Post by idioticbunny on Aug 16, 2020 22:17:05 GMT
Considering I've been posting all my line-ups as I've gone year-by-year in here since 1920, but am now getting close to the 1980s (and seeing that I guess my most recent thread got moved into the line-ups subthread under the Oscars/Awards category) I was trying to think of what we define as classic film around here?
I mean, yeah, there are films like No Country or There Will Be Blood always talked about as "modern classics," and then there are those like Se7en or Fargo still labeled "modern classics" as well, but each still carry that word "modern" with them. So at what point are films considered simply classics/classic film? I realize this is super subjective, so I figured a poll might help to decide where the majority lies.
Personally, I used to think '80s was the cut-off point because so many of them were ones I grew up on so it was weird to call them classics. But 1980 was 40 years ago now. Strange to think of something like The Shining or Empire Strikes Back as classic film in the same category as Casablanca or Citizen Kane, but I feel like it's gotta be at this point. I realize this might not be the same for someone born in the 2000s where they might view John Hughes' films as being as old as The Graduate. Plus, it's kind of weird that I would consider Apocalypse Now a classic film even though it came out only one year before Empire Strikes Back, so is it just because I watched one as a kid and not the other?
I guess it's kind of like when you listen to oldies on the radio and hear a song that came out when you were in high school, like "shit, am I that old now??" Anyway, just curious to see how you all view it and might make for interesting conversation here.
I mean, yeah, there are films like No Country or There Will Be Blood always talked about as "modern classics," and then there are those like Se7en or Fargo still labeled "modern classics" as well, but each still carry that word "modern" with them. So at what point are films considered simply classics/classic film? I realize this is super subjective, so I figured a poll might help to decide where the majority lies.
Personally, I used to think '80s was the cut-off point because so many of them were ones I grew up on so it was weird to call them classics. But 1980 was 40 years ago now. Strange to think of something like The Shining or Empire Strikes Back as classic film in the same category as Casablanca or Citizen Kane, but I feel like it's gotta be at this point. I realize this might not be the same for someone born in the 2000s where they might view John Hughes' films as being as old as The Graduate. Plus, it's kind of weird that I would consider Apocalypse Now a classic film even though it came out only one year before Empire Strikes Back, so is it just because I watched one as a kid and not the other?
I guess it's kind of like when you listen to oldies on the radio and hear a song that came out when you were in high school, like "shit, am I that old now??" Anyway, just curious to see how you all view it and might make for interesting conversation here.
