What is the oldest movie you genuinely enjoy?

I dont think I've seen anything pre-ww2, now that I think about it.

123 years old.
Still genuinely great.

If you can't enjoy any silent films then I pity your lack of imagination

Go watch some old buster keaton movies. They're great, they're funny, and they have some of the greatest stunt work you'll ever see.

Call it brainrot or whatever else, but silent films are just exhausting to get through. If I wanted to read I'd read a book.

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Anon, they're sentence long title cards that are fucking sparse.

The Boys Think They Have One On Foxy Grandpa But He Fools Them (1902)

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I like Gold Diggers of 1929.

It's a lost film, but they have the complete Vitaphone soundtrack discs, and every so often, some archivist locates another film fragment among uncataloged rolls of nitrate footage.

Watch this scene to see a brief clip of scuffed up early Technicolor synced to the audio.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=m9MV7q0D9E4&pp=ygUWR29sZCBEaWdnZXJzIGxvc3QgMTkyOdIHCQmGCQGHKiGM7w==

This is how these gold diggers get you.

Another clip turned up 6 months ago.

A coworker told me he didn't like Aliens or Predator or Commando because "the explosions look too fake". He's 35. Needless to say, I don't speak to him to anymore unless absolutely necessary.

Kino.

Better than anything John Ford did. Ambitious as hell.

I mean, in his defense, 80s special effects was the defining era that convinced a generation that explosion = fireball.
It looks cool, but if you grew up in the late 90s/early 2000s, you might be more used to more "realistic" (albeit not as cool) explosions.
I mean shit, even pic related wasn't supposed to be what it is. It just happened because Rodriguez had no money, no pyrotechnics, and a limited window to shoot, so he let his effects dude rig some crazy shit and they just went with it.

Le Voyage dans de Luna is my answer as well. I have a hard time watching silent movies but I love classic Hollywood movies from 1930-1960 but anything made before or the advent of talkies is usually a chore for me to watch. This is the oldest movie I can sit down and honestly enjoy and one of only a handful of silent films I actually like.

I'm the same age and grew up watching all the 80s classics. Not once did I think the explosions or any other special effects looked bad. Don't defend a 35 year old man hating on Predator because the "explosions look too fake".

Better than anything John Ford did.

yeah, nah

I saw that awful post too but didn’t say anything.

Better than anything John Ford did.

Fully and vociferously agree. I've been working my way through his filmography and have only liked Liberty Valance and Stagecoach. Searchers didn't do it for me at all, other than the nice looking VistaVision landscapes. He also has the most godawful sense of humour.

I also liked John Wayne a lot better here than in anything he did after he became a star. I wish some of the big Westerns of the 1950s and 60s had been as actually big as The Big Trail.

It looks cool, but if you grew up in the late 90s/early 2000s, you might be more used to more "realistic" (albeit not as cool) explosions.

What are these realistic explosions you speak of?

Give me some examples.

Fort Apache has a cool Wayne and a wonderful setting.

Last Train to Bhusan? I can barely stand anything from the 2010s and earlier, but that one was alright.

Outside the classics (like Wizard of Oz or Gone With the Wind) '50s sci fi is the earliest I can watch with regularity.

92 years old

The General by Buster Keaton

The first Nosferatu

Pic related is probably the oldest movie (that I've seen) that I would watch again, it's a classic for a reason. Watching it is kind of like reading Dune for the first time, you realize how derivative everything in its genre produced afterwards really is.

Have you heard the thousands of years old saying "there's nothing new under the sun"?

Nosferatu, so over a century now.