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Parsifal, I agree with you. I had thought it was me these last few years. I just was not "getting" the jokes others seem to get.

Movies didn't seem to make sense, and they certainly were not entertaining.

I chalked it up to being a generational thing. I was getting to be an "old foggy", that just wasn't "hip" to the new culture.

Kind of like reading Cliff Notes, instead of the book. You get all of the information, but miss the experience and pleasure of the book.

Movies used to be made by people who had lived real lives before they got into the movie business. The people who make movies today grew up watching movies. They don't have real life experiences to draw upon, their lives consist of the movies they have watched. This is why their product is so empty, because they have nothing inside themselves to bring to their stories, instead they are endlessly rehashing stories that they have seen before.

It's not old age, for sure. I am 48 and still feel 15 years old inside. Most everything is dumbed down today even more than it used to be. Some of it is because Hollywood has so much entertainment to produce. When I was a kid, there were 3 networks and I think producers were working overtime even then to keep up with demand.

Look at the Munsters, for example. Lame as all get out. Look at Bewitched and I Dream of Genie. The rot had set in way back then. Look at some of the Westerns from the 50's. For the most part stupid, dull, insipid, idiotic plots.

Remember that Doris Day-James Garner movie, where she started selling soap? Remember the gag where the weekly TV show was the same plot week after week, even though the setting might be Nazi Germany one week and the Wild West the next? The kids recognized it, and the adults in the movie didn't.

I think there is a lot of good movies being made today and good shows, too, but you have to wade thru so much dreck to find them.

parsy.