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As the title says: Am finding it so weird that everything gets pretty much sewn-up within a couple of hours. Seems rushed. Seems weird!
Anyone?
Anyone?
Weirdly, although films seem to just zip by, I find myself a little bored. I could happily (Perhaps not the right word) binge a few hours of a show, but be bored an hour into a movie. Perhaps, like Señor Healey, I just need to choose better movies...and shows.I have a hard time staying engaged through a whole film. My husband prefers movies to TV shows, so it gets interesting in our house at times.
This is true. I can watch TV shows for hours. I DVR things then watch multiple episodes at once. But 2 hour movie, nope. Need breaks.Weirdly, although films seem to just zip by, I find myself a little bored. I could happily (Perhaps not the right word) binge a few hours of a show, but be bored an hour into a movie. Perhaps, like Señor Healey, I just need to choose better movies...and shows.
Yeah...Sometimes of multiple daysNeed breaks.
Yes, that intuitively makes sense. One thing that drew me to tv shows was that ability to further develop characters and their motivations. but I've started to become quite sensitive to when a show sets out to honour a well-crafted plot/story-line and arc and when it just devolves into becoming a soap opera or procedural, just spinning wheels and making fake drama long enough for a season renewal. They can only play on our need for resolution so much. Mind you, it only takes an attraction to one of the actors to seem to short-circuit that issue e.g getting through five seasons of 'Covert Affairs', cause Piper Peraboi definitely know what you mean. my observations:
tv shows are set up in a way that the story arcs over and over and over again in 45 minute intervals. this means that not only do you have more time to develop characters and perform exposition BUT it also feeds a lot of peoples need for resolution(over and over again). movies have to do this with less characters and usually one major plot point/twist/resolve within 90-150 minutes.
i wouldnt say it has made me like movies less but i do think less great movies are being made because of great series.
I think my problem is I like to read books. Action movies based on comic books that are really short stories work well. Movies (and even some TV shows) based off of bigger books tend to lose something in the telling. And when they change the characters too much, I really lose interest.Yes, that intuitively makes sense. One thing that drew me to tv shows was that ability to further develop characters and their motivations. but I've started to become quite sensitive to when a show sets out to honour a well-crafted plot/story-line and arc and when it just devolves into becoming a soap opera or procedural, just spinning wheels and making fake drama long enough for a season renewal. They can only play on our need for resolution so much. Mind you, it only takes an attraction to one of the actors to seem to short-circuit that issue e.g getting through five seasons of 'Covert Affairs', cause Piper Perabo
Still, i wasn't expecting the move back to movies to be quite so jarring. I guess with a bit more practice (And again, better movies) I can re-tune my expectations.
One example of a graphic-novel/comic-book adaptation that I thought was done really well was 'Preacher'. There'd been a long time between my reading the books and seeing the show (Still need to watch the final season).I think my problem is I like to read books. Action movies based on comic books that are really short stories work well. Movies (and even some TV shows) based off of bigger books tend to lose something in the telling. And when they change the characters too much, I really lose interest.
I was just typing a similar thought - to me, nothing ruins both movies and TV as much as reading.I think my problem is I like to read books.
Interestingly (although, maybe not) 'Knives Out' is a film I've been saving because I want to enjoy it without having this same nagging issue. I'm hoping that after a certain amount of movies that I'll get back into the swing of it.Not at all. Its a completely different thing for me. my last movie was "knives out" and it was a wonderful experience
It depends completely on what the movie wants to tell. A good action-flick does not need more than 80 or 90 minutes. Sometimes shorter is better because it makes you want to watch it again - like a good short song. a good thriller or scifi-movie can be very good from 90 to 180 minutes and is deep enough without rushing through the story and characters (like "the girl on the train" or the original "the girl with the dragon tattoo").
I never was a series-guy. I´ve watched some but only when I can binge seasons like a long movie. Live on tv and only one episode per week is not my thing at all. Also I like mini-series with 5-6 episodes like "Chernobyl", "Dead Set" or "The End of the fucking world".
I only watched some few series with more than one season - Fleabag, Stranger Things, 4 Blocks, The Walking Dead, Firefly and some more. And sitcoms like Two and a half men, How I met ur mother, Big Bang Theory, South Park, Simpsons, etc. - "The Breaking Bad" lost me with the episode "The Fly". That was so strange and annoying...I never get back to it even when all my friends told me it gets sooo good after that but I plan to buy the complete box of "Games of Thrones" some day.
It also happens that the first season of a series is enough for me (in a positive meaning) like "The Boys", "True Detective", "Westworld", "Mr. Robot", "Fringe", "Killing Eve", etc. - there is so much stuff out there - its mostly overwhelming and sometimes you skip through all the streaming-menues and after two hours you did not watch anything.
I love to buy haptic media like cd´s and blurays. I buy a lot I´m interesting in and have always a little pile with movies I am interested in the most. So I can choose fast and have fun for some hours. Also the streaming sound- and picture-quality is not good enough for big screens and beamer - still much too compressed. I´m very picky with that
But as always - at the end its just a matter of taste and time...
I like the idea of the story being mapped out before shooting. If it takes multiple seasons, then great. As long as they avoid teams of writers coming up with ways to extend a story for nothing more than keeping getting renewed.I think the whole model is changing as a lot more money is going to go into high quality tv shows with the intension of carrying on several seasons
I used to read a lot more. Then somewhere along the line fiction got replaced with non-fiction and it was no longer any fun. Should probably get back to fiction.I was just typing a similar thought - to me, nothing ruins both movies and TV as much as reading.
These days I'm only watching TV about once a week and sometimes movies feel as if it's the same single TV episode, repeated over and over again. The same thing, warmed over and repackaged.
The big advantage of reading is that your own imagination gets to work filling in all the details (that are provided visually on the screen in a TV show), and that the pacing seems work on a different level that I cannot quite articulate.... I also find that the more "emotionally" and actively I read, the better it gets...
What a surpriseI think both movies and shows absolutely suck.
I know it. Even when they do a huge Trilogy like the new Star Wars they couldn't map the story out and do it properly.I like the idea of the story being mapped out before shooting. If it takes multiple seasons, then great. As long as they avoid teams of writers coming up with ways to extend a story for nothing more than keeping getting renewed.