User:Dch111
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[edit] Interests
Movies: High regard to movies with effective atmosphere. Believe that how they appeal to the senses is more important than if they make sense. If they fail to immerse the viewer, they must have a good plot. Of course, if both these factors are high, the movie is possibly near perfection. Such movies replace all your previous perceptions you had when you entered and gradually transport you into their world without you knowing it. As a result, the transition to the outside world is a really odd feeling, and you can't believe the movie is really over; especially the sensation you recieve as you walk out into the sun, and the wind blows around you, and you feel like it's been ages since you've entered this dimension; this "Oh right, now I'm back to this other world." You almost feel kind of sad.
-Favorite Suspense movies: Alien (I don't think it is the scariest though)
-Adventure: Beginning of Temple of Doom, middle of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and end of The Last Crusade. Also, Jurassic Park (original) had really good structure.
-ummmmm that all I can think of for now...I actually haven't seen that many movies
-Movies that are just plain ridiculous:
-Dreamcatcher: It was scary in the beginning but the latter half just ruined it, and in fact made it hilarious. It virtually just changed from horror to action. But the most hilarious part is (spoiler!) at the very end, when the worm is squished and then the hero's friend instead of breathing a sigh of relief, awkwardly exclaims excitedly, "Jones!" seemingly unaware that all their friends just died and the place is a bloody mess, which then cuts to the credits playing arbitrary rock music as if the picture had never been a horror in the first place and was some car chase movie. "DUN DUN DUUND DUN DU-DUN DUUUNN!!! Hell Yeah!!!"
-Home Alone: Taking Back the House (or something like that). This is I think the fifth in this tired series and whatever talent inspired the first few films has found better jobs. Please do not waste your time seeing this movie; it is so corny and stereotyped, and the acting can only be described simply as "cottage cheese with soy sauce and acorns" as can the plot.
-I'll think of more later; in fact I'd better think of more, because I recall that there are a lot of other unintentionally funny movies I have seen.
Books:
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
-The Little Prince
-The Mosquito Coast
-20000 Leagues under the Sea
-The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
-The Hobbit
-Life of Pi
Music: Anything in the particular century from 1845 to 1945 (specifically 1870's to 1920's) It might seem like arbitrary dates, so I'll specifically say the "Romantic Period" of classical music, and early Jazz/Swing.
-Composers: Debussy, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Seans, Sarasate, Vivaldi and Bach (who are actually not within my music time period), Respighi, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, (from now onward Jazz) Glenn Miller, Gershwin, Miles Davis.
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