Even when I had full control of the volume level in my noise cancelling headphones, the recent release movies had unacceptable volume levels. There was so much unrealistic background noise that the volume level had to be turned excessively high to hear the speaking. Beyond that, many of the movies had mostly whispering instead of speaking. Think about that. What's the percentage of whispering you heard people using yesterday? I'll bet, for most of you, it was zero. Yet in many of these movies it was greater than 50%, and that on top of exaggerated background noises.
My biggest problem, though, was content. I thought I might enjoy the latest "Star Wars" release. It started dark and gloomy. Every place I forwarded to was dark and gloomy. I zipped through the whole thing in about 10 minutes. Why should I waste a couple of hours with nothing but dark and gloomy whispering?
I probably sampled more than a dozen movies. I wound up spending both ways of the trip watching a (previously recorded on my phone) college lecturer from India speaking barely recognizable English. It was far more rewarding.
We went to two movies this past year. That makes three in the past decade.
One was Gosnell, which was a valuable use of time and support for fearless moviemakers who aren’t afraid to tell ghastly stories and shining the light of truth on the horrors of big abortion.
The other was a two day only showing. The producers filmed a Broadway musical and put it to film.
I truly can’t stand musicals but this was actually pretty good. I forget the name but it was about a bunch of musicians returning from WWII and starting a band. Bandstand may have been the title.
A bunch of friends from church went target shooting last week then got together for pizza, wings and a lovely Christmas movie. Die Hard.