Summer Movies

Ah!  The rich coolness of an Air-Conditioned movie house in the summertime.  My youth would often be spent at the movies in the summer.  On a Saturday, after our chores were done, our Mom would give my brother money for the two of us to go to the movies.
Today I went to see "Cave of Forgotten Dreams".  I put off going to see it because it sounded like something that might be better done on PBS.  3D sounded questionable.  Werner Herzog, however can be very good as in "Aguirre: Wrath of God", but then again he can be off.  "Encounters at the End of the World" was not my cup of tea.  I find he often imposes a metaphysical and anthropomorphic perspective on material that is not rational.  In this film it works a little better because it comes from one of the scientists who recounts the story of an anthropologist touring a cave of drawings with an Australian Aborigine.  The anthropologist was trying to explain the difference between modern man and indigenous man.  While in the cave the Aborigine realized the drawing was fading and started to paint it.  The scientist asked why and the aboriginal said he wasn't painting it.  The spirit of the hand was painting it.  Nice, but then Herzog continues through the film to question the scientists if these, the drawings, aren't a manifestation of the beginnings of the human soul.

Then there are the drawings.  The drawings in the cave of forgotten dreams are remarkable.  They may have the most beautiful drawings of horses heads I have ever seen.  According to the scientist they were drawn 30,000 to 40,000 thousand years ago.
I don't think doing the  movie in 3D was the right choice.   There is the fact that many of the drawings, and there are many, are formed using the shape of the rock. Seeing them in 3D enhances that, but hand-held cameras moving in 3D are jarring.  When the camera moves the focus keeps shifting.  I wonder if 3D is an excuse to raise prices.
Netflix is raising their prices.  Why?  No explanation in the e-mail I received.  No extra services or cost were mentioned.   My favorite money pot is Verizon.
I wanted to stop my TV service.  I'm on the computer and out of the house so much, who needs it.  I pay $145 for phone, internet and TV.  The bill I received said TV was $60 and my DVR service for TV was $15. So when I called to cancel the TV and DVR, I find I will save $30 and my internet speed drops from 20mb to 15mb.  I think she said megabytes, the accent was really heavy.  It seems I have a bundle.  A triple bundle that changes to a double bundle when I drop the TV.  I'm really saving a whole lot of money by paying more.  Huh?  The cable in my house doesn't change, why does the speed change?  What's bundled is the money we're paying.