When I was a teenager I used to love Rear Window. Today I just find James Stewarts acting obnoxious.
>>218638634that was my first classic movie aside from Disney flicks, still like it a lot
>>218638634I found it to be a very anticlimactic and mediocre movie.
>>218638634Rope and Vertigo are both better
>>218638634His and Gable's films are the only ones I try to avoid. Can't stand either of them
>>218639004Seems like Jeff Goldblum saw Stewart in Rope and thought "You know what? I should make this my whole persona".
>>218638634Why did he talk like that?Also, Jimmy Stewart was a real scumbag in a It's a Wonderful Life, using emotional manipulation to trick people into risky long-term debt.
>>218638634Filtered
>>218638634Saw him in Vertigo and laughed out loud at some of his line readings."I look up, I look down. I look up, I look down." Faints.
>>218638634You became a worse person
I know Hitchcock is a classic groundbreaking director and all, but the only movies I really liked were Birds and most notably Psycho, which is his best film imo.Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Rope, they are all well shot, but I find them boring as fuck, I don't care about what's going on that much.
>>218638961Hitchcock was great at building up tension and creating dramatic feeling, but the contents of his films are nearly worthless. He even said in some interview, that he doesn't care what his films are about. He said that he reads a script and only cares, if he'd be able to get some emotions out of it. I think that Grace Kelly's beauty and talent was wasted on those rubbish films like the rear window.
>>218644698I recalled he once said that "the director of the future would push a button and the audience would feel an emotion". I wonder what he would have to say about AI.
>>218644698north by northwest is the worst offender, the plot literally does not make any sense. it's a very dumb thriller.
>>218644813I think he'd say that there's now no need for even the "director pushing a button", because everyone has the button themselves and can use fake actors to create fake scenes to entertain themselves, and that real actors would be only in theatre, like a live funfair zoo-like attraction, where they belong anyway because Hitchcock considered actors a cattle.
>>218638634I can see his style wearing on a person. I've only scene two movies with him though so his acting hasn't annoyed me yet.
>>218638634I never understood why Grace Kelly would like a balding cripple like him unless he's loaded. Each window is still kino though, teeming with life unlike WesA
JStew was known for the drawl. Folksy, close to the people. It's kinda exaggerated & stylized.
