Comment by watwut
9 hours ago
Because they can focus on different movies. Americans few decades ago found internarional movies boring, did not focused, but could focus on American movies.
9 hours ago
Because they can focus on different movies. Americans few decades ago found internarional movies boring, did not focused, but could focus on American movies.
I don't think people can focus on any movies anymore, period.
I used to host movie night for the friend group, because I was the one with a decent home theater setup, but we stopped because people just can't get through movies anymore. Same with family. We'd always put on a movie at night when family were over for a visit, but we don't anymore. Within 5 minutes of the movie starting, everyone's on their phones or getting up to do other things. Why even bother hosting?
I even let the guest(s) choose the movie so they're not subjected to all that boring "character development" and "establishing shots" in movies I go for, and they still can't make it more than 5-10 minutes. My teenage kid can't even make it through movies with zero quiet parts, designed specifically for that age group. Not into it at all--she puts YouTube on at 2x-2.5x speed and "watches" two videos at a time while playing video games.
I was a film student in the 90s, I would watch a dozen films over a weekend. Now, if I want to sit through a film and give it my full attention I have to either go to a movie theatre or break the movie up into a series of bite-sized segments. If I want to get lost in a book I have to go camping somewhere away from any cell towers.
I don't think film students today are less interested in film. Their attention spans are shot.
> Because they can focus on different movies.
Not sure if I can follow. What kind of different movies? Different 2-hour feature films? The article didn't mentioned as much I think.