Who likes silent movies?

[CatWoman]

I don't!!!

I think they suck!!!!!!

[short bus president]

1. you mean

like watching porn with the sound turned way down? I can dig it.

;-)

[rooboy]

3. There are 2 types of movies I watch with the sound turned down...

Porn movies and anything with Rosie Perez in it.

[ronnykmarshall]

2. Huh? What you say?

[Catch22Dem]

4. I agree

They suck. C'mon, they were silent because they had to be. It's like using an adding machine instead of a computer because, "that's the way it was done in the good old days." Oh god, even worse, it's like actually sitting down with pen and paper and writing a letter!!! THE HORROR!!!!

[Dirk39]

5. You're worse than Bush...

if you don't love love love love love Buster Keaton.
Please listen to me, don't give up on youself way too soon, go to a cinema near you, watch "the general" and become someone admirable again, someone I can look up to! It's not to late:-)
Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[CatWoman]

6. heh

don't get me wrong.

I have a couple friends who are huge fans of silent films.

I happen to like the B&W classics. But I need sound, dammit!!!!

:D

[Dirk39]

9. Damned you need sound....

...come here to Hamburg, we still have some incredible sexy guys here between the age of 81 and 135, who still play piano life, soundtracking those films, as it was in the old days, when people like you wouldn't go to the cinema, because of that "sound-thing".
Chaplin might be somehow outdated now like others, but as long as you didn't give Keaton a try, you're not authorized to diss silent movies.

Greetings from Europe,

Dirk, Gilles Deleuze, Theodor W. Adorno, half of France, half of England and all those other wonderfull human beings, as long as they are wonderfull.

[CatWoman]

10. I've spent several years in Europe

when I was stationed there in the Army.

For my daughter's 13th birthday, we took a nightime boat ride, complete with castle illumination.

I really, really miss Europe.

[Dirk39]

14. O.K O.K., I never ment to hurt you...

but was your daughter happy with the sound-system? Or did you have nothing to offer to her than the analogue outdated "Happy-Birthday"-thing?
Hallo,
Dirk
P.S. We really have a tax-supported wonderfull cinema here in Hamburg, showing films like that and inviting those old piano-players, who are still alive.

[CatWoman]

16. you have me at a serious disadvantage

as I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

[Dirk39]

17. Sorry, I disappear into silence...

it might have been my language skills (at least in english), that made silent movies so attractive for me.

Sorry, don't beat me!
Dirk

[rasputin1952]

15. Did you ever do the ...

"Rhine im Flamen" trip? where the castles, etc are illuminated, and there Fireworks?

I was stationed in Wiesbaden and adored the place. Lots of stuff was still standing(pre-war) as Wiesbaden was pretty well left alone; but Mainz, across the, was total devastation,(so it is pretty modern).

The German people were fantastic, the beer was great, I loved all of the fest's and those places like Garmisch-Partenkirchen....Oh to be there again.

As for the silents....I love 'em generally, but an awful lot of them are pretty bad.

Nosferatu was the first real horror movie. And for real treat, W.C. Fields made 1 silent called: "Sally of the Sawdust". One of the greasest scenes of all times was at the end when Field's daughter picks up a rock to throw at the bad guy. Fields takes the rock from her hand and is obviously admonishing her. Then he leans over, picks up a brick, hands it to her and points in the direction of the villian. I damn near peed myself when I saw that the first time, it was so unexpected.

Anything with Keaton is classic; but I'm not that much of a Chaplin fan.

BTW, and I'm not making this up, my paternal grandfather had the first movie house in Brooklyn!

:bounce: :loveya:

[CatWoman]

20. That's exactly what we did

"Rhine im Flamen" trip? where the castles, etc are illuminated, and there Fireworks?

Hi, Rasp!!

:hi:

:loveya:

[rasputin1952]

22. Glad you and your daughter...

got that experience; it's one of those that stay with you forever!

If I may...When and where you over there?

ME: '78-'80; Army; 3/60AR HQCo, 4th Bde Fwd; 4th ID

:yourock:

[CatWoman]

24. I did a total of 5 years over there

77 - 79 in Hanau (regional personnel center)

82 - 83 in Kaiserslautern (air defense unit)

84 - 86 in Darmstadt (headquarters, air defense)

[MarianJack]

7. Of course, Charlie Chaplin too!

I think "City Lights" is one of the greatest movies ever made, silent or sound. Don't forget Harold Lloyd's "Safety Last". He did those stunts missing most of the fingers on one of his hands!

[liquidprisoner]

11. That vampire movie

We have a show late on Sat nights, called "Creature
Feature".  They ran an old vampire move that was silent. 
But instead of the old organ sound, they played a strange
techno pop as incidental music.  Tres cool!

[LunaSea]

13. Nosferatu?

did someone 'redo' the music?
Same was done in the 80s with Metropolis.

[rasputin1952]

23. "Metropolis"....a true classic...

Saw it a couple of months ago on TCM's "Silent Sunday"...taped it.

They said a lot of it had been lost, but some was recovered, and they put it in where they thought it should go, but they never really knew where to stick some of the stuff. So it goes.....maybe they'll find an original in some salt mine in Europe.

:hi:

[newyawker99]

18. Hi liquidprisoner!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[LunaSea]

8. I like several...

Sure a lot are tedious by current standards, take them for what they are. There are many worth watching.

Anything with Lon Chaney
The Woman in the Moon (this film gave the world the "countdown")
Metropolis (one of the most influential films period)
Birth of a Nation (theres your "horror")
The Lost World
A Trip to the Moon

Films like these were far more imaginative for their time than any in your local theater now.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Two words. Buster Keaton.

How can you not like that? There has been no one funnier.

[CatWoman]

19. I like 3 Stooges Funny

:shrug:

[arwalden]

25. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Gloria Swanson

I just love them.

[rucky]

21. eom