I realized something about myself last weekend.
Self-realization doesn’t come naturally nor often to me. When it does, I get really excited. The last little thing I can remember that I learned about myself was a few months ago while camping, I realized that I don’t like dinosaurs. Partly because of the all the hype around dinosaurs, partly because one bit me when I was little – but I know I deserved it, I shouldn’t have been teasing that triceratops.
The thing I realized about myself the other day is that I NEED to know where a movie or TV show is taking place or else I can’t relax. We were watching “Dan in Real Life” (hey, MY name is DAN too!) and Dan and his family were gallivanting around some miserable-slash-beautiful looking coastline.
I thought “That’s gotta be either New England or else Oregon” and I couldn’t enjoy the movie until I figured it out. I would keep looking for landmarks – “Ooooh, there’s a lighthouse! It looks…Massachusettsish! Gotta be.” (Turns out it was filmed in Rhode Island, close enough.)
I do this all the time – if an episode of some TV show like Ghost Hunters comes on, I have to figure out where the fuck they are or else I can’t just watch the show.
Yeah, weird huh?
What sort of odd things do YOU do when you’re watching movies? Mindlessly play with yourself? IMDB the actors while the movie is playing? Chew on your toenails? Cry in the credits?
G’wahead, tell uncle Dan allllll about it.
I always guess ahead on the story line…and I have to actually stop myself from making predictions to whoever is next to me and ruin the “surprise” for them. (I’m usually right, but I can’t take the credit for that since the bloody writers all use similar plots these days?).
I totally IMDB people while watching movies. If I do anything during the movie, it usually means I don’t think the movie all that much.
I’m guilty of IMDb’ing during movies also, usually to confirm that so-and-so was also in such-and-such (Such-and-such is a great flick, by the way.)
I’ll usually watch commentaries on all documentaries and on other stuff if I liked it enough.
I get indignant. “OH COME ON, he would NEVER do that!” then I snort and go raid the fridge for some cheese. During “Dan in Real Life” I was indignant that I’d have to watch almost 2 hours of Dane Cook.
Not just a GEOGRAPHY whore, surely.
I’m hyper critical of technical aspects of movies. If it’s portrayed to be realistic and they do impossible or unlikely things like in Kill Bill. Also movies that are exaggerated for shock value like The Day After Tomorrow. I can’t enjoy them by suspending disbelief.
That doesn’t hold true for movies set in the future or fantasy movies. I don’t have a problem with flying cars and gravity defying motorcycles, but keep sword fighting with a hand injury like it doesn’t matter and I’ can’t stand it.
Ok, I’ll admit it….I play with myself (j/k)
Nope….I got nothing. You take the cake on fucking up mindless boob-tube staring at. Way to bastardize the process of zoning out.
I laugh about stupid, unlikely conversations, and I shout out loud when something completely illogical/irrational/totally unbelievable happens. Yeah, that’s how I roll. I make my movies LISTEN, bitches.
I do some queries during movies to verify stuff.
Also, living in DC I am always watching the many TV shows and movies filmed (at least in part) here for their flaws of logic. Like going to intersections of streets that either don’t meet or don’t exist.
Eat my body weight in chips and dip.
I love GhostHunters! And they I can’t sleep by myself with the lights off for two nights after but even that’s a little fun too!
I have to eat while i watch a movie or i bite my nails and can’t pay attention, because im bussy biting my nails or im bussy thinking about food.
Louisa: Hah, I do that also, but only in my mind.
Red: Hah, you’re such a movie buff, awesome!
SG: You too are a hardcore movie watcher!
VA: You suffered through it admirably though, hon.
Guvvy: Also a sex whore, for money.
DB: Yeah, haha, i’m the same. I don’t question UFO’s in the movie Independence Day, but bringing them down with a PC virus? Unbelievable.
Girl: Who DOESN’T though, hah!
Cameron: I love being a killjoy!
Pixie: Ohhhhhh, you’re one of THOSE people!!
Augusto: I wish I lived in a place they filmed movies so i could debunk them.
Gwen: Oddly enough, I never remember to get dip.
E: But it’s not even scary! If they caught something, THEN it’d be scary! I can always argue their conclusions away so it’s never too scary for me.
Rose: Hah, I’m the same.
I have the same issue with Ghost Hunters. If I come in too late and I don’t know where it’s being filmed, then I lose interest.
Also, Ghost Hunters has taught me that women look a lot better under IR light. Even the fat one with acne-encrusted jowls kind of looks a little hot under the black-and-white effect of the dark camera. Rowr.