Girl with the Dragon Tattoo film (Daniel Craig)

Quote: pacomartin

Well in the old days they had a lot of levels of budgets. Those movies that took a week or two to shoot were the equivalent of a TV series today.

Very true. But in the 30's and 40's, 90+% of
the public saw at least one movie a week, until
TV ruined it for them. So quantity was replaced
with more quality, and a new market
opened up for the whole industry, showing old
movies on TV. I remember in 1961, when NBC
started Saturday Night at the Movies. This was
a huge deal at our house, we made popcorn and
the whole fam watched. It was the first time a
network was showing modern movies, made in
the last 5-10 years. Before that it was just
crappy B movies made in the 30's and 40's.
Tons of westerns and comedies. The huge event
of the year in the 50's and 60's was the airing
of The Wizard of Oz. It was always on a Sunday
night and we talked about it for weeks beforehand.
And we'd seen it many times already. A different
time for sure, talk about being easily entertained.

Quote: pacomartin

Wizard, here are the 9 Spanish language submittals for the Academy Awards.

Thanks. I just tried to put them in my Netflix queue, but Netflix didn't recognize the titles. Probably too early. Please remind me in about six months.