Theme: Why I watch movies (as if I need a reason)...
Hullabaloo or Hoopla
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Everyone's talking about it. Friends rave about it. Sometimes I watch a movie just to see what all the fuss is about!
Some films deserve the hullabaloo and others, well... not so much.
Usually films surrounded by a lot of hoopla let me down when I finally see them. That might be because the buzz built my expectations too high. On the flip side, sometimes negative chatter about a movie gives me such low expectations that I'm pleasantly surprised by how much I like it!
How about you? Do water-cooler discussions of a movie persuade you to see it?
Some films deserve the hullabaloo and others, well... not so much.
Usually films surrounded by a lot of hoopla let me down when I finally see them. That might be because the buzz built my expectations too high. On the flip side, sometimes negative chatter about a movie gives me such low expectations that I'm pleasantly surprised by how much I like it!
How about you? Do water-cooler discussions of a movie persuade you to see it?
Mary and I have agreed that the more hoopla a movie receives, the worse it is. We've rarely been wrong.
ReplyDelete@John ... Sadly, that is often what we've experienced, too.
ReplyDeleteI don't usually care what people say about a movie. It is more the subject matter for me. If it's something I'm not interested in, I don't care how much someone raves about it, I'm not watching it.
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@Janet ... I like a wide variety of film genres, but there are some I won't watch no matter how much hullaballoo surrounds it... horror films, for instance.
ReplyDeleteMamma Mia 2 got so much "Cher" hype that it probably didn't have a fair chance.
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@Gail ... You're right. And all that hype can backfire.
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