Why has no one considered the idea that a large number of film lovers (as opposed to movie fans) couldn’t care less how a “perfect” the visual from the screen is or how impressive the sound.

Some of us just want an intriguing story, skilled acting, and if we are fortunate enough, good editing, lighting, directing and cinematopgraphy.  That’s it.  Why can’t hollywood focus on that?

If the movie is banal or has a story we have seen before who cares how clear and large the picture is?  Give me a good film on a small black and white tv using an antenna then the usual dreck on a really big, high definition screen any day.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/05/thats_not_the_imax_i_grew_up_w.html

 

I feel stupid – but I know it won’t last for long
And I’ve been guessing – And I coulda been guessin’ wrong
You don’t know me now
I kinda thought that you should somehow
Does that whole mad season got ya down

Well I feel stupid but it’s something that comes and goes
And I’ve been changin’ – I think it’s funny how no one knows
We don’t talk about – the little things that we do without
When that whole mad season comes around

So why ya gotta stand there
Looking like the answer now
It seems to me – you’d come around
I need you now
Do you think you can cope
You figured me out – And I’m lost and I’m hopeless
I’m Bleeding and broken – though I’ve never spoken
I come undone – in this mad season

I feel stupid – but I think I been catchin’ on
I feel ugly – but I know I still turn you on
You’ve grown colder now, torn apart, angry, turned around
Will that whole mad season knock you down? So are you gonna stand there – Are you gonna help me out?
You need to be together now – I need you now

And Now I’m cryin’ – isn’t that what you want
And I’m tryin’ to live my life on my own
But I won’t, no
At times I do believe I am strong
So someone tell me why, why, why
Do I, I, I feel stupid
And I come undone
Well I come undone
                               Mad Season  — Matchbox20