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<blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9456572" data-attributes="member: 54629">I do enjoy a lot of older movies. This conversation started because I wondered whether 70s-era sci-fi movies like Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Alien would be more enjoyable if one were high in the 70s. I wouldn't know because a) I wasn't alive in the 70s and b) I've never taken any mind-altering drugs.That all being said, anyone who thinks I judge a film's quality solely on the speed of its pacing has completely misunderstood my point of view. Pacing is probably one of the biggest factors for me, but faster is not always better. I did not enjoy the first 7 episodes of Game of Thrones because I found it too slow (and based on the opening scene, I was expecting more white walkers), but the last few seasons were too fast in comparison.For what it's worth, I showed Fargo to my older girls the other night. That's not exactly a fast-paced film, but I still enjoy it. Honestly, I want to like the original Alien. It just doesn't do it for me. I guess I just can't appreciate horror.One of my favorite movies of all time is Good Morning, Vietnam. The Empire Strikes Back is another. I enjoy many Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums) and Coen Brothers (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) movies.By the way, I've never seen any of the Rocky films, and I grew up in Philadelphia. The genre never interested me. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♀️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2640.png" title="Woman shrugging&nbsp; &nbsp; :woman_shrugging:" data-shortname=":woman_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="pukunui, post: 9456572, member: 54629"] I do enjoy a lot of older movies. This conversation started because I wondered whether 70s-era sci-fi movies like [I]Star Trek: The Motion Picture[/I], [I]Close Encounters of the Third Kind[/I], [I]2001: A Space Odyssey[/I], and [I]Alien [/I]would be more enjoyable if one were high in the 70s. I wouldn't know because a) I wasn't alive in the 70s and b) I've never taken any mind-altering drugs. That all being said, anyone who thinks I judge a film's quality solely on the speed of its pacing has completely misunderstood my point of view. Pacing is probably one of the biggest factors for me, but faster is not always better. I did not enjoy the first 7 episodes of [I]Game of Thrones [/I]because I found it too slow (and based on the opening scene, I was expecting more white walkers), but the last few seasons were too fast in comparison. For what it's worth, I showed [I]Fargo [/I]to my older girls the other night. That's not exactly a fast-paced film, but I still enjoy it. Honestly, I [I]want [/I]to like the original [I]Alien[/I]. It just doesn't do it for me. I guess I just can't appreciate horror. One of my favorite movies of all time is [I]Good Morning, Vietnam[/I]. [I]The Empire Strikes Back [/I]is another. I enjoy many Wes Anderson ([I]The Royal Tenenbaums[/I]) and Coen Brothers ([I]O Brother, Where Art Thou?[/I]) movies. By the way, I've never seen any of the [I]Rocky [/I]films, and I grew up in Philadelphia. The genre never interested me. 🤷‍♀️ [/QUOTE]

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