{"id":10341,"date":"2006-08-15T21:49:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T18:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/15\/movie-related-observations\/"},"modified":"2006-08-15T21:49:42","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T18:49:42","slug":"movie-related-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/15\/movie-related-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie related observations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Scott Adams<\/a> shares a few interesting, as usual, observations. This time he talks about movies they make these days<\/a>. Here are a few worthy quotes:<\/p>\n

Am I the only one who continues to turn up the volume about ever five minutes for the entire movie?<\/p>\n

And don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get me started about the TV show 24, which should be subtitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bad Things Happening to People Who Whisper.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Film makers know that if they let the audience feel happiness or hear dialog, the Oscar will slip through their fingers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some sort of unwritten rule that the worse a movie makes you feel, the longer it must be. Comedies and animated movies are generally well under two hours. But a movie about well-dressed people drowning in ice water is going to threaten the four hour mark.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I need to get more specific when I ask about movies. Instead of asking \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How is the movie?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and getting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I should ask \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How did you feel when you watched the movie?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in which case I would get \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I felt like an SUV was parked on my chest and starving rats were duct taped to my torso. The acting was great!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funny, mostly true, and to the point.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Scott Adams shares a few interesting, as usual, observations. This time he talks about movies they make these days. Here are a few worthy quotes: Am I the only one who continues to turn up the volume about ever five minutes for the entire movie? And don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get me started about the TV show 24, … Continue reading Movie related observations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8189,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/10\/movie-reviews-are-now-just-movies\/","url_meta":{"origin":10341,"position":0},"title":"Movie reviews are now just Movies","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 10, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"A quick update to the site - \"Movie reviews\" category was renamed to \"Movies\". 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