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Perhaps a better title would be "advertising on TV is broken". No one pays any attention to it anymore. And most people I know, like me, don't even have broadc
by Craiggybear 15y ago
Perhaps a better title would be "advertising on TV is broken".
No one pays any attention to it anymore. And most people I know, like me, don't even have broadcast TV. Or cable.
I watch shows, yes, on DVD -- and largely on my own terms. No adverts.
- tomjen3 15y agoNo it is tv that is broken. I have some channels that don't have ads at all (not even between shows) but I don't watch them, because you have to watch at a particular time, can't really pause them and the movies are years old.
- Craiggybear 15y ago"and the movies are years old." ... and, that's bad? Personally, most of the movies I might want to watch are certainly in black-and-white anyhow.
- tomjen3 15y agoNot everybody is a hipster :) I actually like the action movies where you know that the guy gets the pretty girl once he is done blowing things up. And recently the explosions have become more awesome, so I prefer the never movies. You keep Casablanca, if you want.
- Craiggybear 15y agoI'd not think that at 52 I was anything that could be remotely described as a 'hipster'.
- seanp2k2 15y agoboop boop boop "I WAS WATCHING MOVIES BEFORE YOU WERE EVEN BORN" so hipster :D
- awj 15y ago> I actually like the action movies where you know that the guy gets the pretty girl once he is done blowing things up. Die Hard is "years old" (24 of them, actually) and is an awesome movie in this genre. In fact I am going to preemptively declare you to be an action movie hipster if you like them but not Die Hard. Being old doesn't make a movie bad. Being bad makes a movie bad. Sometimes that's because the times have changed and the plots are hard to relate to, but usually it's got nothing to do with the age.
- tomjen3 15y agoIt is okay, but the CGI explosions aren't as good as in the new movies (they properly wasn't even CGI then).
- awj 15y ago> they properly wasn't even CGI then I'm going to choose to pretend that wasn't a typo. ;) Seriously though, there are some great older action movies out there. There's some pretty top notch new ones, too. It's all good.
- billforsternz 15y agoAbsolutely true. For example Ronin (1998) has much more awesome special effects than the average 201x CGI infested equivalent. I was surprised by the perceptiveness of a youngster who pointed this syndrome out to me, he recognises the superiority of movies half a generation older than the movies made for his generation.