Since I've stop paying for movies (I'm a pirate, my eye patch should arriving anytime now...) I've been able to re-evaluate what I like and dislike. You see, when I pay 7-9 dollars I'm expecting to get something in return. When I go to the movies now its generally just to "get out" and hang with friends/family. So in that regard I suppose its still worth the money. But -back to my pirate ways - watching all my movies for free really enables me to really not care what I'm watching, thus I am more perceptive to the subtleties of the movie such as - "the director was going for this" or "they tried to pull this off..." and it can be more fun, like watching a movie made by a friend. Imagine if I wrote and directed Ghost Rider (A particularly terrible Nickolas Cage superhero movie) everyone reading this would claim it to be "amazing" and be impressed to your bottom nickers that I had made it. You would forget the glaring bad acting, the bad script and poor resolution, you would be able to purely enjoy it because it WOULD be amazing if someone you know made it. But there isn't much difference between the person you know and the real director/editor you don't know. So why not treat them the same? I will say that swashbuckling has revitalized my love and enjoyment of all movies. My critics code of criticism has been washed clean.
They're more like guidelines anyway.
-Arg
