Last night I relaxed with an old 50s noir, "Bullet for Joey" with my man Edward G. Robinson. It was a simple detective story, but relaxing and fun. It's an added bonus to see the old cars and styles and whatnot from the era.
And hey, my wife and I love big cute rodents--beavers, marmots, etc. Those movies are very relaxing too. I watched a documentary the other night on "Unusual Buildings", an ode to classic roadside America. Light, relaxing. No commercials. No annoying modern sensibilities.
"Unusual Buildings", saw it, I liked it. Being near Lincoln Highway in PA, I've seen many of those. There are still a couple in Philly but a number of them when you head out to Lancaster.
Modern Sensibilities - perhaps that's it. I like educational programs/films, I like entertainment but at some point, it must have become the goal of film makers and producers to to have the audience take on their sensibilities, their belief patterns. Education, entertainment reduced to packaging.
There was a movie I saw in the theater a while back, I think is was Julia Roberts a similarly terrible actress, she was abused by her husband. She spent months on these tricky martial arts training and crazy plotting. I turned to my date and said to her; "guns!, problem solved, The End" and got up to leave...