Wow.

Just saw The Graduate for the first time. Why is it that films from fifty years ago are totally brilliant, where every current release I've seen in the past ten years just plain sucks?

I love the sparse, simple style of that era, with its abundance of silence and lots of room for introspection. Most of today's films not only lack originality, they offer no room for the viewer. Every little crevice must be filled, controlled, and focus-grouped into oblivion. It's so boring. What went wrong?

It must be the lack of cigarettes.