Movie thoughts.

A random comment on some random website got me to thinking about the state of movies. Things have changed a lot in the last ten years and I'm not entirely sure what, though I have a few ideas. Like the fact that more and more people seem to want to rent movies instead of going to the theater, even though most of us do enjoy going to the theater. The fact remains though, that we simply do not do so. I have to wonder at this. It can't simply be the cost, for movies have always been expensive to go to. I don't think it is altogether that we're glutted with similar movies, because there are often one or two really good and original ones. Of course, the glut is probably a big factor. The same premises over and over gets rather tedious. But I know something else has changed too, though perhaps it is simply that I'm older and don't get quite as excited to see movies. I dunno.

But I do think to back maybe ten-twelve years. I went to movies pretty frequently. Not only that, but they were all so new and interesting. I can remember how a few times a year the local theaters would do double features too. I loved that. People used to stay during the credits too, which I find disconcerting that absolutely no one else seems to anymore. Granted, they are longer... I think perhaps that many of us don't have the time anymore. It's amazing how much faster things seem to move when compared with only a decade ago. Again, part of that is just the part where I'm "grown up" and have more stuff to do, but still. That, and there just aren't the movies they used to make. They were cheesy and disney, but they were really good. Why in my day...

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