I watch them because I enjoy them and I am so tired of the garbage they are turning out today, and its probably more the latter

Movies from a decade ago don't fit the post-modernist paradigm. I'm amazed at how many actors are in the old fight the system movies that are today SJW warriors. I'm thinking of John Cusack. When I was a kid, he was in some great movies that would be doxed today. Now he is drinking the Kool-Aid. He went from being in movies that are "rage against the machine" to supporting suppression and thought crimes. I can't quite get my brain around the insanity.

I'm not in escapist mode. We are in a time where you can't be despondent. Citizens of this country have a duty to stand, or they get what they deserve. How do you stand? Keep pumping out inflammatory comments, don't lose hope, buoy other people up and support the few creators that are fighting the good fight. We aren't victims. We are Starship Troopers. Stay salty my friends.

Nearly everything that I watch is "old school". I can't stand the new propaganda and agenda pushing shows.

The thing about old films is that the actors were characters. Bogart for example. He would never make it as a star today as the weird quirky smile and slobbering speech impediments would not work in a Kardasian world. Today you only have milktoast cookie-cutter actors - seldom characters. If you work for yourself a really great movie is MISFITS the last movie of Marylin Monroe and Clark Gable. "Anything to not work wages".

Yes, quite frequently for years now. Not so much classic television shows as much as classic movies. A good tv channel for classic shows would be MeTV, for anyone who might be interested. On Saturday nights MeTV even has a horror/comedy show called Svengoolie.

As for classic movies, the ones from the 1930's are among my favorites, especially Fred Astaire and Marx Brothers movies. Was recently watching the Marx Brothers in a Day At The Races, and there was a scene in it that would upset alot of people nowadays. In said scene Groucho Chico and Harpo were trying to evade authorities by blending in with a group of black people who were singing, and they put some axle grease on their faces in order to do so. Can you imagine the uproar there would be if such a scene were in a movie nowadays? Back then it was considered harmless, and the Marx Brothers weren't exactly known to be haters (they were Jewish). By the way, The Breakfast Club was good, as were alot of movies from the 1980's.

I do have a movie group if you care to participate.
But re this post... as The Time Machine with Rod Taylor is one of my all time favourites, I'll suggest a few more I have in my collection...
Zulu
The Thing (B&W)
Jason and the Argonauts (original)
The Big Country
North by Northwest
Scaramouche
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Flynn)
Moby Dick (Peck)
Apache (Lancaster)
Earth vs The Flying Saucers
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Rennie)
The Sheepman
The Naked Jungle

just to name a few...
I watch and collect movies for the enjoyment they bring.

Why are you apologising for things you love? Why are you playing the lefts game? There is no call to ban breakfast club as to white, this is not where the battle is. Dont be demoralising and dragged down by this take the battle to them and don't fight imaginary ones even if it does fit the theory.

In answer to your question I download stuff old and new of pirate sites, got the first 4 doctor whos on hard drive and watch a mix of old and new.

A lot of modern stuff is shit because you have shit people employing each other for none relevent factors and investors are just beginning to catch on to whos burning their money. Maybe I should do a proper write up on this? oh well, enjoy your breakfast club it is a good film not was.

A few more for consideration...
Gregory Peck
Guns of Navarone
Moby Dick (best ever version)
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Big Country
Roman Holiday
The Omen
Captain Horatio Hornblower
The Paradine Case

Burt Lancaster
The Crimson Pirate
The Flame and the Arrow
Vera Cruz
Apache
The Unforgiven
The Scalphunters
The Kentuckian
Lawman
Jim Thorpe

Errol Flynn
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Captain Blood
The Sea Hawke
Don Juan
Dodge City
Montana
Gentleman Jim
Virginia City
Kim

John Wayne
The Searchers
Rio Bravo
El Dorado
Red River
The Sons of Katie Elder

Charlton Heston
Ben Hur
The Ten Commandments
The Naked Jungle
The Greatest Show on Earth
Will Penny
The Warlord
Pony Express
The Private War of Major Benson

TCM is a great resource for classic movies.
Here is a list of movies broken down by genre that I would recommend:
Westerns:
High Noon
The Cowboys
Tombstone
Winchester '73
The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Tell Them Valdez is Coming
Tell Them Willie Boy is Here
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Far Country

Adventure/Drama:
The Call of the Wild
White Fang
Ol' Yeller
Earthquake
Ben Hur
The Man Who Would be King

Love/Drama
Wuthering Heights (women love this movie)
Same Time Next Year
The Seven Year Itch
Lolita
The Notebook
Casablanca

Drama/Thriller
Anything by Alfred Hitchcock...
Psycho
The Birds
The Man Who Knew too Much
Torn Curtain
North by Northwest
The Shining
The Stand - tv mini-series - excellent must watch beginning to end.

SciFi
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Michael Renny and Patricia Neal)
The War of the Worlds (Gene Barry)
The Time Machine (Rod Taylor)
Invasion of The Body Snatchers (Donald Sutherland version)
2001 A Space Odyssey
12 Monkeys
The Terminator (1st three in the series)
Ex Machina

Musicals:
An American In Paris
Singn' In the Rain
My Fair Lady (one of my guilty pleasures! Audrey Hepburn was so pretty)
The Music Man
GiGi (another guilty pleasure for me)
Moulin Rouge (the 2001 movie is very good)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (excellent w/Marilyn Monroe)
Chicago

War Drama
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
The Longest Day
In Harms Way
On the Beach
Dr. Strangelove - IMHO best movie ever made; BTW its a very dark comedy/parody
Fail Safe

Comedy
It's a Mad Mad Mad World
Canon Ball Run
Airplane
Blazing Saddles
High Anxiety
Young Frankenstein

Teen Drama:
The Breakfast Club
Clueless
The Blackboard Jungle (not a happy movie)
Rebel Without a Cause
The Outsiders
Heathers (dark comedy - like Mean Girls)
Mean Girls

Television programming:
Almost all old time game shows
The Tonight show with Johnny Carson
Soul Train (if you can find it from back in the 70s)
Green Acres
Petticoat Junction
I Dream of Jeannie
Mannix
Cannon
Adam 12

Kolchak: The Night Stalker
North By Northwest
Family Plot
A Christmas Carol (1951) Alastair Sim is the best Scrooge! No one else comes close.
White Christmas
Our Man Flint/In Like Flint

Almost everything I watch is old. I prefer older movies and shows.

I love old movies and TV shows, it is a piece of historical in sight into the time the production was made, seeing the vehicles and equipment that was used and the different filming techniques and special effects.
Some of my favorites are pre-code Hollywood and how the filmmakers had to be very creative during code Hollywood(before rating system was adopted). I watch the classic doctor who series on Pluto-TV and they were carried by the storytelling, special effects were cheesy and monster costumes were very creative due to their limited resources.

AUSTRALIA HERE. This is the problem, they have hidden history, but history goes back over a hundred years ago for me, as I would sit as a child and LISTEN to Great Grandparents etc, AND LEARN!!!
I would sit and listen to my Great Grandfather's PIPE RECORDS he'd play on his Master's Voice record player, and I learnt all the songs and can sing songs from back in 1897 right through to now, I love music.
I would sit and watch with them the old movies they watched, even the Silent movies from back in the 1920s, I am VERY NOSTALGIC, and because I have always been, I've learnt a lot, because it's from the old days before we were born is what teaches us so much!!! History always repeats itself!
And I can see this coming to pass the end of this movie, The Time Machine, but better still, I keep telling people the end, their future which is almost here, as there is one movie that has shown the future we've ALREADY LIVED, and are now living, yet it was made in 1975, starring Charlton Heston, and was called, SOYLENT GREEN!!! The end of that movie says it all, and is coming to pass right now!!! But we're letting it happen, instead of learning from that one movie, before it's too late, or is it too late?!
I believe these writers were seers of the future and so wrote about what they saw, and to help us right wrongs, before they happen, for us to learn.
Apart from, The Time Machine and Soylent Green, there are more recent movies made from seers trying to open our eyes, are they open yet?!!!
I love the black and white movies, and before people turn their nose up at them, try them out, because something I've noticed, once you get fully engrossed in them, you won't notice they're black and white!!
I'm very nostalgic, I love nostalgia of all sorts, I have a huge country kitchen, and that I have like a museum with so many antiques given to me by family, and people come in and are just awe-struck, they walk around the room and just look while I get coffee and tea ready.
We learn so much because of the past, and I am fully ready for what's coming, and Will Not be dominated by Governments or anything to do with their modern dangerous future world of total destruction!!! I wish you well.

You can see the madness of communism in the movie "The Sand Pebbles" It is about a small American NAVY ship stranded all winter in a river because of low water in China and what transpires there near a populace city during the early stages of communist revolution. When the water rises in the spring the crew of the ship after being hassled all winter by communist citizens are tasked to rescue the missionary at a mission led by an American who dislikes the American military and American intervention in China's growing communism.
Many of the American sailors die in implementing this rescue and helping the missionaries escape the coming communist horde including the head of the mission's daughter who is caught up in a love affair with iconic movie actor Steve McQueen. Very Powerful and filmed beautifully academy award winning film that shows the silly beliefs of a "useful Idiot" of communism - the leader of the China Lights mission - and who the real heroes are when the the going gets tough and the imbeciles get going.

I've always had a thing for old movies.1940s crime mysteries are my favorite, but pretty much any genres fun. Basil Rathbone (Benedict Cumberbatch is my 2nd fav Sherlock), Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, Loretta Young, the Andrew Sisters, Marylin Monroe (Bus Stops my fav), Danny Kaye, etc.

I'm also a huge fan of MST3K shorts. Which, no matter how many times I watch them, always makes me laugh.

A Case of Spring Fever

I don't watch them with the intent to time travel. But it is an interesting to contract what the art is saying and the lifestyle the stars lived/are living. More people have time under the Covid-1984 BS to dig for THEIR truths. Most are finding that the truth is always different than its portrayal.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” - G.Orwell

Started watching TNG all over again not even 6 months before covid and now over halfway through my umpteenth watching of DS9 before moving right into Voyager. Going to watch all the series'. (Except TOS because this is time I'm spending with my husband and he doesnt care for TOS due to the camp. Oh well! More Shatner and Nimoy for me!) Tbh, I could say covid is why I'm revisiting it, but let's be honest. I just really need Star Trek in my life more than I've done for the last 10+ years and streaming services make that way easier.

If anything, covid has made me more likely to watch movies I never got the chance to see and then forgot about (The Machinist), ones I heard about but havent tried yet because of not being sure I'll like it (Sliver, House of 1000 Corpses), old faves (all the Ft13th films, Fury, The Hurt Locker, Casablanca), trying new films I knew I would like but was waiting for the perfect day (The Lighthouse) and James Bond because why the hell not watch all the Bond films for the first time in years!

I don't do any of it to see life from the past outside of the fashions and acting styles, but that doesnt mean I don't enjoy seeing the different time periods for film creation. What was popular, what was 'shocking' a la Rocky Horror and the like, what was considered sexy or unsexy, all that stuff. It's been a good year for indulging my nostalgia. And hey. I get to crochet when watching a lot of films too, so I'm upping my skill points at the same time!

I've revisited the Beverly Hillbillies, Get Smart, Charlie's Angels, The Bionic Woman, The Carol Burnette Show, Green Acres, etc...

I've started mixing in older movies lately because they have a greater tendency to portray values I appreciate, and they're far less vulgar.

Great question and topic!

I’ll occasionally check MeTV and there’s a huge catalogue of oldies, movies and TV, on TUBI, which is like a free Netflix (with some commercial breaks).

I recently watched an old “Get Smart”, whose shoe phone is no longer hi-tech, and a few old Woody Allen movies, and Vertigo, one of Hitchcock’s best films. If you like musicals, “The Music Man”, based on the 1957 Broadway play is a slice of 1912 Iowa, full of travelling salesmen and travelling con men. It’s a world that has long since died.

We fortunate to have access to virtually any movie or TV show every produced.

I Love Lucy shows the competent husband and the incompetent wife, which is the opposite of the way Hollywood portrays husbands and wives now. Also Ricky Ricardo is practically the Model Immigrant: White-presenting, frugal, hard-working, self-reliant, law-abiding, and faithful to his American wife, despite all the temptations offered by the young showgirls in his business. His competent management of money, despite Lucy's repeated efforts to squander it on nonsense, allows him to buy his family a nice home in rural Connecticut in the last season or so of the series.

I don't have cable but I do have Amazon prime and Netflix. The wife likes some of the TV series on both. Occasionally, maybe 10 times a year, I will watch a movie.

YouTube has spoiled me with low budget documentaries made by unknown creators that don't treat their audience like idiots. I also enjoy lectures from the major universities. The top tier professors are great speakers and don't seem to be interested in the political madness. Of course I mostly watch STEM lectures.

One thing the wife and I enjoy is trying to remember music from the 60s and 70s and then find them on YouTube. It sparks a lot of memories that we then talk about.

i actually cancelled all cable subscriptions i refuse to pay these outlaws.... in Canada Rogers Cable provides CNN as part of the package but not FOx lol irregardless on Cable there is 200 "channels of Shit to choose from ..."

i had IPTV the illegal version which was more satisfying but that had 10 000 "channels of Shit to choose from"

then sports began with their silly BLM stance..... and now i watch nothing from that medium land i tune into serious and jolly fun online only and podcasts media Long Live IDW group

Dave Rubin is one of my favourites Sam Harris is frustrating but i enjoy listening to him although in a recent recording he threw the IDW members or i believe he referred to them as some form of an idea
he threw them under the bus because he is so Trump Deranged lol too bad for Sam he always seems intense

I have misgivings about watching the original Star Trek these days, considering that the two main actors are Jews, and that some of the episodes are really heavy-handed propaganda about the prototype of the Wokevik ideology. I'd like to see science fiction which recognizes the natural hierarchy of the human species, for example, without the fantasy about ass-kicking warrior women in space suits. Women are certainly trainable to use firearms, but they are just not physically competitive with most men. A healthy adolescent boy like Barron Trump is already stronger than at least 90 percent of the women in the world. He could kick Scarlett Johansson's ass in real life, even though she plays Black Widow in those dumb Avengers movies.