the new Classics

i love movies. i love all kinds of movies. i'll watch any movie once. if i like it, i'll watch it again, and maybe again, and again, and again. if i don't, i won't. i dig old movies, the classics (Star Wars, Citizen Cane, Casablanca, The Godfather 1 & 2, King Kong, Alien and others) and i dig stuff from the past twenty years or so (Goodfellas, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Awakenings, Die Hard, Back to the Future, Aliens, Unforgiven and others). however, i get a little frustrated when critics and media types say movies nowadays aren't up to Classic standards. i totally disagree. it's not that the quality of filmmaking has gone down, the quanity has gone up. therefore, there is more flop among the fantastic. looking at the past few years, here are some films that i love and suggest as the new classics: Miami Vice, The Departed, Seabiscuit, Road To Perdition, Minority Report, Signs, Jarhead, The Constant Gardener, A History of Violence, The Aviator, Domino, Traffic, North Country, Million Dollar Baby, Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana, Walk the Line, Erin Brokovich, Ray, Batman Begins, Collateral, Cinderella Man, Munich, The Proposition, Gangs of New York, Finding Neverland, The Interpreter, The Passion of the Christ, and others. however, maybe i'm out to lunch with these. maybe i'm biased, because i do love these movies. either way these are the films that quickly come to mind when i think new Classics.