In 1967 the highest grossing film was The Graduate

Lucas happened.
Spielberg knew how to make great blockbusters, Lucas was and is a hack.

This

I'm going to drop a massive whitepill on you anons.
There are women that you know who have masturbated to the thought of you. They *may* be fat, rank, old and ugly but they have.

That's pretty cool

if you think The Graduate is anything above lowbrow poorly directed shit, you're part of the problem

Incels wouldn´t go to a movie about defloration and becoming an adult.

I don't know any women.

bitch looks like faye raegan

>What happened?
Plastics happened.

I've masturbated to at least 2 of my aunts but when I saw them irl I wanted to throw up.

The Graduate is overrated and turns to shit after the first 1/3

Why even bother mentioning any film if literally all the replies just shit on it. Do you faggots enjoy anything?

The Graduate's overrated. Sorry

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>Do you faggots enjoy anything?
what a monumentally retarded thing to ask Yea Forums

TLJ made it's money mostly off of brand recognition.

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I hope not.

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>taking my question literally

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Watch American graffiti and change your mind. Lucas is an amateur that got ruined artistically by unfathomable success very early in his career

It was alright. His method of being a cunt on the first date and aggressively kissing her to make the girl love him isn’t a movenof tried. But aimlessly drinking all day and getting mad when your parents call you on your bullshit is familiar

It’s one of those movies that isn’t bad and you can tell is far better than most, but what made it special has gone away with time.

And 50 years before that, Cleopatra was the highest grossing movie of 1917. Cleopatra at the time was one of the most expensive movie ever made, so in a way it's just history repeating itself.

I can't remember anything from that movie.

People only like BIG explosions, BANG BANG, OHHHHH look CGI worlddd WEW and now and we can't go back.

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Special effects happened.

Back in 1966 you needed to write a good script to entertain.

Escapism and Star Wars happened. Mutts needed escapism after Nam.

Fun fact: they both have an hyperspace-based scene

lower IQ

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This

>black overpopulation will destroy the human race

>In 1967 the highest grossing film was The Graduate.
>In 2017 it was Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
>What happened?

Well...our story begins in 1974...

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Something will arise from the ashes, it always does, a better stronger nation. hopefully one without jews

Scary shit, unironically.

The Graduate is my all time favorite film because it was the first one that made me realize there was more to movies than what I had always seen. It was the first movie where I could see a theme connected through characters and "mis-en-scene" and how the choice of shot, lighting, and music could recreate how a character was feeling for the audience.

Jaws is a great movie user.

As proven by this thread.

>Thread about one of the greatest films of all time vs one of the worst.
>Everyone shits on the good one.
Fucking Yea Forums, man.

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>What happened?

tv and home video happened. Back in 1967 adults went out to the movies. Today most of them say 'ill watch it on blu-ray' , so movies are made for teenagers who want to get out of the house.

>1966 - Pic-related
>2017 - insert trashy rap album
The West peaked in the late 80s/early 90s.

>not understanding that socialist policies have caused the housing crisis in every major US city (ex rent controls), exorbitant increases in healthcare (ex Obamacare, expansion of the welfare state), taxes to increase across the board, and public education to take a drastic nosedive (ex common core)
You blame "capitalism" sweepingly because you have absolutely no concept of the meaning of "price", nor systemic causation leading to price incentivisation, and thus increasing efficiency for all citizens (thus why the US was overwhelmingly superior over socialist democracies in Europe for quite a long time). Let me also say, it doesn't mean you are an idiot: some of the unironic USSR geniuses, albeit retarded in economics, only learned too late how badly their market controls
A. fucked their economy up
B. were often incorrect, and more importantly, too slow to keep up with natural price evolution

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Good answer among many in this thread - though I hadn't really thought of yours.

Cleopatra was dead in 1917, retard.

How retarded are modern viewers where they find the fucking Graduate as a film that's pretentious?

To add to this, most people only go out to watch movies that have spectacle or some other larger than life stuff tacked to it because they can watch dramedies in the vein of The Graduate at home on Netflix
Also anyone know what was the last "small scale" movie that did really well at the box office? All I can think of right now is American Beauty.

Then you didn't watch The Graduate

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Did you know that a strong memory is one of the hallmarks of high intelligence?

You can be an aimless loser worried about your future and relate to it imo.
Benjamin may have been successful in college but he was still confused, scared, insecure and totally clueless about what to do with his life.

>the last time a non-epic movie was the highest grossing was 29 years ago

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The whole movie is about learning to make decisions for yourself instead of having a life forced upon you, and living with the consequences of your choices. About rebellion and where it can lead.

Ben's entire life has been decided for him by his parents and he's realizing he doesn't want to be like his parents. His graduation party is nothing but his parent's friends. Nothing but "plastics".

Mrs. Robinson was an art major who got knocked up in college and dropped out to raise Elaine. Now she's empty, in a loveless marriage, and looking for any sort of excitement. If you rewatch you'll notice Mrs. Robinson seems almost hurt that Ben is so hesitant to sleep with her.

And Elaine falls in love with a guy she barely knows who does nothing but act like an asshole to her because she is also rebelling against her parents. She too has had all of her decisions made for her right up to that blonde asshole she almost marries.

That's the beauty of the scene on the bus. They finally win. They break away from their parents' grips and now they're free to live the rest of their lives together. And as that sinks into their minds the excitement of the situation disappears and they're left in the same empty silence that Ben started the movie with.

>They break away from their parents' grips and now they're free to live the rest of their lives together. And as that sinks into their minds the excitement of the situation disappears and they're left in the same empty silence that Ben started the movie with.
They're going to end up exactly like their parents is what Nichols was saying. Mrs Robinson was probably rebelling to when she was an art student in college fucking Mr Robinson is his Ford.

My film professor said it perfectly captured the spirit of the 60s with only one reference to a current event.

>If you rewatch you'll notice Mrs. Robinson seems almost hurt that Ben is so hesitant to sleep with her.
I just picked that up on my last rewatch. That's what I love about this movie. I notice another character detail I hadn't before every time I watch it.

If you rewatch TLJ you'll notice that there's absolutely nothing to Rose's character. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Absolutely btfo. I’m a literal 20 yo zoomer and I remember pretty much everything from the Graduate especially the Simon & Garfunkel songs

How the FUCK is the Graduate pretentious? The absolute state of bbc/capeshit/cuckwars loving soifaggots

>And Elaine falls in love with a guy

i never got that though. I don't think she loved him , she loved his impulsiveness and non-conformity and she used it to break herself out of the marriage trap. I always saw the last scene on the bus as really showing the two of them had no lasting future together but she still didn't regret it.

I may to have to masturbate to the thought of a certain girl masturbating to the thought of me now. And I'm sure she has.

While I’ll concede the fact that that might be true, if you think modern films don’t make the Graduate look like a work of fucking high art in comparison then (You) are actually part of the problem.

I enjoy blue velvet kek

10/10 film

Kek

Zoomers are a mistake, i wish we could kill everybody under 25 and start this generation again

Perhaps "falls in love" was the wrong way to put it. Whatever you call the impulse to run away with someone and elope.

I've always seen the ending as both characters thinking to themselves, "Holy shit. What did I just do?"

What's wrong with you? Are you Ronald Reagan?

Neoliberalism.

Both movies sucked, so... nothing.

You mean attention spans?

I remember not liking the montage scene with the Simon and Garfunkel song in the background because of how it finished the song and just played it over again through the montage, rather than edit the clips down to fit the length of it

>Thread about one of the greatest films of all time

Easy with the hyperboles, grandpa

>The West peaked in the late 80s/early 90s.
By that I hope you mean the 1880s/90s

you have to watch the graduate at the right time in your life
it was fight club for boomers

brainlets

Did you know that your post is one of the hallmarks of being a Reddit faggot?

fuck off nigger. Fight club doesn't speak for me, that commumist schlock never appealed to me

Tlj bombed though Disney spent in excess of 5 billion on sw and will never make it back they haven't even broke even.
Meanwhile graduate had a budget of Dustin hoffmans haircream and is still a great movie 60 years later

Fuck off from Yea Forums, peanut brain.

Did you know responses like this are the best way to show how hurt your feelings are?

>bbc/capeshit/cuckwars loving soifaggots

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It doesn't play the song again, the song transitions from Sound of Silence to April come she will

Feeble minded söy-friends with films that don't have people in capes are like niggers that get upset when you use words they don't recognise.
They're dumb and narcissistic and since they don't understand think you're flaunting some kind of superiority to make them look bad.
It's all tied to high ego and low intelligence.

Yes. Steven Sodebergh (who seems to always make movies for adults) calls it a "competition for eyeballs" which has only gotten worse with the rise of smartphones, laptops, tablets, social media, and wi-fi being ubiquitous. In the late 60s you either watched tv (which was mostly crap esp. on the weekends), read a book, or went to a movie or (if you lived in a non-shithole) a play. The Graduate also pushed buttons for sex in a mainstream movie, so that made anyone over the age of 13 curious, while still being well made, written, acted and zeitgeisty for boomers. Influential too if you consider it the first "boner comedy." Movies like MASH, Animal House, Porky's, Risky Business were influenced by it.

>If America and the UN didn't keep supporting niggers in Africa, their population would be completely dwindling
>without support from the white man, the nigger would be dead
>in 100 years, koko the gorilla will be smarter than the average human
Maybe niggers SHOULD die

It's a long montage, I'll give you that, but it's still powerful in how it conveys the span of time.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is sooo good, right?

what's more pathetic larping as a boomer on Yea Forums or actually being a boomer on Yea Forums

PLASTICS
MRS. ROBINSON
TRAD VALUES ENDING

FUCK YOU FAGGOT!

>Also anyone know what was the last "small scale" movie that did really well at the box office?
Not the sort of money that capeshit makes but in terms of actual profit margins:

>Split: budget $9 million/box office $278 million
>Get out: $4.5 million/$255 million
>A Quiet Place: $17 million/$340 million

Aside from horror/thrillers people don't really seem to go to the cinema for things that aren't event films anymore. Spielberg and Lucas might have been right about their predictions of the future of the cinema experience.

It's a great montage and I never said otherwise, I simply corrected that guy that it was the same song when it was across two different songs.

Yeah, I guess I was just including you because it seemed relevant to the fact that the montage is two songs back-to-back.

niggers and women have rights now. it all went downhill because of it.

we need a /film/ board for threads like this

There was a /film/ board for a day or so, newfag. It didn't go well.
Just discuss it here. The thread has been decent.

It's incredibly naive to think a board dedicated to serious discussion wouldn't just turn into another Yea Forums.

Oh yeah thats right. Still having it go through 2 songs looked off to me, and I just didn't like how it was done. The scene in general is great, I just wish they either found a way to shorten the clips or find a longer song, or at least a better way to synch it in longer without being noticeable. Still loved the movie though, I just wasn't a fan with how the music was done for that particular part

Almost reminded me of the song choice in butch cassidy and sundance kid when the raindrops falling on my head song was played.

This. I don't know why people think you can take the Yea Forums out of Yea Forums by moving to a different board.

The jannies were limp noodles. Couldn't put up with typical behavior from this site for more than a day LMAO

All jannies are limp noodles by default.

I should have clarified - I meant modern West. Good point.