Check out last weekend's schedule at the Arclight in Hollywood. If you want to see "Avengers: Endgame," you have an opportunity to do so almost once an hour. My God, it was running more often than your average Los Angeles bus.
I felt like seeing a movie last weekend and couldn't. Largely because this Marvel dreck was clogging every multiplex. But if the screen didn't have a super hero of some sort, it was playing...well...junk. A rom-com with Seth Rogan??? No thanks. I avoid his movies like it's the latest outbreak of measles. The rest of the stuff out there?
Boo, hiss.
They yak about how much Hollywood is making at the box office these days. Um, yes and no. Let's not forget that this year's gross being better than last year's gross is due, in large part, to ticket prices going up a buck or two every 12 months. It costs an average of 15 to 18 bucks to see a film these days. It wasn't long ago that the average was 12 to 14 bucks. Of course, some of us remember tickets selling for anywhere from 50 cent to a dollar.
Meanwhile, everything coming out these days has a doomsday scenario that makes me wonder just how depressed and mentally unstable these millennial development folks are at the moment.
I am looking forward to seeing at least one movie in a theater this summer. I have high hopes for the fourth "Toy Story" and the Quentin Tarantino thing about LA in the 60s and 70s. The rest of it???
My living room never looked so good.
Dinner last night: Leftover pulled BBQ pork.
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