I mean I love movies. I love watching them. I love being engrossed by them. But at the same time, I hate it when it makes me depressed. You get caught on to the moment and it leaves you that feeling of depression. This is what makes a good movie to me. That even though there was that Hollywood happy ending, you still feel like [cabbage] because whatever the director puts in the last 15 minutes in the movie, you remember more what the protagonists went through to get there.

 

 

 

There's also that time when you watch a movie and you go "that's it?!" where you want to know more what happened after even knowing that the sequel will [bleep] [cabbage] up.

 

 

 

This is why I've only seen some movies once. Shawshank Redemption is one movie that I don't ever want to watch again even though I know it's beautiful.

I also love movies, have done for years.

 

Being a media student, it helps me alot... I've seen more movies than anyone else in my class lol.

 

 

 

I have to agree with you, Shawshank Redemption is very good - might watch it later. :-k

Shawshank Redemption IS good. :]

 

 

 

For me, I like any movie that makes me feel happy/sad/any emotion, I think it's that ability to move an audience which makes me love a certain movie.

I love movies; short ones, long ones, big expensive ones, little independents and of any genre. I like to see films that try to aspire to something either by entertaining me, involving me emotionally or by just telling me a great story. I dislike films which I feel are untruthful or lack ambition. It happens alot more often with blockbuster type films for me as many of them seem to be made by committee to attract as wide an audience as possible.

 

 

 

I don't mind which emotion a film makes me feel, it's okay to not go out of a film on a high note and feel happy when it's over. In fact, I've found that some of my favourite films haven't left me on a high after seeing them for the first time that variety is good though. I think it was David Fincher who said recently (I'm paraphrasing) "A big superhero, action sort of film is great for a friday night but not every night is a friday night".