watching movies

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Does it ever happen to you, to be watching a movie, and eventually the movie is over and you have no clue as to what happened? It happens to me. I used to have a friend who watched a lot of movies with me, and then at the end he would actually take the time to explain to me what the movie was about and what happened that led to the ending.

Definitely. I often have no clue what the story was and what the characters were thinking during the events. I miss all the subtle components if I got the general story. During movies, my mind is busy exploring the physical sights and sounds, what the setting looks like and what the characters look like and what the characters are wearing and whether I like the home decor in the characters' homes or whether I like the plates at the restaurant or whether the plant in the corner is real or fake. The kinds of movies that I do get easily are the ones on the Sci-Fi Channel and the Lifetime Movie Network. These movies share the common characteristic of being horrible but fun. The ones on the Sci-Fi Channel all involve people being chased down and eaten by monsters. Sometimes, there are natural disasters like 10.5 magnitude earthquakes and climate control ebil science guy. Sometimes, Mega-Shark vs. Giant Octopus. The ones on the Lifetime Movie Network all involve people plotting to murder then murdering their significant others. There was one weekend when the tagline for advertising the movies was, "Everything can be solved by murder". The thoughts and feelings of the characters in these redrum movies are totally unsubtle. The kind of movie that I most hate are the ones in which nothing much happens, and there are no monsters or natural disasters or serial killers or regular murderers. Stuff that is all pyscho/emo-drama.

thank god for DVDs and subtitles and being able to repeatedly back-up and rewatch a complicated scene or to even play it in slowmo [some DVD players let you do that, with sound].
but the audio dynamic range on too many DVDs is too gol dern extreme, with no means [outside of a fancy A/V system] of compressing it into a narrower range that doesn't make me jump on the volume control every few seconds.

Yep. I also have this problem. It's kind of the same as reading fiction, I miss all kinds of subtle things. It has gotten to the point were I don't even bother watching anything but scifi and action movies.


On a side note I love cheesy movies too! I watch them with a friend everytime we can. The last one we watched was curse of the komodo. Terribly great! I find that my ability to not watch what is going on with the character helps find mistakes and really funny background objects.

I find that I retain a lot of the movie, I just need help recalling.

So I have a friend at work that I talk about tv shows with. So I'll watch the show, and then the next day we will discuss it.

Usually she has to start, and bring up one of the things that happened. Then I can recall pretty much the whole scene... Then we move on to the next part, usually she has to bring up. Some episodes link together well enough that one scene can trigger another for me.

but usually... yeah... I don't have all of it right there that I could discuss immediately. Just a feeling of "am I happy I saw this" or not. The emotions linger even when I don't remember the details.