I’ve never been a big one for movies. I only watched one or two all summer. I’d rather pace around pointlessly than sit and watch a movie. But school started, and now I watch 1.1 zillion movies every week.
For me, movies and television are a nice excuse to turn off the ol’ brain, because I do a lot of thinking. Like what if I were rich or got in a fight or ran into what’s-her-name. What if I played in the NHL or wrote books. What if I were a musician or had powers. All this important musing wears me out.
Thus, entertainment. My favorite movies are Dumb and Dumber and Mystery Men and Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus. Stuff like that. I like “good” movies, too, but I don’t take pride in it. The best movies don’t require you to think.
But lately school has been screwing it up. School always does. First it was novels. I used to read junk novels and loved them, but then school made me start reading supposedly-great stories and I had to figure out why they were great and that I meant I had to think, which was never my goal. Now it’s the same thing with films.
And there’s another problem. I’m studying film noir and all of a sudden I start referring to movies as films. It’s nice because it’s convenient; you save an entire syllable. But I don’t like it because it sounds too smart, as if I want it to sound that way. I’m not trying to sound smart, I’m trying not to be smart or do any deep thinking at all. That’s how I roll.
So I’m out of my element in my film noir class. It’s fun and all, but it gives me a headache to think for that long consecutively. That’s the biggest problem of all, really: movies are too long. Even if I love a movie, I can’t stand it all at once. I get bored 30 minutes in. I need to do something else for a while. I wasn’t always like this, but the older I get the more A.D.D. I become. Now it seems like I always have a movie going, because I’m always in the middle of one.
I probably shouldn’t complain about watching movies for class, because it could be worse. But the fact is I haven’t updated my blog in a while and I don’t have anything else to talk about right now.
I think it’s interesting that while you cant watch an entire movie, you haven’t abandoned your blog for a twitter account, which is what bloggers use once their attention span is reduced to text message length.
I tried to change that but it ended up posting both? Now you have 3 comments just like that!
Blogs are more fun! And I can’t bring myself to Twitter.