Things that were acceptable in old films

[Roadkill]

On a rather different note, I sometimes find older films more affecting than newer ones, for all the crude camera work, basic sets and lack of graphically horrifying scenes. Take Titanic as an example. I actually like it, because for all its big-budget Hollywood cheesiness it does a good job of portraying the sheer scale and awfulness of the Titanic disaster and - ill-advised scene with an officer shooting a passenger aside - it sticks pretty close to the facts. And yet, I find scene from the old 1958 film A Night To Remember a lot more moving...

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Friendly police.

Ooh, I actually net some real live mods last week. Must start a thread about it.

 

[mentalchik]

Erm yeh they do. Musicals were never that popular anyhoo.

Ya what ?

 

[Ms T]

offensive depicting of minorities

e2a yes, you, Breakfast at Tiffanies

That is one of the most cringeworthy performances in a film ever.

 

[AverageJoe]

The use of a Swanee Whistle to accentuate the innuendo

 

[rubbershoes]

kids up chimneys

 

[DotCommunist]

during a saucy kiss, the woman raising one leg of the ground

 

[DotCommunist]

The use of a Swanee Whistle to accentuate the innuendo

somebody needs to bring that back

 

[The Octagon]

during a saucy kiss, the woman raising one leg of the ground

I so want a girl to do this when I kiss her (obviously there may need to be a 3rd party witness).

 

[LJo]

Husbands & wives in single beds.

With the bloke in checked pyjamas and the wife in an enormous, tent-like nightdress done up to the neck.

I suppose houses were colder in the olden days.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

during a saucy kiss, the woman raising one leg of the ground

ah women putting their knuckles in their mouth when they're screaming

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

With the bloke in checked pyjamas and the wife in an enormous, tent-like nightdress done up to the neck.

I suppose houses were colder in the olden days.

No, they were just showing they could be sexy without having to show loads of flesh

Think Cary Grant

 

[fractionMan]

fainting.

 

[Upchuck]

Calling a doctor (nearly always a man) and having one immediately available to come to your house. The doctor is then able to diagnose the condition by having a quick look and maybe placing his hand on the forehead.

 

[kabbes]

I was watching "Doctor At Large" at the weekend. It was hilarious. At one point, a doctor took a woman that he'd never seen before, put her over his knee and gave her a spanking. And not in a sexy way either but because she deserved it.

 

[gnoriac]

Saloon fights in westerns where, despite being hit with a table, being punched clean through a window or having a bottle smashed over one's head, no-one actually gets seriously injured.

 

[fubert]

Have six pints, jumping the car and driving home

 

[Pseudopsycho]

There were something like four sequels to that, including one where the leprechaun was in space.

Wandered off to wiki and found it has six films in the series, the latest of which are the insanely premised:

Leprechaun: In the Hood (2000)

(featuring Ice-T as the pimp Mack Daddy O'Nassas)
and
Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood (2003)

ETA the Leprechaun was played by Warwick Davies from Willow and Star Wars

 

[8den]

The fastest way to travel is via montage. And Airplanes leave a trail of dotted lines behind them.

 

[The Octagon]

Trains look like awesome places to be, in which gorgeous women see no problem with letting you into their private compartment (snigger).

 

[DotCommunist]

Wandered off to wiki and found it has six films in the series, the latest of which are the insanely premised:

Leprechaun: In the Hood (2000)

(featuring Ice-T as the pimp Mack Daddy O'Nassas)
and
Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood (2003)

ETA the Leprechaun was played by Warwick Davies from Willow and Star Wars

Nice to see Ice keeping up his track record of quality acting roles

 

[camouflage]

Really crap gunfights and fisticuffs.

 

[AKA pseudonym]

squishing a grapefruit in a womans face at breakfast by james Cagney

 

[damnhippie]

people getting shot and killed without bullet wounds or blood

 

[damnhippie]

everyone walking around slightly too fast

 

[The Octagon]

The US as the good guys in War films.

 

[damnhippie]

you can tell if someone's evil because they're hold a cape over the lower half of their face

 

[damnhippie]

fist shaking as an expression of rage

EDIT i think i might have wrongly interpreted the thread title. oh well.

 

[DotCommunist]

fist shaking as an expression of rage

'why I oughtta!'

 

[The Octagon]

Nobody ties damsels to railway lines anymore