I Watched 10 Movies this Weekend

Thirteen Lives

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

They/Them

All the Old Knives

Men

Fall

Day Shift

Luck

Purple Hearts

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Those are the ten movies I saw this last weekend, and I really only liked one of them. My day job recently changed my shift to the swing hours and have three-day weekends now so I have a lot more time on my hands to watch movies. For that first weekend, I wanted to start off with a bang and get through a ton of movies. I went to the theater twice, rented a movie or two online, and streamed the rest. My hopes were high that it would be a good weekend as I dove into these movies. But after the weekend was over and had gotten through all of those movies, it felt like emerging from a swimming pool of mediocrity. There are good aspects here and there for each of them, but it felt like a chore getting through some of them at times.

Part of watching as many movies as I do is running into a lot of mediocrity. A lot of movies have similar plot structures, characters, arcs, and setups. Does that make these movies inherently bad? No. Does it make it make them boring after a while? Absolutely. it’s just the law of overages in my opinion. You get enough points of data and everything starts to pan out in an easily predictable way. So you can start to point out when the big twist is coming or when the hero will find that hidden strength. That takes a way from the viewing experience and the quality of the movie in question.

Do not get me wrong. I do not think I wasted my weekend. I ultimately watch all these movies because it is something that I love to do, and there are not always great movies to see. But every now and then, something great is found. Think of it like this. I have seen 158 movies that were released in 2021. Of those, I think somewhere between five to ten of those movies will be remembered as classics, and at least one of them had three Spider-Men in it. That’s a pretty small number percentage-wise. So of those ten movies I saw this weekend, the odds are that only one of them will be great, if that. But we have to keep showing up because eventually if you see enough movies you will find something good. It’s like gold mining. You just keep chipping away or sifting through dirt, and you will find something valuable.