Every time I go to my favorite restaurants I’m struck by two thoughts: 1) I love this food! It’s the tastiest food in the world! And 2) Why does there have to be so much of it? What a rude thing to do, serving me slightly more of this delicious food than I want for reasons of time and arbitrary evaluative criteria.
Movies are the same. I would love to forever live in the world and with the characters of Goodfellas, but a two and a half hour runtime is excessive. And it seems like movies are getting longer and longer these days even though I have absolutely no concrete evidence to back this up. It just feels as though they are, and the fact that I have grown and matured as a person over the years and have an overabundant sense of nostalgia does nothing to convince me otherwise.
Movie clichés are the reason no one cares about movies anymore. It seems as though every story that can be told has been told, and so maybe continuing to tell stories is a redundant pursuit. Tired tropes and practices are the reason that virtually every movie aside from Breathless and Top Gun is utter trash. I feel this way, so I assume that the rest of the world does too. Or maybe the problem is with me, and the weird sarcastic nihilism I’ve exhibited in this feature is contributing nothing to artistic appreciation and the understanding of movies. But I doubt it.
