Is It Best To Watch Movies Alone?

Unforgivable!! 😃

That would push me over the edge 😂 I would excuse myself and watch it some other time.

Wow, you said something that led me to remember what I forgot to say earlier.

You don't need to be "totally there" to watch a movie today. A little boy could understand them. Lowest common denominator.

Every time I have this conversation, the contrarians will say, "Well, you gotta search hard" or "Avoid commercial movies" (they say the same thing about music - don't turn on the radio, lol). There was a time in this country (and others) where commercial movies could be independent -- a triumph for great taste.

I just looked and a majority of the movies I've seen in the last few months were made in my lifetime, and the one movie that was good was "Paradise: Love" and I praised it more than the great older movies I saw in that time span because I grade the last 40 years of movies on a curve. If it isn't shit, I even handicap it and add an extra point on my 1-10 scale.

We can only dedicate so much time watching movies considering our limited time. I prefer to go with the best probabilities. I wish there were better movies. I'd never deny myself pleasure, and I've lived through the 80s on, but oddly relate even less. "I, Daniel Blake" was a pretty good movie to critique the modern world, but of course, the director, Ken Loach, started in the 1960s... I wish each movie was unique, and will admit most of Loach's movies are critiques of capitalism and wish he would dig a little deeper. Mike Leigh is another English director who is still working, and also started long ago, but his movies are more diverse. They and Aki Kaurismaki are the only living directors whose works I will always see.