During the N64 generation I had remorse over trading in a launch window title and I literally could not find it to rebuy it. We spent hours going to every retailer in the area. The GameCube hadn’t launched yet and this game was effectively “lost” to me. I can buy that game in seconds online now.
It’s interesting to see younger people’s attitudes towards lost media. The idea that basically everything ever created should be preserved is fairly radical and new. I’m not even talking about how x% of films (mostly very old) have been lost. Things have changed just in my life.
The actors constantly buy time for themselves by repeating what they just heard which just drags out every interaction.
“did you go to the store?”
“Did I go to the store? Of course I did. I bought chips!”
“You bought chips? I wanted pretzels!”
“You wanted pretzels?…”
I can’t get passed this.
This gift can be a curse though. Never before have artists of today been in such fierce competition with not only their peers of the present, but also of the past. I think this embarrassment of riches can spoil our enjoyment of new releases a bit. But there’s no undoing that now.
GL3
Pros: Very fun, my ideal kit
Cons: I struggle to kill anyone with the gun and lose every game I play with it including this one
It was torture feeling like the only person on the planet not laughing hysterically at the Apatow comedies where the direction seemed to be just let the cameras roll on a scene for an hour while the actors riff and then pick your favorite line for the final cut.
People are hyping up Curb again and I think Seinfeld might be the best sitcom of all time and all indicators say I should like Curb.
My issue is Curb’s dialog is improvised and every time I try to watch it, the actors are just… kind of bad at it?
Of course, some movies took even longer because home video wasn’t even a thing. Sometimes it’s good to just be grateful of how free we are to enjoy things on our own time now instead of agonizing over anything that might slip through the cracks.
For the first time in my life, I won’t see the new Star Wars movie in theaters. I’ll probably have to wait a few months to see it at home. If I had missed TPM in theaters, I would have had to wait almost a year. ROTJ took 3 years.
