Do you find pacing very slow in older movies?

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depends on the movie imo. A movie like Die Hard doesn't need a lot of dialogue like you said because it is billed as an action movie. Some movies are built on dialogue without much action at all.

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Check out movies from the 1930-70s -- those are the best... Well paced, well-written, ORIGINAL, well-acted.

Even though I was born in the 80s, the talent just isn't there. Biggest drop not only for movies, but music.

When you said older films I kind of thought really old films, I don't see films from the 90's as being old per se. It really depends on the film though as far as pacing goes. Some of them are slow, some new(ish) films are slow too. I found LOTR to be painfully slow for example.

What I like about films from say the 20's to the 1950's is that often due to censorship there is a lot of subtext in them and so not everything can just be blatantly shown or explained like they do in modern films.

I find 70's films to be really slow and kind of dreary.

Again though, it depends on the film.

No. Actually I love watching older movies, like from the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s. The "screwball" comedies are my favorites, also anything with Bogart.

Not necessarilly old movies though. Tomb Raider, a 2018 movie, also suffers from this. Very slow pacing with non-important dialogs, scenes that serve no purpose, uneeded expositions (repeated word-for-word twice!), uneeded flashbacks. Obvious filler stuffs.

Also happens in Ready Player One, also a 2018 movie (but felt like an 80s movie.) The whole first 30 minutes is just a slow as molasses overly long expostions (in a voice-over nonetheless, the worst kind of exposition) that was really uneeded. It hurts the movie a lot, and when the real story kicks off I already lost my appetite. The director should watch Wreck-It-Ralph or something to see how true modern movies do it right.

I think viewers were more patient in the past. Nowadays the pace of life is much quicker and viewers expect films to be the same. I appreciate the pace of most older movies. By that I mean a lot older than the 90s. I'm talking back to the 1930s and onward. Sometimes one needs to know the character or situation before the story moves forward.