I guess I should probably see it then. I'll have to see if Comcast or Prime has it available for free.
) I considered Mrs. Robinson to be The Devil. 20 years later I could totally see her side of the argument and thought she got a raw deal. Also, she should get props as the ProtoMILF. She was 35 playing a 44 year old, while Dustin was 29 playing a 21 year old - and not for a moment did you think there wasn't a 20+ year age gap between them.Movies "of a certain age" have a difficult time holding a modern audience's attention. I love movies and I know how great Citizen Kane and Casablanca are, but I have never been able to sit through either of them all at once. Lots of "great" movies fall into that category for me. David Lean is one of the greatest directors of all time, but I have NEVER been able to sit through one of his movies in its entirety.
Harry Potter movies are awful. I'm with you. I've tried to watch most if not all of them. I may have made it through one of them - no idea which one - with my daughter, years ago. Can't remember. I know I've stopped watching every one that I can remember though.
Never have seen:
and way too many new movies to name - not a fan of superhero or comic book-based movies and have seen about 10% of them
- E.T.
- Jackie Brown (but I've seen the rest of Quentin's movies dozens of times a piece, go figure)
- The Dirty Dozen
- Cool Hand Luke
- Dreamgirls (though much of it was filmed in my office building)
- Mean Streets
Whoever has not seen the Graduate, you should. It is emblematic of a generation - and the soundtrack basically went platinum after it was repackaged as Simon & Garfunkle's Greatest Hits. It also ages particularly well - when I first saw it I was a teen (when VCRs started showing up in everyone's house
To me (only) this is the best movie of all time. I used to be in the habit of giving away copies as graduation presents to my younger friends, with a note that read "before you figure out what you want to be, you need to figure out who you want to be."
