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The Graduate (1967)
Rate:
6
Viewed:
5/03, 8/16
8/16:
Talk about overrated.
The Graduate is just exactly that and is one of the sleaziest movies I've ever seen because the daughter agreed to
marry the guy who slept with her mother many times. Come on, that's pretty disgusting. I first saw the movie in 2003 and had
never understood its appeal since then. I mean, what's so fascinating? It's a coming-of-age film? Don't they mean "a coming
of a full-blown pervert"?
The American Film Institute did a top 100 list in 2005, and, this time it was for movie quotes. One of them is
"Plastics" from The Graduate. Uh, are the voters stupid or what? I mean, what the fuck? People thought the
movie was funny. It has also been labeled a comedy. I'm sorry, but I didn't laugh once. Exactly what's so funny about a
weird, socially maladjusted guy who stalks women?
Already too old for the part, Dustin Hoffman is a 29-year-old playing a twenty-one-year college graduate who comes off as a
weird creep. Katharine Ross is also over the age for the part. Anne Bancroft isn't bad, but her character is unlikeable.
She's just bored stiff about everything in general. How is sex with her will be any better? She would still be having a
cigarette in her mouth while being lit up like a pinball machine.
All in all, the high praise shown for The Graduate is bizarre; Dustin Hoffman would shed off the fluke success by
appearing in the next film: Midnight Cowboy.