Why I Prefer Older Movies

They are shorter and do not take a life-time commitment to watch. 

They are in black and white, usually, which helps me focus on story, acting, lighting, direction (I might be a bit ADD). 

Let's face it--no F words to have to deal with.  Even the pre-code movies of the early '30s, which could get kind of racey, kept away from language. They mostly liked showing scantily clad females. 

Today's films take a fragmented approach to time lines. Constant skipping around in time, and I'm not talking about Tenet. Oppenheimer had five different time lines. The latest version of Little Women was incomprehensible if you didn't already know the story very well. 

They are more about how the story is told than just telling the story.

Finaly, older movies tell stories that are not so weird. I've been seeing ads for Poor Things, a new film by a Greek director and starring Emma Stone. It's basically a dead grown woman has the brain of an infant put in her skull, she is re-animated a la Frankenstein, she grows from a baby to a woman in her actions and thinking, men try to control her and she has a lot of weird sex with them (consent, anyone?)on the way to becoming a "real woman."  

I'll pass.  

This is not to say ALL new films are bad, of course not. Oppenheimer was great (and too long) and Barbie was hilarious.  But one really does have to wonder about the world view behind some of these stories.