One Giant Leap For Immorality

Rating: 2/10 (5 November 2005)

This is the beginning of what I would call "popular or glossy sleaze" in which morally bankrupt people are given credence and credibility, where doing the wrong things is glamorized in American films.
That is done either through having attractive-looking actors whom people like to see, humor in the story masking the bad messages, nice photography or the film is done by a popular director or producer, thus giving it further credence. In this film, it's all of the above.
This is the year profanity entered American movies and Dustin Hoffman wastes no time abusing Jesus' name. Anne Bancroft tries to make a little thing out of adultery. Katherine Ross shows no commitment to marriage and the wedding ceremony, and the rest of the adults here are pictured as very superficial, stupid, materialistic clowns....but that's not all bad, according to filmmakers, most of whom exhibit the same "qualities."
This movie set the tone for the rest of garbage that has followed since. This overrated "classic" is just one big soap opera. It caused quite a stir for its time with some daring sex.
Being a Liberal ground breaker, the film will always be treasured by the sleaze-balls and admirers of the film world. (I love films, but not the people who make them.)