My first movie

Rating: Null/10 (29 June 2003)

What is a good movie? How do you define which movie is good and which one's bad? Let's elaborate over this matter. I think this issue has three sides.
1. The first one has to do with the person himself. His character, mentality, education if you want; in few words: one's background, the way one was brought up and educated - the determinants of one's value system.
2. The second one a believe has to do with the current emotional state of the moviegoer at the time of seeing the particular movie. Is he in love or brokenhearted, employed or unemployed, happy or sad; how his day, month, year or last few years were like. Why is he going to see the particular movie: because of the story, actors, director, etc. What is he going to do after the movie? To say: what's in his mind as he enters the movie theatre in terms of current mood, feelings, thoughts.
3. The third one surely has to do with the quality of the movie. Even though people have different tastes, there are certain criteria that make the evaluation possible. The most important being-whether we like it or not-the amount of money a movie makes as well as the different movie awards.
And the outcome of the above is How does this say 2h fantasy leave you (fantasy because that what movie making is all about - selling dreams). So How did this dream fit into the three: Was it a good dream something you have experienced and wish you hadn't or it is a completely different kind of dream that you haven't thought about. Is it a dream that you gonna remember for years to come or one that you gonna forget the very next day. And so on and so on.
But again How do you define a good movie? I guess there isn't a single answer to that question. It's like life itself: to different people means different things.
You may ask: What was the purpose of all this waste of ink so far but that was the question I asked myself after watching the movie "Vanilla sky" - was it a good movie. Does the fact that I couldn't sleep for days or that I still keep thinking about the whole story after one year already makes a good movie out of it. It is not that I liked or did not like the movie it is just the first movie that hit my threes (background, current condition and movie criteria) with power - for good or bad it will stay with me forever.