Adventures in My Mind
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Aug 29, 2001
I've found that I like movies much more in the theatre than I do at home. Now hold on. Before you say, "Duh, who doesn't?" let me qualify. I like bad movies much better in the theatre. Meaning that I have often walked out of the theatre after watching a decidedly bad movie and felt that I enjoyed myself. I later realize that the movie sucked but I enjoyed the experience of watching it on the big screen with big speakers and a big tub-o-popcorn.
I am not that forgiving at home. I have a pretty good home theatre and DVD system, but it lacks the necessary "bigness" of the movie-going experience that allows me to overlook such trivial things as flat story lines, bad direction, horrible acting, and editing that makes the cutting prowess of Lizzie Borden look like a Japanese blowfish carver.
I find this rather curious, because until recently I thought of myself as a rather savvy movie-goer, but that just isn't the case. Hollywood's manipulations are not lost on me. It seems that I am just as capable of dragging my knuckles into and out of my local cathedral-like multi-plex as the next guy. Only after digesting the movie for a copule of days do I feel the burning idignation of someone who has just been had. Which, of course, is the idea. Hollywood wants to get your money up front. You pay for the bells and whistles only to find that they are woefully out of tune.
I suppose that's why I left Hollywood in the first place. Honestly, though, I miss it sometimes.
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