Movie World

Since the time of theatre play to beta max, to VHS and then to high definition graphic of VCD and lately DVD, movies do continue to offer us a kind of entertainment that simply interests the viewers in their own prospective way; may it be gore, action, suspense thriller, science fiction, romance, adventure, documentary, horror, anime, comedy and more. From time to time, as we the viewers crave for more exciting films, so did the film makers develop movies beyond our imagination graphics, special sound effects and so on. No question that the film makers always do have a lot of ways to lure the viewers of such stylish and out of this world fantasy movie that cope up with the people’s standard on the movie they wanted to watch.

We all know how much money is involved in this kind of business. Nowadays, they would spend millions of dollars just to recruit a super star actor or actress alone that the other crew film members are still not included. We are aware of the fact that if the film does hit the top of the chart, the casts would definitely earn twice as much the money. That is if the movie goes well, for it all depends on the viewers. As stated earlier “people do crave for more exciting films” and with this, we ask ourselves “why in the first place do people watch movie”? And in relation to this question which then brings to the next one and that is---“what good reasons can be given in watching a movie”?

Other people would say that the reason they wanted to watch movie is simply to have fun, release tension, do away with boredom or simply kill time. But generally, it is a simple act of escape. A pure escape from the reality of the world we live in; other people would want horror films, and or fantasy with romance that has happy ending. In short, we would like to contain the feelings of such what the show brings to us. Whether it is hatred or laughter; we plainly would like to divert our attention to this kind of stuffs. Although other people would simply not... [continues]

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