Just a curiousity of mine. How do "conservatives" know that ALL movies are crappy, if they don't view them?
I am careful. But my wife and I do dinner-movie nights out and we enjoy ourselves. Have done so for 50+ years of marriage.
"La La Land" was essentially an old school musical romance movie. "Get Out" was freaky. "Orient Express" was a let down. "Wind River" was great. "Only the Brave" was outstanding. "Dunkirk" depicted war with big screen sound, fury and violence. "Darkest Hour" was my favorite. "Hostiles" was America's West in the 1890s. "The Post" was interesting.
That is approximately the last year. Our favorite venue is the "Lido Theater," an original art deco building used continuously from the 1930s.
It's called taking a sample. If you do, like I have done, watch a number of the so-called modern "great" movies and find them severely wanting, you tend to be skeptical of anything coming out of Hollyweird.
There are some good modern movies I've seen i.e. Dunkirk/ Slumdog Millionaire, but they're few and far between.
Until about twenty years ago, I used to go to a lot of movies. Then sometime in the nineties after watching yet another dull flick in the movie theater, I started wondering what was going on.
Why was it that I could watch and enjoy movies from just a decade or earlier before but now I was being bored out of my skull?
Then I analyzed many new, modern flicks and found them full of p.c. themes. There had to be x number of minorities, females, homosexuals, etc. Many new movies were distinctly anti traditional America or anti-conservative in their tone. Many movie makers weren't making movies to entertain, they were preaching their politics.
Add to the explosion of cgis, which I abhor, and I simply distrust the ability of modern filmmakers to make good films as good as they used to be.
