Maybe I am showing my age, but it is hard for me to watch new shows lately with 50 different scenes in 5 minutes. I am like, slow down there, Sea Biscuit. How can one process so much information? It is distracting from the dialogue. Sometimes there isnāt much dialogue Just absurd noises or actions.
I am stuck with watching certain older movies or shows. I love character development and the building up to a scene. Suspense done well involves nice, slow, and easy. Love it. Not 50 million scenes hitting me at once so that I am not focused on the plot. Different camera tricks do not entice me either on the plot. I need a perfect balance, lol. I am so needy.
What are your thoughts? Everyone has preferences. Just throwing that out there for certain folks
I got tired as well so I started writing on Episode lol. I donāt know how people do it with constant fast paced shows and movies with no dialogue. It is like reading a picture book verses a novel lol.
Imagination is disappearing in some popular creative work at the moment.
Ikr! I am Indian so we have lot of cringy tv shows. I was watching a tv show in my mother tongue and oh my holy god!!! The way they showed the law, oh man!! I died! And I am sure law students must have got heart attack too! I was literally crying because of the cringe level and the wrong depiction of the law!
Iām good w this kind of stuff, as long as Iām paying attention, for me itās fine, As long as eventually we learn abt certain things & y action scenes happened, I donāt mind. However, I hate series/movies that r just crammed w fast paced scenes & no development at all bc if thereās too much action that ruins scenes for me lol.
A great plot and well thought out cinematography, etc. keeps me captivated lol. I donāt need a collection of Instagram stories in one scene to keep me engaged.
Maybe more younger folks because you guys have been conditioned to get hit with a ton information in a short time-frame.
I remembered it used to be a struggle to get information. You had to work for it. I used to hate going to the library and using the card catalog lol. There was always a line to use the computer. If you couldnāt find a book for a project, you had to get creative. Nowadays, people are too lazy to do a simple google search to obtain basic Information.
Of course, movies are going to reflect the shift in how information is more accessible for the masses. I am just stuck appreciating art created in the past lol.
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I believe that is also why there is huge disconnection in the classroom as well between students and educators. Students canāt focus and want to be handed information in a short time frame. No time for critical thinking, processing, sifting through relevant information.
Hm. I disagree. I can spend years going thru a website looking for the correct information & taking out quotations I need just as I would w a book. If u consider it, Google is basically a big library. u have to look for the correct website & find one that provides the correct information. Besides, our school library is closed so there is no option.
Anyway, back on topic, I think ppl like these sort of movies to keep them entertained, is it rlly entertainment if it allās revealed slowly? There r still lots of movies that r slow, romcoms, romances, comedies. But generally, drama/action/horror r gonna / fast bc the whole point of them, is to keep u hooked.
If you stay within context of what I said overall, students want information fast and teachers want students to work for the information. Just that simple.
Seeking information physically is not the same as seeking information on the internet in a broad sense which can sometimes cause a disconnect in the classroom generally speaking. It is way more convenient to search on the internet and a lot faster.
Also, teachers arenāt typically making students research something that will take years to obtain in one class session. Just the practical side come out of me. The point is students are exposed a ton of information on the internet than they are retrieving information physically at a local library. Which means more chances for the student to be distracted with unnecessary/irrelevant information potentially hindering the learning process. Speaking from experience as a licensed educator
Back to being on topic
Preference comes into play as far as how one wants to receive information for entertainment purposes.
Yes. It is entertaining for me to receive information at a slow and steady pace. Especially if the information is complex and challenging. I need time to process the information if I am invested in the multi-layered plot. I love having the chance to reflect and analyze possible outcomes.
If there isnāt complexity present in the selected entertainment than yeah a fast pace plot is needed. Turn your brain off and look at a ton of different images in a short time-frame. Information is limited at that point so there isnāt much to process.
i just watched this one movie (aloha, 2015) and it wasnāt horrible. the problem was that the plots didnāt quite fit, and they used a lack of communication as a joke only for it to turn into a problem later on? that was weird, didnāt fit the movie whatsoever. it couldāve been great, if they blended it and stayed on one plot more. i believe that the father/daughter plot with the love triangle wouldāve worked great. the best scene is for sure the lastš
the plots in aloha
a man having a striking resemblance to his exās 12 year old daughter
he is a coder/hacker?
rocket and space stuff
underdeveloped love triangle that wasnāt truly a love triangle at all
and by a lack of communication, they LITERALLY have a character just staring at the mc in silence for a few just looking and sometimes nodding. then near the end, that character gets close to the mc again and it has subtitles explaining what he means as heās SILENT.
Just absurd noises or actions.
