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13 January 2013, 04:15 PM
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Old Movies
What is it with Critics and old movies.
I wasted about 45 minutes of my eyesight this afternoon on an old bomb called "North by Northwest" which receives 100% on Rotten Tomatoes with rave reviews from the critics. I'm a bit of a movie buff but I couldn't relate any of the critic's comments to the movie I saw. Acting (particularly by Cary Grant) was just awful (even by 50s standards) and the plot just silly. I thought the thing totally lacked any pretense of asking to be taken seriously and what might have passed for humour was just corney. This may have been regarded as sophisticated entertainment in 1960 but today it is laughable. I must be missing something here as I enjoy some old movies - Bogart & Bacall, Bette Davis, Robert Mitchum, most with Paul Newman or Steve McQueen.
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