re: Are older movies truly better?

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Acting in older movies (pre-70s or so) is extremely overrated.

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I sort of agree

Anything before about 1950, outside of a few of the top actors (Bogart, Grant, Jimmy Stewart, etc) the acting is terrible. My dad will every now and then make me watch something pre-WWII, and about 95% of the time the acting is painfully terrible.

By the mid-50's this isn't true anymore. Alot of it is in the early days actors and actresses were play acting in front of cameras. They hadn't figured quite out yet that there is a big difference in film acting and stage acting. And I think before the late 40's the dialogue in a lot of movies was pretty terrible.

But pre-70's? That's not true at all. Try like pre-WWII.