But critics are starting to call it the most rotten since the talkies arrived. I can't even think of another year that comes close. All Quiet on the Western Front, Morocco and Little Caesar . There was not one film of great merit that came out in the whole year. That has never happened .
Critics always complain about sloppy scripts, pallid sequels and shameless rip-offs.
But this year, they say, there were no great films to redeem them. Movies that Hollywood should do right, like The Perfect Storm , they did wrong. Even when they were trying to follow the formula, they screwed up. An endless supply of dreck. Middle America is not seeing these good, solid movies.