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   From: super70s@super70s.invalid   
      
   In article ,   
    "Adam H. Kerman"  wrote:   
      
   > super70s   wrote:   
   > >In article ,   
   > > gggg gggg  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> On Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 8:30:20 PM UTC-8, keeno wrote:   
   > >> > On Feb 12, 2:49 pm, "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.   
   > >> > Additional comment: There is a warm feeling I get sitting in a   
   > >> > repertory house watching an Italian neo-realist film that I just don't   
   > >> > get watching a "cutting edge" sixties movie, or even seventies film   
   > >> > like McCabe and Mrs. Miller...   
   > >>   
   > >> (Recent article on McCabe...):   
   > >>   
   > >> https://www.headstuff.org/entertainment/film/mccabe-and-mrs-miller-   
   > >> 50th-anniversary/   
   > >   
   > >Why didn't you let this thread die a deserved death, any movie made in   
   > >1967 is going to seem "dated and stale," even in 1977 let alone 2011 and   
   > >2021.   
   >   
   > Resurrecting a 10 year old thread is a troll. He's just shilling Web   
   > sites. He isn't posting his own opinions or point of view to Usenet   
   > ever, so who needs this crap?   
   >   
   > Lately, the only participation in this group has been to tell him off,   
   > maybe for the last couple of years.   
      
   I probably should have said "any contemporaneous movie made in   
   1967....", I think Bonnie and Clyde is one of those timeless films that   
   wouldn't seem dated if it was released today.   
      
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