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I've started really liking old 1930s and 1940s films and music, and I like them better than modern 21st century films and music of today. Is that normal?
I think movies back then had to rely a lot more on better writing and acting, because they didn't have the technology and visuals we have today.
Today, a movie can just have an explosion every 10 seconds, with no storyline, and for some reason that sells. Where's the acting and the story? This is part of the reason I (among modern movies) prefer b-movies over the Hollywood blockbusters. I love a film made with passion, not made to please critics.
It is very normal.
Some movies and music in the modern days have turned to crap so I hardly am interested in them anymore. Though I am kinda bored of old films as well.
Are you talking about jazz music? Jazz is the absolute worst music ever.
I sorta like jazz, but that's more 1920s speakeasy music. The 1930s and 1940s was the age of swing, and I really like all that.
I searched swing music from the 30s and 40s on Youtube, and it sounds like jazz to me... But to each their own.
I like how alot of 1930s and 1940s bands has those muted trumpets and trombones, and that particular style sound of violins where when hearing them you know that it's music from that time.
You ever seen the 1930s films 42nd St, Dames, or Gold diggers 33 or 35, or Footlight parade? I love them and many more from the era. If you don't like them, it's cool, just asking. Like you said, to each their own.
As much as I love all those old films, music, and talk from back then, I do agree that you cannot go around acting and talking today like they did back then. If someone went around today calling women dames, I'm sure people would look at them weird.
I see what you mean. I'm all for the advancement of womens' rights since, although I like vintage style I'm fully modern in my views on things (I'm gay, kind of have to be).
For me though, feminism died after the 90s. It was at it's peak in the "girl power" era, when it was more about female empowerment than female victimhood. Today it's just social nitpicking of "problematic" things to complain about, and these same women look ridiculous when they turn around and defend Islam's austere treatment of women.
I agree with some of that. I don't think that women were more assertive in the 1990s than they are now about sex, women have seemed to get freakier and more promiscuous every decade. I think in the 90s, women got more assertive about being equal to men in other areas of life besides sex, such as in the workplace, etc., and they got more assertive and really started speaking up about how they felt men should and shouldn't talk to them. The 90s were the "don't call me a chick!" decade with women.
I think both of the only-2 genders looked so much more glamourous and sophisticated then. Even working-class people would make an effort on how they looked with the little they had.
I'm sick of seeing men walking around in dirty tracksuit trousers and baggy t-shirts, and women walking around in leggings with their asscheeks hanging out and neon thongs on show. Long stringy hair dyed that "almost blonde but not quite" yellow. It's not attractive. Fucking get dressed, I'd be embarrassed to be seen in public looking like that.