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okay, sometimes i admit i can be a theatre snob. when there are people who are getting too into a movie, i get really annoyed. i don't like sitting in front of a person who's screaming, "don't go in there!!!" i don't like any interuptions of any kind when i'm trying to get into the movie. i guess i just want to forget that there are people around me. well, not always. when the movie is bad, i don't like that. i like to make fun of the movie with a friend. this is when i become one of those people that annoy me. i'll sit there and make fun of the movie. i'm usually like this when i see movies with angela though. our experiences watching mission impossible 2 and the english patient come to mind. anyway, i watched the the virgin suicides for the third time tonight. it's a required watch for my media consturctions of sexuality class. and i'm probably going to write a paper about it, so i thought, third time... it wouldn't hurt. and i'll know for sure if it really deserved to be number 1 on my 2000 list. it did. i tried being critical about it, i tried to imagine how better the book could be. but i couldn't do it. maybe because i haven't read the book yet. so i'm watching it a third time, trying to notice things i didn't notice the first and second time, but all i could do was sit back and notice the response of all the other people watching it. all the parts i thought were hilarious, recieved tons of laughter. and i heard a gasp, right about when i must have gasped. it was such a cool feeling. to notice other people enjoying a movie. to go outside of my selfish movie viewing experience and try and experience it through other people's eyes. i don't know. sometimes i think i've become a "film snob" and that scares me a lot. watching a movie, is a different experience for everybody. i mean, we may all have the same general and initial response. but certain movies stick with us, and certain ones don't. so what i may think is a brilliant movie, you may think is total and utter crap. but, that doesn't stop us from telling eachother what we thought was brilliant and what was total and utter crap! but, i still think it's not all subjective. when i dislike the do the right thing and when i dislike the family man, there is a difference. one just didn't stick with me, while the other didn't offer anything new in the ways of film making. but, i guess that can be debated too. maybe it offered a more simplistic approach?! i don't think so. but i'm just a viewer. and so is everybody else. film critics, film makers... they're all viewers too. and we take in what we want to take in. have you ever read a film review after watching a movie? have you ever noticed any glitches in the descriptions of the plot? i notice it a lot and it drives me up the wall. i don't know where i was going with this, i guess, tonight i just realized how snobby i come across. and how snobby other people come across. it's the same with tv, and music. reading other people's diaries i've noticed a sort of tv snobery going on lately. why can't watching reality tv be considered intellectual? and what is wrong with not being intellectual? the unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining. |
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