Bye For Now

Well fellow readers, I must say adieu. I will delay my weekly Friday post until next Friday. Happy Holidays everyone!!

Movies: Then and Now

You see the trailers; they make you excited and eager to see the film. You wait until they show you the date and you begin to make plans. The day comes and you pay $12.50 at the door. You get there early so you have enough time for concessions and maybe view other trailers for upcoming movies. You sit down with at least 30 other people and get comfortable. You emerge two hours later, and the cycle repeats for another movie set for another time.

That’s right people, I’m talking about movies. Admit it: movies compared to the 70s have taken many turning points both good and bad. Let me start with the good.
One thing that our era has over the previous eras is technology. Our technology today is just amazing for lack of a better word. With our technology, it doesn’t take much for us to create a world for you to explore in movies. Sure it’s expensive, but it is worth it. Every scene is a new experience, and directors from the 60s or the 70s can only imagine having that kind of technology to create the scenes we have today. Another good thing about today’s movies is the 3D/IMAX. 3D in itself is just stunning; the feeling of something reaching you from a screen is just exhilarating. IMAX is just as stunning as 3D; the sound is realistic, the graphics pop with it, and there are no pixels or fuzziness whatsoever. To wrap things up, our scenes just look better, but graphics aren’t the only aspects to movies.
Here is the bad– the content. Our movies today lack originality. Think about it: How many times have your parents say “I remember that movie” or “wow they’re remaking that– I can’t wait!” Where are the original ideas? Why is everything a remake? Where is the writer thinking and dreaming ideas that make the mega bucks in the box office? Every time I go to the movies my father is pointing at least five upcoming movies that were remakes from when he was a teenager. That’s sad in my opinion. People didn’t die for freedom of speech and freedom to express opinions for us to just remake someone else’s. Even though previous movies lack amazing graphics, they still told their own story and were still successful; they didn’t mooch off of anyone else's genius or took the easy way out.
So that’s my opinion on movies today versus old movies. Post your opinions down below and I’ll reply.

One of my favorite movies 

One movie that can be excluded from this rant. Will recommend to anyone.

Going Off Topic

Did everyone watch the election on Tuesday? Let’s just say I was very pleased with the outcome. The recent buzz about the 2012 election distracted me from today’s pop culture. Hopefully, our nation will get back in the green as Bill Clinton’s America did in the 1990s. I’m also very interested in how many states voted to legalize recreational marijuana- not that I’m surprised. Soon the New York tri-state area will join these states in the journey to legalize marijuana. I believe this because I think law enforcement is tired of arresting people for it, and it’s a burden on the states.   That’s all I have to write for now. Leave your comments and election reactions below, and I will surely reply.

Games of the 1980s vs Games of Today

Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Street Fighter and many more video were a big part of the 1980s. Today, I will move away from  discussing the differences between these decades and show how, in video entertainment, at least, they are similar.

Many of us today are that certain games are as old as they are, due to the fact that they are still widely popular today. Back then, games were played on arcade machines—some which are still in use in certain places—with a joystick and a couple of buttons.They were also played on game consoles, such as the Sega Genesis and the Atari.

Another big difference is in the graphics. The concepts were similar: The games had the same amount of violence as today’s games. We just don’t realize it because of the less-realistic graphics. Games of the 1980s were  full of pixels, and very slow to load.  They had very monotonous graphics, and some of the games would be dubbed boring by today’s youth; games like Snake and Pong wouldn’t hold our generation’s already-short attention span for very long.

Games of today, by comparison, are mind-boggling. My father is amazed by the graphics of today’s video games.

“It’s like you’re watching a movie,” he says each time he sees the demo of the newest first-shooter game. To kids living in this era, games with high amounts of graphics and high-def pictures are standard. Anything pixelated must be thrown out, unless the game itself is supposed to be retro. Games cannot have one goal; a game must, on average, have at least five or six goals to meet our short attention span. Lastly, the consoles of today are just awe-inspiring; I highly doubt that the people who made the Atari could even imagine the Kinect would be possible to make.

Like I’ve said before, the comment box is open. Feel free to post one, and I will surely reply.