Seriously though, movies were so much BETTER back then. Frequently including the acting. It is truly amazing what quality actors are capable of when they have no CGI—nor even Industrial Light and Magic—and must rely solely on trivial inferior things like ABILITY. Jimmy Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Bing Crosby (who was not even primarily an actor, but still a darned good one) and those are just the really big ones off the top of my head. Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Gary Cooper, the Barrymores (sorry, Drew is very cute, and has some talent, but not like her forbearers.) We have SOME great actors (Spacey comes to mind as someone who can play a broad range of roles at a very high, convincing, level,) but they had a host.

Really, you are depriving yourself if not enjoying as many of those old films as possible; that is before we even get into the writers, directors and producers who wrote the book of film making, then repeatedly took it to a whole other level. "Double Indemnity" is a good case in point, directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by he and Raymond Chandler, with Robinson, MacMurray and Stanwyck in the lead roles. It is hard to imagine DiCapprios "Titanic" airing annually across America in 60 or 70 years time like "It's a Wonderful Life" (Capras films were amazing, too) and "The Ten Commandments." I mean, c'mon, DeMille; guy was so good he could make the same film the years biggest film in TWO DIFFERENT GENERATIONS! If Coppola remade "The Godfather" would it be the top grossing film of 2013?

Um... sorry; I did not mean to get preachy. Just, do not let obsolete cinematography cost you some of the best dramas and comedies ever made.

EDIT: Oh, and I doubt DiCapprio matches Robinsons total of over 100 feature films either. Those guys worked their tails off, yet a dazzling number STILL managed to be routinely mesmerizing. And while I did not mention any women, there were just as many of them; I just identify with them less. Still, it says something that the two most famous Southern Belles in film were BOTH played by a Brit (though her theater background likely helped her as much as it did the Barrymores, and the eerie similarities between Etonian British and Piedmont Virginian dialects did not hurt.)