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Wtf?...no Love For The Classics - knewby - 12-18-2009
I was surfin' the web today and was perusing a toy board and someone was showing off Mezco Toys new version of the upcoming Wolfman remake figure. Two of the moronic children who replied....one stated "I dont like the classic monsters but I guess this is cool"......and the other asked why the figure came with a wolf-heads cane.. <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"
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Wtf?...no Love For The Classics - VF 31 - 12-18-2009
todays generation simply isnt aware of how horror and monsters rlly started out. a select few im sure have gone out of their way to learn about the good ole days, and those would be your true horror fans.but most dont know anything and just eat up what is current and thats it.
Wtf?...no Love For The Classics - Deadguy71 - 12-18-2009
The production values have risen over the years, and looking "back" at the classics is harder and harder to do as the gulf of years increase.When the person didn't "grow up" with looking at any older films, the issue is even worse. It's coming to a point like it did with books, that you really had to look to get to the classics.. if your cravings for horror films or films in-general are satisfied with what you see these days, there's no incentive to look back to the classics.It's only a couple of generations old at the moment, but the fact that some films never got a DVD release really hurts them, and it'll only get worse as Blue-Ray completes it's takeover. Like DVD's did with VHS.Compare an old VHS copy with a high def copy and even before you look at thinks like "Beats per minute", "antiquated special effects', the gulf in quality difference is already HUGE with regards to detail levels, color, and sound.Not to mention Laser disks, Betas etc.. It's hard for a non-fanatic to understand that the original "mummy" was at least as entertaining as the new ones with all the CG effects (many of us would likely even say it's better). As a result, many wont ever give it a try.
Wtf?...no Love For The Classics - PREMATURE INKER - 12-18-2009
I just watched the original Wolfman flick and It brought back so many memories of childhood...those little bastards are what's going wrong with this world...LOL!!j
Wtf?...no Love For The Classics - travsall - 12-18-2009
Nothin makes me feel old faster then kids talking about horror. I instantly become the old codger yelling at young punks to stay off my lawn, and swinging a cane at them. It's painful almost how sad the state of it is, when to them the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake is a 'classic' and who would wanna watch some 'lame rip off' movie made in the 70's. Try explaining the genius behind Nosferatu, or Frankenstein, you don't get a sentence past silent movie before they're laughing at you. Steve and Deadguy are exactly right though, if you weren't exposed to these movies at a young age, and had so many memories attached to them, you wouldn't know much about them. It's easy to forget how small a microcosm horror fanatics exist in, not just horror fans, but the diehards like us. And then even smaller the true fans of horror's roots and lineage, who cringe at CG and would prefer a guy in a rubber suit every day of the week.
Wtf?...no Love For The Classics - knewby - 12-18-2009
Some great replies guys, very well said and thought out. It just pains me to the core to see legions of SAW fans and no love for the 30's classics. Those original Universal films are among the finest films ever made, not just horror. I guess in the age of instant gratification and attention spans of lightning its hard to sit thru an old classic black and white. Someone famous once said, "You don't know where you're going til you know where you've been"....Larry
Wtf?...no Love For The Classics - psychosocial91 - 12-19-2009
I'd rather watch and good 'ol black and white classic then anything from the last ten years thats for sure, horror has kind of down down the drain with a few exceptions that is.
Wtf?...no Love For The Classics - andrew santagato - 12-19-2009
This stuff just drives me nuts. <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"
\" border=\"0\" alt=\"rolleyes.gif\" /> Most of us know that without the great 'Universal Monsters' Films, and films like 'Nosferatu', 'House of Wax', 'Pit and the Pendulum', up to 'Psycho', etc. etc. etc., there wouldn't be films like 'SAW', and of course, 'remakes' of films like 'Texas Chainsaw', 'HalloweeN', 'Friday the 13th', and on and on. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that anyone has to like the classics, (although I think it's pretty sad), but those that make stupid comments like this should sit their asses down and throw on the Original Wolfman, or Frankenstein, and of course, TRY to maintain an open mind, and consider WHEN these films were made, and appreciate them for what they were at the time they were released. Believe it or not, a time will come when these new 'horror' films will one day be looked at and thought of by the 'new' kids as 'cheesy' and 'lame'. Which for the most part, I'm of that mind right now, lol.NOTHING will take me away from the TRUE classics. I watch the 'Universal Monster' movies ALL the time with my 12 year old son. He's grown up watching these films, as I did, and I must say, he's a FANATIC! I LOVE IT!! <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":biggrin:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"biggrin.gif\" /> -A
Wtf?...no Love For The Classics - gummi - 12-20-2009
Darn kids! <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":thumbsup:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"thumbsup.gif\" />
Wtf?...no Love For The Classics - ReellyScary - 12-20-2009
I know where you guys. We have some part time H.S. kids were I work and they know nothing nor do they have any desire to see anything made more than 10 years ago. Why ? It's not bloody enough. If it's not gory, it's not worth watching. The gore and the general lack of fun when watching the newer films makes me not interested in them in the least. Not to mention the remakes that are popping up left and right desperately trying to recapture some of the magic and fun these franchises were back in the day. Not just the franchises but the genre as a whole.All I've been watching in the past year or so are movies that were made by people who's motivation was telling a great story. Not money. There isn't a whole lot of originality anymore.Anyway, thats my two cents.