Thursday 22 January 2009

Converting movies into short stories

My brother-in-law Sam revealed a trick he uses to save time and money on potentially bad movies - Wikipedia. Rather than going to see a movie that looks intriguing but that he expects to be bad, he reads the detailed Wikipedia summary instead. It's like taking in a bland short-story version instead of sitting through two hours of movie and feeling somewhat ripped off as a result. Personally I'm starting to use this technique to cull my own "to see" list, removing one- and two-star movies, most of which I added just because they sounded a bit interesting, but I didn't expect to be great.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - Avalon had a disappointing film-student feel to it.
PPS - At least in summary.

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