What is it about movies? I mean, think of the concept. You walk into a dark room with a bunch of complete strangers, you sit there watching a sixty foot screen with moving pictures and the problem is, you keep going back. Why haven't we caught it. You pay money for this.I'll tell you why we haven't caught it. Because we can escape. We can go to another world (Avatar), watch chipmunks sing (Alvin and the Chipmunks) and watch a raging battle between a man whose head looks like the head of a snake and a boy who has a lightning bolt scar on his forehead; all while safely drinking your Coke and munching on your popcorn. I am one of the billions that have fallen under this wonderfully addicting curse.
Sadly some of the movies we go to see aren't worth the $9 we spend on them. There are those we only see because they put the best and only good 3 minutes in the trailer. And there are those we know will be terrible but, for some reason, we still see.
Then there are those that we'd pay $100 dollars to see. Those are the movies the audience instantly connects with. Or they're just a great escape and an amazing visual adventure. I wish there was a good movie detector (Oh yeah, Rotten Tomatoes). Sadly, each critic has different genres they prefer. Unfortunately, the sad truth is they aren't you. Sometimes the unanimous vote isn't always the right one. I wish there was a way for me to stop seeing bad movies.
To never set foot in the theater of a terrible movie again.
I will be anxiously awaiting a breakthrough in the movie industry.
But until then I'm anxiously awaiting the midnight show of Iron Man 2.
Nice.
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