Gone With the Wind ... gone

HBO Max has pulled "Gone With the Wind" from its lineup. After it sits in the corner and thinks about what it's done, and writes an essay, maybe it can come back out.

'Gone with the Wind' pulled from HBO Max until it can return with 'historical context' - CNN

 

I'm dyin'.

 

Gone With the Wind available on many many platforms for screening, including for free on film archive site. Also, if ever a movie could've been 30 minutes shorter to good effect...

 

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!

 

In the time it takes to watch GWTW, you can watch two good movies.

 

Fourth post. Well played.

 

It’s amazing the fall from grace this movie has had in the last 25 years. When I was young I remember it consistently considered perhaps the best movie of all time. Surely we have a long way to go, but the world has certainly changed.

 

It may have been remembered as the biggest hit of all time, which it was for many many years, but best? I don't think so.

 

I think Citizen Kane has been heralded as the GOAT by movie people over Gone With the Wind.

 

To the amazement of my mom, I read the book in fifth grade.

I'm sure it was a landmark picture in the 1930s, but at this point there are just soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many movies which surpass it.

It's like honoring the first guy to dunk a basketball up there with Jordan and Vince Carter, just because he was first.

 

I hope HBO gives a raise to the marketing/PR person who thought of doing this to get all the free publicity.

 

I realize movies today have gone far beyond what GWTW did - technically, box office wise etc. So watching it 40 or more years later you wonder what the big whoop is - but it was a moon shot of a movie at the time. I thought Citizen Kane was vastly superior and still holds up decades later - so much good stuff in that movie, the plotting, the camera work, the sets. Hell, Cold Mountain is a better story of the Civil War than GWTW.