Issues post IMDB regarding 'what to watch'.

steven18

it looks like we are pretty much on the same page then when it comes to gauging movies on what to see and what to skip.

because we all have to be selective on what we see to some degree even if you got a boatload of free time and rarely re-watch movies it's still not going to be possible to watch everything out there even though you might be able to get a solid portion of the more known movies because i figure after a certain point it's simply not worth seeing TOO many movies because after a certain point it just becomes difficult to find anything of any real worth(as in stand out from the pack) and will be watching largely forgettable movies. i think it's especially true if you exclude movies being released into the future as those still turn up here and there but from the past it's getting quite difficult to find movies ill score a 7 or higher as it's only something that 199 movies managed to pull off which are my favorite movies.
i would not say it's 100% for me in that regard, as it's happened for me, but we are largely in agreement here but there are some cases here and there where someone will bring a movie up in a topic and it gets my attention enough to give it a shot as i know that's paid off a bit here and there for me even though it usually does not.


There's one film I was recommended that I watched...well two, buscemi introduced me to Neil Breen.  As for watching lots of movies one after the other randomly, I've found good stuff that way certainly.  I don't have any system for watching films, some people seem to watch all of one director's films, then move onto another.  Basically the bottom line is inspiration, like when something catches your eye, or you look at a painting and something just hits and you and makes sense, so that's why seeing a particular image of a film or a trailer inspires me to see a film and almost never anything else, unless of course it's from a director with a particular style I like, like Lynch.  Still, even then, it works the other way, you could find an amazing film and have an amazing experience just from being couched watching movies on the tv all day, there's no separate way.  As for watching loads of movies, I don't really care, I've seen a few hundred and a fraction of those were so good they almost made me feel like I never had to watch a film again, those films that take you to that mysterious "other side," that you can't adequately explain or put into words.  Basically I don't like to separate or categorise, as that way things get boring, so I don't watch films by specific era/genre, and I don't even consider films or watching films separate from anything else as if it was ever an "escape" in any way (that's a cop out), and not reflection like any art form, or well...anything.  So I see all the films I want to, if I never see certain films, then well, clearly I simply didn't see them, and I see everything I need to without exception.  Every film I've enjoyed I've simply watched on a whim or something clicked and I made a conscious decision to watch it, just don't have some separate system or standard of doing things, but then no one has.  There's no right or wrong way, but only a few times has someone made me want to see a film.  Great discussion and exchange of ideas though.