TBH, it amazes me how many people I hear saying "oh I wish I had time to X Y or Z but I'm always so busy" and yet they find the time to sit for hours every evening watching Eastenderes or some such shoot on TV.
Or, (as someone else already said) Posting on Internet Forums.
Quite frankly, it never occurred to me that people don't 'do' films. It seems such a fundamental part of life!
Funnily enough, if I switched on the TV and found old Tom and Jerry cartoons or similar on, I would probably sit and watch them
For me it is Wyle E. Coyote Cartoons, I love 'em as well as Pluto (non - verbal things have always appealed greatly to me - the amount of extra work and complexity that has to go into the production to convey visually what words normally would, and yet, still appear to be devastating simple has always interested me).
I don't like the current trend where CGI is king, and films are somehow considered "brilliant" if the effects are good.
What would you rather have, CGi, or an Airfix model bouncing about on a piece of string??
Some CGI is good, yes, but coming from a film background (photography) I have never really liked the whole attitude that nothing had to actually exist. To me, if I couldn't do it for real, then I wasn't interested.
We have a cinema in Sheffield called "The Showroom" (it used to be a car dealers in the 70s, geddit?!). The advantage is that it tends to attract a better class of clientelle than some of the large multiplexes. (I mean there are never gangs of Chavs) The Showroom does show some mainstream films, but the core business seems to be in foreign films, mainly French or other European countries in origin.
We quite like French films, because they're often well written with good human scale stories, and because they tend to be a bit quirky. The massive advantage of course, is that this sort of film does not attract gangs of teenagers, some of whom for some reason pay money to go to a film, not watch it, and lob expensive popcorn about...
Yes I sometimes frequent the Glasgow Film Theatre. Great, thought provoking films, although having said that, the only time I have ever fallen asleep whilst watching a film at the Cinema was there, whilst watching a Spanish film called 'Blame It On Fidel'. To this day I still have no real idea if it was any good or not.
Oh and they don't do Popcorn or anything else noisy. You might get some couscous or olives flicked about though
