Loved Siskel + Ebert Sneak Previews ...

It is so odd, when it came to movies, originally I more often agreed with Roger
on movies when they show originally came out. I thought Gene Siskel was too
critical, conventional and hard on movies, though sometimes he was right and
Roger was wrong.

I never could remember who was who, I used to remember by saying "Roger is
Round, Siskel is skinny". ;-)

The years past and I really only caught the show off and on enough to notice a
big decline, and then a really big decline when Siskel died, and when they went
commercial. I stopped agreeing mostly with Roger and found I did not really
agree with any of the many critics very often. They mostly liked the worst movies.

Of course these last decades have been terrible years for the art of moviemaking
in general. When you think about how much money and effort goes into
commercial filmmaking it is a real disservice the country and the world the crap
that gets put out.

Ebert started to appear more and more on the late night shows, and I started to
realize I just do not like this guy anymore if I ever did. His glowing saccharine
reviews even for the most awful movies just make me sick once too often.

This is not a movie I would want to see, and it makes me wonder that there is not
something better to make a movie about other than this Walter Mitty character that
is not even remotely as interesting as Walter Mitty, which I also did not see.

I guess I see now why they make movies with a child's mentality, because as people
grow up they are made sick buy this junk.

I read that in the 40's and early somewhere like 90% of Americans went to the movies.
If was where they socialized, got to see NewsReels and soak up air conditioning, and
now something like 10% of people are regular moviegoers. Movies in general are like
our food, our air, our water, our medicines, only for someone else's profit and by their
very nature they give the absolute least amount of value for their expensive prices.

In our town we have a theater that plays movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood,
and even before. Those movies are so much better than the movies of today and they
did not have to pander or commercialize everything. What happened?