I used to be hugely into all those films, but they just got too cluttered with special affects that it was too hard to follow what little story line they have. I really liked to two sequals to Captain America. I forget their names.
As a young man I watched Star Wars in the theater 27 times. I used to be into that stuff. I’m 64 now. I need a good story. (and, truth be told, star wars was a great story, and a great western).
The two Captain America sequels - Winter Solider and Civil War - had underlying concepts of security versus liberty and how security can lead to tyranny. Made them far more substantial than the other Marvel films.
I'm just about that way and I'm only 43, the last movie I was dragged to was the most recent "Transformers" movie this summer. All I remember is two hours of bright flashes, loud noises and mayhem. I could not tell you then or now what the plot was suppose to be about. That is pretty much the way it's been with all the action movies in the last decade. The various superhero movies, Star Trek / Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter etc. they all just seem to blend together into a cascade of light and noise after awhile. I think the last movie I actually enjoyed was a biography about the life of Steve Jobs a couple years ago...
“As a young man I watched Star Wars in the theater 27 times. I used to be into that stuff. I’m 64 now. I need a good story. (and, truth be told, star wars was a great story, and a great western).”
I was too poor to see Star Wars more than once in the theater when I was a kid but I became a life long fan from the first viewing. Now I rarely go to the theater. Many movies are visually stunning but the stories are boring, plots are thin, and I simply don’t care about the characters. I did enjoy the two Guardians of the Galaxy movies - the cast has a good chemistry. Even the new Star Wars movies aren’t as interesting to me as I hoped they were. I am still into Star Wars, but I have tired of the insistence on “girl power” in the new trilogy and Rogue One.
Up until about twenty-five years ago I used to go to see movies all the time, two or three times a month almost without fail. Now? Two or three times a year. I was surprised to realize that I went to see 4 films in 2015. That was a lot for me. There have been entire years since 2000 in which I did not see a single film at a theater.
I still remember sitting in a theater and seeing the trailer for Star Wars for the first time. I had heard nothing about that movie, but it was a time when Hollywood liberals had killed off the Westerns and war movies I had grown up with. I immediately recognized what Star Wars was. I turned to my wife and said I HAVE to see this movie!