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I get it.
It's when you're exposed to these films. That's how I see it.
For example
The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola
My dad and I watched it when i was 15 (I'm 43)
I was blown away.
That film is so underrated, under watched. He filmed it after the Godfathers and before Apocalypse Now, yet I rate it as one of his greatest films, if not one of best films ever made. A masterpiece. Barely anyone has heard of it.
It's brilliant. But it has that slow 70s feel to it.
Unfortunately, like The Deer Hunter, like The French Connection, like Dog Day Afternoon, like Manhattan, like Michael Mann's Thief (an incredible film, much underappreciated) there are so many.
It's probably why I can't bare most modern popcorn films. It's just the way I was brought up watching movies.
Story, nuance, acting.