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All I know is that more than half the new movies I start to watch are SO demented and left wing and have lesbians and 100 pound girls that beat up 250 pound beasts and other such nonsense that i just shut them off after 10 minutes.

I watch them online. I very rarely pay extra to rent.

Too risky these days..

I have never been much of a movie person but have started to watch more in the last year or two. (Something to do with getting older and slowing down a bit, I suspect.) I have started to pay attention to the "most overlooked/most underrated" lists, of which you will find many online. Scan a list of 20 or so films and you will probably find three or four that catch your interest. These will be small films, many of them by independent producers, that were not part of the major studio hype machine, which is oriented towards the hoped-for blockbusters. You will not have heard of most of them because they didn't get big marketing campaigns and may have gone direct to streaming, but there is a lot of good storytelling going on. My opinion of Hollywood has actually improved a bit. There has always been a toxic element in Hollywood, but there are also a lot of talented people who just want to make good films.

My favorite find of the last year: Columbus, directed by Kogonada (a made up name behind which the director conceals his real life identity) and starring John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson. There are no comic book superheroes, explosions, car chases, sex scenes, zombies, terrorists or aliens. Nobody dies. It's just decent, honorable, likeable people treating each other with respect and kindness as they deal with some weighty issues. The adrenalin junkies think the film is too slow, but if you give it time for the story to come to you, you will care about the characters soon enough.

That is why I loved the scene in “Once upon a time in Hollywood” where Brad Pitt’s character picks up the 110 pound guy playing Bruce Lee and smashes him into the car door.

That is why they have weight classes in boxing and wrestling.