I just watched a 43 year old movie for the first time...
By reinydawn
@reinydawn (11643)
United States
May 23, 2010 8:10pm CST
Yes, before tonight I had never seen "The Graduate". The movie came out in 1947. Dustin Hoffman was just a kid! I've heard about it all my life (well, not the first few years, but ever since it came out) and I finally added it to my Blockbuster list and we watched it tonight. It was pretty decent, a good story, but not what I thought it was.
What's the "oldest" movie you saw for the first time?
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@mentalward (14691)
• United States
24 May 10
You mean 1967, right? I saw that movie, too, and it was many years after it was made but not that long. I'd say I saw it for the first time about 30 years ago.
The oldest movie I've seen was made in 1923, I believe. It was the original 'Hunchback of Notre Dame', the silent movie. I've seen a lot of silent movies because I adore the really old comedy actors like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
Some of the older movies are better than most that are made today, in my opinion. I like the fact that, with the old movies, everything is real. There's no digital enhancing, no airbrushing and all the special effects were very physical.
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
24 May 10
Do you get TMC, Turner Movie Classics? Every week they have Silent Sundays. I record the movies to watch later, as they come on late at night. TMC is wonderful, much better than AMC, which seems to think a classic is a movie from the 60's but shows a lot of ones from the 90's. I love the old silents and you're right, everything was real and they had to try harder and really act. I even find the overacting in a lot of them very endearing.
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@mentalward (14691)
• United States
24 May 10
I LOVE the overacting! Especially when they're surprised or shocked by something, when they touch their foreheads with the back of their hands. I watch TMC quite a lot. I didn't know about Silent Sundays, though. THANKS!!! It's kind of ironic because, just last night, my husband showed me how to record stuff with the cable box. I had NO idea we had that feature, even though I've seen "record now", or something like that, quite often. Kinda makes me feel like a doofus. 
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
24 May 10
Dang, you missed The Big Parade last night! 1925, MGM's first big success and King Vidor's most famous silent movie, starring John Gilbert. I can't wait to see it! I don't like the subject of war but this one should be very insightful as it was just a few years after the horrific WWI.
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
24 May 10
I saw "A Trip to the Moon" made in 1902 a few months ago. That's the oldest movie I've ever seen; I'm really into silent movies and there are some really great ones. For example, did you know that Ben Hur was first made during the silent era? And one about Jesus that was so touching and heart-wrenching that I had to stop it several times.
Didn't the Graduate come out in the 60's? I remember people saying how shocking it was! And it was, at that time. Now people would hardly bat an eyelash at the moral challenges posed by that storyline. Kinda sad.
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
29 May 10
Yeah, I got the date wrong on that one - sorry!!!
Now I'm going to have to watch some of these real "oldies" !!!!
@mentalward (14691)
• United States
24 May 10
Oh, man! I completely forgot about that movie! I've seen it, too! It almost makes me think of those nickelodeons or even those cards you flip through that make things look like they're moving. Sooooooooo primitive but wow! what an innovation for the time!
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