Trouble following TV/movie Plots

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I can't remember who people are that well.
I get people in TV shows and movies mixed up all the time!

Yes, I find I have to really concentrate on shows and movies I'm watching, else I won't know what's going on and I end up asking and then I feel kind of stupid.

i really gotta start making a log of when i watch movies: what they are, genre, and wether i had trouble watching it or not... i really want to find out what my threshold is for not understanding...

what combo of things will lead me off track? think it'll help me focus on what social ques i'm lacking most in? ... and maybe how to improve?

Same clothes the entire season is a genius idea! It's like cartoons, except with pants on everyone!



I find that I also get lost if the movie has visual elements that appeal to me. I'll study the carpet pattern, the pretty light on people's faces, the changing persepective of buildings, what the extras are doing in the fuzzy background . . .or one minor element of the plot, conversation or character traits/relationships will start my mind down another more interesting train of thought and I completely lose touch with the movie. Then I just sit there and watch the rapidly changing colors shapes, and sounds. After a certain point, there is no catching up.


Interestingly, I found I had a problem following the plots to novels assigned in high school. I would imagine things differently than the author actually described and so I had a completely different idea of what the story was. I wrote an 'A' quality essay my senior year about a scene in Hamlet that never existed.

i've never had issues with books that i couldnt discern what teh author was getting at... but i totally understand the various interpretations... i used to kinda jab at authors when i found these plausible alternate situations.


i also find that watching telecasters is CREEPY... like, i can't stand watching news anchors, sports tellers, weathermen... pretty much anyone who is reading their lines from right beside the camera that is filming. they look freaky.

I am one of those annoying people who are constantly asking questions about the movie while watching.

on a slightly related note, does anyone notice that volume levels are really drastically different within a show or movie? At one point the voices will be too loud, and yet at another point thier voices are so quiet and they don't enunciate properly so you can't make out anything they say.
I've played back clips over and over again and sometimes I still can't figure out what they're saying. It's like playing that game where someone says a phrase where the emphasis is in different places than it normally is, so you don't interpret the words properly. Even worse when they slur a sound so that it sounds more like a different sound. English has very sloppy vowels.

I find my lack of following plots is very strange and selective, and I can't really narrow down what it is that I forget. I notice it a lot in video games. I can remember incidents, but I can't tell you the overall flow of the story.

Two words: What plots?

All today's movies, and some television shows, seem to have today are gratuitous sex scences, coarse or juvenile language and banal dialogue. Plus, the backgound music is so loud it overwhelms the humans speaking. Turning up the volume dowsn't help you understand the speech any better. It only amplifies the background noise.

man i cant even rem the main chars names on South Park. Theres the jew, cartman, the other guy whos not a jew, etc.
but i know what u mean w/ shows onece a week. i alweys wait for the entire season to air b4 i start watching it, then watch it ep after ep all day. thats how i watch Lost, its the best way. i notice and remember everything because its still fresh, and the eps r made to make u still want to watch it a week later, so it makes u really wonna see what happens next at the end of each ep, then u get to see it 2 seconds later its the s**t
i watched the sopranos the same way until season 6 because i ran out of eps. then i lost interest because i couldnt just watch it one after the other.