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Authentically_Me
2019-02-17 20:59:01 (UTC)

Nostalgia

10:00pm

Today I was feeling rather nostalgic, I am currently over at Diane's. We were talking about old movies that scared us half to death as kids as well as new movies that are either reboots of tv shows and movies we grew up on. We had a long interesting debate about whether or not an old tv show/ movie that was being rebooted can truly be done correctly and give you the same feeling you had as a kid when you saw the original or if no matter how hard the producers, actors, directors, and editors try it will never be the same.

I personally feel that while they can reboot a very good movie or show well and give you a similar feeling as when you saw it as a kid that they cannot give you that exact same feeling. I told her that I think the reason why this is has largely to do with our bias on these types of reboots. Let's take the new live action beauty and the beast for example. While i enjoyed the movie and felt like they gave us a lot of what we expected when we saw it they still fell a little short. And I really believe it's because we as the viewers who grew up seeing the original animated movie are not only biased towards the original but we also have such large expectations that they can never actually meet. I really did enjoy the live action beauty and the beast and I felt the "be our guest" scene in particular was spectacular and really meet my expectations of it. But at the same time I wasn't happen with some of the character choices in that movie.

Currently we are watching an old horror movie that terrorified Diane as a kid and we began discussing why it has such a low rating. I told her it's because on social media platforms you have younger and younger people that get on those platforms and rate the movies and they don't take into account that when some of these movies came out it was years ago, so what was cutting edge back then is going to look fake as shit today. and what was a new and amazing idea has by now been done a million times. so of course the younger people today aren't going to take that into account and will instead give it a low rating.

I'm not sure why I decided to do a diary entry on this topic today, I really haven't done anything eventful or interesting recently so I guess i figured I should share at least a little something to keep me in the habit of writing at least once a day. who know's maybe something will happen to me later tonight and I'll have something to share I guess we will have to see




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