and was not impressed. I love baseball and I love Kevin Costner but I just didn't get what was so great. I felt the same when I saw Field of Dreams for the first time, didn't get what all the fuss was about with that movie either.
shareFair enough.
Never defend crap with 'It's just a movie'
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You've got to try to watch it in the context of 1988 to however older you might have been in 1988 (if you'd even been born yet). Unfortunately, there's no "going back", but it's possible you're not quite getting it now because you're watching it from perspective that is almost 20 years hence. You've grown, learned, changed, your worldview may have evolved, your references, preferences...
Some movies age well, but most movies have cues of their time that are hard to digest. Consider even the great movie The Godfather - Michael shoots Solozzo and McCluskey and then does what...he drops the gun? With his fingerprints all over it?
Now, today, that'd be nuts. But in 1972, fingerprinting was not a big deal in crime investigation. It works, in 1972...not so much in this modern era. In 1972, I was just a baby, so there's no seeing The Godfather within the socio-political milieu of Vietnam, Nixon's landslide re-election win, hippies, Coke commercial, All in the Family and Mash tv shows...
I'm a big fan of Billy Wilder who, of course, made a ton of classic movies in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, before my time. I watch them now knowing I'll always miss a part of what it must have been like to see it within the times.
Which isn't to say this movie is really great and you'd love it if you did see it back then. It's just to say, it will always be difficult to experience a movie the way it would have been experienced at the time it was made and released.
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