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How your expectations colour your experiences

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I was thinking primarily of entertainment (movies, games, books, music), but I suppose it could apply to a lot of things... But do you generally find that you:

1. Have high expectations for things and are often disappointed, and also have low expectations for other things and come away delightfully surprised.

~or~

2. Expect to like things, and find reasons to back up your expectations, and therefore have made up your mind before receiving all of the facts, and in the reverse, expect not to like other things and come up with reasons to dislike something, having essentially made up your mind ahead of time to dislike it.

 

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I went into "Van Helsing" totally expecting to like it. I enjoyed "The Mummy" I loved Universal movie monsters, and I think Hugh Jackman generally rules.It seemed like a can't miss movie.

Perhaps it was a kind of self-hypnosis, because as my brother and I left the theater, we both were saying "well that was pretty good. Maybe not as good as I expected, but I dug it."

As we chatted casually about the movie walking to the car, over the course of about four minutes both of our opinions shifted to (I think the more natural state) "damn that movie sucked big time."

 

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Honestly, how many times do you actually go to something and expect NOT to like it? If you do, why do you go?

Excepting certain cases of being dragged in a group to see a movie  or the rare case of a film so inept it's enjoyable for it's overwhelming flaws I usually don't see any entertainment that I don't expect to at least get a kick out of.

 

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xhonzi said:

How your expectations colour your experiences

What, you're from England now?

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"If you lower the bar, its easier to jump over."

I'd like to think I came up with that, but its my opinion on a lot of things. For anything to excel, including yourself, you've got to be realistic about what to expect, maybe even less so.

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TV's Frink said:

xhonzi said:

How your expectations colour your experiences

What, you're from England now?

 Um.... I dont get this - care to explain???

Comments like that will force me to put a pro-Britannia comment on my sig!

 

:p

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cutnshut said:

TV's Frink said:

xhonzi said:

How your expectations colour your experiences

What, you're from England now?

 Um.... I dont get this - care to explain???

xhonzi is from the USA, but he accidentally (in my opinion) used the British spelling of "color."  I was making fun of his typo, nothing more.

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hehe I spell it color too, its one less letter to write

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TV's Frink said:

xhonzi said:

How your expectations colour your experiences

What, you're from England now?

What what, are you from the colonies now, gov'nor?

Pip pip.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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TheBoost said:

Honestly, how many times do you actually go to something and expect NOT to like it? If you do, why do you go?

Excepting certain cases of being dragged in a group to see a movie  or the rare case of a film so inept it's enjoyable for it's overwhelming flaws I usually don't see any entertainment that I don't expect to at least get a kick out of.

I often find myself in this situation: Expect to be disappointed, hope to be thrilled. 

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Lost Season 6
etc... 

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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xhonzi said:

TV's Frink said:

xhonzi said:

How your expectations colour your experiences

What, you're from England now?

What what, are you from the colonies now, gov'nor?

Pip pip.

Can I get a what what?

(no, not really)

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I went to see a movie once and my wife and I had had a fight.  I hated the movie.  Still do.  Is that the fault of the movie, or did I take too much baggage into the theatre with me?

I think comedies can be especially effected by this.  Depending on your mood when you see the movie, the same movie can either be really funny or fall really flat.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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I wish the OT Star Wars movies never existed, cos then i might be able to watch the prequel movies and give them a fair go.

 

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xhonzi said:

TV's Frink said:

xhonzi said:

How your expectations colour your experiences

What, you're from England now?

What what, are you from the colonies now, gov'nor?

Pip pip.

 what's pip pip all about? are you from the clankers now?

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cutnshut said:

I wish the OT Star Wars movies never existed, cos then i might be able to watch the prequel movies and give them a fair go.

 

What?!  That's like saying, "I wish they'd never made the vaccine because then I might be able to give Polio a fair go"!

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cutnshut said:

I wish the OT Star Wars movies never existed, cos then i might be able to watch the prequel movies and give them a fair go.

 

without the OT, there'd be no pt.   

I think my expectations effected how I enjoyed Licensed To Kill.   I was expecting to enjoy a classic style Bond movie, instead what I got was much darker and I turned out  hating it. 

I'm  sure my expectations color my experiences every time an old movie is remade.    Also true for sequels.   I think it happened for alot of people with Godfather 3.  

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Warbler said:

cutnshut said:

I wish the OT Star Wars movies never existed, cos then i might be able to watch the prequel movies and give them a fair go.

 

without the OT, there'd be no pt.   

 Haha! you fell into my trap!

Stay tuned for the next exciting episode of "You've been Cutnshut !"

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xhonzi said:


I went to see a movie once and my wife and I had had a fight.  I hated the movie.  Still do.  Is that the fault of the movie, or did I take too much baggage into the theatre with me?

Depends on what movie it was. Is the general consensus that it is bad?

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IT'S A TRAP!!!

Too late.  :( 

Depends on what movie it was. Is the general consensus that it is bad?

I honestly don't remember which movie it was.  I DO, however, remember discussing it with a bud and he really liked it... so I thought maybe it had to do with my frame of mind going in moreso than the actual quality of the movie.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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If you don't remember what movie it was, I guess you can give it a fair shake next time.

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xhonzi said:

I went to see a movie once with my wife.  I hated the movie.  Still do.  Is that the fault of the movie, or did I take too much baggage into the theatre with me?

 I Hope your wife doesnt see that comment!

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If you don't remember what movie it was, I guess you can give it a fair shake next time.

I don't remember what movie it was, but I bet if you asked me about it (because you just saw it, or something) I would give you the opinion I formed that night.  Even if it's not fair.

And my point is this: we're not objective observers.  EVERY movie we see, we see subjectively.  And the origin of our subjection is all over the map, day to day, so the movies/songs/whathaveyou that we think we like are more of a reflection of what we were feeling at the time than any objective thoughts we had about it.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!