Posted 6:31 PM by Gene

Ty Burr has written a book with the self-explanatory title The Best Old Movies for Families: A Guide to Watching Together. I've criticized him before -- he can be trendy -- but he's on solid ground here. Here's the thing: Before The Second Coming of Christ anyone could view a movie. Situations and jokes might have zoomed over the kids' heads, but they probably wouldn't be bored, and most likely there'd be little or nothing to harm them, and their parents would still get an adult movie. Now we have no movies for kids and adults, but in their place MARKETING, or movies suitable for no one, or both. A great big thank you again to SECOND COMING!!!!!

By the way, from what I remember, The Seven Samurai would be a pretty good movie for young teens, because it's such a pretty good movie. But why does it have to be so expensive in DVD?

P. S. 21,534. Serves Bertelsmann's boneheads right for printing 100,000 of these. Yoohoo, remainder bins!

(Via a Terry Teachout post on Commentary Magazine's blog)