Movie confessions!

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Gold Trumpet

#120
June 03, 2003, 09:32:52 PM
More movie confessions.............

I am a terrible movie watcher. I have ADD to a very high extreme, and drift off a lot while watching movies into my own thoughts of doing other stuff and never can concentrate on watching the movie. See, I think I can do fine with identifying themes and structures and measuring them up my own way, but when it comes to seeing small specifics in given scenes and trying to remember them or even catch them on first viewing, I'm pretty bad. Everytime I watch Wonder Boys, I notice so many little easy things I missed that everyone else around me caught on first viewing.

This also means I am terrible to just sitting down and watching movies. It really has to be a pre ordained event where I am really excited to see a movie I revolve an entire night around it or something. And I have a hard time watching more than 3 movies a week and a lot of times when renting movies, I always start them and watch a good hour or so and just turn if off. That feels completely wasteful because I gave up an hour of my time and can't even give an opinion of what I watched at all. And when I with a crowd of people watching a movie, I am always the first to give up on trying to watch the movie even if it is a pretty good movie. I will just see the movie go on for certain periods of not being interesting and just think to myself, "Why am I watching this and not doing something funner with my friends instead now?" This happened with 25th Hour, and I did convince them to shut it off and had to re watch it alone another time to get my opinion on it. The only movies I can just start watching during the middle and finish easily very casually are bad porno action movies and a movie like SLC Punk. I think this why my approach to how I see movies has come from a lot of reading on films in general with seeing them. The whole area of thought on films intrigues me to death where I go to so many sites and read books to just learn more on movies. For me, it has seemed helpful in looking at movies because even if I see a certain person as knowing the most, I read so many ideas that I develop my own thoughts and approaches from it.

I also think everything I thought 6 months prior is likely dumb and my opinion is a lot better now. When I think more about this, I think I know absolutely nothing about movies anyways and all my talk here is to just make up for everything I feel I am missing in my life. Part of me wants to write something big and fantastic like Budgie did recently, to clear everything out. I never do and never will because I feel I feed off all my problems for happiness because I joke that with my MS, I will be dead in 10 years likely and actually smile from it.

~rougerum

Cecil

#121
June 03, 2003, 09:41:10 PM
that explains it

Sleuth

#122
June 03, 2003, 10:07:28 PM
Hahaha Cecil, the cyborg shows some humanity for once and you dismiss it so cruelly
I like to hug dogs

Cecil

#123
June 03, 2003, 10:09:08 PM
hm. well i think calling him a cyborg is cruel, but okay.

Sleuth

#124
June 03, 2003, 10:09:58 PM
I like that cyborg

GT, I like you as a cyborg.
I like to hug dogs

godardian

#125
June 04, 2003, 12:44:59 AM
GT, is your ADD a clinically-diagnosed thing, or do you find you just have trouble concentrating at times? I know I do, at times; I really have to clear my head before I watch a movie. Also, I believe some movies require a more focused state of mind to enjoy than others. I blame my own intermittent "ADD" on the cacophonous distractions of modern life and all the mundane distractions most of us have to deal with.
""Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am." - Morrissey

"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet it will act on the whole of the child's existence."

Stay informed on protecting your freedom of speech and civil rights.

oakmanc234

#126
June 04, 2003, 05:17:59 AM
This thread is a laugh. Here's some of mine-

'Gangs of New York' is my favourite Scorcese film
I love the movie 'Little Nicky'
Jennifer Lopez does NOTHING for me
I think 'Silence of the Lambs' is over-rated
I like the title 'Hard Eight' way better than 'Sydney'
'8 Mile' was one of my favourite flicks of 2002
I thought Sandler was way funnier than Nicholson in 'Anger Management'
I enjoyed the 'Get Carter' remake
I think 'The Patriot' deserved some Oscar's
I love the Chucky movies
I think the 'Lord of the Rings' movies are fucking brilliant
I didn't get a single bit of the 'Architect' conversation in 'Reloaded'
'Welcome the Thunderdome, bitch'

Sigur Rós

#127
June 04, 2003, 07:38:37 AM
Quote from: oakmanc234
I didn't get a single bit of the 'Architect' conversation in 'Reloaded'

:yabbse-thumbup: amen!

Alethia

#128
June 04, 2003, 09:31:46 AM
i'm not sure if there actually is all that much to get - perhaps it's just written to fool us in that way

Pwaybloe

#129
June 04, 2003, 11:34:23 AM
Quote from: SoNowThenAnd it's not just the big breasts, it's also super-tiny bodies, little toned arms and flat stomachs. Long blond hair. Aaarrrghhh. I feel like the Uncle in Amarcord stuck up a tree, crying for a woman.

No you're not.  You are one of the kids jacking off in the parked car.

SoNowThen

#130
June 04, 2003, 11:45:26 AM
Ha! That's good. But the more I think about it, naw... not into the circle-jerk.
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

Sleuth

#131
June 04, 2003, 12:05:41 PM
Quote from: Sigur Rós
Quote from: oakmanc234
I didn't get a single bit of the 'Architect' conversation in 'Reloaded'

:yabbse-thumbup: amen!

Are you joking?  There's a whole thread for this and Mac even posted the conversation in text
I like to hug dogs

Sigur Rós

#132
June 04, 2003, 02:33:24 PM
Quote from: tremolosloth
Quote from: Sigur Rós
Quote from: oakmanc234
I didn't get a single bit of the 'Architect' conversation in 'Reloaded'

:yabbse-thumbup: amen!

Are you joking?  There's a whole thread for this and Mac even posted the conversation in text

Yeah, I know.....Still didn't get it though!

Gold Trumpet

#133
June 04, 2003, 02:46:08 PM
I have been clinically diagnosed with having ADD by doctors and was on medication for a while for it. I'm not anymore and just try to live with it.

I don't mind Cecil or anyone else's comments on me. They are just comments.

~rougerum

Ernie

#134
June 04, 2003, 03:20:41 PM
Quote from: pookiethecatwhoa, holy shit.  i just realized i completely misunderstood ebeaman's post..

Yeah, what was all that about? I didn't really get any of that. Damn, this thread filled up fast the one day I didn't post.
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