6.5 WAY too high

---These days we are lucky to get 1 a year and its usually insulting with heavy handed propaganda.---

definitely agree here, 1000%


ii used to see movies AT THE THEATER 2-5 times EACH week, and now i may ride through to look at the posters twice a year (then drive away without entering)

the stories ALL suck now, and on top of that scenes are BORING as hell. movies now are full of pointless scenes where the characters are discussing something the viewers are NOT interested in at all. but they will be discussing it like has the importance of nuclear fusion or life/death. and they have so many MOOT superfluous details in films now that add nothing to the momentum, plot.

also every fucking filmmaker now tried to mimick tarantino's 'royale w cheese' conversation (in style i mean)


i have written on this extensively. for me the true death nell was 2020. but it was going on prior. i think it was somewhere around 2014-16 that i stopped going to the theater except for a handful of times in a year. and as bad as that was and i tought it couldn't get worse, the movie business said hold my beer and took it to a new low in the 2017-19 era. then covid hit and things were REALLY dead, probably for good. (i refer to quality, not attendance)

the one moment that defied all this was top gun maverick, IMHO. it actually suceeded in taking me back to an earlier time when movies were good and everyone in the theater was visibly having a great time, truly transported to another world for 2 hours. (reminds me of my grandfather talking about how he was glad he saw Florida in the days before the world discovered it, pree turnpike era of the 20s 30s)

they beat it out of me (the movie industry)

i was one of the most hardcore movie fans onthis planet, and they literally made me entirely numb to it.

as things sit now i just rewatch old greats on my TV at home, and enjoy the OCCASIONAL discovery of one i missed in the 70s or 80s, and when this happens that is a real treat.


i will add that good movies do still get made today, but they are very hard to find and usually i discover it 12-18 months later so i miss the theater experience.

another thing I'll add is that the industry as somewhat 'retooled' towards producing TV episodes INSTEAD of feature films, due to the public's hugs taste for the limited series format. i for one can take it or leave it (the limited series format) but i prefer by far a fine feature film.

we are also victims of the younger crowd running things in hollyweird, a contigent i think are likely unaware or unconcerned with good writing the way the filmmakers of a decade or two ago were. (been in a deep dive on carl franklin lately. he is a good example of top notch story sense and skillful directing)

i could go on forever, but gotta stop somewhere.

cheers