Are You A Movie Snob?

I'm not that bad, but my dvds have to be widescreen with few exceptions. If the only offer of the widescreen is the unrated cut, I will probably get the fullscreen, I'm not particularly fond of unrated versions. They don't really add anything to the movie and sometimes they take away. I also want lots of special features included like, trailer, extra scenes, bloopers, and the making of. And the dvd has to have English subtitles, I don't have the best hearing in the world and I miss things.

But the movie itself, I really only care to watch a movie is it actually gives a care about itself. A lot of movies these days are garbage with lots of money wasted on them and then no wants to see them or buy the products. So it's saying look at this six million we wasted on a movie that will bring about two million back.

Whatever happen to real storytelling, making a quality product over quantity? You know some of the worst movies made from good stories or events are because Hollywood try to change it too much. And then they wonder why the movies flop. It's because your not respecting your audience and basically taking fast food and pretending it's expensive cuisine. Don't make a movie because you can, make one because you want to.
 
Oh gosh, urban dictionary has a really funny (and true) definition of what a movie snob is.

Urban Dictionary: movie snob

Also, in case some of you don't know if you are or aren't a movie snob, here is a list to live by. :lol:


Ten signs that you currently are/or are becoming a movie snob
Don’t think of these as symptoms, instead think of them as signs of personal growth

1. You have completely discounted a movie because you didn’t like one of the actors.
2. You boycott the Oscars
3. You have traveled more than 100 miles to see a movie
4. You can appreciate a film just based on the cinematography alone.
5. You are careful to classify motion pictures as either films (pieces of art) or movies (purely entertainment).
6. You have never, and will never, see a movie with Martin Lawrence in it.
7. You have rented all the films in a director’s repertoire and watched them in chronological order.
8. You’ve seen Pi and weren’t completely disappointed
9. You’ve bought a T-shirt or other memorabilia prior to a film’s release.
10. You were in a betting pool on the opening weekend gross for Snakes on a Plane

Now onto confession time. Hi friends! My name is Alisha and I am a movie snob. It gets to the point where I groom my friends to know off the top of their head what percent every movie is at RT. And if it isn't "fresh" they tell their friends "Alisha says I can't see it." It's kind of bad, but kind of awesome to have that much power.

I'm also a movie geek, which sometimes goes hand in hand with being a snob, if you are willing to not go see the new James Bond film if it isn't fresh. Like I never saw past the first Pirates film because 1) the first is brilliant and 2) the last two got god awful reviews. I saw bits and pieces by accident of the second, but I fell asleep. But I'm probably one of the only people out there who didn't watch the entire trilogy.
 
Well put. :)



Same here. All my DVDs are widescreen. I refuse to buy a DVD if it's only available in full-screen format. :lol:

I'm snobby in the sense that I only watch wide releases. I don't watch foreign films because I don't like having to read while watching a movie. If I wanted to read, I'd pick up a book. (I also hate closed captioning on TV.) And I don't watch indie flicks mostly because I don't hear enough about them to become interested and because they're not that accessible at school.

But the wide releases, I'll watch just about anything that looks entertaining. I don't stick to any specific genre, and I don't care if critics/people love it or hate it. Some of my favorite movies are as acclaimed as The Dark Knight and Love Actually to as panned as The Fast & the Furious and Romeo Must Die.
 
I'm not. I like all kinds of movies, and while I do expect excellence from certain sources, I do not have the same standard for every movie I see. The same I watch an indie or a big studio popcorn fest. If the movie sucks it sucks no matter where it comes from or who directed it, acted in it, wrote it and/or produced it. Good stuff (and bad stuff) can come from anywhere.

I don't expect every movie to be a discovery, every performance to be a breakthrough, etc. Like every other thing in life, movies have ranges, they have ideas, and they have a vision behind it that will not always be cinematic dynamite, but if it's entertaining, good natured or at least honest with itself, then I have no problems with that.

The only thing I'm kind of 'snobbish' about is widescreen. I don't like to watch movies in full screen unless it was structured that way and it was the director's intention for the movie to be seen in that ratio.

Otherwise, a movie is a movie to me.
 
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