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The Graduate My feelings on this one probably belong in the 'unpopular movie opinion' thread, but I'm not that crazy about it. Maybe I'm just old and cranky yet too young to have really experienced the 60's, but Dustin Hoffman's character is a spoiled kid in my eyes and I wasn't feeling any sort of empathy for him. And Elaine? She really wanted to play sloppy seconds to her mom? No thanks. These thoughts o mine tainted the rest of the film for me, unfortunately. Maybe I'll try and watch it again in another decade, LOL.
Bottle Rocket Oh, how I love thee, let me count the ways! This is the kind of humor I like. I love Wes Anderson's filming style, but I really enjoy the differences in Bottle Rocket. What I wouldn't give to have people like Dignan, Anthony and Bob in my life. Even Future Man! (another Wilson bro, btw, Andrew) My favorite line at which I laugh non-stop: "Okay. There, you see the star is me, right there, and I'll be in there. The X is Anthony. Bob, you're the zero out here in the car."
The Graduate My feelings on this one probably belong in the 'unpopular movie opinion' thread, but I'm not that crazy about it. Maybe I'm just old and cranky yet too young to have really experienced the 60's, but Dustin Hoffman's character is a spoiled kid in my eyes and I wasn't feeling any sort of empathy for him. And Elaine? She really wanted to play sloppy seconds to her mom? No thanks. These thoughts o mine tainted the rest of the film for me, unfortunately. Maybe I'll try and watch it again in another decade, LOL.
Bottle Rocket Oh, how I love thee, let me count the ways! This is the kind of humor I like. I love Wes Anderson's filming style, but I really enjoy the differences in Bottle Rocket. What I wouldn't give to have people like Dignan, Anthony and Bob in my life. Even Future Man! (another Wilson bro, btw, Andrew) My favorite line at which I laugh non-stop: "Okay. There, you see the star is me, right there, and I'll be in there. The X is Anthony. Bob, you're the zero out here in the car."
I think I'm the only one here, who liked Dustin Hoffman's performance in The Graduate I saw in his character rather a rebel teenanger than a child. For instance, when he declared to his parents he was getting married, when the future fiancee didn't know about proposion and she even didn't like him. It made me laugh. Remainds me some of ideas oft thirteen years old daughters of my friend
And Elain who decided to marry hers mother former lover? You described it perfectly. I see her like a stubborn teenager who wants to rile parents. She stoped being so self-confident and so shure of the choice she made in the bus.
Despite all this, I do understand Benjamin's state of mind. As @Okay wrote
"The Graduate" follows Benjamin, a graduate, who's a little worried about his future. Being in my senior year myself, I naturally gravitated towards this kind of theme, and totally understood where Hoffman's character was coming from. The feeling of wanting to do something substantial but not knowing exactly what, is something that most of us will go through at some point of our lives.
I haven't seen The Bottle Rocket yet, but I really enjoy Wes Anderson movies