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Have you ever...
Figured out the plot of a movie you're watching for the first time?
I tend to do this all the time...its really weird and irksome for my sisters. I can predict what's going to happen next in a movie a lot of the time...my sisters stare at me like I've got three heads. I think this might just be because the movie is too predictable or that I become intuned with the thought process the movie writer went through. So.. discuss: Movie plots Predictability in movies Freaking people out |
Yeah. It could just be that most of the plots to certain themed movies tend to be the same or can just been seen right away. Most things that have been repeated are so easy to tell right away.
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Yeah, there's a certain degree of predictability in most films these days. Especially American ones. I can sit and from the start know what's going to happen even before I see it. Japanese ones I can half predict them. French ones I'm lucky if I can even follow, British ones...it depends on the movie. I predicted the end of brassed off quite nicely, but itallian job...Never dreamed they'd be stuck half over a cliff.
But the predictability all depends on the outlook of the film makers. See the Americans for the most part like films with morality. That morality is predictable. The good guy wins, the bad guy fails. The good guy can be a bad guy so long as he has good attributes. For example...a burglar is a good guy so long as the audience relates to him and sympathizes. But if he is a good guy he'll win through. The rest of the world doesn't have this niave view on the world and so they may let their bad guy win. They may let their good guy win. Or maybe no one wins? Who knows. Which is one of the main reasons I get bored with American films. They're mindless. |
Lol, I've certainly done this a few times. Even in movies I wasn't predicting the entire plot in, I'd be like 'Oh, so totally called that.' A lot of films of the same genre seem to follow the same basic kind of structure or something. Either that, or the reason I think of 'oh that's going to happen' is because it's what I would have had happen. *Shruggity*
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I constantly do this.
No one around me can understand how, for some reason, and they absolutely hate it. So now, of course, I do it completely on purpose. I'll say something, and two minutes later it happens, and I start getting funny looks from everyone xD. |
That's happened to me on the rare occasion. But some films are just so predictable, that it can't be helped. Mostly with cookie cutter movies comin' outta Hollywood. Buy y'know, thank goodness for independent films where the emphasis is telling new stories and experimenting instead of appealing to a wide general audiance.
Like said, some movies can't help but be predictable. But I mostly suspend any comments I may have and keep it to myself. |
After I watched the Phantom of the Opera about 3x (The first time I was so into the movie that I didn't realize how horrible the actors were and how many mess ups in the movie there were), I became more aware of the movies' plots and characters. Now it's really easy to figure out what will happen in the end, but if I don't, and there's a good ending, or at least one that makes you think, then I call it a great movie. Like Batman the Dark Knight. Was very gory and horrifying for my taste, but it was very well written and there were surprises around every turn.
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I never seem to beable to figure out the plot, not usually anyway.
Some I can grasp onto, some take longer to get the idea of the plot. It's awesome when the plot all clicks and you're like "ahhhhhh". xD |
I've done that alot actually, like ill say " that animal there dies" or "Hell have his head chopped off and shell scream" and i get weird looks because im always right,...
A recent movie was Silent Hill thought i knew the plot instantly,... hardly played the games and had done no background research,... but i understood it and knew the plot which was weird,... because anyone who i talked to who i knew had watched the film didnt understand the plot at all,.... so i got a lot of weird looks from being able to tell them what the plot was xD |
I'm pretty sure its because my sisters watch these crappy movies, mostly comedy ones, and the plots suck horribly. But my sisters are just...well...not very smart to realize that all the movies they watch are pretty much the same only with different characters.
so yeah. Though...in V for Vendetta...I so called how he was going to destroy the building and my sisters were kind of surprised by that. |
@Immortaleyes: I agree... some of those mindless comedies all look the same to me.
@Amo_Angelus: Haha, I totally understand where you're coming from as far as not being able to predict the plot of French movies XD They don't see plot the way that Americans do, for example, so sometimes the film will seem unfinished or inconclusive, but that's because the story itself isn't as important as the characters, or at least that's what I've figured out. If you get to know the characters well and they develop a bit, even if there's no real plot you've got a French movie XD As far as figuring out plots of movies myself, I've become rather good at figuring out who the bad guy is if it's a movie with some sort of mystery in it. It really helps when they use an actor for the bad guy who usually plays bad guys. It makes it way too predictable when they do that. I can also sometimes see things coming. I'll be like, "Oh no... he's going to do such-and-such," and then five or ten minutes later it happens and I laugh. I've even called some weird details before even seeing a movie. For instance, I knew that Anakin was going to get his hand chopped off in Star Wars Episode 2 before I even saw it. I can't remember how I figured on that one, but it was funny to me when it did happen and I was right. |
Morwyn, its because in one of the earlier ones, Luke cuts Darth Vader's hand off and it's mechanical...so one would assume that he had lost the original. Though...you may not have seen the first three episodes...which in chronological order actually come later. Its a bit confusing when people do that.
Anyways, I was going to say, that there are some movies...like The Butterfly affect that warp in and out of any sort of order and are more confusing than anything else, as well as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...which are the best movies by far with their well written plots, keepin you guessing the whole movie through. I would love to see some more movies like these ones made. |
I can't usually do it, but my brother is a pro. He can even pick out, in a horror movie, who is going to die and the likely cause of death. It doesn't bother me so much, as I don't like surprises, but it drives my parents insane.
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because of so many mary sue movies and such, I have alot, but it is really annoying for myself and others. Though is fun for when we are all talking about the movie, during it.
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I think that the predictability of a movie sometimes has to do with the genre.
If it's a romance movie, it is usually predictable. If it is a horror movie, there are certain parts that are predictable. In most movies (unless it's true or there's a sequel planned) the good guy wins or the guy/girl gets the guy he/she deserves/wants. Sci-fi movies are not quite as predictable because just about anything is possible. I saw The Matrix for the first time last night. I didn't know anything about it and I can honestly say I didn't see any of that coming. The only part of it that I could predict was that Neo was going to be 'the one'. |
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This is kind of like the first time I watched The Sixth Sense, with that annoying kid and all the dead people.
Anyway, I was watching it with two friends who had already seen it about a hundred times, and consequently, of course, knew the entire plot. The first time Willis's character is introduced to the kid, my immediate response is "...Haha, wouldn't it be funny if... SPOILER ...he turned out to be a ghost, and the kid was really seeing him because of that?" They just stared at me for a while, and I couldn't work out why. Then I got to the end of the movie, and I saw...and I laughed so hard. |
My mom's like that sometimes. She said that the guy on the show was gonna get run over.. And he did. xD
My boyfriend on the other hand, can predict video games. He managed to know what was going to happen in KH2 before it ever really came out. xDD It was kinda freaky. |
lol, I do that while watching movies. I say someone's is going to die or is going to get hurt and it happens. My friends ask me if I've seen the movie each time lol.
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Oh yes, a lot of the movies I watch tend to have predictable plots.
Which is pretty much why I don't watch movies anymore, really. Either it's just me, or they really do all have the same sort of plot just switched around in some ways. |
Oooh, boy. :sweat: The first time I watched my favorite movie...I had a feeling I knew where it was gonna go from the minute I saw the first gun come out. In fact, I even clearly remember saying to my friends on Skype, "If anything happens to ______ [in the end], I'm going to cry. e__e" And these were people who knew I don't cry for much.
Well, it went just as I expected. And I cried. A lot. Both from sadness a the way it went...and just from sheer disbelief at how well I predicted everything. I even managed to predict WHERE the bullet that made me cry my brains out was going to go. I figured out why that happened, though - reason I watched it for the first time is because I'm pretty much obsessed with one of the people who starred in it (shut up)...and though I realized it, I wasn't thinking about it at the time - he also WROTE it. And I know what kind of things he does. So I could TOTALLY see what was gonna happen just because I sort of understand his thought process. It was still freaky though. e___e |
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