Dark Rooms with Flickers

Summer movies!
Oh yeah I gotta’ see ‘em! I want action, dudes with guns, fast cars, hot chicks and all that stuff the teenager in me wants to see. Though if I recall the teenager I was wasn’t too interested in all that; I wanted to see art house movies with French accents and mild twists of insanity. A movie like “Betty Blue” or “Naked Lunch” or “Amelie” was the type of film I wanted to sink my morose teeth into and soak up the weirdness of all. I suppose I wanted my life to be that then, those were my fantasies. A dark hole, a twisted little place where the supernatural was always just around or in the corner was just the ecstasy I needed.
Where did all this change? Did action get better? Did I get tired of odd, little independent movies and the fact that there isn’t always satisfaction in them? Maybe I just don’t care to put my mind into anything anymore and just want explosions and a happy ending. I watched a movie recently called “Girlfriend Experience” which is directed by a major “indie” fellow and stars a porn actress; it left me feeling like I didn’t give two cents about anything. Yes, the movie looked great and there was a certain voyeuristic quality of it that I liked but I didn’t get jack from it. So now I have to compare this to “Star Trek” which while silly and a bit overdone had all the things we want in a summer movie! I was still left feeling, feh. This is a result of me being jaded, right? Maybe the action genre has been taken as far as it can, maybe it reached it’s most awesome realization in “Terminator 2”
Maybe I just can’t escape anymore. I’m too in my own head to get off.