THE ARTIST IS TREMENDOUS spoiler alert

Rating: 10/10 (22 March 2012)

No big box office American stars (respected actors, yes, but no one who can open a movie), no explosions, no blood, no heads getting cut off, no high dives, NOT EVEN ANY DIALOGUE and perhaps the best movie of the year. I laughed, I cried, I fell in love with the lead girl and was on board with the lead guys journey. What a rare and interesting movie. My nephews and niece watched it with me and complained because no one talked, so they were texting and doing their Facebook stuff the whole time and kept asking me when it was going to be over and they were bored. They wanted to watch two reality TV shows, so we taped them and watched those after. Now that was horrible! I felt old after watching the movie with teenagers, and I'm not that old (I'm 29), but seeing how much they couldn't relate scared me. Now I finally understand what older people mean when they say young people have no attention span. I was embarrassed for my nephews and nieces, 16 and 17 (twins). I thought it was a real cool movie. I want to start watching old movies now. It made me feel like maybe I've been missing something all this time. I just thought of something funny, who said they don't make movies like they used to, they just did. Were movies all this cool back in the day? I think my generation, and the ones after are getting "jibbed" (my grandpa use to say that), the movies suck nowadays compared to The Artist. I realize how much detail matters now.