AVClub: Back in 1997, on the occasion of The Graduate‘s 30th anniversary, Roger Ebert wrote a revised review in which he expressed a great deal of embarrassment about his formerly high opinion of it. (He’d called it “the funniest American comedy of the year” at the time of its original release.) “Great movies remain themselves over the generations; they retain a serene sense of their own identity,” he asserted. “Lesser movies are captives of their times. They get dated and lose their original focus and power.” In particular, Ebert confessed that he had once considered The Graduate‘s protagonist, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a heroic rebel, whereas in hindsight the character struck Ebert as an “insufferable creep.” The piece is written very much in the first person, but Ebert clearly felt that an entire generation had been snowed back in the late ’60s, and that a clear-eyed, modern-day view reveals an essential hollowness.
TBS: “Before the Harry Potter franchise brought magic to the big screen, Se7en and Fight Club director David Fincher considered the project.”
With The Batman Part II delayed to 2027, maybe it’s time for Burton and Keaton to give us a Batman Beyond movie!
Don’t sit on a throne of lies for day 11 of Romancemas.
