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Re: The Graduate (1967)

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On Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 11:49:18 AM UTC-8, Movie Buff wrote:
> "keeno" <luisb...@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:3d363678-f0da-4ca6...@k38g2000vbn.googlegroups.com...
> On Feb 12, 8:01 am, "Movie Buff" <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> > "John Doe" <j...@usenetlove.invalid> 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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