"oooh... who's in it?"

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Ok so say your deciding what film to watch with a bunch of frienRAB, and you take a bunch of videos round.... and you recommend one...... the first thing they want to know is who famous is in it.

Am I the only person who couldn't care less what actors / actresses are in a film? I'm MUCH more interested in the storyline and general quality of a film.

Just because someone isn't a famous well known celebrity - doesn't mean the acting will be rubbish!
 
Well, I can't stand Adam Sandler and refuse to watch anything with him playing a moron (99.9% of his films) so.......... his "videos" would be burned in my log fire :D

PS - who has video's these days? It's all about the blue-ray baby :D :p
 
I agree in general. I'd probably ask who's famous in it to not watch it rather than the other way around.

I watched State Of Play the other night. Will Mirren and Crowe balance out Ben Affleck? :D
 
How can you judge the quality of a film until you've seen it? "Who's in it?" is as good a yarRABtick as any.
"Who's the director?" is no more reliable; even Kubrick made an occasional dud.
You don't know until you've paid your cash and then it's too late.
 
Well usually the actors are a clue to what the film's like as so many actors are type cast and people know what kind of film they like and what actors are usually in those films. The best way though to find a film you think you'll like is read the synopsis, look at the cover (you can't judge a book by its cover, but you can judge a DVD/Video/Blu-ray by it).
 
I like to know which actors are in films, just beacuse theres people id rather not watch. But if a film has a good story line, music etc. I can look past whos in it most of the time.
 
nor do i really care whose in something really.

imagine someone asking that to a foriegn film.

"lets watch 7 Samuri"
"ooo, whose in it"?
"errrr"

i may personally ask that question - as i have seen/possess a good knowledge base of many films, and tend to forget titles of what i have seen or heard of. If i ask that question - it prompts me to realise what the film it is.

but i general dont care whose in a film

except if its Manuela Velasco of course. whose currently my newest louviee...and i love her. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 
Well usually the actors are a clue to what the film's like as so many actors are type cast and people know what kind of film they like and what actors are usually in those films. The best way though to find a film you think you'll like is read the synopsis, look at the cover (you can't judge a book by its cover, but you can judge a DVD/Video/Blu-ray by it).
 
Sharon87 said:
Well usually the actors are a clue to what the film's like as so many actors are type cast and people know what kind of film they like and what actors are usually in those films. The best way though to find a film you think you'll like is read the synopsis, look at the cover (you can't judge a book by its cover, but you can judge a DVD/Video/Blu-ray by it).[/quote]


Oh, you really are kidding with that one, surely?

If a film was truly awful, or even fair-to-middling, do you think the blurb on the cover is going to tell you that?

Most covers have enticing artwork that is designed to draw you in, and comments from various magazines and publications (the origin and validity of which can often be suspect) telling you it's brilliant.

And worse still, comments from the people that made the film telling you it is brilliant/horrific/hilarious etc.

Well of course THEY would say that, would'nt they?

My god, it reminRAB me of the early days of video rental, when covers (particularly horror movies) were incredibly lurid and salacious, and almost every action movie or thriller had a picture of a man holding a gun on it. I lost count of how many truly awful movies I watched back then, drawn in by such covers.

You really need to do a very small amount of research, read a couple of different reviews maybe, some online ones, a synopsis etc. And it's not that I believe the reviews when they tell me the film is either brilliant or rubbish it's to get a feeling for what the movie is about, knowing what to expect from it, and more importantly what the movie is actually about, as opposed to what the cover is trying to tell me.

Indeed, cover art does a similar job to trailers. The idea is to persuade you to buy it based on some pictures and lots of complimentary comments on how good it is, and why you simply have to see it.

Surely no one actually buys a film simply because of the cover?
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And here's another cautionary tale regarding dvd and blu ray covers...

Distributors are starting to offload a lot of cheap, tacky foreign movies usiing such enticing packaging, and indeed are de-emphasising the actual origin of the movie by not naming any of the actors on the cover, and on the back cover the credits are so tiny as to be virtually unreadable.

Now I certainly have no problem whatsoever with movies from other parts of the world, I have a large collection of such movies.

But these sorts of tactics being used to sell low-rent exploitation/horror/thriller/made for tv foreign movies is unethical.

Case in point - The Interceptor.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Interceptor...ef=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1273949537&sr=1-1


Released a month or so back, on the face of it a sort of action/sci-fi flick...and looking at the cover (and the back cover as well) you really would not know that it is actually a Russian low-budget, tacky movie called Zapreshchennaya Realnost.

Now that's fine if people buy the movie knowing what they are getting, but I suspect a lot of people probably don't...and certainly those that simply judge by a cover!

I know a lot of people that (god knows why) will not watch films with subtitles, and many of them have been caught out with these movies...but then again, they did decide to buy it based on the cover alone. More fool them.
 
I'm interested in the actors and Directors because they can tell you so much before you see the film. As mentioned previously Adam Sandler sets warning bells off. Equally with Directors. If it's an Clint Eastwood or Ron Howard film they're usually really good.
 
There's some actors who I'll watch anything that they're in (cos I'm a bit sad like that :o), but then I see that as a good thing because I end up seeing films that I wouldn't have picked by their synopsis alone. I also watch plenty films on plot alone though, even if I'm a bit meh about the actors (esp if they're on tv!). There's noone that I would refuse to watch.

I usually ask "who's in it" as it's easier to identify what film it is if the title is drawing a memory blank.
 
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