Personally, movies are a form of escapism and a source of entertainment. And through the years, it makes me appriciate movies that have well rounded characters and developed stories. The really good ones makes me think and reflect on things in the real world. BUt the primary focus is still escapism. There are much better people out there who are totally into the the dramatic and serious subjects in film.
At the end of the day, I want to be able to suspend my disbelief, be entertained and be brought to another world/time/dimension/galaxy far far away. If it is thought provoking, awesome. If it can give a warm fuzzy feeling inside, lagi best. Personal tastes have different views on what constitutes a good movie. And it is hard to pin point. But damn it, I want a happy ending. If I want a sad ending, I just have to look around in reality.
For me, I know that I do not like the following
1.) Horror, gore movies. (I want to laugh and be inspired. Not scared shitless or even worse waste time on "not scary" scary movies.
2.) Period British/American drama and gansta rap movies. (Just different upbring, zzzzzzzz to death).
3.) Mindless violence. (Violence is fine if there is a motivating factor. But violence for just the sake of violence is lazy and lame)
4.) Abstract movies. (aka arty farty movies about nothing or something that no one can understand except the film maker)
5.) Gangsta and gritty detective movies.
Things I like in movies. (reminds of the nokia video cam handphone commerical)
1.) Big explosions and loads of destructions. (I paid $10 for 2 hours of my life. Show me the eye candy)
2.) Realistic, high quality, I cannot tell what is real what isn't visual effects. (not some cheapo TCS visual effects done by students in poser)
3.) Good dialog and humor. (good dialog does not have to mean loads of dialog.
4.) Robots, Monsters,battle planes, martial arts, aliens and super heroes.
5.) Cool non-regurgitated story and non-lame plot that do not drag. ( I have ADD so I like movies that move at a decent pace.)
I do not know if these tastes are reflective of the average movie goer but hese are my own very biased, myopic preferences. of course I do appriciate a well directed, well writtern and well acted movie regardless of the genre. But I am more of the fanboy type of audience rather then the hard core movie affectionatos that knows all the weird quirky movies.
