I don't know if I saw "What's So Bad About Feeling Good?" when it was relatively new, but I probably did. I remember it as being in black and white, so I probably saw it on TV, on a black and white set.
It's not exactly a classic. Just the fact that it was played on TV, all those years ago, likely proves that. It's got some heavy-handed, and forgettable, slapstick. It's got a few really good lines, but most of the dialogue is predictable and common.
But, watching it again, now, I can't help but feel that it still has something to say to a day when a lot of people feel that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, that the authorities are lying to you at every turn, that isolation is the only companionship, that the only way to save the world is to destroy it, that the world is therefore destroying itself, and so what's to worry, right? (Sorry: that's one of the good lines from the movie.)
Get some grapes and watch it. Preferably with a feathered friend. (Maybe beware of bird flu, though ...)
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