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or are you too smart for that and are hyper analytical.
As for myself it takes a very well crafted film to make me almost believe what's going on. Most of the time I notice all the holes in the story (Or how it just couldn't happen in the real world). But I try.
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no one car chase or killing. Made it kind of long.
Grits: Keep'in it classy in the kitchen.
...compelling than I had expected.
The trailers focus too much on Rush mugging and the speech therapy.
The history really made it fascinating.
Firth is a shoe-in for best actor Oscar.
comments.
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Grits: Keep'in it classy in the kitchen.
I always try to take the journey the film makers intended. If the experience is better if I get "fooled" by not figuring everything out, then that's what I want to be is fooled.Can you imagine watching "Vertigo" for the first time, having figured it all out 1/3 of the way into the film?
Edits: 01/20/11
...Shutter Island from earlier this year.
Scorcese directs DiCaprio in a film that is about the closest I've seen to the novel it's based on.
I read the book so I knew what to expect.
I thought Scorcese's direction was masterful in that the clues to the twist ending were very subtle.
But a couple of people have told me they saw it coming which is very surprising to me.
Maybe I just don't try hard enough to figure things out.
I never do.
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n/t.
One photo
I love women that enter a room, before they enter the room.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
It's a shocker her marriage didn't work out.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
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I'll give up politics, in this case.
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That is the first and last call...
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I can't even imagine the thrill upon first seeing a beach on the Black Sea lined with specimens such as she! Forget the Girl from Ipanema, I want the Sturgeon from the Black Sea!
Make room for grits!
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The right one would be: can THIS movie take you for a ride.
So they say.
...I just sit back and enjoy the ride.
Particularly for the movies I like to watch where suspending disbelief can be important.
As long as it's not too over the top.
If I can see a curve coming or figure out a plot twist, it's because the film failed to capture my attention and imagination.
Doesn't happen too often and makes me wonder about people who tell me they had it all figured out half way through.
"I just sit back and enjoy the ride"
I try to. That's my intention when the movie starts.
"As long as it's not too over the top"
Yes. Some movies are intentionally that way. Then I look at it differently, and even though I'm a bit confused, I'll try to get something out of it.
"If I can see a curve coming or figure out a plot twist, it's because the film failed to capture my attention and imagination."
"Doesn't happen too often and makes me wonder about people who tell me they had it all figured out half way through. "
I try to give a movie a chance. I've been wrong a couple times and not given a flick a fair chance and gave up on it.
The best films engross my attention absolutely and they are indeed immersive. Like listening to good music, time seems to fall away.
I do notice and appreciate (or not) technical aspects of a film while I'm watching. Always. This habit is second nature to me and comes from long practice, a sense of discernment honed over 40+ years of movie watching. It doesn't take me out of the film - it enhances my viewing. It's a source of delight done well.
Cinema has its own language, and one learns it as one learns any other language. Although I'm no scholar, my eye is perhaps trained to a degree above the average movie goer: I've done film studies in art school and graduate studies in the university of life including some video production. Plus, of course, I've seen a several thousand films in my life so far.
Thus I'm very aware of the history of movies and the craft of filmmaking because - one way or another - I've educated myselft to be. I love films and art enough to care about them.
But while I have a critical eye at all movies, that's not to say I'm necessarily looking for flaws to criticize. That's something quite different. Something that would be way too depressing an outlook for me.
Viewing a good or great film, the awareness of craft and technique is there but below the surface; it's superceded by the thrill of watching something excellent. With a lesser film, the things one finds lacking can become intrusive. That's not as much fun.
There are, of course, degrees in all this, guilty pleasures that have redeeming features I enjoy so much I overlook the flaws. And craft and technique only take any movie so far - a great work is more than just the sum of its parts.
I do try to keep an open mind and a "clean" eye when seeing a film for the first time, to take it on its own terms. I hope I'm "smart" enough to be open to whatever the filmmakers are trying to do, to receive their gestalt.
Film is not real life, so the fact that something in a movie "couldn't happen in the real world" doesn't necessarily on its own enter into my assessment. (That would not take you far in appreciating some of my favorite movies: Blue Velvet, the Red Shoes, The Draughtman's Contract,etc.) The freedom to tell a story expressively, metaphorically and visually is one of the greatest strengths of the medium IMO...unless the work is truly intended to be very realistic. Dumb movies where the protagonists do stupid and/or implausible things are just...dumb.
Even in a so-called "realistic" movie, the filmmakers - by selecting specific lighting, staging, costuming, camera angles, editing etc. - are dramatising the on-screen experience in a particular way, emphasizing this into the foreground, that into the background. The best films engage the imagination and participation of the audience - realism may or may not be the means to that.
I've also found that "plot holes" are sometimes anything but - instead viewers have missed something or misread something or presumed something. This isn't necessarily true of "dumb" movies, but I try to avoid those.
If a movie sounds like its' gonna be truly bad, or not at all to my taste, I don't see them. Life is way too short.
But I'm still hungry for the film experience and anticipate new movies from filmmakers favorite and new with eagerness. I sometimes feel like the Russian ballet impressario Diaghilev who commanded his minions to "astonish me." I should be so lucky.
I completely immerse myself in a movie unless the movie is just not able to do it for me, then I may get analytical. Make sense? :)
In other words for the most part I go to/rent a movie and lose myself in it, completely. But if the movie is simply over the top, just too far fetched, I do begin to pick at it sometimes. An example; Face-off. IMO the concept was completely redicilous even in the context of the movie. So to some degree I nit-picked.
I can completely get into a Sci-fi movie for example if all things are within reason of the setting. I think I need more coffee before I can make sense, woke up too early today. :)
I just went to Tron 3D, and personally find 3D movies harder to get into. Bad glasses, weird layering, over the top special effects (do I really need to feel like I'm having MY disc stolen? No is the answer BTW), all caused by 3D take away my ability to get right in there.
90% of movies I watch however I watch because I know pretty much I'll like them. And for 90% of the 90% I just get INTO the movie.
Edits: 01/18/11
...let the movie tell you how to react. Just play your role accordingly.
J
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