^You need to see more films from the 60s. I bet all your favorites are from the 90s and 00s, right.

My avatar is deeply offended.

I thought I was the only one that noticed that :rofl:

I mean, yeah, I enjoy movies from my time more. A lot of times the low qualityness of old movies makes them feel awkward...

in general, i think film-making has evolved so far that it makes watching really old ones dull.

If we apply this ridiculous statement to any art form, like painting, that would make, for example, Leonardo da Vinci's paintings dull. I mean they're really old. See what I did here.

apples and oranges. i didn't apply it to any art form. how many technological advances in the field of painting have there been recently? and the genesis of film was a tad later as well. not to mention how much more complex they are.

I like watching old movies for the stylistic differences. It's often easy to spot if a movie was made a while ago, and sometimes I'm in the mood for that. But usually it's just a really good movie.

Well there is digital painting and airbrush. And when the photography appeared, it did influence a redefining of what a painting is, but it didn't devalue the artistic merit of realistic painting of past periods, just as now digital painting doesn't devalue traditional painting.

If color film can destroy artistic value of black & white, then, following your logic, digital painting can destroy a value of one Leonardo da Vinci. See how crazy this idea is. I can't make it any clearer. It's not apples and oranges. It's all art. Maybe you're viewing films through technology and science. Now that's apples and oranges. Because technology and science are evolving and are better in time, and art is evolving not to be better, but different.

My point is, artistic merit is not dependent on technological advances.

thats all well and good, but they bore me.