Responding to a man who felt depressed after seeing Avatar because this world did not match the beauty of the imaginary world of James Cameron‘s creation, Ann Althouse muses that when she was “was younger . . . [,] movies had a very strong effect on me, but it wasn’t that it turned the world disappointingly gray“:
When I walked out into the light after a great movie, my experience was that things seemed sharpened, intensified, and refreshed. The real world felt newly real. It was more in color — the opposite of depression.
Yea, that describes it. Reminds me of how I felt when, as a young’un, I first saw Star Wars and its sequels. And I’ve still felt that, on occasion, as an adult, when I’ve seen a really good movie. Such flicks kind of inspire me in a way, to be a better person and to work harder toward my aspirations.
Just like going to a good movie, when I go on a good vacation, I feel depressed after getting home.
The truth is things always look good when you’re detached from the object. The realities and hard life get overlooked.
I heard Haiti is beautiful. Look at the awfulness going on and I’m not talking about the recent disaster.
I saw the original Star Wars in the theater – and it made a tremendous impression to my 12 yr old self.
I watched again, roughly 15 years later and revised my opinion: flat dialogue, cheesy acting, and a predictable plot combined to make it a bad movie that had really good special effects.
Give me the oldies: Mr Smith Goes to Washington, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pillow Talk – something to showcase that talent of the actors instead of a faceless computer special-effects guru. I won’t see something that has products released in the stores (t-shirts, toys, etc) before the movie even opens.
Oh, my gosh. Movies today can not pull off a Gaslight without beating the audience with a ball peen hammer and praising secular humanism with a dash (think hydrogen bomb) of social consciousness guilt.