Comments by "Im Caj" (@KratostheThird) on "Luke Smith" channel.

  1. The film he made in 1934 starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert will always be a classic. Witty, funny, intelligent, but more importantly, wholesome, clean, classy, timeless, and enjoyable.
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  2. Gunsmoke premiered in 1955 when Hollywood was still under the Hays Code. John Wayne even made a pleasant introduction to the series. The later seasons (1970’s) of Gunsmoke had different writers and it was a period of revisionist Hollywood. Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch further diverted from what were John Wayne movies and had scenes of sex, violence and debauchery that the Hays Code simply would not allow. People also forget that Hollywood was making a lot of rated X films, many of which aged poorly and mean little apart from the generation who experienced them firsthand.
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  3.  @linuxman7777  This is both a good and a bad thing. I regularly watch Korean films which are a breath of fresh air. My grandparents, who died in their late 80’s, regularly watched old John Wayne films. The culture has changed and America is no longer the singular society it once was.
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  4. Italian movies of that era were actually wholesome.
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  5. ⁠ @poika22 You can just find old John Wayne or Humphrey Bogart films if you know where to look, without having to torrent. I’ve watched over a dozen of their films without paying a dime to see them.
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  6. Comedians like Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Red Skelton and the like still looked to pop culture for their lines. But it was “clean”, not dirty, as all three men worked in an industry that had very strict guidelines. The Andy Griffith Show was another great show which looked at small town America and was able to draw wholesome entertainment. Stuff like this doesn’t exist anymore, because our industry not only desires cheap thrills (sex, violence, dirty humor, etc) but it also wants to squeeze every last penny out of its properties. Disney is now a propaganda machine. Long gone are the days of Walt wishing to entertain families and children with wholesome shows and films. Star Wars was great, but it’s now to the point where nobody really cares because the quality has gone down the tubes. Andy Griffith, along with the show you mentioned and other ‘60s classics like Bewitched and Green Acre, come from a time now long past us and the values and morals that are mostly absent from American society.
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  7. There has to be a balance. Pulp Fiction had lots of violence and profanity, but it was backed with strong acting and an actual plot. Most modern films showcase either sex or violence, but without a meaningful story or narrative direction.
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