Netflix Saved My Life!
I see a ridiculous amount of movies in the theater. It is part of an internship that I was involved in. Since I still do work for the company I see any and all movies in theaters. This does limit me to mostly big- budget Hollywood films, though. To satisfy my cravings for the Indies or low-budget films or classics, I Netflix. I actually signed up for Netflix by accident on a rainy day when I was bored on the Internet. I now swear that it is one of the best things that ever happened to me. Netflix comes highly recommended by this girl.
I do not do a lot of downloading off of the Internet as far as movies or TV go. I am seriously one of the last people that is just beginning to appreciate YouTube; that stuff is extremely addicting. As for TV itself, I pick and choose what I want to watch and when it is on and stick with it. I am a little impatient with “waiting for the next episode.” I really like TV marathons and Netflixing or buying a series/season (not good for my Visa).
I can honestly say that I am not a very fun person to watch movies with. I concentrate so hard on not analyzing during the film, that I am almost exploding by the end of the film. That is to anyone who will listen, very unfortunate for my friends. Oh and I watch the credits at the end as well, which mostly baffles people.
I feel that the way I watch movies, TV, short film, etc. resonates within my approach to many of my life activities. Critical is the operative word here. I am critical of all types of media, doing my best not to fall into the “ultimate-consumer” of media role. Overall, I would say that I can, at the least, appreciate all types of media and am pretty open to consuming these medias in all fashions and forms.
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I laughed while reading your entry because i had a flashback to when I was watching the film "Brick" with my now Ex...
He LOVED that movie...he went on and on about it...I think he was taking a film class and he kept babbling about "film noir" and various cinematic elements of the film. I was in a feminist theory class at the time and I accidently ripped into him about the role of gender in the film and about how I thought the film was shot from a very misogynistic masculine gaze....(blah blah blah)...i'm not even sure that i fully stand by my opinion now, however, mostly my point is simply that watching films with individuals who enjoy theory is a dangerous activity...
Posted by: Alissa McCourt | September 19, 2007 01:05 AM