It must be very annoying for young people to hear people my age constantly saying, "They don't make movies like they used to." But guess what? They don't. Just watched 1941's The Sea Wolf with Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield, and Ida Lupino. Like many movies of that age, you walk away exhilarated. Not true of today's films. You may walk away excited, or pleased, or impressed, but not uplifted. Why? Because they lack nobility and depth and heart. They're a collection of smart ass people, lots of fuck yous, at least one bathroom scene, tons of infidelity, violence and treachery. Films like August: Osage County involved shallow needs and lots of recriminations. Gravity is a film about nothing and nothingness. As much as I liked The Dallas Buyers Club it's about people kicked in the teeth by life. Even the animated films for children are full of bathroom humor and snide asides.  I don't know what's in the other films I didn't see, but they're sure to be full of contemporary angst and have none of the sentimentality that moviegoers need but don't get any more. They won't have characters as complex as Wolf Larsen, as self-sacrificing as Humphrey Van Weyden, as misguided as Ruth Webster or as cynical-good as George Leach. The movies of the past have facets that today's movies don't. And the sad thing is that most young people are not interested in discovering what those facets are.