When You Watched Too Many Movies...

I've been a moviegoer for like, 6-7 years, and I wanted to share what I've experienced during those years.

This is what happens when you watched too many movies...:

1. You will find most movies predictable. Realize it or not, but you had automatically memorize the pattern of movies' storyline. I experienced it when I watched 27 Dresses. That made me didn't enjoy the movie and finally found the movie was pretty boring. Because I know what's going to happen next.

Pattern of chick-flick:
-introducing: female main character who's appealing outside but had problems with herself inside. most of the time our main character has a crush on her boss.
-pre-conflict: meet up with a charming guy who's interested in her. usually the charming guy is someone nice whom she just met, or whom she has never laid eyes on before.
-conflict: turned out that the boss or the character's crush has no interest on her. they usually interested in her sister, friend, or whoever has a close relation to the main character or maybe someone cooler. our main character goes outrage and depressed.
-post-conflict: the depression affect the character along with her relation with mr nice guy.
-ending: mr nice guy said something sweet, main character delivered a speech of apologise, and everybody get along and live happily.

Pattern of action movies:
-before the ending, usually the bad guy walk around the captured good guy and boast about his plan of destroying the earth or ruling the earth. That gives time for our good guy to find a way to release himself and stop the bad guy from their evil plan.
-background of the villain: vengeance, hatred, pain, lust of power.

2. You will get bored. Suddenly you found yourself bored and sick of Hollywood movies. You need something fresh and different. So you go to movie festivals and watch indies for a couple of time.


My advice is:
1. To avoid boredom of movies, try to change your way of viewing a movie. See movies from what is the purpose of the producer to make this movie, do not compare movies from different genre.
2. Stop criticizing movies from its quality. Try to judge movie from what you get from this movie, not the quality.

signing out: Priscillia Sidharta.