Are you interested in movies like you to use to be?

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Are you interested in movies like you to use to be?
I have to say 'no'. I'm used to TV series, where the pace of the show is faster. In movies, in a scene of someone reaching to open a door, there could be 13 dramatic cuts of the hand moving to the doorknob. All I can think of is "For gawd's sake, get to it!!!'. Also, it seems there are two types of movies- chic flicks and "action" flicks for teenage boys- and I'm neither.
 

I take your point, but some of the best TV series ever made are "pooh-poohed" because "It's too slow" after hardly getting to episode 3.

Some of that is stage-setting, world building, and character introduction. Of course it also doesn't help when a viewer lacks the proper background for watching the show and so many thing just go over their heads.

I suppose that's why the syrupy soaps and rote procedurals do so well. Since baby can't eat steak, we get an awful lot of bland and monotonous pablum.

As for movies, I prefer something like the Jason Bourne films to the more mindless comic book John Wick actioners I can barely watch.
 
Sometimes, with some movies, I'm just as interested. Or appreciative. I stopped being interested in most "blockbuster" type pop movies by about age 19. Don't think I saw it when it first came out, but Kenneth Branagh's 2021 film Belfast is a good one I told friends about. I sometimes enjoy offbeat movies, if well done. Wicked Little Letters would be an example.
 
With the computer enhanced movies that do not look real, we have stopped watching many movies. We like DVD series and have purchased many in the last year. That way we can watch when we want and how long we want to watch and not miss any of the scenes. We are now finishing Starsky and Hutch and then it will be Hunter. We have the full series of Miami Vice, Magnum PI, Nash Bridges and other series. They are all very entertaining.
 
I like movies that are solely for entertainment & gives you the opportunity to forget about the world even if it's for just a few hours. When a movie tries to make any type of a statement or follow an agenda, I'm done with it.

There are some new movies I've liked, but I really enjoy watching the movies from the Golden Age like Casablanca or Arsenic, Old Lace & the old science fiction /horror movies.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Are you interested in movies like you to use to be?
I have to say 'no'. I'm used to TV series, where the pace of the show is faster. In movies, in a scene of someone reaching to open a door, there could be 13 dramatic cuts of the hand moving to the doorknob. All I can think of is "For gawd's sake, get to it!!!'. Also, it seems there are two types of movies- chic flicks and "action" flicks for teenage boys- and I'm neither.
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I'm exactly the same as you...too impatient now for films....
 
Nathan said:
I dislike fake stuff, CGI in movies and AI "enhanced"(read: ruined) photos that crop up on media sites.
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Same here. CGI & AI enhancements leave me cold.

I've been borrowing library DVDs or streaming movies made during the 1940s through the 2020s. I either missed them first time around, or decide to revisit. Animated films with my GKs.

Nearly all are dramas or comedies. Almost no action, superhero, war, fantasy, horror, thriller, psychological thriller, gore, murder mystery, zombies, and so forth.

I intentionally avoid adding moments of "sure wish I could unsee that" to my life. I want to feel better after watching a movie, not worse. Restful nights, not sleepless ones with bad dreams.

Through my entire life I've known exactly one person who was murdered, but TV and films make them seem like common occurrences.
 
I actually like movies better and better as time goes on--mostly bc I've learned how to select what I enjoy, which is adult stories about real people. or people who might conceivably be real. I agree that too many movies these days are crap like Marvel universe and action and horror. Never watch those. Which is why I often watch older stuff.
 
StarSong said:
Same here. CGI & AI enhancements leave me cold.

I've been borrowing library DVDs or streaming movies made during the 1940s through the 2020s. I either missed them first time around, or decide to revisit. Animated films with my GKs.

Nearly all are dramas or comedies. Almost no action, superhero, war, fantasy, horror, thriller, psychological thriller, gore, murder mystery, zombies, and so forth.

I intentionally avoid adding moments of "sure wish I could unsee that" to my life. I want to feel better after watching a movie, not worse. Restful nights, not sleepless ones with bad dreams.

Through my entire life I've known exactly one person who was murdered, but TV and films make them seem like common occurrences.
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StarSong said:
Same here. CGI & AI enhancements leave me cold.

I've been borrowing library DVDs or streaming movies made during the 1940s through the 2020s. I either missed them first time around, or decide to revisit. Animated films with my GKs.
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One genre I've enjoyed is film noir mystery or detective stories from the mid 1940s into the early '50s. In that era black & white movies could reach a high quality—better lighting and cinematography, improved film stock, also some novel camera angles. So then with a good plot, good script, good direction & actors, some exceptional films were produced.
 
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One genre I've enjoyed is film noir mystery or detective stories from the mid 1940s into the early '50s. In that era black & white movies could reach a high quality—better lighting and cinematography, improved film stock, also come novel camera angles. So then with a good plot, good script, good direction & actors, some exceptional films were produced.
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I couldn't agree more, JBR. The technical aspect of films has gotten to a higher level, or at least the makers have more that they can utilize. But story lines have sadly degenerated. If one sets aside the superhero movies, the fashionable advocacy pictures, and the blatantly prurient films, the selection becomes pretty small. And even most of those are Limburger.

Due to the contemporary rapaciousness of streaming TV, there's a much wider sea of series to choose from. Most of them don't interest me, but I seem to have better luck being able to choose series rather than films.

I'd love to be compelled back to the cinema houses to watch a good film. But there's usually very little out there to draw me to the theater. As it is I don't trust films (or series) anymore, so I pretty much want to know everything about them before I'll take a chance.
 
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Probably not. I have several movies on my various watchlists that I haven't gotten to or started and haven't finished. As I've aged, my ADD has caused me to rarely sit through an entire movie. I break them up into parts, almost like they were T.V. shows. The exception is if I'm really, really into a movie I may watch most of it in one sitting.
 
I still go back for fare from earlier times. I can watch things like 1952's "Has Anybody Seen My Gal" which is a musical comedy set in the 1920s. I also enjoy a number of Doris Day's films in the same genre. I've even been tempted to look into things like the old "Andy Hardy" films Mickey Rooney made.

But I find little of interest among recent films in any genre. Far too little considering how many films are made now.
 
I’m not sure if it’s due to age or the internet but my attention span is too short to enjoy most feature length films.

I much prefer and look forward to a quality miniseries similar to those on Masterpiece Mystery that are broken into hour long segments over several weeks.
 
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