Like, I hear everyone talking about some older movies being masterpieces, so I started checking some out, including the Roundhay Garden Scene (1888) by Louis Le Prince. And maybe it's because I'm a millennial or I've watched one too many Tarantino films, but I just can't focus on it. There's no music and the black-and-white part makes it look...boring? About halfway through I get bored and just start daydreaming. Usually I just pop in the Dark Knight on blu-ray and move on with my life. Could someone please help me understand the significance of the Roundhay Garden Scene so maybe next time I can pay better attention?

My bets on Nolan

I'm a big fan of the stuff Criterion does.

I hope they someday soon decide to release Roundhay Garden Scene, fully remastered on a 2 disc Blu Ray. What special features would you like to see?

Did we need a full 4 seconds to reach a true climax for the film?

IMDB users get this movie.

"An excellent, but flawed, effort

26 August 2005 | by GreyHunter (United States)

While I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, I feel Le Prince made a mistake by trying to set this up as a comedy of manners. It would have worked much better as a melodrama. The garden scene, so dear to the Victorians, only re-enforces the drab faux-drollery that passed for humor amongst a certain subset of the time. It's effectively a cinematic variant of the opera comique" (without the sound, of course) in the sense that it aggressively pursues the goal of glamour over substance, and achieving neither to any great satisfaction. This is especially evident during the denouement because we are operating under the impression that the sequence of events is inconsequential -- a very real danger in comedies of manners. So I can only give it a 9.25 score because the vision was insufficiently realized."

I've watched this movie in its entirety countless times. My wife tells me we need to give other movies a try but Roundhay Garden Scene is so multi-layered I can't stop watching it every night.

Le Prince plays the marching man with such ambiguity I can't tell though, is he leaving, or attacking the women??

So i just watched Roundhay Garden Scene for the 10925th time and am totally blown away by this underrated gem. Amazed Hollywood hasn't rebooted it yet.