Still, make no mistake, if you're going into this black-and-white coming-of-age '70s drama set in the '50s expecting to see something all that exciting, then brother, you just walked into the wrong picture show. Nostalgiac critcs are annoying, especially when it comes to films like this, where perhaps the most phenomenal thing about it is how it shockingly managed to trascend mediocrity with only so many strenght. Speaking of nostalgia, I should probably get more in touch with my '70s if I'm going to talk about this film, by refering to '2001: A Space Odyssey' as the literal 'picture show' and giving a perfectly honest review of this film, then come back in about twenty years and call it one of the greatest films of all times, because according to today's critics, if it's old, it's a masterpiece, except for Ed Wood films, and even then, his swill has somehow become recognized as materpieces in camp.

I don't know about y'all, but if I want a picture show, then I'll either just go on Google Images or watch a Terrence Malick film, because pretty much all he does is show pretty pictures. In the '80s and '90s, they tacked on 'The Movie', in the '70s, they tacked on 'The Motion Picture', and before that, well, they didn't really tack on the common term for a film at the end of titles, and quite frankly, I'm glad, because the term 'Picture Show' sounds cheesily outdated now, on its own, much less when it's crowbarred into a title.

Yes, I tacked on 'The Motion Picture, because in the '70s, they were tacking on 'The Motion Picture' at the end of just about every title to an adaptation of something. What we have here is a coming-of-age '70s film that's nostalgically set in the '50s, so outside of the fact that this is anything but a sitcom, this is pretty much 'Happy Days: The Motion Picture'.

The last picture show by larry mcmurtry