Nitpicking note: it's "Gandhi", not "Ghandi". One of my orthographic pet peeves (along with people misspelling "Phoenix" as "Pheonix", "wiener" as "weiner" and "Rogue" as "Rouge" (or vice versa ).







Well, tastes have changed since the 1980s, although I would say the most noticeable difference is not what style of acting is deemed "acceptable" (and some of the films I listed would clearly not work as well in a more "restrained" style - just try to imagine a subdued "Blues Brothers" or "Henry V"), but things like the reduced attention span of modern audiences (largely brought on by the influence of commercials and pop videos). For instance, I listed "Turtle Diary" and "Wings of Desire"; these are late examples of the "slowness" you got in quite a few great movies of the 1970s and late 1960s (two notable examples: "2001" and "Once Upon a Time in the West") or even the way older movies would take time in long sequences in which apparently nothing happens (such as the slow lead-up to the scene with the crop-duster plane in "North by Northwest" (1959)). These days you probably would not produce films like that anymore. But I would not see changing tastes as indicative of greater sophistication.