Some films are just so great we are willing to forgive them anything. Often whatever flaws they have are minor - the odd bad scene, a miscast secondary character - but now and then it requires a bigger effort on the viewer's part to ignore what they're seeing. If the film's good enough, audiences have proved that they'll invariably ignore whatever else it throws at them. Most of the movies featured here make it for a number of reasons, many of them extremely varied, but changes to social attitudes is a common one. Now and then the morality of a film looks a bit questionable with the benefit of hindsight. Another is CGI or SFX, since it would be crude to dismiss a good story due to lack of budget or perhaps changes to technology since the film was released. Some though, are far more esoteric. The common consensus is that audience attention-spans are dwindling, and that viewers are more easily distracted than ever. However, how can that be the case when audiences everywhere are putting major flaws to the back of their minds, often suspending disbelief so they can enjoy something which can be appreciated in other ways. People are more discerning than critics realise, perhaps because they are discerning in often surprising ways.
