[Tail Gunner John]

"cool was way better with Bogart, Grant and the Duke"

When I want to see a movie it might be one I saw years ago but a second or third viewing of Liberty Valence or Treasure of Sierra Madre certainly beats the crap hollywood has been making recently.

Also TV has never been better. My daughter bought entire seasons of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Combat and Paladin for me for Christmas. For the cost of one month of cable you can have forty hours of Andy Griffith dvds. Now thats entertainment!

Of course the a$$holes currently in hollywood get none of my money.

[purpleland]

The Treasure of Sierra Madre! CLASSIC!

Worth seeing the original a hundred times over.

[driftless]

"Bogart, Grant, and the Duke"

One thing those old movies did is tell good stories. That quality seems to be absent from many modern flicks. There's too many modern movies about some marginalized character's life that is boring after five minutes and death by the end of the movie. Together with the continual anti-American themes of many of them, today's flicks are simply too tedious to sit through.

That's why I agree with you. Nothing beats a movie that has the element of what-will-happen-next? in it. Most of the old great flicks had that constant tension it it. Today's flicks about some ahem alienated freak's miserable, dull life just don't do it for me. That is what is killing Hollyweird: dull stories and agenda-driven scripts.