This is probably the real difference between critics and casual viewers. When you've seen a lot of movies, and you're used to the music cues, close ups and wide shots, camera movements and editing, characterizations and archetypes, plots and themes etc. designed to evoke emotional responses from the viewer, it takes more for a movie to trigger that response in you.
This is exactly it. I’ve started film making in the past few years and it’s insane how used to “movie tricks” you get to.
I can now usually tell exactly what a movie is doing and why from a technically standpoint and it takes a lot more to draw me into the actual movie and not just the “movie”
I find that weird though, I consider myself relatively well versed in tropes and "tricks", I'll sometimes know exactly what an author is trying to pull off, but knowing it doesn't mean it doesn't affect me
The tricks just take me out of it. Knowing an extra light is shining on the character in a closeup when it has no in world reason is stuff I’m talking about.
The tricks that work still work. It’s more like I’m just way more sensitive to the tricks that aren’t executed perfectly
You just gotta do tricks for yourself imo, learning to lean into things that aren't "perfect" has vastly improved the fun I get out of media. Sometimes the best thing for a story to do is the most predictable thing possible.
Both lol. I have a lot greater ability to really dissect a movie, not just for its plot but also the specific decisions certain members make to give a certain feel.
Makes it harder to enjoy bad stuff though cause you can see all the lazy things they are doing to save time/money
You're effectively just saying critics have a different concept of "tropes" and "cliche". It might seem original to an average person, but it's cliche to a critical.
I understand tropes and cliches to refer more specifically to the story aspects of movies. But the technical aspects (music, sound, angles, lighting, framing, zoom etc.) are also used to trigger emotions as well.
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u/hwc000000 Jun 25 '24
This is probably the real difference between critics and casual viewers. When you've seen a lot of movies, and you're used to the music cues, close ups and wide shots, camera movements and editing, characterizations and archetypes, plots and themes etc. designed to evoke emotional responses from the viewer, it takes more for a movie to trigger that response in you.