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I meant no blanket slur against silent films. I'm always happy to sit down and watch METROPOLIS (or HAXEN or THE GOLEM or THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA).
I just think people give NOSFERATU too much "benefit of the doubt" because it's old, German, and silent. If they extended half that much courtesy to the 1931DRACULA, we would never again here complaints about that film's staginess and slow pace; we would just focus on the virtues: the atmospheric art direction and Lugosi's performance.
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