Three friends and I met at the movie theater yesterday to take advantage of a free movie screening pass that I’d received when I was there on Monday. Unfortunately, we were just far enough back in line that we didn’t get into the screening, but we ended up with free passes to any movie we wanted to see.
We ended up seeing Sideways, which only one of our group had seen before. It’s a thoughtful, grown-up movie about choices, friendship, feelings, compromises and a host of other realistic issues that are seldom lingered over on the big screen. The verisimilitude of the locations – particularly characters’ residences – was especially striking. The casting and acting were also superb.
I’ve found myself drawn more and more to "smaller" films as the blockbusters get more over-the-top and repetitively non-entertaining. Aside from the Lord of the Rings series, which I absolutely loved, my faves of late have been more personal movies like Garden State (which, incidentally, my husband thought was boring).
I’ll still go for the lastest Will Farrell comedy or science fiction adventure in a heartbeat, but after years of rejecting any entertainment with a hint of "warm human values," I’ve begun to note their absence.
I don’t mind, though. It just gives me that many more entertainment options. What could be bad about that?
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