...Janitor

I rescued a bunch of old movies from my house this weekend and watched a few. I took a look at Rookie of the Year (which oddly enough Neil Flynn was in). While I was squinting at the screen and saying "Janitor" in a menacing way, I realized something. A lot of these old kid's movies have something really to them.

I catch parts of kids shows and movies from time to time and I always think how very bad they are. I assumed at least part of it was because I was not a kid and that if I went and watched the movies from my childhood now I would be just as underwhelmed, nostalgia notwithstanding.

But that isn't true. I caught some Disney channel while I was home as well and they were playing some old stuff from when I was about in middle school. I watch it for a few minutes and it had some real comic value to it. So did the movies I watched. Rookie of the Year even had some real filmmaking technique to it.

So apparently movies and TV really are getting worse as filmmakers concentrate less on story and talent and more on Digital 3d or whatever the special effect gimmick is this year.