I don't really like movies anymore

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I've realized recently that I have lost interest in seeing movies. Or, to be more precise, I've lost my excitement about film in general. For some reason it doesn't give me the satisfaction that listening to and creating music does nowadays. I used to be obsessed with movies, and even wanted to be a film director when I was younger. Now I can barely sit through movies anymore. I can't trace my ambivalence back to any particular incident, it seems to have gradually come into being. Has this happened with any one else?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

No.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm so jaded that I don't ever really *love* anything as much as I used to, but I'm still addicted to movies in the hope that something will change that.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, that might not be true. whatever.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Film is the lowest form of art?

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, it has happened to me. I don't like most movies. I will go to something that is really interesting, but I am completely unmoved by the formulas, blood, violence, stereotypes blah blah in current releases. I find that maybe there are one or two movies every four months that I would actually want to see, no more.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I've also burned out on films. Can't put my finger on it.

Probably pure, unbridled laziness has something to do with it.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

You have to put of work into watching and reading about film to get to the real gold sometimes.

But don't forget about the genius of the system.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

A LOT OF

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i agree. part of it is that it takes up a lot of time and money to watch a movie correctly, and I don't have that kind of time anymore. I'm lucky if I make it to one movie a month. If i could watch them all day at work maybe I'd feel differently.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

If you don't put any effort into it, then yeah, you won't get much of a return.

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm with you on that. I'll walk to the library to check out films (close to home) but can barely be bothered to cycle over to the video store to rent something... and if I don't want to pay $3 to see some suck-ass Jim Carey picture, it's a BIG chore to fork out $8 to see something in the theater.

I'm still intrigued by quality horror, because of the physiological and psychological trauma it brings about... but outside of The Ring and a couple others, most horror films suck ass too.

― andy, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I have to get all four wisdom teeth yanked tomorrow a.m., so I hope to spend the rest of the day watching films in a vicodin haze...

any rental recommendations?

― andy, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

What does it say that almost everyone on this thread lives in California?

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

This is funny because not only do I try not to miss yer usual arthouse/indie releases/repertory seasons, I also worry about missing crap like Barbershop 2 and Eurotrip as well!

I go to see movies 2 or 3 times a week, and rent just as many. Luckily, my wife likes to do the same. I think.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Dean-everyone else has gone home, or is asleep or partying.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Andy- maybe you should try that new Rob Zombie movie!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

happened to me about 8 years ago. i am an ex film major. have been to maybe 2 films a year since. they were ok. i still occasionally see something on the tv guide and think "o, i might tape that" but if i forget i don't care.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

That's true but what I was getting at is that the idea of feeling extremely passionate about film is def. something that is rampant in California, imo. I'd be curious to know if kids from the midwest or the south feel the same pressure to be into film.

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

its widespread in california?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not FROM California!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I happily scrounge used DVD racks when I can for oddities that turn up and I usually luck out, both for well-known efforts and obscure goodies. But the act of going to the movies is what I'm really down on, I admit -- the prices, the ads (more so than the trailers but even they're pretty tedious), the whole experience, it's left me generally nonplussed. I too used to be more of a moviegoer, when younger especially -- up until about high school and a little into college. But now, nah. (And for what it's worth I'm from California and in it, so there ya go.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah but you live there adam

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

In California, they're filming a picture every day on every street corner. Looking out my office window, I can Nick Nolte and Mariel Hemingway having tea by a trailer, at this very moment... they're waving to me now.

(Waves back... stares at palm trees and snorts a rail off a Norah Jones cd case.)

― andy, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I can honestly say that i still get apprehensive and excited every time I enter a darkened theater, and it still feels special! Even when it's Barbershop 2! And I love trailers, too.

I pretty much hate popcorn. and people who talk.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

OTM

I cannot stand the idea of popcorn in a movie theatre. It bothers me intensely and is one of the main reasons why I try to avoid certain films, theatres ... etc.

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

(Waves back... stares at palm trees and snorts a rail off a Norah Jones cd case.)
-- andy (and...), February 11th, 2004.

*falls off chair*

LATEBLOOMAH: Solution= start making yr own movies! You and me should be the next Coen bruthas.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got the same situation as AKM - I love movies, but don't have the time to go see them. I complicate things because I don't like going to the theatre with anyone (and my friends mostly aren't interested in the kinds of films I like), or when there's going to be a crowd.

The other problem is that the films that actually excite me don't play outside of Dallas. I could go to see Cold Mountain - which looks like a fine, pretty, maybe interesting film but doesn't excite me in the least - at a dozen screens in town, but Fog of War will be lucky to show at one art-house screen for a couple of weeks.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i love going to the movies because somehow i tend to totally forget myself when there & am able to immerse myself completely in the lives of the people on screen, which has been a very nice feeling lately. & i like going alone a lot, so that's not an issue.

on the other hand, it's rare that i have the attention span for things on TV which generally - with or without commercials - makes me sleepy or leads my mind to wander.

all these people talking about how you must put time&effort in to truly appreciate/enjoy movies baffles me; maybe i am quite the philistine, but i like just going to see what happens & watch the pretty colors.

― j c (j c), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Atmosphere is essential for me. If I'm not in a theatre or a dark room and minimal interruptions, I can't pay enough attention to enjoy it.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Still love movies, but the best ones I'm attracted to tend to be the "indie" kind. I refuse to pay $10 for explosions, blood and gore. Tis why I got cable.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't care to see movies any more either. I'll sit and watch one with you if you take me, but I wouldn't have asked you to go see it, nor would I have any desire to.

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

@d@m claims he hates popcorn but then he eats his wife's, or so she claims.

andy you should just watch soap operas all day on drugs, that's what I did.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

That first sentence is carefully phrased.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

you naughty boy!

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

haha. anyway I could hardly begrudge an english person for hating popcorn because what they serve as popcorn over there bears only a marginal resemblance to the scrumptious toxic delights we have here in the USA.

I like going to watch and see what happens and see pretty colors too, but lately I'm too tired to stay awake through a whole movie. Hence, my lessening enjoyment of them (can't get to them any earlier than the last showing, trailers mean they don't start until 10:00.....11:30, I'm asleep). If I didn't have cable or something I'd definitely enjoy them more though.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I was thinking, and realized that my ambivalence towards movies might have to do with working at a theater for a year and a half. I got to see free movies any time I wated but it also demystified the experience of going to the theater to see a movie. Also, I took a film class at a special arts school for three years in my city and though it was a great experience overall, it probably had me burned out on cinema by the end.

With all that said, I still enjoy movies occasionally but my excitement about movies is gone. I rarely watch a movie more than once, even if I like it. I used to be able to watch almost anything, but I can only go see a movie if it's about subject matter I'm interested in or if I'm really bored.

I do, however still love the movies I've always loved personally, It's just hard for me to excited about new ones.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Who does like the carp served up as cinema today? Hollywood sucks. Let's all pay heaps of coin to get gouged at the snack bar to watch some formulated shite designed for the lowest common demoninator.

Read the book instead, it's nearly always better. 'No matter how good a movie is, it cannot compete with the imagination of a small boy'..

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel really passionately about film but going to a movie theater is not something I do often. I would much rather rent one of the thousands of excellent films on tape or dvd than risking both my time and money on seeing something I probably won't enjoy to the same degree. I still like seeing what's out in the theaters every once in a while but renting always seems like the better selection if you just want to watch a film. Going to a theater seems to be about going out somewhere as well as seeing a movie.

― Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 07:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck all y'all! Film for life. Never die. I will get around to everything on my list or die trying (though that's not the point, per se, just the motivator)!

nw: Notorious

Actually, it's kinda funny, I've burnt out on music. I don't want to listen to anything anymore. Even my old faves don't do it for me anymore.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

That's about where I was last year. I say to thee: patience, and concentrate on other things instead.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

For every year one spends in Hollywood one loses three points on their IQ. Dying in Hollywood is redundant. -- Truman Capote

Everybody know they shouldn't got to Hollywood. Buy they do anyway.
-- David Mamet

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Thursday, 12 February 2004 06:15 (twenty-two years ago)

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