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scarletspeed7 posted...

I'm not saying it's as drastic of a change as some others are suggesting, but I think that people watching a movie with other people definitely are affected by it. Charon and Genny always seem to be affected by each other in their write-ups. How much? I think Charon has the ability to bring Genny's impression of a movie down by his general indifference or dislike of a movie. For me, I saw that in the Moon ranking where she didn't say a single negative thing about the film and yet still ranked it at about the exact same placement of Charon. Is that bad? No. It's just the nature of things. If Travis said, "Father, I am moved by the plight of Mr. James" during 12 Monkeys, I think you would have maybe given the film an even higher placement because you might have just thought about it a bit more. And a couple of the more cognitive films where Travis is doing something else, I think you maybe didn't care for them AS much because, as a father, you are influenced by your child. I see it in other parents with young children too.

Like, does that change my opinion of your, erm, opinions? Not really. Your experience is different and valuable to me in the way that other peoples' write-ups are. I don't like to be as cynically critical as Karo is about movies because I enjoy happiness in my life and I want to find the value in a movie. But Karo's heavily critical nature is nice because there are times where I probably over-romanticize a movie. I love to put characters and films on pedestals because to me that makes the world a happier, grander place. Karo doesn't. So sometimes it's probably prudent for me to read someone pounding the dirt in anger.

I can get on board with this line of thinking. He definitely has an effect on my experience of watching a film. I have really good memories of doing all these projects with him, for both good and bad movies. He doesnt change my ranking order unless there was a tie, however. Goofy Movie won out over Jetsons for me due to his reactions, for example.

KBMs comments just confuse me because all of my writeups have two parts: my thoughts and Traviss reactions. Im guessing she only read the Travis section for each one because calling me a Puritan tells me theres no way she read my thoughts.
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