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Movies That Make You Think

I went to see the movie called THE HELP, with my gal pal. It was a pretty good movie. I tend to judge movies in 3 catagories … First one is to see it on the big screen. Like Aviatar, Dancing with Wolves, and Titanic. Where you really need to see it on a big screen. I have seen all 3 in the theater and on television. It just isn’t the same.
The next one is watch it on video, like Netflix. And finally there is the television. I rarely go to the theater, so most of the movies I see are on Netflix. THE HELP would have been a Netflix one. It isn’t that it wasn’t that good, as it was..but it wasn’t $10.00 worthy. The going price for movies these days. I did get the senior discount so it cost me $8/From A Simple Mind. More here. (AP Photo/DreamWorks-Disney, Dale Robinette: Emma Stone, left, and Viola Davis in a scene from "The Help")

Question: How do you decide whether a movie is worth the $8-10 to see in a theater?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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