Pluggers by Rick McKee for July 31, 2024

I no longer have the patience. Anything that runs more than an hour gets broken up and watched a little at a time.

thank goodness for ⏪

I have trouble finding the time for anything more than a half hour sitcom!

7 minute Bugs Bunny cartoons are pretty good too!

Without falling asleep? You’re doing well!

no, can not do it

Watch a TV for 2 hours in a row …. Tis a hard one for me ;-)

“Even the sex scenes barely kept me awake … same old same old.”

‘This day in age’ , I wouldn’t have that problem—-it has been years and years since they have produced a movie over two hours long that was WORTH watching or even close to two hours ! ! ! !

That’s the truth. Some of these movies now days seem to go on forever.

2 hours? Not sure my bladder has that much capacity anymore.

And staying awake through the whole thing.

Ah, I wish. Never thought I’d do it, then I stumbled onto streaming series that were complete or only a season or two long with episodes that had the “worst” cliffhanger endings…

It’s not the length per se of a movie or program that concerns me, but whether or not I have time to finish it before bedtime. So I always check the length of things before I watch them. If there isn’t enough time left in the day to finish it before bedtime, then it’s going to have to wait until another day when I have a chance to start it earlier.

I did that last night.

For a lot of movies the first five minutes are the best part. Top Gun Maverick comes to mind.

I have to break movies into thirty-minute viewing segments. Oh, I have the attention span but, the longer I wait to get up, the more it hurts.

During Covid husband gave in and bought a small, big screen TV (and has completely ruined the 18th look of our living room which he worked hard to curate).

I have a problem with digital TV – it hurts my eyes to watch it. When I complained of this before we bought it he told me that he read there is a special setting for stores and we would set it to be much less bright at home. (No, he is not the type to lie to me – he really read this, or thought he did, somewhere.)

So I have to watch the TV anti-glare glasses on – in the dark as we are playing “movie theater”. He also had to turn the sound up more than our other (analog) TVs to hear it. So I watch our Saturday night date night movie and our Friday night midnight movie (old movie) in the dark with anti-glare glasses on and firing range ear plugs in my ears. After he finally understood why I was uncomfortable sitting next to him on a chair in the middle of the room – my feet do not reach the floor in almost normal height chairs and it is uncomfortable – I am “allowed” to sit on the sofa with my feet up.

Friday night is okay. But Saturday he runs lots of extras after the movie – off of various things on the Internet – mostly about RVing. I would rather be back at the kitchen table as we were before he bought the TV for the living room then playing movie theater.

(Before Covid came along we went out to the movies every Saturday night short of snow or similar – even when traveling (only travel domestically) we would go to the movies on Saturday night. While on a vacation trip in Montreal decades ago we went to the movies on Saturday night and saw “Le fre mas futer du Sherlock Holmes” (sorry my French is poor and this from memory) in French with subtitles.

So Saturday night movie date is an important thing for us.

While in college we would meet up after our retail jobs on Friday nights and (in addition to our Saturday night dates) go to the midnight movie at our local art cinema – including for our first date, hence why he added that to watch old movies now. First one for this Covid event was, of course, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”. For the Friday night after Thanksgiving it is “Alice’s Restaurant”, of course.