Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Dave Derrick (i) on July 16, 2001 at 09:24:05

In Reply to: Frequently! posted by TG on July 16, 2001 at 05:16:10:

Yes, my son enjoys the movies, but he doesn't feel the same impact I did when I was young watching them for the first time...he has been influenced by the 'action every other moment' type of films that are typical today in some genres, so that old movies with slower pacing (or building of plots, suspense etc) sometimes lose his focus. He doesn't seem to be put off by older special effects vs today's whiz-bang stuff, fortunately. Though, something like the remake of The Thing (which is, at least to ME, a fun movie) is one of his favorites, while The Thing From Another World was an interesting thing to see, but nothing he was all that enthusiastic about.

He doesn't mind plot contrivances or nonsense though...when I drop asides like 'realistically, folks wouldn't do something like that, or wouldn't be so stupid' he looks at me and says 'yeh Dad, but that's what they need for the movie..." And he will joyfully recall the quip I gave him once "Dumb people deserve to be Dinner."