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"We tend to exalt the works that we're emotionally and intellectually ready for. And we expect the audience to be in the same spot in their lives as we are. There are teenagers who think that Grease or Titanic is the greatest movie ever made -- it may indeed be the greatest movie they've seen. After all, their parents might have thought Gone With The Wind or Five Easy Pieces was the greatest movie ever made. Critics have engaged with so many works that they may forget that the young audience now has engaged with relatively few. Only a twerp would castigate an audience for its enjoyment of something."
- Pauline Kael to Newsweek, 1998
No promises, gang, but this could be the first and last time you'll ever see a review on this page begin with a lengthy quote from former New Yorker critic Pauline Kael. Tapehead's got an image to maintain, dammit! But if you'll allow me to indulge in some post-film grad loftiness, I'm going to applaud Kael for scoring one right on the nose as to what's with the standard film snobs attitude towards popular youth culture.
Witness the excessively negative and intolerant reactions to MGM's Disturbing Behavior during the feature's brief and unsuccessful summer theatrical run. This shouldn't come as too much of a surprise, since the film was hardly targeted at the crowd that gets excited when The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg gets re-released. But critic after critic vilified this totally harmless chiller as a trite Stepford Wives riff filtered through Dawson's Creek to capitalize on the Scream trend. <P>
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