I don't necessarily mean "challenging" in, like, a snooty cineaste way---just in the sense of being out of someone's comfort zone. Like this:
Back in my parents' generation, '60s, '70s, one or two movies a week came to our smallish suburban town, and my parents would go see them, because...those were the movies. Not super-into watching a …
I don't necessarily mean "challenging" in, like, a snooty cineaste way---just in the sense of being out of someone's comfort zone. Like this:
Back in my parents' generation, '60s, '70s, one or two movies a week came to our smallish suburban town, and my parents would go see them, because...those were the movies. Not super-into watching a Jon Voight-Bob Balaban sex scene? You saw that movie anyway, because that's what was playing. Not super-into horror? You saw The Exorcist, because you liked movies and that's what was playing.
With so much more "content" now, most of us self-select out of watching anything that doesn't feel like it was curated carefully for us. There are increasingly movies for you and movies for me, and many, many fewer movies for us.
Yeah, I hear you. Until I saw you did the same, I was also about to put CONTENT in big scare quotes because that's where we're at. The Holdovers is probably the best movie I saw last year and it's noteworthy that it is self-consciously a 1970s movie (ahhhhh what a decade) and, sadly, not noteworthy for the waves it made at the box office .
I don't necessarily mean "challenging" in, like, a snooty cineaste way---just in the sense of being out of someone's comfort zone. Like this:
Back in my parents' generation, '60s, '70s, one or two movies a week came to our smallish suburban town, and my parents would go see them, because...those were the movies. Not super-into watching a Jon Voight-Bob Balaban sex scene? You saw that movie anyway, because that's what was playing. Not super-into horror? You saw The Exorcist, because you liked movies and that's what was playing.
With so much more "content" now, most of us self-select out of watching anything that doesn't feel like it was curated carefully for us. There are increasingly movies for you and movies for me, and many, many fewer movies for us.
Yeah, I hear you. Until I saw you did the same, I was also about to put CONTENT in big scare quotes because that's where we're at. The Holdovers is probably the best movie I saw last year and it's noteworthy that it is self-consciously a 1970s movie (ahhhhh what a decade) and, sadly, not noteworthy for the waves it made at the box office .