Amazing things happening in the Vertigo Sucks community
Posted: September 3, 2024 Filed under: everyone's a critic, film 1 Comment
The comments coming to life on our 2013 post. To be clear, our problem isn’t so much with Vertigo itself as with film critics who overhype it, hurting rather than helping the cause of old movie appreciation.
Helytimes 
The real issue, I think, is the vulnerability of classics to evolving standards and changing times.It can be both one of the greatest movies ever made, and also neither interesting or impressive to a modern audience, who see it in the context of a changed culture.