Field of Deets

I haven't posted in nearly a week! It's not for having nothing to write, but for lack of time instead. A free 1/2 hour has been hard to come by.

But I was tooling around the internet looking at stuff about movies that I might write about for a final paper. I was checking out the Cool Hand Luke page on imdb. com and I clicked on the message board to read this from some genius:

"(To put this post in perspective, I was born in 1979.)

From time to time when I feel like I have seen all the recent movies worth seeing, I resort to finding "old great ones" (pre 1985). This has consistently led to disappointment.

Browsing through IMDB, I enthusiastically picked up titles such as "Cool Hand Luke", "The Great Escape", "Seven Samurais", "Bullit", "The Third Man" etc (they all scored above 8.5 or thereabout). Unfortunately, I found each and _every one_ of these to be a huge letdown.

Since the rating system at IMDB concerning more recent movies, say post 1990, tends to agree with my preferences very well (Shawshank Redemption being my favourite), I'm led to believe that this probably is a generation question. Anyone else who share my experience?

The possibility that I'm somehow not sofisticated enough to appreciate these older "gems" has struck me as well. Though, of course, I find that hypothesis highly unlikely ;) "

So I'm reading through this waiting for this dude to get to his justification for his opinion that I do not share and then he reveals himself to everybody at the end. He spelled sophistication wrong in a sentence where he said it was highly unlikely that he wasn't sophisticated enough!

No matter how unlikely he thinks that possibility is, I think it's the answer he is searching for. Sadly, I don't think he'll find it.

By the way, if you haven't seen Cool Hand Luke, put it at the top of your list.

Until The Next.