Re-watching films

By Oli on Tuesday, 14th August 2007. More information. Comments.

I love watching films and I'd really love to be able to watch films more than once... There's just one problem: me

Every so often, like most people I enjoy watching a film. I have a choice of about 400 titles for my unintellectual viewing pleasure but I've recently found myself being unable to pick out something to watch.

My issue is when I'm browsing through the names of these films, I have a very fast and annoyingly accurate flashback of the entire film. I've got to say that this take some of the pleasure out of the whole endeavour.

This isn't just for films that I've seen recently. Just looking at a stack of dusty DVDs (even VHS cassettes) drowns me a quick succession of storylines. The thought process goes a bit like:

Lethal Weapon 2! Cool film! Has whats-her-face as a South African who dies after getting chased by helicopters and there's that evil dude with diplomatic immunity and a henchman that looks a little bit like Hitler, the exploding fish tank, the exploding loo, Leo Gets, the scene on the ship at the end where everybody gets shot and Glover revokes his diplomatic status... Yeah it's pretty good... Aaaw crap!

I can't just stop at "Cool film..." — my mind, for some unknown reason, feels required to develop it as if I were pitching it to studios to be made.

I seem to have mutated into a human PVR over the course of a few months and I've got to say it's quite distressing! Where's the fun in watching something when you already know every twist and every other line?

More importantly: how can I fix this without a lobotomy every time I watch a film? Any suggestions?

Written by Oli on Tuesday, 14 August 2007. Tagged with personal. Read 1355 times. If you liked it, please give it a digg.

#1 /* 17 months, 0 days ago */

I found some info on how to remember things better but nothing about trying to not retain anything. I would think just watch movies when You are a little bit tired. Maybe also do something right after the movie to take your mind off the events you just saw.

Find an interesting article you want to read then read it right after the movie.

Don't go to sleep right after the movie, Unless you are really tired. I have heard that sleeping can help you retain memory?

If you drink or do any drugs use them before the movie. I'm thinking some pot might help :P It kinda slows you down. When you are to drunk your brain starts to shut down so get tanked then watch a movie. After your brain shut down you pass out so got to experiment to find the right amount of drinks. Good excuse to take the girl out for a night on the town.

Watch a new movie and do those right after/before. Then in a week tell us in comment/blog what movie you watched and try to tell us as much about it as you can? See if it works. I'll also ask some of my coworkers if they have any ideas.

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#2 /* 17 months, 21 days ago */

Ugh. I have the exact same problem. I have no solution other than simply watching more new movies (unfortunate that so many suck, but at the same time that makes the rare good ones even better).

Stay on top of IMDB and monitor all things new that have frames and move.

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