How does it end?

I must admit I like movies. I don't go to the cinema very often these days. Mostly because I tend to cry at the cinema. Have you seen the price of tickets lately? And then the price of popcorn and drinks. Why don't they allow you to bring your own food at the cinema? They threw me out when I brought a few jars of pickled onions with me.

Anyway, I like movies and tend to watch them at home on TV. The problem is, as in the cinema, when Jennifer Aniston is on I have to leave my house until the film is finished. 

There are plenty of movies on TV these days, and on many channels too. I like most of them, but not the violent ones, or the singing ones.

The thing is, I rarely get to see a film all the way through. Either I am interrupted by something else, or someone at home needs something, or the telephone rings, or someone calls unannounced and I have to pretend to welcome them or ... worst of all, I fall asleep half-way through the film. I usually end up seeing either the beginning or the ending of films, and sometimes just the middle bit because I did not switch the TV on in time and I got interrupted before the ending. 

It is most annoying when I fall asleep during the film. It comes to something when sleep is more appealing than who is on TV at the time ... except of course Jennifer Aniston. She reminds me of one of the priests I know. I usually fall asleep at the first few words of his sermon and get awakened by a sharp elbow in my side. This priest is so sleep-inducing that the local hospital is considering using him as an anaesthetic. 

These days I seem to be spending my time flicking through the TV channels to see if they are repeating any of the films I have not seen all the way through so I can view them from where I left off the last time.

Does anyone know how the film Titanic ends? Does the ship sink in the end or not?

Complaint

I have a complaint. I don't know who to complain to so I'll complain to you in the hope you can do something about it.

I am getting totally fed up with loud music in films or on TV plays, especially when people are talking and the music overcomes what they are saying making it difficult to understand. You cannot control it with the remote control because if you lower the volume it lowers the speech as well as the music. If you increase the volume the music drowns the actors talking.

It is totally stupid. Why not have films with no music at all?

I know ... you will say that if we had no music in films we would not have had such tunes like Gone with the wind, Dr Zhivago, Exodus and so on. Yes, I like this kind of music which is often associated with great films; but it is only appropriate when the actors are not talking, but watching cattle in the prairies, wildebeests travelling through the savannahs, or spaceships travelling through space whilst Captain Jean-Luc Picard is eating ice cream. Loud music is not appropriate when actors are saying something important relevant to the plot.

And another thing; I hate it when you have a love scene with a couple in bed and there's music in the background. I would certainly not want a whole orchestra in the bedroom when I'm having such a moment!

Or when there's a fight on; whether it is gladiators fighting with swords, or cowboys and indians, cops and robbers or whatever ... why is there stupid background music?

As for that shower scene from Psycho ... the crazy music would have made the whole cinema audience wet themselves in their seats. What's so clever about that?

So if any of you have any influence in the cinema or TV industry could you please tell them to keep music only in scenes where there is no dialogue. This will help me appreciate the music, or serve as a clue for me to get off the couch and make a cup of tea, or go to the toilet.