Ghost of murdered lady seeks out the killer.
By now, after all the films we’ve shown, is there a decade, past which you essentially stopped watching? With me it comes down to violence, overt sex, feminazism, wokery … the light brown 80s for me is pretty much it.
What about the early movies … silents with vamps, precode and grainy talkies? It’s about 1935 where, if the copy is watchable, I start watching. For some reason, the 40s still had elegance, noir was effective … that’s probably my fave era. 50s gets a bit too sfx sci-fi for mine … dress and manners are still good.
Can’t think of too many good 60s films, 70s were getting bad … overt, slo-mo violence, same with sex … gauche, lacking in style, esp. the slappers. If I see a film is 90s onwards, imho it’s best avoided, usually some kickbutt female pretending she’s omnipotent.
Ha ha, a nutty comedy mystery, but Joan Blondell made it work. Good special effects too, nominated for an Oscar apparently. Amusing and watchable rather than funny. Imaginative too, but Thorne Smith’s books were imaginative, Topper being one of his creations.
As for movies generally, I watch more than I used to – silents, precode, grainy talkies and movies up to the fifties, but beyond that not so much.
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JH: Thought why not today, a bit different.
fwiw
I am with both of you.
maybe due to a larger selection pool, plus being Texan, I generally prefer westerns. Such as The Searchers. Josey Wales. several Randolph Scott n Joel McCrea.
most movies are strictly as “advertised”-
“Amusement”.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/muse_n1
1.
Classical Mythology. (Now usually in form Muse.)
1.a.
c1390–
Each of the nine goddesses regarded as presiding over and inspiring learning and the arts, esp. poetry and music.
The Muses were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (Memory) and normally held to be nine in number. However, in Greek antiquity there were other accounts both as to the number of the Muses and their parentage. The names of the nine appear first in Hesiod who states that Calliope is the chief among them. Later mythologists assigned to each a particular class of functions. These have become clearly defined in modern allusive use, where Clio is the Muse of history, Thalia of comedy, Melpomene of tragedy, Euterpe of music, and Terpsichore of dancing; but they were originally less definitely limited. The other names Erato, Polyhymnia, Urania, and Calliope, appear less frequently in English literature, since they have for most readers no well-known association with any particular branch of the arts. Urania (lit. ‘the heavenly’, in formal lists the Muse of astronomy) is invoked by Milton (Paradise Lost vii), who explains that he means not the pagan goddess of mythology but a Christian celestial source of inspiration (see quot. 1667).
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/muse
muse
1
[ myooz ]
Phonetic (Standard)
IPA
verb (used without object)
mused, musing.
to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
Synonyms: deliberate, contemplate, ponder, dream, think, ruminate, cogitate
Archaic. to gaze meditatively or wonderingly.
this could go on a long while, but at the root of all entertainment/amusement are pagan/heathen “forces”.
Should “we” as Christians ally with such?
how can 2 walk together…
just wond’rin
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