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I'm not enjoying bad movies like I used to. Years ago I could watch movie after movie but now it's just eeeeehhhh. I try really hard to psych myself up for a flick and then I put it off thinking "maybe I'll feel like checking it out tomorrow". Unfortunately that rarely happens anymore. I just don't know what it is. It's like I have little to no attention span anymore. For instance, I got my hands on a copy of Drive In Massacre / Driller Killer not too long ago and I fell asleep about halfway through the both of them. Thing is I really didn't care to rewatch them the next day. I don't know what the hell my problem is, but it's really making me f**king sad.  :bluesad: Has anybody on this board ever gone through this? Is it just a phase or what?  :question:

Sometimes you go through a string of REALLY bad movies that are impossible to enjoy (Drive-In Massacre is one).  You just need to find good-bad ones to remind yourself not all are unwatchable.

Focus on something else for a while. Or, what I've done recently, start reading about films and the stories behind them.

Focusing on something else for a while may take you out of what sounds like a rut you've gotten stuck in. It helps me.

The second option is somewhat akin to the first, but I've started reading essays on Doris Wishman's films and a couple of books on the history behind cult films and even reading about the history of minstrel acts (after Alanhopewell's posting about the minstrel segment in Jailbait). It opens your mind to new things and enables you to bring more to the table when you DO go back to watching crappy movies.

Also, I used to do marathons as well, but I can't do it. I pick one or two titles and I watch them. If I get into a groove, like I did recently with Nicholas Cage, I'll tend to watch one or two movies a night to fulfill my sudden passion.

The main thing is that this is most likely temporary. Just find a way to ride it out, good sir.
 :cheers:

I never thought this would happen but I seem to have stopped going to the cinema /theater. The last time I actually saw a film in a cinema was in 2012 when I went to see Searching For Sugarman and then later The Expendables 2. Strange because the cinema was always my second home: now, not so much anymore.  :bluesad:

I haven't been to the theater in...years. I mean, since the 4th Harry Potter movie. Between high prices and mostly annoying people in the audience, I just gave up. When someone mentions going now, I'm either sickened or have a minor panic attack. Seriously.

Wow, I am effed up.

Whatever hobby I have my interest always waxes and wanes.  Last year I watched 400 movies, this year, if January - March are anything to go by, I'm on track to watch 160 or so.  Sometimes I'll buy 10 DVD's in a month, then maybe I'll buy 3 in the next 3 months.  I get a bit burned out on something and don't do it much, then after a while I'll get interested in it again.  And I fall asleep during movies quite often lol.  Those Mill Creek 50 packs are the best cure for insomnia that's ever been created.

Sometimes peoples' tastes just change. This has happened to me, more with music than anything else, but there are plenty of movies & movie types - particularly comedies - that I loved as a teenager and can barely sit through now.
Or sometimes you just get burned out on a certain thing and need to step away from it for a while.
I haven't watched many movies at all in the last few months. I haven't been to the theater since PACIFIC RIM came out, and it could be another several months before I go again.

It happens personally I have been barely watching any b movies at all this year. Instead I have been going through the criterion collection and watching all kinds of art house movies from around the world. At some point I'm going to get tired of those and go watch some schlock.

Movies are like food even the finest ingredients grow stale without variety. Many years ago lobster was so prolific that it would serve as the cornerstone of slave/servant diets. It was considered trash food and in Massachusetts the servants actually won a court battle that put it in their contracts that they wouldn't have to eat it more than three times a week! Nowadays lobster is a delicacy eaten only on special occasions. So if your sick of eating lobster (b movies) try some other flavors and come back to it (westerns, film noir, comedies etc....) and you may be surprised at how good it tastes.

In short, remind your mind of how it's supposed to be done, and you can remind yourself of why you riffed in the first place.

I think I had a bit of a dry up when I started going to college. Doubt it was an age thing, think it was a time thing but ever once in a while I do order a goodie or two.

Sometimes the cheese just wears off. For example I always thought Up from the Depths (1979) was unintentional hilarious. It still might be, but on my third viewing I got bored with it and only barely finished it.
When I'm in a bad movie slump I return to the classics. Showgirls & Troll 2 always give me a boost.

From my teens, heavy metal and guitar music were my absolute passions.  For years and years, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony Macalpine and Joe Satriani were playing constantly throughout the day.  Some time around 2004, my musical interests took a bit of a diversion and I was listening to Nightwish and Epica, and I began to wonder how come I wasn't listening to Malmsteen any more.  It was like a quiet betrayal of a long standing friend. 

Was I getting old?  Was I, gulp, 'growing out of it'?

These days, I can't listen to music all the time as my work requires me to hear what I'm doing, and I don't listen to metal at all.  Ambient music like early Brian Eno and Steve Roach plays as I go to sleep, and sometimes a movie soundtrack or two encircles me as I relax.

Sometimes, as much as it may surprise or perplex or dismay us, things just change.  But I've noticed that while some interests have come and gone, some go in cycles.  You never lose something you truly love.  It just goes into a quiet sleep, which is best left undisturbed until it emerges into wakefulness again.

Archivist your musical story is pretty much the same as mine. I grew up a metalhead (and i always will be one to an extent, but since I've eased off the metal (which is quote a few years) I've dealt with a lot of post-rock, expeimental, ambient (the dark stuff like Lull), Robert Rch and lots of electro like Scorn, Controlled Bleeding and Skinny Puppy (of course), Techno animal and so forth.  :cheers:

The comedies I enjoyed as a teen I often find juvenile now, similar with many TV series. Getting older and wiser I think has something to do with some of it. I may still chuckle at some of it but I feel kind of guilty about it a bit more and often have to admit that what made me laugh was kind of stupid. That said, I find I enjoy more and more the stuff from the 30s, 40s & 50s especially mysteries...I could watch Sherlock Holmes, Charlie Chan or Bulldog Drummond movies all day long. There's amusing stuff in those as well. Liking a bit of everything is great because it allows you to expand yourself and be open to watching all types of films. I've discovered I like Westerns, independent (sometimes even arty films) and foreign horror films more than I expected. The one type of film I never tire of though is the monster movie although some are certainly a lot better done than others.

I try to mix it up. One night I'll watch a highbrow documentary or a critically acclaimed classic, then follow it up with a string of crap-taculars. :D

I've been in the same situation with the music (used to listen to metal,don't so much anymore), really its hard for me to find any movies that genuinely grab my interest,especially lately. I'm still kinda lookin forward to zero theorem (I've always been a Gilliam fan) but thats been about it. I think I find what helps best sometimes is trying new things and always keeping an open mind to new things. For me though its just finding something new that grabs me thats been hard lately. I think archivist is on to something about letting an interest go into "sleep" for awhile. Myself I'm still looking for something new to interest me.

     Sometimes, we outgrow the tragically bad; those two films certainly qualify. I just bought a Mill Creek 12 film set that has both of them, the only two films in the set I hadn't seen previously, although I'd heard of them. DRIVE-IN MASSACRE was at least sorta watchable; The names of the cast and crew of DRILLER KILLER should be submitted to Homeland Security.

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Vacuum Cleaners.

Linda Lovelace.

Sometimes you get focused so much on the ad movies that you forget to watch good movies.  It gets stuck in your head that you're the guy that likes those movies that nobody else likes. 

I think every once in a while you need to just refresh yourself, but bad movies aside for a little bit, and watch some actual good movies. 

That Donald Trump is not in jail yet.

We are of our age and unlike in the past, we feel we shoud be making better use of our time. That means watching some trendy tv series instead of ed Wood movies

 :question:  I can't relate, Lester.  I just watched THE VELVET VAMPIRE (1971) which is dreadfully stupid and badly acted.  I can't wait to catch it again. 

I just got back from a Cape Town business trip: what sucks is that the lockdown did enormous damage to the once bustling and clean city centre. 😔

Tornadoes don't just suck, they also blow.

What did the hurricane say to the palm tree?

Hang on to your nuts, this is no ordinary blow job.

At age 9 I quite innocently told my mum that joke.

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It would really suck to be someone who was only aroused by pool tables, and your only physical relationships were with pool tables. I think that would really suck.

I like "Drive-in Massacre" honestly. 

Mostly because I'm facebook friends with John Goff.  I asked him on FB about that movie and he gave an honest and hilarious answer;  he made it because a friend of his who owned the Drive-in said it was going to be torn down after he sold it.. so if he wanted to make a movie there, he would have free reign... which he took instant use of. 

The fact you *believe* Trump needs to be in jail sucks.

Trump can suck a golf ball threw a garden hose.

^This whole mess is starting to remind of that scene from Throw Mamma From The Train, where Larry's elderly room mate tells him to stop obsessing over his ex-wife...,..^

Well, when it comes to obsessing over ex-presidents you are an expert.

Forget it it alex
Trump is never going to sleep with you

Just as Obama, or the Bamster I think it was, was your pet nickname for him, will never want your body next to his?

Naw, the bamster's already got a man.
His name is Michelle.

And you accuse others of having weird fantasies...  :bouncegiggle:

9.1% inflation & a $#*t for brains administration that's trying to redefine the meaning of a recession, so they can pretend there isn't one, so they can raise taxes in the middle of a recession.....

Interesting. I was just reading an article yesterday about how accusations of the current administration trying to change the definition of a recession were false. Might want to check your news sources.



 

A period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters.

Yeah, the white house is trying to say this is not what a recession is.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-house-definition-recession/ (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-house-definition-recession/)

http://rumble.com/v1duaid-doocy-makes-press-secs-brain-short-circuit-with-quote-from-bidens-own-advis.html (http://rumble.com/v1duaid-doocy-makes-press-secs-brain-short-circuit-with-quote-from-bidens-own-advis.html)

The two consecutive quarters of negative growth is the definition in the rest of the world, but the US doesn't use that, so she is right from your government's standpoint. That isn't to say you aren't in a recession, but again since it is not a measurement used by your country to define recession, then they aren't redefining what is one. Sorry, but your video doesn't back up your point. She is simply stating a fact.

It did mention that in the first article I linked, but in case you missed how this was already explained, here is a more in-depth version.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonmoore/2022/07/28/us-sees-6-months-of-economic-decline-so-what-is-the-definition-of-a-recession/ (https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonmoore/2022/07/28/us-sees-6-months-of-economic-decline-so-what-is-the-definition-of-a-recession/)

Were you almost anywhere else in the world, you'd be right. Saying that two-quarters of negative economic growth isn't a recession would be trying to change the facts on the ground, but as with things like the metric system and several other things, the US chose to walk a different path here from the rest of the world.

So,  the National Bureau of Economic Research gets to make up the rules as they go along...
How clever....

And this article ends by saying we're not exactly in a good place......

The other one also said you aren't in a good place. But both agree that there was no attempt to change the rules. From what I read your NBER doesn't get to make up the rules, they seem pretty set in place but the decision on being in a recession is much more nebulous than it is elsewhere. I'm guessing that those rules have been in place for several administrations. Maybe not though. Perhaps they change the rules on a weekly basis.

So yeah, sorry but it looks like you were conned by someone just looking to stir up trouble by claiming the government was trying to change the rules. I'd imagine the journalist in your video either knows very little about how these things work (and therefore isn't really qualified to be asking the question in the first place), or who was just trying to create sensationalist headlines (indicating a lack of journalistic integrity) and other people have just jumped on it. Either way, it very quickly falls apart under any level of investigation.

Either way, my advice would be to just be a little more careful about what news you listen to. Take it all with a pinch of salt, regardless of what side it comes from.

Your projecting.

This thread really sucks.  :thumbdown:

Back on topic...

It’s been awhile since I’ve spent much time watching bad movies. In truth, I suppose I’m more of a science/fantasy film fan with low standards. But, even then, I haven’t seen many B-movies of late. Too little time. :/

My wife was worn out at the end of the school year and really needed a restful summer.
Instead, she's gotten Type A flu and COVID, both complicated by her asthma.  She's had to deal with her Mom being hospitalized and then sent to a rehab center, and we don't know if she'll ever be strong enough to come home again or not.
And she starts back to work next week.

I had a infection recently.  My face was basically leaking blood and pus.  I had to go to the emergency room and have surgery to have it drained, then they kept me for several days running IVs and doing tests.  I left the hospital with two big holes in my head. 

It's now mostly healed closed, but I still have to go back to the doctor at least one more time for a re-evautation. 

Nobody has mentioned to me where I'm going to need surgery again to fix the wound, if it's just going to leave a big scar, or even if I'm ever going to be able to grow back my goatee again.  (They had to shave me for the surgery.) 

So for the past ... almost a month now I've had bandages covering my entire chin and have been having to rinse out and pack the wound every night.  It's just getting to the point where I can't pack it anymore. 

Not a fun time.  I wouldn't recommend it. 
I do think I lost some weight though, so that's good. 

Scooty Puff Jr

Hip arthritis, sciatica with herniated discs, and a steroid that's giving me hiccups....

When the scrolling wheel on your mouse finally wears out, & everything on your screen starts bouncing up & down like an old TV set from the '70s with a touchy VH-hold............

A fetish for Asian cowboys.

This terrible hot weather here and the fact that we have serious power supply issues.  :buggedout:

Bucky Larson really sucks  :hatred: :bluesad: :bluesad: :bluesad:

Is it okay to repeat that Godrey Ho movies really suck?