Pundit Predictions

"In my humble opinion, the picture will be a colossal flop."

Business reporter on the impact CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND would have on Columbia Pictures.

"Forget it. No Civil War picture ever made a nickel."

Irving Thalberg, MGM Production Executive, advising Louis B. Mayer not to buy films rights to GONE WITH THE WIND.

"SNOW WHITE will sound the Disney death knell."

Critic in the publication "Current History".

"The only way STAR WARS could have been exciting was through its visual imagination and special effects. Both were unexceptional."

Film critic, 1977.

"The regretful verdict here is: Dead in the Water."

Movie reviewer TITANIC.

"Displays no trace of imagination, good taste or ingenuity. I says it's a sinkeroo."

The New Yorker Magazine film critic on THE WIZARD OF OZ.

From: 'Who Wrote This Junk Anyway?' by Esther Luttrell.