Feel-Good Flicks of Yesteryear!

 So, I'm not a big Bill Maher fan, but I couldn't help noticing his rant about how Hollywood is letting us down.  Bill had some wisdom to impart on today's films.  They're depressing! They're all about issues!  You can't feel good when you walk out of the theatre these days!  The Oscars, says, Bill should "change their name to the Debbies — as in Debbie Downer.” 

I guess he's got a point.  Consider some past winners.  There's 1970's Midnight Cowboy--the jolly tale of an incompetent male prostitute and his buddy, a street scammer who pisses himself to death on a bus.




And One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, where a happy-go-lucky criminal cons his way into an insane asylum, gets lobotomized and then his best friend suffocates him.




Not to mention Titanic -- young woman cheats on her fiance, watches her lover die and talks about it about a century later.  Meanwhile, several hundred people drown.  Now THAT'S entertainment!




And what about The Deer Hunter?  Wonderful and frigging endless wedding scene, then some time in Viet Nam, where our hero blows his head off in a game of Russian Roulette.  How...inspiring.



Gosh, all those feel good movies of the past.  How could Hollywood have forgotten?  But, heck, we''ll always have the pleasures and simple humor of Schindler's List, right?

Join me in describing some of your old Oscar favorites!  

--AlextheKay





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