A few days ago I have rented an old movie, a classic from those I like to review. Somebody asked me then, almost in shock, why I was taking an old movie whether there were so many new and just released ones. I have answered that I prefer the best ones. And that the best movies are not always the new ones. Then that person got shocked.
There is a belief that everything new, or newer, is better. Why? For whom that sees only appearance new movies are more attractive because they show fancy places, things and people. And they show technology at its state of the art. Somebody may ask: but what about the content? It is easy to answer: in our consumption society, nobody cares about content.
I will show an example, remembering some films:
The Day the Earth Stood Still, from 1951, based in Edmund North’s screenplay, is the best movie from Robert Wise. The story criticizes the Cold War and the military and political misuse of science. No doubt, this is a sci-fi classic.
In 2008 December two movies were released, related to that screenplay:
The Day the Earth Stood Still, from Scott Derrickson, starring Keanu Reeves as the alien Klaatu, a bad film, and
The Day the Earth Stopped, from the average actor and bad director C. Thomas Howell, an extremely bad film.
Conclusion: the movie from 1951 is far better than these recent movies. And these new movies will get old, if they already are not.
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