donnie: I'm sorry to ask you this question, but there's a problem with muffin: when you wrote me this sentence in comment 55: "if you're going, let me know, don't pay attention to the script, I assure you... I would go to the movies every day, but it's not always possible." what did you mean by "don't pay attention to the script"? I understood it as "don't worry about how predictable the plot of the movie is," but maybe you meant something else. (Sorry to put you through this interrogation, but I've been tormented by a little doctor in communication sciences (or cultural heritage, I'm not sure) for a couple of weeks who is trying in every possible way to prove his thesis that I don't understand anything about cinema. The script is indeed not the plot of the film, but... But come on, I'm not in class taking an exam, I shouldn't have to sit here and explain that the plot is the "story" of the film while the script is the set of character dialogues and scene descriptions (all written) presented in the order they'll appear on screen, which allows the plot to be reproduced by actors, etc... on audio/video support??? Do I have to sit here and tell muffin that the plot is the story and the script is the "how it’s told"? Do I have to entertain a poor user who has no other way of having interpersonal relationships other than to criticize everything I say a priori? Do I have to waste my time on someone who looks for commas in entire speeches to tell me "you messed up"? Do I have to waste time on someone who goes around the site to see if I appear among the commentators of a work or not? (I mean, is it normal that on the Avatar page someone comes to me and says, "Why didn't you comment on the Kim Ki Duk movie?") Do I have to waste time on someone who gives me exams? You wouldn't believe me if I told you he's giving me exams, would you? I imagine you wouldn't believe it; it seems absurd to me too. I quote the same words with which muffin interrogated me: "by the way, name some little-known worthy directors whose films you have naturally seen, without looking them up on Google, be careful because if I know them, I will ask you questions... for example, on the first page just a few days ago there was a Kim Ki Duk film (to say "unknown" now is quite a stretch) but a highly valued director who recently appeared; I haven't seen your comments." You can find this sentence on the review of "The Madman" by Avatar // comment 106)... I don't know, you tell me, is it normal? Maybe it's me who's strange, but this muffin gives me the impression of being a little obsessed with me... does he do this with everyone? Should I just let it go (which I would gladly do if he would stop provoking me)?
@donnie: so sorry, here I am, you ask me what I'm doing at the movies if I see a piece of crap... I'm going to waste some time, instead of losing it here, or wasting it in front of the PlayStation, or in front of a soccer match, or listening to a CD, I lose it watching a movie, which may be a piece of crap, but it could also be a masterpiece. Most of the time I go to the cinema (except, of course, when movies come out that I’m already interested in or, as in this case, that have had a huge advertising campaign), I prefer to avoid knowing anything about the film. To give you an example: I knew a little something about Inglourious Basterds before seeing it since I had read various things (most of it nonsense) on the internet, but I refused to watch any trailers. If a trailer started on TV, I changed the channel; I like to enjoy movies in the cinema without knowing anything or almost anything. I like it when the huge screen tells me the story (obviously, it's not always possible; with Avatar it wasn't, and thankfully because if I had expected a gripping plot, or even just an original one, I would have been very disappointed; but maybe that’s not even true, cinema works and tells stories through images, and Avatar does that masterfully). On TV everything is small; you'
