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# On Old Movies
- URL: https://tombeaverbooks.ghost.io/on-old-movies/
- Published: 2026-09-12T01:15:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T01:15:44.000Z
- Author: Tom Beaver
- Tags: Book: Movies And TV, #Import 2026-10-09 17:51

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For me this was true well into my adulthood. Even though there were old movies, TV shows and music I liked, they were the exception more than the rule. I tended not to like movies from before 1950 or TV and music from before 1960\. Too much black and white, to much stagey acting, too many actors who were now very old or dead—and in the case of music, so much music that didn’t sound like what came with and after The Beatles. 

Eventually, I came to enjoy, on its own terms, a lot more of the stuff that predated my generation. I think as a kid it just didn’t appeal to me, then as a teenager it seemed square to me. But as an adult I just wanted good entertainment and experience, whatever era it came come, and got over the stigma of oldness. 

However, I still don’t have much taste for foreign movies or foreign cultures in general. I’m still a picky eater and snooty teenager in that department. *\~ April 17, 2020*