You know you're getting old when..

[morris]

CELEBRATING ALL THINGS OLD AND DODDERY!!

If this is you, moan about it here.

[jaykays hat]

Originally Posted by morris

My nephew, age around 14 recently saw Jaws for the first time. His verdict: "It wasn't even scary...and there were some LONG boring bits in between.."
I found myself saying, well you know in those days, simple things were scarier and we had attention spans so didn't require 20 different things to be going on all at the same time in order to hold our interest. We waited patiently for the thrilling bits of shark action.

I felt like an old git. I am an old git.

I know exactly how you feel, my 9 year old son watched it recently and said it was ok, just ok. I had to use a similar lecture on him about how we didn't have computer graphics years ago but it didn't matter.

[morris]

Originally Posted by jaykays hat

I know exactly how you feel, my 9 year old son watched it recently and said it was ok, just ok. I had to use a similar lecture on him about how we didn't have computer graphics years ago but it didn't matter.

Sigh. It's the generation gap, jay.
I remember showing 2001 A Space Odyssey to younger siblings years ago and their reaction was "So?" or "meh". They didn't understand the impact of the scene where HAL shuts Dave out and get that the breathing was part of it, the suspense. They were just: There's no explosions or space ships tearing around the screen, WTF?

I know it's a film that divides opinion even among some of us older types but they didn't even give it a chance I felt. To be fair the tv screen was rather poky, the quality was probly VHS. but still...

Sigh

[jaykays hat]

Originally Posted by morris

Sigh. It's the generation gap, jay.

To be fair the tv screen was rather poky, the quality was probly VHS. but still...

Sigh

It makes me laugh when I tell my son about the films my dad used to take me to see, like the Connery Bond films and he asks me if they were in grey (his way of saying black & white).
How he laughs when I tell him that we only had 3 TV channels and how I remember getting home from school and my dad had rented a new TV and how happy I was that it was colour.

I was sat in my lounge yesterday, watching 'Watchmen' on blu-ray with the surround sound cranked up and I thought what if we could bring John Logie Baird back and show him what his invention has become, and then the scene came on where the prisoner gets his arms cut off with an angle grinder and then I thought, maybe not.

[Jonesy]

Originally Posted by morris

Sigh. They were just: There's no explosions or space ships tearing around the screen, WTF?

morris, you bloody hypocrite, you say exactly the same thing about any film made before 1970.

[morris]

Not true. *mumble under breath*

I appreciate some old films. Like 2001 and Hitchc ock and stuff. You know I like some vintage horror, a few are pre-1970. Like Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby just nips in before '70

here is a trailer for an old film I like: Italian classic Black Sunday feat scream queen Barbara Steele
Black Sunday USA trailer (1960)

Sci-fi can show its age because of the effects, but the truly great ones don't date I'm sure of it.

last but not least,

*RASPBERRY* to you sir!

[morris]

Originally Posted by jaykays hat

How he laughs when I tell him that we only had 3 TV channels and how I remember getting home from school and my dad had rented a new TV and how happy I was that it was colour.

yeh today's kids will never understand how great the thrill of the arrival of colour tv was. It was huge. Like nothing else. And we never imagined needing much more than 3 channels

"what for? You can only watch one at a time"

[Jonesy]

Besides, the choice of quality programmes was so much broader in those days, that you didn't need more channels. Now you get exactly the same on each. I've got Sky, and I still find that most of the time, there's nothing to bloody watch.

[morris]

hey an Old Crocs thread - grand idea.

So true, Jonesy.
Like the line in the Pink Floyd song "I've got thirteen channels of shi t on the TV to choose from.." We've got even more nowadays and they're all showing reality TV sh ite!

Bring back the days of old, I say. When there was less choice but more quality.

I have to go and lie down now. to the cat basket*

[Welshman]

I recently watched any which way but loose with my mate and his brother who is a teenage chav. I declared how i loved the film before it came on and how funny it was. Anyway after the film I was declared as "Sad" for enjoying the "stupid film."
I then challenged him to name a better film or the best film. His response "Transformers". I believe my response was along the lines of "oh dear."

As for Sky, i checked out the movies the othernight. Is there 8-10 channels ( Sky movies) and not a single film grabbed my interest and most I had seen before. I remember TV shutdown, then again at midnight its mainly quiz shows anyway. We had a portable black and white TV in the kitchen and a colour one in the front room. It was quite funny seeing my parents and grandparents fight over who was watching the colour TV.