Real Steel a Reel Steal

I have been a bit tardy posting.  I have been writing, but I have not been finishing.  Today I watched TV.  I have been house sitting for a friend and they have the horrid creation.  I don't normally watch, mostly because I know myself, and I would get obsessive compulsive again with TV.  When I got it out of my system through years of working nights followed by working evenings, I discovered that it no longer had a hook in me: the shows were predictable, they were stupid, excessively violent, based on a premise that I was not invested in, because I had not been watching it and it meant I could read more.  

But then I watched a movie called Real Steel.  Would never have watched it in the theaters.  I would have said that it was a kids movie, or that it was excessively violent (funny that there is such a pairing).  It was robot boxing and that is like cool, I mean the most violent sport.  But the story was not about boxing with robots, it was about cheering for the underdog and a father realizing that his son, whom he has never showed an interest in, was the most important person in his life, if he would only let himself realize that.  Best movie that I have seen in a little while.  In many ways better than 007.  It was because I love rooting for the little guy and Hollywood knows how to play its audiences. I was sucked in with the robots.  Boxing Robots!!

Commercials have changed a lot since I stopped watching, they are mostly animated, they did not used to be this way, and when I mean animated; I actually mean that computer alteration in almost every ad.  I am such a goof for not watching.  Wait, I am not going to miss TV when this is done, I REALLY dislike the length of the commercials, and they way they are trying to talk to me.  I guess all the years of listening to skeptical podcast have had an affect on my Bullshit detectors.