This movie is a great meditation on class and has a lot of interesting ideas. The whole premise is interesting. There is however something lacking and underdeveloped about the execution overall though. This movie is somehow both too subtle and too unsubtle about what it's trying to say about class, human nature, and society at the same time. There are things that I think we're better off being left as subtext and didn't need to be made into text, and…

This was a good but fairly typical late 60s/early 70s gritty drug addict movie. This is probably one of those movies that was pretty innovative at the time but suffers from being revisited so often and to better effect in later movies it likely inspired. The late 60s and early 70s had so many movies about outsiders living the street life of drugs, sex work and scamming, and if you’ve seen a lot of movies about drug addict communities especially…

This movie is a real snooze and about two and half hours too long. It's gorgeous and has a real epic feel. The saturated technicolor is gorgeous at times. But man is it dull. Scarlett O'Hara is one of the worse characters to be the protagonist of a movie, especiallty a four hour one. She's horrible to spend time with. This whole movie is about rich white people crying because for a short time they have to be treated the…

I like 70s films, but I'm not as huge a believer in their cultlike status as a lot of other film buffs. I know especially since the book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, this era of film is treated often like untouchable mythology. My problem with this era is that while many of the films are indeed very well made, there is too much focus on the existential angst and rudderless drift prevalent among middle class White men who don't know…