....”mindless entertainment... a popcorn movie”....
Yes, and that’s exactly why I will view it. I enjoy movies that take you away form the issues and times of our day.....they ARE entertaining and we all can do with some heavy doses of that these days....along with full 100% Buttered Popcorn!
And that's what I meant in my previous comment about 1977. Back then I was trying to buy a house, and prices were rising faster than my ability to save for a down payment. I settled for a house at $59,000 that was half the value of another house that was $55,000 six months earlier in 1977. Prices seemed to be rising 10 percent every few months on houses. Working my butt off barely scraping by, seeing fun movies was an escape from reality. (Those same homes are now $800,000 and up in 2015.)