I have not set foot in a movie theater now in almost a year now, and the last time I was in one was to watch a safety training video to get a food handler’s permit from the county (long story…) and I think the last “real” movie I saw in the theater was Monsters, Inc. Ostensibly, my “excuse” for not watching movies on a regular basis is that I have the attention span of-Oh look, a bunny! Oops, gone now. Where was I? Oh yeah, short attention span. I wonder where they’d get that idea? Anyway, to be honest, there is just so much garbage coming out of Hollywood these days. So-called comedies these days seem to consist mostly of two hours of potty humor and people being morons, which I see no humor in (and the blogosphere hasn’t excactly helped in that regard.) Just about every type of film you can think of short of “The Care Bears Movie 3: This time, it’s personal” seems to feel it necessary to throw in gratuitous sexuality that does nothing to advance the plot, as though they’re getting their demographic info on their male audience from a Lifetime Original Movie and a couple of issues of Maxim.

And this would be the case even if a good chunk of Hollywood wasn’t comprised of preachy self-righteous Marxist wanna-bes who wouldn’t know a class struggle if it bashed down their door and carted them off to the nearest guillotine. If not for the accident of celebrity, most of these people wouldn’t be qualified to do much more than flip burgers It should be noted that in times past, performers and artists were generally found among the lowest classes of society. Sure, you could occasionally find a rich noble to act as your patron, but for most of recorded history performers and artists have been among the lowest classes of society. It’s only been in recent times that Hollywood has elevated these people to the upper classes, and it shows. Nonetheless, other than their role in forming people’s opinions, these attitudes are ultimately irrlevant, since it’s highly unlikely that these people are going to be the ones taking up arms and trying to overthrow the government to bring forth the Worker’s Paradise. That’s a job for the little people.

TV isn’t much better these days either. Most of the time, half the shows I can even stand to watch are on Food Network and HGTV (for as much of that stuff as I watch, you’d think I could actually cook or hang drywall, but that’s for another time…) There’s a couple of Network shows I’ll watch on occasion (I’ll occasionally watch CSI reruns on Spike TV if nothing else is on, but believe me, you don’t want to get me started on what an insult to 50% of humanity that network is…) but for the most part everything I watch anymore is on cable. It seems a little odd that I know more grownups than kids these days that watch Nickelodeon on a regular basis, but I do have to say that some of their cartoons are much better comedy than the tripe in the theaters, even if they are a tad formulaic (Fairly Oddparents in particular.) The fact that I’d rather watch kids cartoons at any given time than just about any Hollywood films should say justabout everything about the situation as I see it.