It's Oscar season, and I love movies. I have a Netflix queue that will take me a couple of years to watch. I have DVDs at home, I even watch old movies on YouTube (Spring Parade - circa 1940 - very sweet.)
But oddly enough, I haven't been to the movies in about 6 weeks. True, the snacks are overpriced, and a lot of directors seem to think what viewers really want is length, but it's mostly because everything is either hyper-violent (Django Unchained, Gangster Squad), depressing (Anna Karenina, Les Miserables), or worst of all: important and/or uplifting (Zero Dark Thirty, Silver Linings Playbook). I'm sure these are all wonderful movies, with deep and important truths about life, love and foreign policy but I can't face them.
What I really want to see is this.
Obviously, I'm seven.
Right there with you. Lately, the only movies I've had any interest in seeing have been the MFAH's foreign and independent films.
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