Do you ever watch black and white movies?

hollydolly said:
you didn't get colour TV until 1990 ?... any particular reason ?
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Not by design, it just happened. My father worked for RCA for a while designing and building color TVs, he was very anti-TV so we never got a color set.

I bought a small B&W in about 1970, and whilst a student and for a while afterwards it was all I could afford. Then I lived for a time in an area with no cable and no reception, I kind of got used to not watching TV at all. So when I got back to civilization I just watched the old B&W once on in a while, not often. It finally died in the early 90s and I could afford a good TV so I got one.

Sometimes I wish I have never purchased that TV... too addictive with little of real value. But it's too late now.
 

I would like to mention the music in the movies over the years. Well, of course, there were musical sound tracks in the old black and white but I believe they were to high-lite the action or the story. They were always musical background. There was no singing. Now, advance the the bad modern days of garbage movies. You have a scene of someone driving someplace. So far so good. He/she drives for about 30 seconds or so and they put this horrible (my opinion) singing by some 14 year old totally unheard but desperate for recognition) girl. The singing just turns me off. Now, our star finally reaches where they are going, there is a bit of action and he/she drives away. Another horrible attempt at singing. This can happen 8 or 9 times in a film.

This kind of "trendy" movie making turned off modern Hollywood film 100%. I don't mind opening up my wallet and ordering some good TV shows from Amazon. I have never heard Matt Dillon singing while he is arresting some drunk on "Gunsmoke," nor have I ever heard Karl Malden or Michael Douglas singing some silly songs as they chase criminals through the "Streets of San Francisco." I have watched the entire series "Quincy, M.E." and I have never heard Jack Klugman nor his Japanese assistant, Sam, ever try to sing even 1 opera piece while dissecting a body to determine the cause of death.

Yap! If you ask me Hollywood has lost it's magic. It has lost many great actors and what the replacements are is not up to spif. Computer graphics and camera tricks are cute but can't replace great acting with a great story that pulls at the heart strings. Maybe that explains all the swearing in modern movies. They really have run out of ideas of what to say; so swearing seems to be better than just standing there looking dumb.
 

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I just saw "Now, Voyager (1942) with Bette Davis....on "M" movie channel
She won an Oscar for it.

Pretty good! Enjoyed!
 
I never really liked B&W movies. Even though we'd watch them on all the New York TV stations when nothing else was on.

They all spoke in that weird accent... my grandson said it was called the "trans-Atlantic accent", and spoke too fast.
 

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