to think that acting in Hollywood films in the '40s and '50s is absolutely crap?

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Watching April in Paris and the acting is all OTT and music hall-esque.

These old films are full of exaggerated facial expressions and really, really badly-delivered lines. The acting (not the dancing necessarily) seems so amateurish by today's standards.

They already know David Lean's Great Expectations quite well now as I can watch it repeatedly.

I was going to get the older teenager some 80's teen movies as an antidote to Inbetweeners etc.

Inbetweeners makes me both cringe and laugh out loud. You are doing a good job trying to expose them to alternative teenage scenarios, one day they will thank you lol.

My teen DD enjoyed The Breakfast Club.
And I have enjoyed David Niven in A Matter of Life or Death-
so we are both at least a generation behind!

BTW no one has mentioned my favourite film - Some Like it Hot.
Utterly fabulous!

Oh, dh & I just love old films. Yeah, many are cheesy and over acted, but that is part of their charm. The only ones I do not like are the ones with no speaking, or war films.