Will people still watch films/tv from this era in the future (100 years+)

[Metalface Mark]

I was watching touch last night with my girlfriend and I wondered whether in 100 years, or 200 years, 300 years or whatever.

Obviously we can only go back 100 years or so at the moment but since the stuff back then is black and white and and pretty much just silent, you dont really get a feel for how life was like but in the modern generation there is so much documentary TV, good TV series and movies that other than higher definition and better 3d, there is not a lot more really that can be done to the medium.

Do you think people in a hundred or a couple of hundred years will enjoy a series of 24 or Desperate Housewives or will things shape TV in a way we cant imagine leaving it as irrelevant today as 100 year old films are to us?

 

[Showboat]

As long as people smoke dope:-> Dude where's my car will remain a classic
Even in 1000 years!

 

[InKursion]

The Wire

 

[antijoke]

Difficult one really.

I look at the 'recent' classics such as The Terminator, Terminator 2 etc and I struggle to see my children wanting to watch this films when they are in their teens let alone there grand childrens grand children.

I would expect to them it would be like me sitting down to watch old B&W stuff and enjoying it. Not very enjoyable.

 

[Cosimo]

The cinema buffs might still be watching.

 

[DirtyJester]

As long as we still have the BBC .... yes

 

[MooMoo444]

Films from now will just be hitting SKy Box Office in about 100 years, so yeah probably.

 

[FutileBreadMachine]

I've also wondered this, especially with modern classics like TLOTR trilogy. It may just be that people won't be interested in the movies just because they are old and appear to "belong" to a previous generation. It's like I have no interest in classic films like Taxi Driver and The Godfather since they were made in the 70s. They are obviously good films, but there are have been so many other good films since then I don't need to go back that far to find a good film to watch.

 

[antijoke]

What we will probably find is that they are watching re-boots/re-makes of the classics we have/are enjoying.

Films from now will just be hitting SKy Box Office in about 100 years, so yeah probably.

What?

 

[RoachycaL]

I was wondering the same thing about modern day music to be honest. Will there be any great bands of this generation that are remembered for years to come?

 

[Johnnytoxic]

especially with modern classics like TLOTR trilogy.

Horribly overrated bore fest which was LOTR, and I do like my in depth films.

 

[spudbynight]

I think the very best films will be watched. For every Casablanca though there is a "What makes Lizzy dizzy?"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035547/

 

[Energizer Bunny]

Can't imagine Transformers: Dark of the Moon won't improve with age like a fine wine.

 

[trigger-happy]

As long as people smoke dope:-> Dude where's my car will remain a classic
Even in 1000 years!

+1

Also Bill and Ted will still be awesome!

 

[Sefirosu]

The way things are going, films and TV in 100 years time will be so **** people may well watch ours.

 

[MooMoo444]

The way things are going, films and TV in 100 years time will be so **** people may well watch ours.

Mars' got Talent?

 

[spudbynight]

Mars' got Talent?

Won by a five legged dog?

 

[rogan]

They've run out of original plot lines already, imagine what it's going to be like in 100 years D:

 

[Dist]

If Dave is still running in 100 years, then people will easily be able to watch ancient TV episodes.

 

[Haggisman]

Can't imagine Transformers: Dark of the Moon won't improve with age like a fine wine.

Well, let's be honest here, it's not going to get any worse!