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September 12, 2005
Movies: All About Eve
All About Eve is the 1950 Best Picture winner and #58 on the IMDB list of all movies and really is a very good movie but I didn't like it very much, and honestly like almost no old movies very much. Somehow, most of these old movies feel very stilted and slow to me. This movie in particular felt like something of a cross between real theatre (on a stage live) and what I think of as a (modern) movie and not as enjoyable as either. It lacks the in the moment emotional power of live theatre but also the (gritty) realism of modern dramas. Pretty much the only movies on the IMDB Top 250 prior to 1965 that I really like are foreign (mostly Kurosawa) or action films There are of course some exceptions ("The General" for instance) but it is surprising to me how little most old movies do for me.
Posted by aarondf at September 12, 2005 12:48 PM
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