it's better in the matinee.
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enamouredI wonder if I am going to be a bad potential filmmaker, because my view of movies tends to fall into the following range of things:
There's a lot of movies that I like that are, admittedly, pretty ridiculous and/or stupid. Like, I can watch Rush Hour or Men in Black if nothing else is on, because they're my time-tested watchable movies that I might get a laugh out of now and then. Then there are the movies that I like and kind of forget that I like them until I watch them again, like The Great Escape, which fits my love of pulling off grand schemes in movies. There are the ones that I know I like because they are like movie equivalents of comfort food (see this list), the ones I like because of their ability to make me feel better whenever I watch them (Independence Day cheers me up without fail, Casanova--the one with Heath Ledger--makes me smiley, and I feel like this about every animated movie I watch and like). And then there are the ones I've pretty much loved from the first time I saw them and continue to love, and probably might always love (like Toy Story, Moulin Rouge, Out of Sight, and WALL-E).
I like movies that I may not neccesarily want to watch again, too, or ones that I can only watch about once a year because otherwise, I might go crazy (I like Seven, but it freaks me out in a most extreme way). I feel guilty about liking movies that movie critics pan, because I guess it feels like it makes me feel like I'm a step closer to liking movies that are really horrible/dumb/just plain bad. And sometimes I feel guilty for liking critically acclaimed movie, because it makes me wonder if I like the movie because it stands on its own merits or if it's just because everyone else liked it.
But mostly, I just wonder what my current list of favorite movies says about me, or what kind of movies I could, in theory, someday make.
But I guess in the end, to me, a good movie is the kind when you leave the theater with a smile on your face and the desire to walk back in and watch it again.
Is it funny?
Does it make me laugh/want to cry?
Does it make me think?
Does it look pretty?
Will I want to watch it again?
Will I want to watch it on a rainy day when there's nothing else to do?
Will I watch it if I'm flipping through the channels one day and see a clip of it?
If so: I like it.
There's a lot of movies that I like that are, admittedly, pretty ridiculous and/or stupid. Like, I can watch Rush Hour or Men in Black if nothing else is on, because they're my time-tested watchable movies that I might get a laugh out of now and then. Then there are the movies that I like and kind of forget that I like them until I watch them again, like The Great Escape, which fits my love of pulling off grand schemes in movies. There are the ones that I know I like because they are like movie equivalents of comfort food (see this list), the ones I like because of their ability to make me feel better whenever I watch them (Independence Day cheers me up without fail, Casanova--the one with Heath Ledger--makes me smiley, and I feel like this about every animated movie I watch and like). And then there are the ones I've pretty much loved from the first time I saw them and continue to love, and probably might always love (like Toy Story, Moulin Rouge, Out of Sight, and WALL-E).
I like movies that I may not neccesarily want to watch again, too, or ones that I can only watch about once a year because otherwise, I might go crazy (I like Seven, but it freaks me out in a most extreme way). I feel guilty about liking movies that movie critics pan, because I guess it feels like it makes me feel like I'm a step closer to liking movies that are really horrible/dumb/just plain bad. And sometimes I feel guilty for liking critically acclaimed movie, because it makes me wonder if I like the movie because it stands on its own merits or if it's just because everyone else liked it.
But mostly, I just wonder what my current list of favorite movies says about me, or what kind of movies I could, in theory, someday make.
But I guess in the end, to me, a good movie is the kind when you leave the theater with a smile on your face and the desire to walk back in and watch it again.
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Date: 2009-09-01 09:27 pm (UTC)And the Casanvoa you mentioned is massively underrated. Ledger is delightful and even Sienna Miller doesn't bug.
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Date: 2009-09-02 01:27 am (UTC)Oh man, I know how you feel. Like, I actually kind of liked Superman Returns but everyone was like, "Augh it sucked!" and then I think, "Oh man, am I becoming that person? The one who has really bad taste in movies?" But then when people really like a movie, like Transformers 2, and then I say, "Oh man, that movie sucked royal hippogriff" I think I'm getting my edge back... But don't worry. It happens to the best of us. ^_^
But I guess in the end, to me, a good movie is the kind when you leave the theater with a smile on your face and the desire to walk back in and watch it again.
Here here! *raises ice cream* Have you seen District 9 yet?