Amen, Brutha.

Couldn't agree more. I have no interest in seeing at leat 90% of those films touted as "The Best Picture of the Year." Also, from watching TCM, I've come to the conclusion that just because a movie is "old" doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be "good."

You hit this one dead on. It was refreshing to see someone be vocal about all of the trash that's on the screens today, and to know that not every critic has been drug into thinking all the smut has to be there to be entertaining. Thanks.

Sometimes I think old films are given a pass, while new films are nitpicked to death. I mean take Indy 4 for example. It seems that the few critics that are ripping it apart are doing so on the basis of some digital effects being incorporated into the movie followed by a rant about how horrible a person George Lucas is.

Meanwhile, movies like The Graduate continue to get praise. I'm sorry, but The Graduate was weird, immoral and pointless. I felt a little dirty after watching it. I went into it expecting this wonderful experience (thanks to years of hype from critics), and was let down hard. And every song Simon and Garfunkel recorded for that movie sounds the same!

You talk about how great the old films are, but that's when studios put out dozens of movies in a month! There is bound to be some (a lot) of bad ones mixed in the the occasional Casablanca, North by Northwest or The Searchers. It's a sense of nostalgia that keeps the studio's early records clean in your mind, not that they actually made movies better then than now.