• Casablanca: “Not quite up to ‘Across the Pacific’ … but is nevertheless pretty tolerable.”• 2001: A Space Odyssey: “In some ways it’s the biggest amateur movie of them all. … It’s a monumentally unimaginative movie.”
• The Godfather: “Brando is handicapped by poor makeup. … Al Pacino rattles around in a part too demanding for him. … The surprisingly rotten score (is) by Nino Rota.”• Psycho: “This is third-rate Hitchcock. … A reflection of a most unpleasant mind, a mean, sly, sadistic little mind. … Merely one of those television shows padded out two hours by adding pointless subplots and realistic detail.”
• The Wizard of Oz: “I sat cringing before MGM’s Technicolor production … which displays no trace of imagination, good taste, or ingenuity. … I say it’s a stinkeroo. … Bert Lahr is funny but out of place.”• Citizen Kane: “Though the attempt is praiseworthy, the results are shockingly unsatisfying.”
• It’s a Wonderful Life: “At best all this seems to me insipid, and at its worst an embarrassment to both flesh and spirit.”• Lawrence of Arabia: “It is, in the last analysis, just a huge, thundering camel-opera.”
• Gone with the Wind: “We still feel that color is hard on the eyes for so long a picture.”
In short … perhaps there is hope for the panned movies of today. Perhaps “Little Buddha” will one day be regarded as high art … but probably not.
12 comments:
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Ok, Gone with the Wind is one of my favoritest movies of all time....Scarlett O'hara is fiesty....I like her
Embarrassingly, I've only seen maybe 2 of those movies. Well, 2 and a half, if you consider that I've been in the room while It's a Wonderful Life was on, but I wasn't paying much attention.
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Awww, c'mon...Wizard of Oz, A Wonderful Life and Gone With The Wind are just automatic classics, with the full meaning of the word class. Idiots.
Little Buddha? Is that the one with Will Smith? LOL, if it is. Geeze, you're such a goofball.
I disagree with many of those reviews.
Gone with the Wind is awesome - I've always known I was a southern belle in another life!! lol
However, 2001 is one of the worse movies I have ever seen - it's my mom's fav though - weird.
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Dave....
What are you doing Dave...
I wouldn't do that if I were you Dave.
Okay you know what? Most of these movies are still classics in my book, regardless.
But I admit that I am not It's a wonderful life gal... sadly.
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I liked Little Buddah...
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I love Gone With The Wind but it is a bit long.
I can't stand to watch black and white movies. I feel like I am being cheated. When I was a kid I thought that the world was black and white before my time. Doh!
Little Buddha is with Keanu.
It's much better on mute.
Oh my God! I love so many of those movies!!! But then again, I usually only go see a movie in the theatre when I hear that the critics hated it. Shows how much I care about their opinions, huh?
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