Saw a couple of crappy movies over the last week – You, Me and Dupree and Monster House. To be fair, Monster House wasn’t that bad; it just seemed like an adult movie disguised as a kids movie. The stretches of imagination that the “plot” requires you to make are well, a stretch. A lot of cool animation (I’ve to give them that…), action and smart-alec-comments do not a movie make. The less said about Owen Wilson in a non frat-pack movie, the better…

Hence the question: why are there so many crap movies around these days?
And my answer: the older we get the more crap we have seen and the less tolerant we are of new crap. Things which I thought were pretty good a few years back now look like crap. Maybe the absolute level of crap today is the same as is was in the past.