First and foremost, I rarely if not never watch television, so in my eyes the television is nothing more than means to watch movies, which I do use it for. My limits concerning watching movies are pretty much just that—I prefer to watch movies either on a reasonably-sized television or in the theater. I do not fully ‘limit’ myself, seeing that for the last two semesters I used a diminutive TV as well as watching a film on a friend’s laptop once. Yet, I won’t go as far to use an iPod or other such things for movies. I prefer a sizable viewing field as well as adequate sound, and small electronic devices such as an iPod simply do not provide that (to my standards).
Now, of course, if circumstances were to the point where I only had an iPod, I would use it to its fullest extent, but I have not been in that situation as of yet (and I have an old school iPod that could in no way handle a movie). Other particularities of mine include the fact that I prefer to watch movies that I have not yet seen alone. The reasons for this could be attributed to the fact that I do not want to experience other twists and turns in the presence of others, or that I enjoy showcasing movies to groups of others and noting their reactions. All in all, I’m not one who’s worried about going to the theater alone, because I have and will continue to do so.
In terms of the gaze, though I feel I understand it and can understand the reasoning behind it, I simply don't think in terms of how I watch film (theater, etc) that I am affected by it. I really don't have much to say on this topic so I'm going to move on.
Recently, I have been re-watching the extended versions of the Lord of the Rings series in my apartment. Though I feel the filmmaking is generally solid (though endlessly overrated), the stories themselves simply don’t pack the relative punch of other epic science fiction trilogies such as Star Wars and even Harry Potter. Though a lot of the humor is comparably bad to that of Star Wars, the action and general narrative don’t match up with the epic scale of the timeline of the Star Wars galaxy and all that comes with it. And though Star Wars may be derivative of something like Lord of the Rings, I’m not one for traditions or who-came-first and what not; horses can’t equal spaceships, it just doesn’t match up in my opinion. Sorry for this tangent.
General Grievous could take on an entire LOTR army singlehandedly
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