     "I really love Casablanca."  "I do too."    "TITANIC," 1997
If its story stays well within the traditional formulas for such
pictures, well, you don't choose the most expensive film ever
made as your opportunity to reinvent the wheel.   Although the
movie is three hours long, it absorbs us so effectively it never
has to hurry. There is something in the measured passage of time
as Don Corleone hands over his reins of power that would have
made a shorter, faster moving film unseemly. Even at this
length, there are characters in relationships you can't quite
understand unless you've read the novel. Or perhaps you can,
just by the way the characters look at each other.   This movie
made my heart glad. It is filled with innocence, hope, and good
cheer. It is also wickedly funny and exciting as hell. "E.T.:
The Extra-Terrestrial" is a movie like "The Wizard of Oz," that
you can grow up with and grow old with, and it won't let you
down.  "STAR WARS," 1977  Every once in a while I have what I
think of as an o