I don't like any of the newer movies or TV shows. The actors now days have little if any real life experience so their acting is lackluster. I've noticed in the newer westerns that the bad guys are too purty to look bad. They all have perfect teeth and women's hands. In the old movies the actors had real scars and hands that looked like they had actually at least done some work.

Ahh, A man of culture. City on the Edge of Forever was an award winning episode and I agree one of the best. Balance of Terror was my other favorite (an updated copy of the plot of 'The Enemy Below'). And yes, while I wasn't that interested in the Civil War, when the Ken Burns series was broadcast I was glued to the set.

Dish has a channel called gettv. It shows movies from the 30's up to the 60's. They even show old TV shows that I never heard of. http://www.get.tv/

[i:654c4848f0]I don't think I could watch any movie 6 times...[/i:654c4848f0]

I hear ya. My kids watch movies over and over and over. Normally about their tenth time through it I've walked through the room or overheard most of the movie, but not in the correct order. It gets worse for the series (my high-school boy is a "Fast and Furious" fan so I am somewhat aware of most of the scenes but have no idea what order they show up in within a given movie or within the series.)

I can count on one hand the number of movies I've actually sat through from beginning to end in the last 10 years. Most are movies the local church sponsors by promising the movie theater that they will buy X amount of tickets if the theater brings the movie to town (Courageous, God's not Dead, etc). Then the church buys the tickets and re-sells them. The rest are movies that my wife thinks I would like, so she brings them home and I feel compelled to actually sit through them. For example, I liked the book "The Martian", so now that that's out the wife will rent it and pretty much force me to sit down and watch it. I'll probably enjoy it, but I'm way to hyper enjoy sitting still for that long.

Ha! I have The Inner Light ready for my wake!!!!!

How about the remakes of old movies? Things like "Gone in 60 Seconds". Once the awful remake comes out, you never get to see the original on teevee again. They've also done it to "The Italian Job", "War of the Worlds", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "Planet of the Apes", "The Poseidon Adventure", "The Fog", "Around the World in 80 Days", "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", "Vanishing Point", and dozens of others.

I mean, let's face it, unless the original movie starred Barbra Streisand, Keanu Reeve, Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise, it's better off left alone.

new movies , modern computer action ,,. sci fi ,.. and these stupid cartoon characters like kung fu panda ,,. are all garbage to me ,. mysara and I enjoy turner classics , and the western channels ,, history channel used to be good till they stopped presenting and following history . I grew up with 2 or 3 channels ,. nowadays I have sumthin , from 1 -1000 , and I still cant find anything I wanna watch,,. the westerns made after 1980 are sissified ,. and so dumb and out of touch with life in the old west... that's my 2 cents

My tv only gets DVD, and those come out of the $5 bin. And then it's mostly just background noise, so what's in gets played again, usually, til I've seen it clear through.

Most new movies are just too heavy on action and lacking on actual storytelling, especially the remakes.

I never could understand why anyone would watch the same movie over and over.
My wife would do that and I would ask her if she wasn't paying attention the first time.
Then she commented one day that I was watching a rerun of a motorsport race.
In all fairness there can be more action at times than you can absorb the first time you watch it.