I couldn't agree more about Rain Man. What a god-awful movie. And I think Mad magazine nailed Kramer vs. Kramer with its parody: Crymore vs. Crymore. I don't find The Seventh Seal ponderous, but I do think he's right about Les Enfant du Paradis and Fred MacMurray (how about Fred in The Apartment?).
Then there's this:
Then there's this:
The college seniors in a UCLA seminar I recently taught fancy themselves sophisticated filmgoers, but haven’t seen Grand Illusion, Chinatown, or a single John Ford, Cary Grant, or Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie. Urbane newspaper readers, as Thomson bemoans, deem Cinema Paradiso the best foreign-language movie ever made—because they’ve seen it, and don’t know its betters (“if you haven’t read much else, then Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger may be the best book you’ve ever read”).I have long worried that many among the young, thanks to poor instruction in history and geography, cannot properly orient themselves in time and space. (I know: I'm sounding old and cranky. Well, I am old.)
And get off my lawn, you damn kids!
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