I may have had a eureka moment tonight.
I opened a posted Vid and watched it for the usual 30 seconds, then turned if off, I think it went for 4 minutes.
It was a SB vid, so giving it 30 seconds is probably more that I normally would.
If it were a LB clip, and the surfing or location were good, I probably would have watched it to the end. But I would never go back and watch it again.
Why Not





Let's turn the clock back to the mid 60s and all that old scratchy footage and cheesy narration, I loved them then as I love them now, I keep going back to them, I don't get so tired of them.
So what's the deal

the film quality is usually rubbish, the sequences are short, the voiceovers a often a bit infantile, and so much more is wrong with them, but I like them enough to not tire of them so much, why

I think it's that narration that draws me to them, regardless of how dumb it sounds.
In the late 60s, maybe around 68, almost all narration stopped in surf movies, and I have almost no interest in any movie since then, there have been some that used a lot of interview footage, but they're not all that interesting to me either. I will admit that I'm not a lover of music, but that's only because I can't hear most of it. Having said that, I do believe Morning Of the Earth was ground-breaking in its attempts to blend the songs and music into each sequence, but so may others just pick what they like and throw it on top of the vid as if to say, "how cool am I?"
I think I miss the cornball words.