I was reading reviews of some classic flick from about fifty years ago or so, and one obviously very youthful reviewer opined as how he couldn’t stand older movies. In his mind there are just so many modern “great” movies, he couldn’t understand how anybody could watch a movie older than say ten or fifteen years. I have absolutely no idea how to respond to someone like that short of just hoping as they get older their tastes improve.
Hey Bill, try it’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World next time.
I am with his kids. I saw it first a few years after its release and found to be ok. It improved for me a bit on further viewings but not enough to elevate it to the status a lot of critics gave it when it came out. It did establish Lucas with enough cred to get Star Wars made so it does have that history built into it. Meanwhile in the latest episode of the Big Bang theory Raiders of the Lost Ark is destroyed by a simple insight from Amy.
Here's a link to locations used in the filming of AG.American Graffiti Filming Locations (June - August, 1972)
They’ll like Hitch’s “The Birds.” Trust me on this.
I’ve shown this movie to seniors in high school as a way to use film as text. The plot follows Campbell’s “Journey of the Hero” theory - not surprising, since Lucas was an anthropology student. (So does “Star Wars,” too.) In any case, Mr. O’Reilly’s experience does not reflect my experience with hundreds of teenagers, all of whom enjoyed the film, and some of whom loved it. My guess is that Bill spent a lot of time bloviating to the kids about what a great movie it is, and how that period of time was great to experience, and so forth, eventually sucking the life out of the enjoyment of the film... and as someone who was alive in 1962, there were good things (intact families) and awful things (segregation), and the great music in the film carefully passes over the crap music also produced at the same time.
I think the film is one of the great movies of all time, IMHO. Bill may be spinning his own projection here.
Take the REAL LIFE trash can reality show known as "Serf'n USA"...derived from the disturbed minds of hollywood deviants partnered with global bankster gangsters who together infiltrate every aspect of American life by way of social conscience...one robs America's innocence, while the other robs it's security...together both are hell-bent on destroying this pesky obstacle known as "a republic" by enslaving it too by way of a dumbed-down, voluntary compliant citizenry.
Will America too join other surrendered nations in global serfdom?
Stay tuned...
(Damn exciting...can't wait to see the series finale!)
Spoiler Alert!...(the bad guys win!)
