Often, in discussions about old movies, someone will say, “That movie couldn’t be made today.”, and inevitably someone else will disagree.

    • credo@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      You couldn’t make the sixth sense either, because people would already know the ending.

      • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        Richard Pryor helped write the movie. The racists components were intentional as they were period relevant and ripe for mocking

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    12·
    3 months ago

    Look up all the stunts Buster Keaton did, and shiver. Or The Little Rascals or Hal Roach’s Rascals, whatever they were called.

    Or the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet - while probably one of the best versions ever, nobody today would dare to think doing a movie like that today - it would be criminal.

  • m4xie@lemmy.ca
    10·
    3 months ago

    My highschool physics teacher said the Nazis recorded X-ray video of Holocaust victims knees as they walked. Because MRI machines and other medical imagers aren’t large enough to walk around in, the films are still one of the best sources of how the bones actually move naturally under load in situ surrounded by the connective tissue.

    The radiation dose required to expose regular film at 24 frames a second killed the subjects.

    I really hope they don’t ever make movies like that again.

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 months ago

    Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal. No way would a studio agree to do that much hand-crafted work. They’d just have the stars reacting to a bunch of tennis balls and “fix it in post.”

  • hoagecko (he/his)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Silent films using tens of thousands of performers and large-scale stage sets will probably never be made again.

    This is because modern audiences take sound in films for granted, making it impossible to expect box office returns that match such an investment.

  • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    3 months ago

    Birth of a Nation.

    Although Tarantino would probably try, so long as he could star in it alongside Samuel L Jackson, and call Samuel L Jackson the n-word ‘for the cinematographic art of it, really, it’s crucial to the film’. Because, aside from feet, that’s his fetish.

    • ProfThadBach@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      I was gong to say Birth of a Nation but then I thought about who the American people elected and I changed my mind.

  • m4xie@lemmy.ca
    5·
    3 months ago

    In 2021 my friend’s roommate said you couldn’t make a movie like Borat these days. I immediately pointed out they made a Borat movie the year before.

    I didn’t point this out, but he claimed to be 6’2" while being a few inches shorter than me, and I’m 5’11".

  • Norin@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 months ago

    Stalker from 1979. Any attempt at it today would be a boring action movie with none of the original thoughtfulness.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      ‘Stalker’ isn’t a studio film, same as Tarkovsky’s other films. They are ‘auteur’ films. ‘Stalker’ doesn’t even really follow the novel, it’s rather Tarkovsky’s ideas put into the same setting.

      Directors who want to make slow films, make them still. See e.g. ‘Boyhood’. Of Russian films, try ‘Hard to Be a God’, the last film of Alexey German, made in 2013. There’s a whole movement called slow cinema, with extreme examples like Lav Diaz’s work having runtimes of up to ten hours. The second-longest ever cinematic film was made in 2024.

    • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      Not because it’s too controversial, but because dead school children have lost their shock value in the US