Erm, the era referred to in the OP, viz pre-1968.
:smack: :smack: :smack: THAT plane scene. In my defense, I kept trying to think of a time when they were on a plane, and just assumed you hadn’t seen it in a long time and was thinking of the train scene. If you had said “the cropduster” scene or even “the field scene” I would have known instantly what you were talking about.
When I saw The Graduate for the first time, I thought it was one of the best movies ever made. What can I say. I was in high school at the time. I watched it again ten years later and it was painfully embarrassing.
I’ve never understood why everyone thinks Citizen Kane is so great. The hell with the AFI. Casablanca is the best movie ever made.
Most of Marlon Brando’s movies bite the big one. Especially Reflections in a Golden Eye, and let’s not talk about that one with Jack Nicholson where he ends up in a dress.
I don’t know why anyone thinks Richard Burton was hot stuff. All his movies were total crap.
Easy Rider is a turkey. But Jack Nicholson did have one great line, something like “Everybody talks about individual freedom, but when they meet a free individual they sure don’t like it much.”
The only movie I ever got up and walked out of was some late-60s artsy-fartsy John Cassavetes extravaganza that I can’t even remember the name of any more.
scotandrsn, I too failed to make it past 30 minutes of** Touch of Evil ** twice, but on my third try I did, and it’s now one of my all time favs.
While I also consider **Double Endemnity ** one of my all time favs, I do wonder if it would have been better with someone other than Fred M. in the lead- he seems to think he’s some sort of smooth lothario, when actually he a goofy schmo- but maybe that was the intent?
At this point, obviously no. 
I mean the cropduster in the field scene.
I saw just that scene as a kid in some Hitchcock or suspense retrospective television special, and it always stayed with me. Finally saw the whole film years later, and it didn’t measure up.
Every single character is just ridiculously over-the-top.
I have scrutinized Vertigo twice trying to figure out why people are so enamored of it, outside of Kim Novak, who looks startlingly like my first high school crush here. I think Psycho is far superior.
I saw 2001 as a kid in the mid-70s at a screening at MIT. Never forgot it. Some films are just meant to be watched on a massive scale. When I saw Broken Arrow at a shoebox multiplex in Boston, I and the whole audience were laughing at it. A few months later I saw it at Mann’s Chinese in Hollywood (because I had just arived in LA and wanted to see a movie at Mann’s Chinese, not because I’m in love with Broken Arrow or anything), and was blown away seeing it on their building-sized screen. I swore it was a different edit, as there were things I swore I hadn’t seen before.
Yet another vote for Gone With the Wind. Rhett was a moron for wasting four hours of my life chasing after that PITA Scarlett.