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Originally Posted by Rain Man

And I guess I should say too that I can live with black and white in the right circumstances. I'll watch and enjoy Abbott and Costello, for example.

The hard part for me is maybe an expansion on what Baby Lee said. The old movies just seem so fake to me. The actors enunciate their lines like it's a stage play, and a lot of them aren't very good actors to start with. And then on top of that you have lots of plot holes and bad characterizations, and it makes most of those movies unwatchable to me. I realize that there's an evolution and they were doing what was right at the time, but sheesh.

On that note, I had the TV on sometime last year when an old Elvis Presley movie came on. It was in color and I wasn't paying attention, so I left it on out of curiosity. I don't remember the name, but it involved cliff diving in Mexico. The plot was abominable, but it was mostly a vehicle for him singing, so it didn't matter that much. But there was one scene that made me chuckle. There was some big multi-tier outdoor restaurant on the cliff where people could watch the cliff divers, and Elvis started singing in the restaurant. All of the patrons were clapping along and grooving with the song, but there was one woman who had zero sense of rhythm. She was clapping completely out of sync with everyone else and clearly had no idea what a beat was.

First, I have no idea how a person can make it through a whole song like that, being off beat when 100 other people are on beat. You'd think at some point she'd get locked in by the sound. But that's beside the point. She stole the scene because I was watching her the whole time, wondering if she's ever straighten up and fly right. But she never did.

In a modern movie someone would have noticed and pulled her out of the scene. Or they would have digitally removed her in the editing process. But it was the 1950s or 1960s and no one cared. So she's there for posterity, clapping randomly like a baby seal in the background of Elivis' song.

Allow me to show you a breakdown of one of my favorite scenes in the movie: