blackmage_nuke
02-20-2013, 12:08 PM
How much do you like to know about a movie before watching it?
Read the imdb summary?
Watch the trailer?
Read reviews?
Just look at the poster?
Just look at the title?
Blindly pick movies at random?
Personally I like to know as LITTLE as possible before watching a movie. If its a director/writer who has yet to disapoint me (eg Christopher Nolan), I try to block myself as to anything about what it could be about, sometimes I dont even know the genre when going to see it. I deffinitely dont like to watch trailers unless it's a movie Im not sure about. When it comes to watching older movies I'll tend to VERY lightly skim the imdb description and look at the movie poster.
Sometimes I end up expecting a comedy and end up watching something dark and serious. For example, Barton Fink: it had John Goodman on the poster and there was a reference to it in Monkey Island 2 and with my quick skim of the description it sounded like a light hearted fish out of water story.
But what I really love is when Im expecting something serious that ends up to be an unexpected source of chuckles. For example Hanna, which I knew nothing about since it was just what my friends wanted to see at the movies at the time and what I thought would be an action movie that took itself too seriously turned out to have quite a few light hearted laughs in the middle.
Then there are the movies that take me completely by surprise, like Fight club which I thought was just going to be like another Rocky movie, or Gangs of New York which I expected to be like the Godfather or maybe like Scarface.
SO two topics, how much do you research a movie before watching it and what movies have turned out completely different than what you expected (for better or for worse)?
Read the imdb summary?
Watch the trailer?
Read reviews?
Just look at the poster?
Just look at the title?
Blindly pick movies at random?
Personally I like to know as LITTLE as possible before watching a movie. If its a director/writer who has yet to disapoint me (eg Christopher Nolan), I try to block myself as to anything about what it could be about, sometimes I dont even know the genre when going to see it. I deffinitely dont like to watch trailers unless it's a movie Im not sure about. When it comes to watching older movies I'll tend to VERY lightly skim the imdb description and look at the movie poster.
Sometimes I end up expecting a comedy and end up watching something dark and serious. For example, Barton Fink: it had John Goodman on the poster and there was a reference to it in Monkey Island 2 and with my quick skim of the description it sounded like a light hearted fish out of water story.
But what I really love is when Im expecting something serious that ends up to be an unexpected source of chuckles. For example Hanna, which I knew nothing about since it was just what my friends wanted to see at the movies at the time and what I thought would be an action movie that took itself too seriously turned out to have quite a few light hearted laughs in the middle.
Then there are the movies that take me completely by surprise, like Fight club which I thought was just going to be like another Rocky movie, or Gangs of New York which I expected to be like the Godfather or maybe like Scarface.
SO two topics, how much do you research a movie before watching it and what movies have turned out completely different than what you expected (for better or for worse)?