'In the Heat of the Night'

This is a really great film. Actingwise, it's pretty dated. Some of the ways these people interact with each other you can tell it was made 40 years ago.

Then again, it's fresh and vibrant. There are some shots (really tight close-ups on items, or even the hands of Tibbs when he's inspecting the body) that look so good, so modern. I mean, you could just see those 15-second shots and think the film could've been made in 1999.

I also enjoy it when I see a film set in the 1960s (or 1970s, or whenever) actually shot in the same decade. It's shocking how modern filmmaking can not recreate well a modern bygone era. The clothes and hair look like Halloween costumes.

It's just so obvious that a film shot in 2002 and set in the 1960s actually didn't happen in the 1960s because nobody looked that fake.