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David Ollerearnshaw
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posted August 28, 2014 04:40 PM

Sadly we have been loosing quite a few of the GREAT ones of the silver screen over that last few months.

These are are the ones I really like to watch. THEY were GOOD and gave me great pleasure and entertained me.

The sad thing is I then look at their films on IMDB and follow the links. What do I find? Other of my favourites are no longer here.

The producers, Directors, Special Effects, Stuntmen/women all gone. And some get no mention.

The old MGM slogan of "More Stars Than They Are In Heaven" is sadly now wrong.

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Osi Osgood
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posted August 29, 2014 12:33 PM

That was the classic era back then, when stars had a certain "mystique" to them, and while not every film was a classic, even the "B" movies were usually well worth watching!

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Ken Finch
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posted August 31, 2014 09:47 AM

Perhaps the slogan should be amende to "more stars are in heaven"! Seriously, the old "film star" system has now passed. We no longer go to see films because our particular favourites are in it irrespective of how they played the part. We now judge actors and actresses more on their ability to be the character they are playing rather tan just their names. However, it is a sign that we are getting old when our childre say "who was he/she?" When we hear that one those those we admired have been added to the depatrure list. No doubt we were the same when one of the lesser known favourite Silent stars of our parents generation had passed away. Ken Finch. [Smile]

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David Ollerearnshaw
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posted August 31, 2014 12:52 PM

Probably like you say a sign I'm getting old (56). I struggle to find many of the actors now that I enjoy watching. Could be the style of films now-a-days though.

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Joe Caruso
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posted September 02, 2014 05:58 AM

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Vidar Olavesen
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posted September 02, 2014 07:02 AM

I agree with David here ... There's something wrong about the way they make movies now. Of course they always wanted to make money, but now it seems like it's all about the money and nothing about the art of film making. Can you call someone holding a camera, jerking it in and out, left to right with no point to it whatsoever a Cinematographer? In my eyes, NO ... Anyone can film the way they do it today, and I think 95% of them do not know anything, just get a camera and point (and jerk it around). And the editing is the same. Are we supposed to be told a story and follow it? I can't follow todays films. For example, someone reads a note ... In proper, good old films, we saw what it said, now it's shown for less than a second. I have a suspicion, they do not know how to direct and act anymore, so they just cut to a different scene to cover up the foul ups. Manhattan, by Woody Allen, has scenes many minutes long and that takes acting skills. Brian De Palmas lovely camera movement in Raising Cain (or most of his older films for that matter) is outstanding. It's now a money grabbing video industry for me, not a film industry with people proud of what they do. Long live Harryhausen, De Palma, Allen and all those who know (knew?) how to make films the proper way

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Osi Osgood
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posted September 02, 2014 01:07 PM

The funny thing is, it seems to me that Hollywood and the film-making public are more than capable of making absolutely beautiful films and technically, people have a host of things at they're disposal to make films look and sound incredible.

It's the story that really seems to be missing a lot of the time.

Back to actors ...

I always noticed that the actors of the past (at least "big ones"), not only had a distinguished look, "mystique" (as I mentioned earlier), but they even had a certain quality to they're voices.

You automatically KNEW Bogart, or Stewart (of the "Jimmy" variety) when you heard them on the radio. The same was true of many of the actresses. Could you ever confuse Katherine Hepburn for Mae Questel on the radio? Nope!

There ARE exceptions today, of course, but so many of the actors and actresses of today have very "generic" voices.

I find that most of my favorite actors and actresses today are the "second tier" or character actors, such as Steve Buscemi and the like.

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David Ollerearnshaw
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posted September 05, 2014 05:31 PM

Not only the actors, even the posters seemed better. My son has been playing some games and watching them on you tube. Then a trailer for a new film. You were hard to tell them apart.

Are tripods not made anymore. It seems not judging by some of the camera work now.

Actors could be a dying breed now, with digital do we need them. A trailer for the new Apes film the apes are cgi. I prefer the original ones. They were part of the scene. Plus I can remember the cast of some of them.

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