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Is it fair to judge older movies with the same standards in terms of acting, effects and action that we hold films to today?
For example, I watched Seven Samurai and was severely unimpressed by what passed as "action scenes" in it. Just yesterday I watched The Third Man and while it's regarded as an all-time great film, the acting just felt campy compared to what is seen as great acting in modern films
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Fair to judge acting? Yes. Effects and action? No. Writing? Sometimes.
If you think The Third Man is hackneyed in anyway it's only because it's been copied so many times in the 70 years since it came out. Acting has that problem too. The "acting" just rings hollow because you know all the beats the movie itself is going to hit even if you haven't seen it before.
When it comes to the acting particularly what you really have to ask yourself is if you're judging the actual performance or if you're comparing it to something that has the benefit of 60+ years of technical nuance; better tech and technique. Lighting speaks volumes more this day and age, as do certain styles of camerawork. Subtlety over an extreme close-up and swelling music, for example.
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