I'm having trouble watching movies nowadays. I'm not exactly sure when it all started, but it has been sort of a transformation and my interest in watching full length movies has faded quite a bit. I got through one at school (United 93 btw, a great movie) but at home, it seems hopeless, unless it's a brand new, must-see movie (but those are hard to find these days, I don't think I'm even that gaga over Inception).
Somewhere in between episodes of Lost, Californication, True Blood and Mad Men, my interest for movies slipped. TV-series are getting better, more well produced. Of course, they also have much more time to develop interesting characters. Well made TV-series like Mad Men is the literature of the google generation. Also, the DVD/Blu-ray format has taken TV-series to the next level. Missing a whole season of a good series is not a problem anymore, it might be even better because you have a marathon to look forward to. Watch a bunch of episodes, when you're satisfied you press pause and lay your book down, when you're hungry for more you press play and start reading again.
It might be stating the obvious, but in a greater way than ever before, what tv-series you have noted in your calendar defines you as a person, pretty much in the same way as music and clothes do.
My favourite TV-series right now:
1. Mad Men (very well made, great characters - You want to live in the 50's and smoke when you watch it)
2. True Blood (keeps getting better, great cast, good pace)
3. In Treatment (Quickly became a fan of Gabriel Byrne when it aired on SVT during the summer. I also became interested in psychology, hehe. A show that really kept your focus)
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PS. Larry David will return next year with the eight season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Apparently it will be shot in N.Y. One thing is for sure: It will be prettaaaay good.
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It takes effort to watch movies nowadays, Erik. You're supposed to have an analysed and in depth expressed thought about the quantity and quality of its content, on a popcultural level I guess. And this is what makes us powerless to say something at all. But there's someting you should know - you don't HAVE TO type any words at all about your watching of the movie or the feeling you got out of it. You can choose to keep it to yourself. THEN, you can choose to write about something completely random. Just like now ;) But you can still make it interesting! That's the glory of it all - the 21st century I mean!
Yes it might have something to do with pressure - of doing someting with the movie after you've seen it. You feel that it has to result in something, which keeps you from just relax and watch it.
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