LETTERS

Re “The Mighty ‘39ers” by Susan King, May 6: Listing those movies released in 1939 makes me wonder whatever happened to the movie industry. How could we have gone from those stellar films (“Gone With the Wind,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Stagecoach,” etc.) to the “destroy/kill/maim/kill again” kind of movies I see advertised now?

Yes, I am old enough to have seen each of these movies. How I long for these kinds of movies again.

Carol Marshall

Anaheim

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Re “Claws and All” by Kenneth Turan, April 30: What has happened to American culture when a leading and respected movie critic of the L.A. Times can wax rhapsodic over an alleged motion picture (“X-Men Origins”) based on a COMIC BOOK??!! Is the level of entertainment now determined by the taste of pre-teenagers?

At 86, I guess I’m too old to be allowed to live. I never asked to be permitted to get this old. Perhaps I could just be euthanized so the teen culture can flourish freely.

Saul Halpert

Studio City