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Please let me explain. I watched a lot of movies in my life. I am a movie buff. Heck, one job I had in a kids home allowed me to watch up to five movies a night (ten hour shifts) while I worked. I also have a keen eye for detail and I always notice little things that aren't right. Does anyone else do this? In movies, often I look to see what city it's supposed to be in if it's not already obvious or stated. License plates annoy me to know end. I know the film is supposedly based in Chicago, so don't show me a lot of cars with Pennsylvania license plates on them. The same with cities. I know cities fairly well. Don't try to pass off Pittsburgh for NYC. I have lived in Pittsburgh (for some of us) and you aren't fooling me. These little annoyances, little lack of attention to detail really get to me at times when watching a movie. Let me re-phrase that. It's not like they get to me as if I'm having a hissy! I just mean that I notice them. I have a keen eye for things being out of place in a film. I know, probably really freaking weird. I'll get help!
All joking aside, does anyone else fine pick at movies and see if they follow the script to the "t" as far as making it look authentic?
Critics are urban movie snobs. If they give a movie a bad review I usually see it for the exact reasons why they don't like it.
My biggest snob peeve are people who look down their noses at "tearjerkers" - their words for movies they tut-tut about. If a movie makes them laugh, get mad, be ashamed, etc., they think it's wonderful. If it brings tears, they dismiss it. In my opinion, no one emotion is better than any other and if a movie can evoke one, it's okay in my book.
Critics are urban movie snobs. If they give a movie a bad review I usually see it for the exact reasons why they don't like it.
My biggest snob peeve are people who look down their noses at "tearjerkers" - their words for movies they tut-tut about. If a movie makes them laugh, get mad, be ashamed, etc., they think it's wonderful. If it brings tears, they dismiss it. In my opinion, no one emotion is better than any other and if a movie can evoke one, it's okay in my book.
My biggest snob peeve are people who look down their noses at "tearjerkers" - their words for movies they tut-tut about. If a movie makes them laugh, get mad, be ashamed, etc., they think it's wonderful. If it brings tears, they dismiss it. In my opinion, no one emotion is better than any other and if a movie can evoke one, it's okay in my book.
I agree with you that no one emotion is better than any other, and I have no problem with sniffling at the emotional moments in Little Women or, much more recently, The Spectacular Now.
Arguably, all films are manipulative. All filmmakers want to communicate with the viewer. It's the technique that matters to me. Even though I like to lose myself in a movie, I also like to *try* to think for myself.
If I am totally, deeply involved in a great movie, I do not need melodramatic music intrusively welling up in order for me to feel emotion. I enjoy romance and mystery, but I prefer compelling acting, intriguing sound editing and interesting narrative to gauzy soft focus camera work or sappy, lazy dialogue.
As for authenticity and being a film snob, well, I know that Scottish men did not wear kilts in the 13th century, but I still enjoyed Braveheart. I enjoy talky, cerebral movies, but I also laugh at fart jokes. Maybe there were loopholes in Loopers and wacky made-up history in Tarantino's films but I don't care, I was enthralled because for me, all the elements of a successful movie fell into place.
That's not what being a movie snob is. Being a movie snob has more to do with being discriminating in your choice of movies, or at least your taste.
What you're doing is just nitpicking, and it's pretty common. I think if you're familiar with something, then inaccuracies just leap out at you, without your having to look for them.
I don't consider myself a movie snob but there are some types of movies I never watch (gruesome, violent things). It's a matter of taste. I consider myself a movie fan and even the worst movies can have some redeeming quality. There are only a handful that I consider a waste of film.
Only as far as 'The Big Easy' is concerned. Oh cher.....
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