Why do you go to movies?

[emjen]

I go to movies because I want to be entertained mostly, but I do seem to be getting annoyed by bad-filmmaking more the more knowlegde I am getting about making films.

I don't really fancy getting outsmarted by movies who are literally saying: "HA! You DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING! DID YOU?!" Although 'smart' movies are interesting sometimes.

And I can't enjoy a movie if it's bad. There's a difference between a good movie and an enjoyable movie. The Matrix Reloaded is a good example I guess.

[deanl]

Hey there.

I go to see pretty much every new release in the cinema and have watched at least one new movie a day, be it dvd/tv/video for as long as I can remember. I watch them because I just love watching movies. I take something from all of them. Even the bad ones.

Despin out.

[Alex]

Two movies really made me assess who I give my money to and why I go.

Independence Day was a movie with a premise so self-absorbed that I never went to see the movie. The idea that New York City can be engulfed by huge space ships and millions presumeably can be killed as long as Will Smith can find his wife by the end of the movie was just too big of a stretch. The movie was in the news everyday because of how well it was doing at the box office, and in a protest of one, I think I saw no movies that summer at the box office.

The other movie that has really affected me was the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movie with the helicopter that goes inside the tunnel...it was the dumbest special effects scene I have ever watched, and I vowed to never give my money to idiots who simply have to use computers and special effect simply because they can.

[SoulJacker]

The various dogfights in ID are a combined spectacle equal to the chariot races of Ben Hur. I am totally serious. They're spectacular, and I defy any real fan of cinema - As in the spectacle of big screen entertainment - to not enjoy them. Sure, it's a simple film. But I was amazed when I witnessed the final attack sequence. I believed it. It was the perfect BIG SCREEN movie, imo.*

And, c?mon, the Euro-tunnel-helicopter-sequence is great fun?

*Rose tinted glasses may apply.

[belovedmonster]

ID ***** big time. I watched the fighter plane bit recently and it was completely deviod of any tension or any entertainment what so ever. I wonder what the difference is that makes the death star trench run send shivers down your spine but this is like... "is it almost finished yet?". Only when the guy kills himself does it create any emotion.

I dont really bother with going to the cinema. Mostly becos theres usually at least 1 good film on every night on TV which is free, and to be honest alot of them are better. Id much rather watch a good movie from the 70s on telly than an average one that came out just the other week.

[SoulJacker]

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With regards to watching them on the BIG SCREEN, I totally disagree. Sure, they lose allot - if not everything - in the transition to small screen. But those sequences on the BIG SCREEN are the prefect cinematic spectacle. They hit all the right beats on the sound and visual front. They got it spot-on, imo.

They're perfect short movies.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ June 09, 2003 10:21 AM: Message edited by: SoulJacker ]</font>

[deanl]

Hey there.

"I dont really bother with going to the cinema. Mostly becos theres usually at least 1 good film on every night on TV which is free, and to be honest alot of them are better. Id much rather watch a good movie from the 70s on telly than an average one that came out just the other week."

Well I like to do both. I want to see as many movies as I can in the cinema. I would hate to miss a movie in the cinema because I heard off someone that it was "average" then a year down the line watch it on dvd and LOVE the flick. I would have missed the whole experience of seeing it in the cinema. On the BIG SCREEN.

That's why I watch pretty much every new release. I want to make up my own mind on movies. And I can only do that by watching them all my self.

As for ID4. I love the flick. I think it is GREAT fun. It's obviously not a GREAT movie. But it is a fantastic call back to many of the 50's sci fi and 70's disaster flicks that I love. I enjoyed the **** out of it and own the fantastic dvd.

For the record I also love Mission Impossible. It's my second fave De Palma flick. The CIA break in sequence is filmmaking at it's best.

Despin out.

[Yammeryammeryammer]

I go to the movies because it is entertaining, because it is 'an experience' and now sorta with a film-making perspective, which despite what some people think, doesn't take away from it, but adds to it. For example, when I went to Los Angeles, the one and only time I've been to California, I went to see 'The Tigger Movie' at the Chinese theatre on Hollywood Blv. because I wanted to see what it was like. I liked it, despite the fact it was a movie for kids, and something I wouldn't normally go see if I had a choice.

[ac_01]

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C'mon! It's not like that sequence was the entire movie. Some movies revolve around their special effects sequences. The thing I like about M:I is that it didn't. The tension that builds in the plot is great.

[Generic Skinhead]

I think it's really important for aspiring filmmakers to go to the cinema-afterall if you turn out to be any good thats where your work will be shown. I think it would be a very proud moment to have one of your movies on the big screen.

I think independance day is better than mission impossible. MI makes no sense whatsoever to me in terms of plot and all the characters are completley forgettable. It was one good set piece, but the movie as a whole is a mess. At least ID knew exactly what it was trying to be.

In class this year we watched a few cult movies. One of them was Texas Chainsaw. It seems to be a popular choice-film mags regularly give it 5 out of 5.

But I'm baffled. Maybe someone could explain to me why it's so good.