robin2099

I don't have much time to watch movies anymore. I work thirds and between sleeping during the day, and how much I work my movie watching time is pretty limited, so its becoming harder and harder to keep up with what's new.

Because of this, I tend to put most older movies that I might watch on the back burner(which makes me fell stupid that I purchase them to display because they just collect dust and aren't watched at all).

So do you prefer watching something new, something older or a combo of both? How do you find yourself trying to keep up?

funkyryno

I prefer to watch something that I haven't viewed before, doesn't really matter when it was made. Although, I'm not sure why I hesitate to rewatch movies, because I'm finding watching anything I haven't seen in more than 5 years is almost like watching it for the first time (i.e. swiss chess old man brain syndrome).

TomOpus

Should've been a poll.

Something new, easy. I'm partially retired so I have plenty of time to mix it up.

jpcamb

I'm for sure tired of seeing all the remakes especially with them typically being not well done. I generally prefer something new to me. I find things made in the late 90s/early 2000s a little harder to watch as they seem dated because of technology advances but older and newer than that are still fun to watch.

B5Erik

I love watching Films Noir from the 40's and Westerns from the 50's just as much as modern movies. I just wish I had more time for all of them.

If I had to choose I would probably lean towards the classic era movies.

d2cheer

This!!

mcnabb

Since most movies are crap today (Blockbusters have pretty much taken over the calendar year except for the last week of December), I pretty much just watch older movies (The Godfather, Star Wars, Rocky, Back to the Future, etc) that I love these days. I have substituted the time I used to watch new movies for TV shows (cable/streaming dramas) now as they are just better quality at this point.

Kedrix

Something old (70s/80s) but new to me is kinda my sweet spot. But as many others have discussed, if I haven't seen it in 5 years (unless I've seen it 30 times), it's new to me anymore. I don't mind new films, but if we are going preference, this is where I am at.

Obi-Wanma

Something borrowed

Troy Stiffler

Whatever I can grab at. There's too much out there. There was a time when I would watch every single movie that comes into the theater (including kids movies, rom coms, and movies that I know will be awful). But there's sooo much content out there now. I think "eating an elephant" is the term.

Ash Ketchum

I saw 22 movies in November: four of them from the 21st century, one from the 1990s and 17 of them from before 1970. Right now I'm going through a cache of Japanese films from the 1950s and '60s, most of them unheard of before I acquired them and some have been great and the rest at least good.

In short...old.

Norm de Plume

Something blue can sometimes hit the spot too.

TomOpus

Why So Blue?

Quatermass

Something Weird

davidlynchfan

Something old of course but if I haven't seen it before then its new to me, right?
I just can't get enough of those 70s/80s hot trash and just when I think i've seen them all, there's still tons more to be rediscovered.