Hi Stumpy et el.
I love older black & white movies. I will take them over the stuff made these days. You are correct in your assumption of my taste in movies. I simply love the older stuff and will always prefer it over the stuff made these days. There are few exceptions to movies made in the last say, 27 years. I loved the original three Star Wars movies, and a few others since then. The Big Red One, Lethal Weapon 1-3, some of the Star Trek movies, Big, Romancing The Stone, and movies like: We Were Soldiers and Around the World in 80 Days -- which just came out recently and has Jackie Chan.
Not to disagree with anyone but, I absolutely cannot stand horror movies as well as sex oriented movies. My brother who is 2 yrs older than I am, hates all older movies. If it is not in color, he will not watch it. Too bad because he has missed hundreds of great classics. If you were ever here where I live and walked into my house, you would see I prefer the older movies. I think that about 90% of my collection on both VHS and DVD are older and B&W movies.
I'm not bragging but, it took me years to collect some 500 western movies--something I am proud of having. My next favorite Genre is War Movies. I am also slowly moving to Cold War and Spy type movies. One of the few more recent movies I really enjoyed were: The Bourne Identity, Behind Enemy Lines, Around the World In 80 Days, Samurai and We Were Soldiers.
For years my favorite TV stations were: WTBS, WGN, TCM, TNT and AMC. However, AMC, has definitely taken a turn for the worse when they started playing the newer movie especially horror movies. WGN seems to no longer air classics as well as TNT.
I will take: They Died With Their Boots On w/ Errol Flynn and Olivia DeHavilland any day over something like: Friday the 13th or Nightmare On Elms Street.
BTW, anyone here enjoy movies with Richard Basehart? To me he is one of the all time underrated actors.
Sorry I got long-winded--TRK.