is 'The Graduate' possibly the best film ever made?

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Just saw it for the first time last night (yeah, yeah, I know...last night..I never owned a TV either okay?)
But seriously, the last 20 minutes of this film are absolutely fucking classic--esp. the love crazed Dustin Hoffman wedding breakup cross-wielding-bride-stealing scene.

I am tempted to say rebel w/out caause=50s as The Graduate =60's. What films, if any, do you feel capture the zietgiest of the 00s in a similar way?

― turner, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i would be willing to put in the ten best comdies

― anthonyeaston, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes. the ending is classic of course, but it's the overwhelming mood of .... nothing .... that i love.

― paul barclay, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i don't really think of it as a comedy, although it is very funny.

― paul barclay, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd say Graduate was comedy in the same way that American Beauty is comedy now. Sue me for using that a s an example though.

― turner, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'The Devil Rides Out' is the best film ever, I'm afraid.

― DG, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Okay, DG. But the Graduate can still contend for best 'american non- horror' film ever made rite?

― turner, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Its not even the best American Movie with Dustin Hoffman ( that would be Midnight Cowboy)

― anthonyeaston, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Loved it first time I saw it. Now too self-satisfied for my taste. The 00s film, thus far, is clearly Bring It On. But 9/11/01 should rilly be considered the end of the 90s. And the zeitgeist film of the 90s was Titanic.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But 9/11/01 should rilly be considered the end of the 90s.

Hm...almost literally ten years on from "Smells Like Teen Spirit" too.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's funny that you should bring that up. I often think of things in terms of pre-Nevermind or post-Nevermind. Isn't it amazing that it was ten years ago! It seems like yesterday. Sort of explains why oldies listen to golden oldies. They are just stuck in their minds, reliving their youth.

― toraneko, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Could Leon be the best film of the 90s?

― chris, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes The Graduate is one of my top ten. Could Pulp Fiction by the film of the 90s?

I saw a great film from the 30's last night, The Devil Doll. very cool. makes you think of all the people you'd like to shrink.

― Samantha, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Glowgurl- rite about Pulp Fiction. It captures the mid 90's disco revival/swingers/retro fad (which was pretty much a fairly localized west coast thing, que no?) perfectly but also references enough pop, mainstream, and drug culture to make it a zietgiest film.

― turner, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Re: zeitgest - whatever. Pulp Fiction can fuck off, and I wasn't alive in the 60s to comment on this aspect of the question.

But The Graduate is one of my favourite ever films, yes. Just beautiful, and unbearably affecting re: becoming an adult, despite Benjamin's situation bearing little resemblance to my own post-graduation. I don't like the end so much as the beginning, and that section where he is having the affair with Mrs Robinson, lazing around the swimming pool and doing little else.

― Nick, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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