This forum just fills up constantly with threads like "Movies that offended you" and favorite movies where a character eats marshmallows or something like that and I rarely post in them because...
I just don't have the mental capability to cycle through all the movies I've seen! How the hell do you people do it?! I own over 2000 films/TV shows on DVD/bluray (that includes kids movies) and that's only the tip of the iceberg of films I've watched in my life. How the hell am I supposed to remember every movie that had a cat scare in it or whatever obscure thread you guys come up with?
This thread is about movie memory. The Battleship Pretension podcast did an episode about it a little while back and you can listen to it here.
This doesn't just apply to movies that did whatever, it also applies to lists which I know film geeks are overly fond of making. I just plain don't do top ten lists because almost every year there are films that I love that I just forget to add to the list. I know that sounds silly, like why would I forget about a film that I loved but, it's not just that I forgot that I saw it, but I also forget when I saw it. A good example this year is The Lego Movie. I loved that movie but it came out way at the beginning of the year and if pressed for a top ten of 2014 I'd totally forget about it.
And, before you say "read a list of films that were released", http://www.imdb.com/search/title?yea...moviemeter,asclook at this freaking thing! That says over 12,000 titles released this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF?!?!?!!??
And if you asked me to make a top 50 of all time or top 100?!?!?! **** off! Seriously, never going to happen ever! How do you Rain Man people do it?!?!?!
So, please, tell me I'm not alone. Have you ever heard someone talk about a movie and realize it's something you've seen and forgotten all about? Have you ever loved a film and realized you left it off your precious list of "favorite films where a character wears flip-flops?" How is your movie memory?
I just don't have the mental capability to cycle through all the movies I've seen! How the hell do you people do it?! I own over 2000 films/TV shows on DVD/bluray (that includes kids movies) and that's only the tip of the iceberg of films I've watched in my life. How the hell am I supposed to remember every movie that had a cat scare in it or whatever obscure thread you guys come up with?
This thread is about movie memory. The Battleship Pretension podcast did an episode about it a little while back and you can listen to it here.
This doesn't just apply to movies that did whatever, it also applies to lists which I know film geeks are overly fond of making. I just plain don't do top ten lists because almost every year there are films that I love that I just forget to add to the list. I know that sounds silly, like why would I forget about a film that I loved but, it's not just that I forgot that I saw it, but I also forget when I saw it. A good example this year is The Lego Movie. I loved that movie but it came out way at the beginning of the year and if pressed for a top ten of 2014 I'd totally forget about it.
And, before you say "read a list of films that were released", http://www.imdb.com/search/title?yea...moviemeter,asclook at this freaking thing! That says over 12,000 titles released this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF?!?!?!!??
And if you asked me to make a top 50 of all time or top 100?!?!?! **** off! Seriously, never going to happen ever! How do you Rain Man people do it?!?!?!
So, please, tell me I'm not alone. Have you ever heard someone talk about a movie and realize it's something you've seen and forgotten all about? Have you ever loved a film and realized you left it off your precious list of "favorite films where a character wears flip-flops?" How is your movie memory?
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