So many reasons
not even to enter a movie theater anymore...
... and NO rude movie patrons'yaking' behind or in front of you, NO sticky floors and if the flick's boring....at least you didn't waste 20 bucks in the process.
...but who wants
even to see what constitutes cinema techniques these days?
... All the movies I've seen in digital looked dull and washed out to me.
Ain't it the truth?
Pale and pallid color palettes, extreme contrast ratios nearly obliterating subtlety of detail in any shot, seizure-inducing herky-jerky camera movements, fast-cut editing rendering most action sequences incomprehensible, all of it ubiquitously dominates 21st century film making.
I could get past much (not all) the story-line burdening, slapped-on PC clichès of the year/month/week/du jour/hour inserted into every blasted "blockbuster" Hollywood's made the past 20 years.
I could side-step many (not all) the changes to an established character's race, sex, abilities, wit or apparent intelligence.
I could tolerate some (not all) indistinct dialog, blaring soundtracks/poorly calibrated sound systems, truly inept or badly sung "theme songs."
All of the above found within modern films.
But I cannot and will not ignore how damned ugly today's movies look.
How unpleasant the viewing experience has become, over and above all the other theater-attending drawbacks so thoroughly and frequently noted!
And if you want multiple examples of what I mean look to any and all of the Daniel Craig James Bond flicks.
That's a series that once would have -- unreservedly -- brought me to a theater!
PAY to see same on a gigantic screen?
Never again.
<end off-topic rant>
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