Are you enjoying movies like you used to?

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Most of don't go to the movies anymore. But you can get any movie you want on your TV screen. Yet, do you enjoy movies like you used to? There is something about seeing a movie in a theater rather than seeing it in your underwear, under a comfy blanket. And movies have changed over the years. Maybe for the better, or not?
Are you enjoying movies like you used to?


I rarely watch movies anymore. I'm used to the fast pacing of TV cops shows and comedies. In the movies, there can be 8 different camera angles as a guy turns a door knob. It's probably just me, but movies seem to drag on.
 

I love watching movies. I have a huge collection, and I have a movie theater room with an 11 foot wide screen that I project movies onto. During the Marvel Cinematic Universe craze that dominated theater going over a 10 year period, my movie interest was at an all time high, but Marvel lost their creative instinct after the Avengers came to an end. I don't know if it was Stan Lee's death, or selling their franchise to Disney that was responsible for that. Since the Pandemic and the writer's strike Hollywood is getting better again, but it was slim pickin's for awhile.
 
I used to get totally immersed in films at the theater and walk out deeply affected. The Exorcist scared the hell out of me. After seeing the movie The Doors, I was talking like Jim Morrison for the rest of the evening. :ROFLMAO: After watching The Raging Bull, I was talking like Robert Deniro's portrayal of Jake Lamotta. After seeing Schindler's List, I felt like I was walking out of a funeral when I walked out of the theater.

Other movies had the same effect. I became a character in the movie.

Not so much any more, and I think that's due to the medication I'm on for anxiety. Once in a while, I can get scared, but it's nothing like what I used to experience. There are always unwanted side effects with medication. I also lost my secks drive. :(
 
HermitHogan said:
I used to get totally immersed in films at the theater and walk out deeply affected. The Exorcist scared the hell out of me. After seeing the movie The Doors, I was talking like Jim Morrison for the rest of the evening. :ROFLMAO: After watching The Raging Bull, I was talking like Robert Deniro's portrayal of Jake Lamotta. After seeing Schindler's List, I felt like I was walking out of a funeral when I walked out of the theater.

Other movies had the same effect. I became a character in the movie.

Not so much any more, and I think that's due to the medication I'm on for anxiety. Once in a while, I can get scared, but it's nothing like what I used to experience. There are always unwanted side effects with medication. I also lost my secks drive. :(
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I think it's just the theory of diminishing returns. The older we become, the more jaded we become.
 
You can't beat the movies of days gone by. I loved all the musicals, Westside Story, The King and I, 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, South Pacific, even going back to the 40's. all the Fred Astair and Ginger Rogers movies. Now there was talent. Today's movies are all fighting and blood and guts.
 
Going to the movies became so expensive; I refuse to pay those prices. Do not subscribe to any service. I watch free streaming services, and then only the ones that do not require "registration".

And yes, so many are very violent. No thanks. I do enjoy documentaries, real documentaries that do not have a political agenda. Those aren't documentaries; they're propaganda.

My late husband and I were fans of Bogart. We would make a nice dinner, set up the TV trays in front of the recliners and watch Bogie movies, reciting their lines along with them.

These days, I am not much of a movie watcher.
 
seadoug said:
Yes. I look for new movies playing at theaters during every Friday opening. If there is something interesting, I go. It is a great escape from every day reality.
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I used to do that. No theater is near me, so I have to drive 35 miles. I didn't mind that part - it was a good way to get out of the house for the afternoon.

But then came the pandemic, when the theater closed, and when they reopened, they put in a bar, and even a restaurant. When I'm out to see a movie, I'm not interested in all that, but they want the money, of course. And tickets have to be purchased through a kiosk, or bought online in advance, with assigned seating - which is really what they want everyone to do.

I like to just drop in to see a movie, buy a ticket from a human, go in and sit anywhere I find an unoccupied seat. So I finally got tired of all the hassle and haven't been back. It seems it's getting harder to just do anything spontaneous anymore.
 
I don't enjoy movies in the same way that I used to. Growing up, even into middle age, movies were more of an event. Therefore I tended to appreciate, even cherish, them more. In that way I remember that movies were better then.

Part of the problem is that we're bombarded with movies today, most of them schlock, so I don't tend to have very high expectations from them anymore. Seems like 90% of movies in the older days were good to very good. Now only about 5% of them are good to very good.

Also movies are able to be taken for granted, since we can watch so many on TV, whereas before we anticipated an evening out and a good film.

I'm not in step with the ethos of modern times, so most of the subject matter in many pictures turns me off. I think when woke advocacy wears off, film makers will revert to good entertaining films.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Most of don't go to the movies anymore. But you can get any movie you want on your TV screen. Yet, do you enjoy movies like you used to? There is something about seeing a movie in a theater rather than seeing it in your underwear, under a comfy blanket. And movies have changed over the years. Maybe for the better, or not?
Are you enjoying movies like you used to?


I rarely watch movies anymore. I'm used to the fast pacing of TV cops shows and comedies. In the movies, there can be 8 different camera angles as a guy turns a door knob. It's probably just me, but movies seem to drag on.
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"There is something about seeing a movie in a theater rather than seeing it in your underwear, under a comfy blanket."
Sounds like you're comparing the theater and the "drive-ln" movies - - - -or am I talking about a past era? ;)
 
DaveA said:
"There is something about seeing a movie in a theater rather than seeing it in your underwear, under a comfy blanket."
Sounds like you're comparing the theater and the "drive-ln" movies - - - -or am I talking about a past era? ;)
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Didn't think about that, but, yeah, I remember when I was in my jammies in the back seat (which was probably where I was conceived)
 
One of my favorite things to do after I retired was going to the movies couple times a month
When Covid hit& changed everything, I never went back lost my interest
 

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