Silent films suck

Silent films are horrible. It seems to be the only era of film that I just can't get into at all. I've watched a few of them. Nosferatu, The Gold Rush, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and Battleship Potemkin. I can appreciate them for the time they came out. I'm sure they were amazing for the cavemen moviegoers of the time, but they just make me want to sleep. Anyone who says they like a silent film is either lying for cred or a retard.

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You're the same as my friends who say John Carpenter movies aged badly

What kind of movies do you like?

haxan was pretty good famalam

gotta watch these movies for its visual aspect and expressionism, not too much how it was made

Silent? Doesn't this shit have that lame ass Smashing Pumpkins song playing in the background?

I mean, what do you expect? There's a reason all movies have sound now, because it makes them better.

Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages is solid. Remember that even though the movies themselves are silent, there are many versions with different soundtracks, better and worse

Battleship Potemkin is legandary, the first war movie.

That's not true at all. It's not even really a war movie, it's about a navy revolt and a civilian massacre but no actual warfare

What? No Battleship Potemkin was not the first war movie

kys

>Silent films suck
>Silent films are horrible
>It seems to be the only era of film that I just can't get into at all
1. Watch City Lights.
2. Come back.

One day I will have one movie for each year of cinematography

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And Griffith made dozens of movies about indian wars before that

Yes, and they were irrelevant

Add:
1915 - The Birth of a Nation
1916 - Intolerance
1919 - Broken Blossoms

I agree with you sadly, the only silent shit that hasn't aged is comedy. The General is just as great now as it was then.

I personally think Griffith was better before his ambition and pretension turned every film into 2.5 hours or longer with little to say

How has Sunrise or Joan of Arc aged badly?

Add Le Révélateur (1968)

Check out Suspense, By the Law, Faust, Combat de boxe, Sunrise, Passion of Joan of Arc, Docks of New York, Man with a Movie Camera, Japanese Girls at the Harbor, and Les berceaux.

>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
One of my favorites desu senpai

Silent film is atleast more watchable than 1930s film (except for the late 30s).

Terrible sound quality, no music, no cinematography, no atmosphere, just boring, lifeless filmed plays.

1914: Cabiria
1919: J'accuse
1920: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1925: Battleship Potyomkin
1927: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
2011: The Artist

>1930s film (except for the late 30s)
>Terrible sound quality, no music, no cinematography, no atmosphere, just boring, lifeless filmed plays.
City Lights (1931). Check mate.

That's really only applicable until around from 27-33. By then sound technology was figured out and things got back on track. You can't say King Kong or It Happened One Night are lifeless, or any more than films a decade later

The 30s were one of the greatest decades for genre movies. Gangster films, musicals, gothic horror, swashbucklers, screwball and sound slapstick comedy, and the whole pre-code phenomenon of lurid films centered on sex/drugs/violence.

cheers, will look for them

>27-33
Cinema before 1927 were at the very early stage, yet you should agree The general or Greed were great for its time.

where do you guys look for silent movies?

torrents

I think you misread, I meant sound cinema from that period was by and large terrible.

It's sad what sound did to movies. You look at the 5 most silents most commonly called GOAT (The General, City Light, Metropolis, Sunrise, Passion of Joan of Arc), 4 came out after sound did and all with 5 years of each other. Who knows where things could have gone

only 2 of those came out after the jazz singer