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How many movies do you go to see in the theater these days? What kinds? What reasons?
I have not gone to a movie since Despicable Me came out last July, and going by the ads on TV, there's nothing coming out lately that's going to tempt me to go again anytime soon. Which really sucks because a few years ago I went to several movies a year at the theater, our town got its new theater in 2006 and since it opened I've been there over the years to see Garfield 2, Cars, Meet the Robinsons, Mad Money, The Bucket List, TMNT, The Blind Side, Madea Goes to Jail, Rush Hour 3, Unaccompanied Minors, Night at the Museum, Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian, Up!, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, The Golden Compass, some of them I went to twice, but this last year, going to 1 movie for the entire year, and the way things are going now, that's probably as good as it's going to be this year as well.
There's just NOTHING coming out that looks good to me. I very rarely see a movie ad on TV and think 'oh this will be great', I think more in terms of 'well, it might not be a TOTAL waste of time and my money', nothing that anybody puts out appeals to me. Now, in older movies, older ranging from 90s to the silent era, there's no shortage of what interests me, what I like.
Of course one big factor in this is I have TCM and I have the library which not only has a good variety of movies itself, it can get in movies on loan from other libraries, so to look into movies from these sources is not going to cost me $10 a pop, but even without considering the money, there just is NOTHING coming out these days to the theater that I get the feeling 'oh I should look into that, it could be fun'. Is anybody else like this or (as usual) is it just me?
I don't know about everyone else, but I really have no interest in seeing:
live/computer action remakes of cartoons/comics
Movie remakes of TV shows from the 70s/80s/whatever
family/kids movies that pick the 'follow your heart'/'we'll always be a family'
moment for one of their BEST scenes in the TV ads
The new Transformers or anything relating to them
Superhero movies that try to be 'modern' and 'realistic'
ANY new horror movies, they all suck and a lot of them for some reason rely on puke scenes to add to the 'disturbing scenes'
Any movie where the whole plot is a damn love story, again
Any movie about gangstas or whatever the hell they're called with the full body tattoos and racing cars and guns and half naked women and 'oh we so badass'
Take those away and you basically clear out the entire playing list at our theater. How about everyone else?
How many movies do you go to see in the theater these days? What kinds? What reasons?
I have not gone to a movie since Despicable Me came out last July, and going by the ads on TV, there's nothing coming out lately that's going to tempt me to go again anytime soon. Which really sucks because a few years ago I went to several movies a year at the theater, our town got its new theater in 2006 and since it opened I've been there over the years to see Garfield 2, Cars, Meet the Robinsons, Mad Money, The Bucket List, TMNT, The Blind Side, Madea Goes to Jail, Rush Hour 3, Unaccompanied Minors, Night at the Museum, Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian, Up!, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, The Golden Compass, some of them I went to twice, but this last year, going to 1 movie for the entire year, and the way things are going now, that's probably as good as it's going to be this year as well.
There's just NOTHING coming out that looks good to me. I very rarely see a movie ad on TV and think 'oh this will be great', I think more in terms of 'well, it might not be a TOTAL waste of time and my money', nothing that anybody puts out appeals to me. Now, in older movies, older ranging from 90s to the silent era, there's no shortage of what interests me, what I like.
Of course one big factor in this is I have TCM and I have the library which not only has a good variety of movies itself, it can get in movies on loan from other libraries, so to look into movies from these sources is not going to cost me $10 a pop, but even without considering the money, there just is NOTHING coming out these days to the theater that I get the feeling 'oh I should look into that, it could be fun'. Is anybody else like this or (as usual) is it just me?
I don't know about everyone else, but I really have no interest in seeing:
live/computer action remakes of cartoons/comics
Movie remakes of TV shows from the 70s/80s/whatever
family/kids movies that pick the 'follow your heart'/'we'll always be a family'
moment for one of their BEST scenes in the TV adsThe new Transformers or anything relating to them
Superhero movies that try to be 'modern' and 'realistic'
ANY new horror movies, they all suck and a lot of them for some reason rely on puke scenes to add to the 'disturbing scenes'
Any movie where the whole plot is a damn love story, again
Any movie about gangstas or whatever the hell they're called with the full body tattoos and racing cars and guns and half naked women and 'oh we so badass'
Take those away and you basically clear out the entire playing list at our theater. How about everyone else?
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