Average at best

Having flicked through one of those '1001 films to watch before you die' books, I set off to find a few 'classics' that had previously passed me by. 'The Graduate' was one of these and I was fairly unimpressed by it.
I found it watchable, and enjoyable in places, but I certainly won't be watching it again. The best bits of the film are its more comic moments, which Hoffman pulls off in a fantastically dead-pan way (while sounding a fair bit like his character in 'Rain Man').
Maybe my viewing pleasure loses something in my not being a child of the 60's, but if a film is a 'classic' it shouldn't matter if the viewer was around in that era or not.
As for mid-life and 20-something crises: I'd take American Beauty over this.
As for a couple of other 'classics' that I unearthed, they included 'Grease' and 'One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest', which I would give 1 and 4 stars, respectively.