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Feb. 9th, 2009 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brokenrecordI was doing reading for my Research in Psych class and the chapter I was reading is about the internet and research and it's just very amusing. It starts off my discussing how the internet is an indispensable tool for researchers, especially for communication via electronic mail and then in parentheses it says ("e-mail") and it's like, yeah, thanks, I really didn't know what you were talking about. But then what was even more amusing to me was it started talking about discussion groups on-line where you can discuss psychological issues of interest to you, and it's like "Some are open to anyone who wishes to take part in the discussion, including those who only want to participate passively ("lurk")." And for some reason that just totally cracked me up. And from the way this chapter was going I was like "Was this book written in like 1997 or something?" But then I checked and it was written in 2006, so I don't understand why it's treating the internet like no one reading the book has ever used it.
Anyway, I was ridiculously productive on Saturday and really proud of myself, and then I did absolutely nothing on Sunday. I should have at least started my lab for Multivariate Stats (I'm starting to increasingly regret taking this class. I mean, yeah, it's interesting, but it's going to be way too much work in comparison to how good the class is and now that I think I'm just going to minor in math, I totally didn't need to take it. I should have stayed in Linear Algebra. Or come to this decision a month ago. Or never come to the decision to double major at all. I'm far too indecisive. :( ), but instead I watched the BAFTAs.
And then I started arranging a list of every movie I've ever watched from favorite to least favorite. That sounds more daunting than it actually was. I've been keeping track of everything I've watched since... 2006? with the whole "100 Movies in [insert year]" thing, and I actually didn't watch a whole lot of movies before I started doing it. And last year I started using Criticker to keep track of everything, too, and I would use the "rate random movies" function to get in everything I've seen. I'm probably still missing one or two, and I think I've actually rated one or two that I haven't ever seen (like, for some reason I've rated Scream 2, but I know for a fact I've never seen it. Same with Mary Poppins.), but yeah. But anyways, so I've actually had everything there, but it's not really in 1, 2, 3, etc. format since there are loads of films that have 93, 92, etc. as a score and there's no differentiation between them. And I realized too that a lot of my scores don't reflect what I think of the movies, if that makes sense. A lot of the time I'll absolutely adore something right after I watch it, but then a few months down the line it's sort of faded. Or sometimes the opposite; I watch a film and think it's just ok, but the more I think of it, the better I like it. So my rankings have been bothering me there for awhile, so I decided I'd just redo everything.
It's kind of been interesting to see how my tastes have changed since I did the mass adding of everything last year (I think it was Oct. 2007, so a little over a year). And also just how my perceptions of movies have changed after months or years. Like I rated A Very Long Engagement "100" when I added it, and I only rated 4 films 100 (none of which is actually my number one film right now, interestingly enough), but going through every movie, it's dropped loads. I actually don't have a great memory of that movie, so I don't think it really impacted me that much. And while it's gorgeous and I love Gaspard Ulliel and Audrey Tatou loads, it's definitely not perfect. I remember even when I was watching it finding some stretches long and somewhat boring. But for some reason I rated it really highly. And, like, Love Actually. I had that rated a 97, which... no. I love that movie, but it is not nearly that good. And then there are movies like The Godfather which I rated really high because I felt like I should like it, but it turns out that even though I did really like it, I didn't actually like it as much as I indicated. And the reverse is true, too. I had no idea I liked Citizen Kane as much as I do, but right now it's ranked #2. I also didn't realize when I watched Notorious over the summer that it'd be my #1 favorite film ever (I ranked it 96), but... well, apparently it is. Oh, or The Diving Bell and the Butterfly! I rated that a 93 after I watched it and it was my second favorite film of the year after Juno (which I rated a 95) last year, but in retrospect, I actually like it much more than I like Juno, which has definitely fallen down the list.
This has also made me realize that there are a lot of films I need to rewatch because I just have no memory of them. Like Big Fish. I mean, I remember watching it, and I remember really enjoying it, but I couldn't really tell you what happened in it or if I like it more or less than Film X or whatever. Or Thank You For Smoking. I remember really liking it and I ranked it really high, but I kind of have no clue now how I like it compared to other films. And I think there are some films, too, that I need to rewatch just because they're the kind of film you need to see more than once to fully grasp or appreciate. But I tend not to rewatch films since I started doing the 100 Movies thing. The whole reason I started doing that was to motivate me to watch more movies because for awhile I really didn't watch very many movies a year. But as a consequence, I basically only see things once these days. That's not always true (I've rewatched Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, The Birds, Rear Window, and North By Northwest just in the past few months, actually. But those were all because my mom hadn't seen them and I thought she'd like them. So that doesn't totally count. I usually don't rewatch movies on my own), but it mostly is. The only real time I let myself rewatch favorites from the year is in the period before the end of the year after I've watched the 100th film of the year. But this past year I didn't have time to do that since I watched my 100th film only the day before New Year's Eve. I think this year I'll get more in, though. I'm already way ahead of where I was last year (I'm 1/5 done and it's only been about 1/10 of the year) and last year I didn't watch anything new for over a month because I got distracted by the Olympics and work taking up so much of my time which won't be a factor this summer. So we'll see.
Yes, I realize I'm probably taking this too seriously or spending too much time think about it. But I'm on a serious movie kick right now. I don't know why. It goes in phases. The Academy Awards coming up certainly helps that, though. I always feel like watching more movies before and after them. And I also just really felt like doing nothing yesterday. Which is exactly what I accomplished. Now I just have to hope that I understand my stats homework better than I think I do so it doesn't take forever. Anyway, I'm still fiddling with the list of all the movies ranked, but I'll probably post a link to it once I'm done. (ugh I really need to stop procrastinating and do work.)
Anyway, I was ridiculously productive on Saturday and really proud of myself, and then I did absolutely nothing on Sunday. I should have at least started my lab for Multivariate Stats (I'm starting to increasingly regret taking this class. I mean, yeah, it's interesting, but it's going to be way too much work in comparison to how good the class is and now that I think I'm just going to minor in math, I totally didn't need to take it. I should have stayed in Linear Algebra. Or come to this decision a month ago. Or never come to the decision to double major at all. I'm far too indecisive. :( ), but instead I watched the BAFTAs.
And then I started arranging a list of every movie I've ever watched from favorite to least favorite. That sounds more daunting than it actually was. I've been keeping track of everything I've watched since... 2006? with the whole "100 Movies in [insert year]" thing, and I actually didn't watch a whole lot of movies before I started doing it. And last year I started using Criticker to keep track of everything, too, and I would use the "rate random movies" function to get in everything I've seen. I'm probably still missing one or two, and I think I've actually rated one or two that I haven't ever seen (like, for some reason I've rated Scream 2, but I know for a fact I've never seen it. Same with Mary Poppins.), but yeah. But anyways, so I've actually had everything there, but it's not really in 1, 2, 3, etc. format since there are loads of films that have 93, 92, etc. as a score and there's no differentiation between them. And I realized too that a lot of my scores don't reflect what I think of the movies, if that makes sense. A lot of the time I'll absolutely adore something right after I watch it, but then a few months down the line it's sort of faded. Or sometimes the opposite; I watch a film and think it's just ok, but the more I think of it, the better I like it. So my rankings have been bothering me there for awhile, so I decided I'd just redo everything.
It's kind of been interesting to see how my tastes have changed since I did the mass adding of everything last year (I think it was Oct. 2007, so a little over a year). And also just how my perceptions of movies have changed after months or years. Like I rated A Very Long Engagement "100" when I added it, and I only rated 4 films 100 (none of which is actually my number one film right now, interestingly enough), but going through every movie, it's dropped loads. I actually don't have a great memory of that movie, so I don't think it really impacted me that much. And while it's gorgeous and I love Gaspard Ulliel and Audrey Tatou loads, it's definitely not perfect. I remember even when I was watching it finding some stretches long and somewhat boring. But for some reason I rated it really highly. And, like, Love Actually. I had that rated a 97, which... no. I love that movie, but it is not nearly that good. And then there are movies like The Godfather which I rated really high because I felt like I should like it, but it turns out that even though I did really like it, I didn't actually like it as much as I indicated. And the reverse is true, too. I had no idea I liked Citizen Kane as much as I do, but right now it's ranked #2. I also didn't realize when I watched Notorious over the summer that it'd be my #1 favorite film ever (I ranked it 96), but... well, apparently it is. Oh, or The Diving Bell and the Butterfly! I rated that a 93 after I watched it and it was my second favorite film of the year after Juno (which I rated a 95) last year, but in retrospect, I actually like it much more than I like Juno, which has definitely fallen down the list.
This has also made me realize that there are a lot of films I need to rewatch because I just have no memory of them. Like Big Fish. I mean, I remember watching it, and I remember really enjoying it, but I couldn't really tell you what happened in it or if I like it more or less than Film X or whatever. Or Thank You For Smoking. I remember really liking it and I ranked it really high, but I kind of have no clue now how I like it compared to other films. And I think there are some films, too, that I need to rewatch just because they're the kind of film you need to see more than once to fully grasp or appreciate. But I tend not to rewatch films since I started doing the 100 Movies thing. The whole reason I started doing that was to motivate me to watch more movies because for awhile I really didn't watch very many movies a year. But as a consequence, I basically only see things once these days. That's not always true (I've rewatched Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, The Birds, Rear Window, and North By Northwest just in the past few months, actually. But those were all because my mom hadn't seen them and I thought she'd like them. So that doesn't totally count. I usually don't rewatch movies on my own), but it mostly is. The only real time I let myself rewatch favorites from the year is in the period before the end of the year after I've watched the 100th film of the year. But this past year I didn't have time to do that since I watched my 100th film only the day before New Year's Eve. I think this year I'll get more in, though. I'm already way ahead of where I was last year (I'm 1/5 done and it's only been about 1/10 of the year) and last year I didn't watch anything new for over a month because I got distracted by the Olympics and work taking up so much of my time which won't be a factor this summer. So we'll see.
Yes, I realize I'm probably taking this too seriously or spending too much time think about it. But I'm on a serious movie kick right now. I don't know why. It goes in phases. The Academy Awards coming up certainly helps that, though. I always feel like watching more movies before and after them. And I also just really felt like doing nothing yesterday. Which is exactly what I accomplished. Now I just have to hope that I understand my stats homework better than I think I do so it doesn't take forever. Anyway, I'm still fiddling with the list of all the movies ranked, but I'll probably post a link to it once I'm done. (ugh I really need to stop procrastinating and do work.)
