From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 11:49:18 AM UTC-8, Movie Buff wrote:   
   > "keeno"  wrote in message   
   > news:3d363678-f0da-4ca6...@k38g2000vbn.googlegroups.com...   
   > On Feb 12, 8:01 am, "Movie Buff"  wrote:   
   > > "John Doe"  wrote in message   
   > >   
   > > news:4d55f789$0$19211$c3e8da3$f017...@news.astraweb.com...   
   > >   
   > > > Shown on Time Warner Classics tonight. Great movie, but was the end   
   > > > awkward?   
   > >   
   > > Meant to be.   
   > > I watched this on TCM yesterday for the first time in years.   
   > > It seemed dated and stale to me.   
   > It does. Spoofing contemporary values is a delicate matter requiring   
   > an oh-so-delicate touch. And they can't be just any values. Or maybe   
   > best not to spoof values at all, whatever they are.   
   > ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~   
   > I was a teenager in college when "The Graduate" was released and liked it   
   better   
   > then.   
   > The "spoof" now seems heavy-handed and trite and many of the acting   
   performances   
   > by secondary characters are not good.   
   > I can relate to movies with a 60's zeitgeist, having lived thru the era but   
   > many, if not most, of them do not translate well into today's sensibilities   
   and   
   > tastes.   
      
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