Friday, August 29, 2008

Mystery of the Two-Minutes Movies

Every now and then I feel like watching something in an uncommitted sort of way for about two or three, possible ten, minutes. So I flick on the iMac remote and switch over to watching movie trailers. Now that the final Harry Potter book is out, I'll even watch HP trailers. They put so much in trailers these days that you can almost watch the whole movie in two minutes. They're like potato chips. You can't watch just one.

They are lovely. Many of them in high definition which looks so good on my 24 inch high resolution monitor.

The mystery is that in the theater I hate previews. I think mostly because in the theater they choose them for me and I'm not there to watch previews. I'm there to watch a movie. I'm not interested in chips. I want a full course meal. In the theater they should pay me to watch previews. Especially the ones totally unrelated to the movie I came to see. Like the horror previews they show before a comedy. Who came up with that?

I guess that solves the mystery.

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