How your expectations colour your experiences — Page 3

so we're subjective observers then?

which from a certain point of view, would be correct - as we are surrounded by a hammer of strategic marketing and advertising - these are all designed to have a certain impact which are designed to strip away what objectivity there may have been had we known nothing about what we were about to see to create a little subjectivity. However I would think most of the time it is very difficult to predict form this subjectivity.....zzzzzzz.....uh......wait...

zzzzzz.....what was i saying......nevermind

I need some ice-cream :)

xhonzi said:

cutnshut said:

FanFiltration said:

 I know that I went into the theater knowing I was NOT going to like "Star Trek" 2009.  Funny thing is that I found it very enjoyable.

Exactly how i felt! the exact opposite experience to all the prequel star wars films....! although i do remember uttering "Xhonzi is a little *hite! as i left from seeing "Attack of the Clones" for the first time.

Nice.

um....actually i wasnt that keen on the Dark Knight either but i like "The Dark Knight Remixed" By Jorge i think ..... its pretty clever what he did.

 I'll have to check that one out.  Why so clever?

 Ok well if you really want to know why I thought it was so clever, I shall try to explain....

Geez!! why cant u just take my word for it that it was clever the thing that he did with it! whatever i say its never enough!!!!

cutnshut said:

so we're subjective observers then?

which from a certain point of view, would be correct

THAT'S JUST YOUR OPINION!

I need some ice-cream :)

 That, however, is a universal truth.

Well i could say you subjectively gave me that opinion by your prior statement. How do you respond to that sir?

THAT'S JUST YOUR OPINION!

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I've seen the last Sherlock Holmes movie a while ago. I went with four friends, and while in the lobby, we tried to decide democratically what to see.

I wanted to see Jim Carrey's Christmas Carol, but we ended up seeing Holmes. The trailer had not impressed me, so I wasn't expecting to like it. But I did, I found it an enjoyable movie.

I've often realized how if I enter the cinema with the feeling that it's gonna suck, I end up liking it. Though at times I'm aware of this while I'm making the decision, and so I think "If I lower my expectations I'll like the movie, but then if I THINK I'm gonna like it, it means I'm probably not going to..." and so on endlessly.

You know what I think? I try to have NO expectations whatsoever. Empty my mind (which is not a hard task at all) before entering a cinema or opening a book or listening to a record for the first time.

I think it is very difficult (my opinion xhonzi!!! just before you mention it!) to not have any expectations about the movie you are going to go see. What I mean is - why did you choose to pick that movie out of all the others on offer? what made this movie stand out from all the others? - you've already made a subjective opinion? right? why would you want to see a movie you dont think you will like?

Therefore unless you can choose a movie and go and see it totally at random, you are watching it subjectively? - and then after the main title is displayed you form some kind of opinion about what it is and what you think it might be about - maybe even before the titles have appeared.

oh i give up! this hurts my feeble brain!

back to piloting my tie me thinks...