I'll go to movies based upon what kind of reviews they get in Rotten Tomatoes and from other websites. I do pay attention too to TOTV reviews. I like especially movies I have read the books they are based on and try to read the book before a movie comes out like Lone Survivor, The Monuments Men and others.
Will probably skip The Wolf of Wall Street though as I have little interest in that subject but will probably see American Hustle.
I do enjoy movies that make me think as I audited two semesters with University of Nevada, Reno movie critic Howard Rosenberg. He is the second best movie critic named Howard Rosenberg. The other lives in LA. We talked about various movie making techniques and the like after viewing a variety of films in the science fiction genre in one semester and the western genre in another semester. I audited these classes before going to law school at BYU but dropped out in the Fall of 1982 and then was taking other courses in preparation for going to the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management in the Summer of 1983.
Howard Rosenberg's TA was someone I had gone to High School with at the Earl Wooster High School in Reno, Nevada who had also been a friend of my next door neighbor. So, it was quite a unique experience.
I do believe that the life experiences you have make a big difference in how you view movies especially if you are open to these.
I recall a friend from the University of Nevada, Reno who had been knifed six times in the heart area by a jealous husband. He was pronounced dead for a few minutes and lost quite a bit of his cognitive abilities from the deprivation of oxygen but he was still going strong after a few months recovery and came back to school studying with me in the Philosophy Department at UNR.
We went to see Raiders of the Lost Ark and he got the biggest kick out of the scene when the man was whirling a knife in a very threatening way at Indiana Jones. I felt for my friend and imagined what he must be going through with back flashes and the like but he just started laughing to beat the rest of the audience at Indiana Jones taking a gun and shooting the villain.
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