I am glad we are focusing on film this week. I love everything about movies. And like books, I believe that there is no such thing as a useless movie. Even the lamest romantic comedy or alien-invasion-end-of-the-world-tragedy is worth something to someone. My friends and I watch horrible movies and make fun of them, very MST3K. Not only do we make fun of the horrible acting and dialogue, but we also say very mean things about the directing (sorry M. Night, but really? Too much emotion? Mark Wahlberg is not a robot), set (did those people actually get their set pieces from a yard sale?), lighting (it's 2 o'clock in the morning and yet sunny...there's something wrong here), sound (did someone behind the camera just cough? Was that in the script? And what's with the whooshing noise in the scene changes?), and our favorite thing of all - special effects.
My friend Jed is an aspiring computer graphics dude and he gets seriously offended if the special effects are horrible. Of course some movies have very large effects budgets and can afford Weta and ILM to come in a do a fantastic job making the movie look neato. But some movies have to stack the same explosion 4-high, with the flat grounding in each one. Not cool.
Movies, just like books, can take us places outside our normal lives, even if it's only temporary. There are some things movies can not do that books can and the reverse is also true. That is why I enjoy both.
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