I just find movies made in that era hard to get into.
2000s movies and onwards are just more modern looking and have decent pacing.
I tried ET once and couldn't understand the appeal.
Back to the future and Jurassic Park are slow, weird pacing, over long scenes.
I feel like people get pacing these days and it just works. It's a movie.
Have you tried Fatima's Coochee Coochee Dance? I never get tired of watching that one, one of the best '90s movies in my opinion!
https://youtu.be/3-g13hJ8NdI
I prefer the uncensored version.
shareThen don’t watch them.
shareI completely disagree with you, Ticketsplease. There were plenty of very good films from the '80s and '90's.
In fact, I'm gonna list all the Blu-rays and DVDs of the films I own from that time period ...
1980
Blu-rays: Caddyshack; The Dogs of War; The Final Countdown
DVDs: Carny
1981
Blu-rays: Body Heat; Excalibur
DVDs: Absence of Malice; Stripes
1982
Blu-rays: An Officer and a Gentleman; Blade Runner; Cannery Row; Cat People; Fast Times at Ridgemont High;
The World According to Garp
DVDs: Porky's
1983
Blu-rays: Gettysburg; Gorky Park; Local Hero; The Right Stuff
DVDs: The Big Chill; Cross Creek; The Dead Zone; Eddie and the Cruisers; The Outsiders; Tender Mercies
1984
Blu-rays: 2010; Blame It on Rio; Purple Rain; Red Dawn; Romancing the Stone; Starman; Streets of Fire; The Terminator;
This Is Spinal Tap
DVDs: Bachelor Party; Broadway Danny Rose; The Flamingo Kid; Footloose; Garbo Talks; Moscow On the Hudson; The Natural;
The Philadelphia Experiment; Revenge of the Nerds; Sixteen Candles; Swing Shift
1985
Blu-rays: Ladyhawke; Vision Quest
DVDs: After Hours; Commando; Desperately Seeking Susan; Gotcha!; Into the Night; Mask; Murphy's Romance; Silverado;
Summer Rental; Turk 182; Witness
1986
Blu-rays: Highlander; Hoosiers; Youngblood
DVDs: The Best of Times; Children of a Lesser God; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Gung Ho; Legal Eagles; Lucas; Peggy Sue Got Married; Ruthless People; Stand By Me
1987
Blu-rays: Black Widow; Dirty Dancing; Overboard; The Princess Bride; Roxanne
DVDs: 84 Charing Cross Road; Baby Boom; The Big Easy; Light of Day; Predator; Some Kind of Wonderful; Summer School
1988
Blu-rays: Bull Durham; Midnight Run; The Presidio
DVDs: Alien Nation; Beetlejuice; Casual Sex?; Coming to America; Crossing Delancey; Mystic Pizza; Tequila Sunrise; Twins
1989
Blu-rays: Black Rain; Field of Dreams; Glory; Major League; Road House; Uncle Buck; When Harry Met Sally
DVDs: Chances Are; Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!; Immediate Family; True Believer
Gonna take a short break and then add the 1990s.
OK, here we go ...
1990
Blu-rays: Dances with Wolves; Total Recall
DVDs: Ghost; The Hot Spot; Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
1991
Blu-rays: Doc Hollywood; The Doctor; Father of the Bride; The Indian Runner; My Girl; Point Break
DVDs: The Butcher's Wife; Career Opportunities; The Commitments; Defending Your Life; Frankie and Johnny; Grand Canyon;
Regarding Henry; Soapdish
1992
Blu-rays: The Last of the Mohicans; Mr. Baseball; Singles
DVDs: Basic Instinct; The Cutting Edge; A Few Good Men; A League of Their Own; Leap of Faith; The Lover; My Cousin Vinny;
Unlawful Entry
1993
Blu-rays: Dave; Jurassic Park; The Pelican Brief; Point of No Return; Schindler's List; Sleepless In Seattle
DVDs: Cool Runnings; Dazed and Confused; For Love or Money; Indian Summer; Matinee; Mr. Wonderful; The Thing Called Love
1994
Blu-rays: The Client; My Girl 2; The Shawshank Redemption; Stargate
DVDs: Color of Night; Greedy; Guarding Tess; True Lies
1995
Blu-rays: Apollo 13; Empire Records; Father of the Bride Part II; Get Shorty; Murder In the First; The Tuskegee Airmen; The Usual Suspects
DVDs: The Cure; Die Hard with a Vengeance; Mr. Holland's Opus; Sabrina
1996
Blu-rays: A Time to Kill
DVDs: Executive Decision; Mulholland Falls; Norma Jean & Marilyn; One Fine Day; Sleepers
1997
Blu-rays: Amistad; L.A. Confidential; Titanic
DVDs: As Good As It Gets; Men In Black; Murder at 1600; Picture Perfect; The Rainmaker; Ulee's Gold
1998
Blu-rays: Dark City; Meet Joe Black; You've Got Mail; Wild Things
DVDs: Soldier; There's Something About Mary
1999
Blu-rays: The Bone Collector; Entrapment; For Love of the Game; The Green Mile; Notting Hill; October Sky
DVDs: Double Jeopardy; Office Space; The Straight Story; A Walk On the Moon
There you have it. Perhaps you should check some of them out. I'm sure you'll find a whole bunch of very good films in there.
"I tried ET once and couldn't understand the appeal."
It's basically a modern-day fairy tale targeted to preteen kids. A lot of adults feel the same way about it, even some who originally saw it as a child. I know a guy who saw it when he was in elementary school and remembers the film as being "extremely boring."
MAC & ME IS VASTLY SUPERIOR.
shareThe different pacing is a necessity these days because a lot of people now have the attention span of an amoeba and lose their focus and look away at their phone unless there is nonstop action on screen.
shareThe stupidphone is another scourge of today's society. People are becoming increasingly dumbed-down and lazy as they become more dependent of these ridiculous electronic crutches. The sad part is they are doing this to themselves voluntarily.
shareThey should dread the day there is some weird solar flare or something and the internet goes down.
shareMan there are tons and tons of great movies from those decades
Casualties of War, Drugstore Cowboy, Goodfellas, Bravehart, Dances With Wolves, JFK, A Perfect World, Speed, Dead Man Walking, The Fugitive, In The Line of Fire, A Few Good Men, Sling Blade, A Simple Plan, LA Confidential, Good Will Hunting, Rounders, The Negotiator, Pulp Fiction, Witness, Talk Radio, Silence of the Lambs, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, Heat, Point Break, Enemy of the State, The Last Boyscout, The Crow, Batman, Hard Eight, Trainspotting, Die Hard, Predator, Robocop, Lethal Weapon, Aliens, Scream, The Siege, Gross Point Blank, One False Move, True Romance, State of Grace, Barton Fink, The Player, Ed Wood, Thelma and Louise, Affliction, The Big Lebowski, Cop, Dead Man, Boogie Nights
Couldn't disagree with you more.
shareGuys don’t waste your breath, this is probably a millennial that was raised on one minute TikTok videos and 10 minutes YouTube clips.
It’s not a question of pacing, it’s a question of attention span.
True man, I have a very limited attention span. I don't enjoy exploration of characters if it's self serving or just a monologue for some actor to show us his chomps.
shareI don't enjoy exploration of characters if it's self serving or just a monologue for some actor to show us his chomps.
CHOMPS?...LMAO