I just love sitting down at the TV and watching some of the real oldies with Gene Kelly, Ray Bolger, Fred Astaire, Rosland Russell, Doris Day, Ethel Merman, Esther Williams, Glenn Ford, Donald O'Connor, etc.

How much time do you take out of the "newer" movies to view some of the "older" stuff? I find them so very entertaining. They can be entertaining just because they are darn good movies or they can be entertaining because of the humour of the "emoting" by the less seasoned actors and actresses.

Do you find the same thing or are you turned off of old movies and just want to see the up and coming actors and actresses in the new and improved movie styles.

Not a fan of the old movies. I do like some of the westerns and some of the older comedies like Blazing Saddles are absolute classics, but I'm not a fan of the musicals or really old, slow and boring black and whites. Just can't get in to them at all.

I like to go back and watch some of the oldies. The other day I was watching the return of the living dead. God we all know how old that one is. So my answer has to be yes. Some of the oldies are better then the new ones. I don’t watch movies for the actors, I watch them for the movie itself.

A good movie is a good movie, regardless of when it was made.

I've been watching a few Hitchcock films of late, Strangers On A Train, Vertigo, the stunning Rear Window, North By Northwest and Psycho.

I'm also a huge fan of the Universal Monsters (Frankenstein, Dracula, Creature From The Black Lagoon). These films had a huge effect on me as a kid and probably helped with regards to my love of all things movie related.

Also on my recently viewed list is The French Connection, Night Of The Living Dead, Rio Bravo, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Dirty Harry, The Big Sleep and A Touch Of Zen. All classics, all pretty old. Its also great to see the evolution in the way films were made, the structure of storys and scripts, even down to the subtle way in which action sequences were shot (no squibs in the oldies, forcing the actor/actress to sell being shot).

I am finding that as I get older, I can appreciate the 'classics' a hell of a lot more than when I first started taking movies seriously.

Psycho is one of my favourite horror movies ever, along with Nightmare on Elm Street.

I'm also a huge Laurel and Hardy fan. Nothing cheers you up like seeing somebody fall victim to some really old-school slapstick (falling into an open manhole, having their trousers fall down for no reason, slipping on a banana skin, etc).

Benny Hill and Tommy Cooper are another two I tend to watch over and over.

I also have an Old Mother Riley DVD, but I just haven't gotten around to watching it yet.

I love the old westerns because I grew up watching them with my dad. Some of the best ones are the adaptations from the Louis L'Amour books. I always laughed at the ones where the guns would fire, but the sound didn't come until a few seconds later. Boy they've come a long way with movies.

I love Doris Day movies and Danny Kaye movies. I used to have a nice Doris Day collection, but I never had Danny Kaye movies.

The only old movies I own (60's, 70's) are James Bond films.

Not that I don't like older films, I just never got into them enough to buy any, I guess. I do like how older films are more plot and less special effects.

Amen. I own nearly all of the Old James Bond films. Which one is your favorite? Personally, I'm pretty partial to Goldfinger.

I'm not really a fan of movies made before the 90's. There are a few exceptions and the late 80's did bring us a few other good ones, but I wouldn't consider myself a "classics" guy.

I try to see a range of films, but I don't have much interest in the romantic classics genre, except of course the major pictures like Casablanca and Gone with the Wind. The noir films are great, such as The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart, one of my favourites of all time, while I've also recently watched Das Kabinet des Dr. Caligari and Freaks, from the 20s and 30s, both of which I'd recommend.

Good call on The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari and Freaks, well worth watching. Both stunning pictures that were well ahead of their respective times.

I get the impression that a young Tim Burton saw ...Dr. Caligari and it shaped the film maker that we know today.