There are some movies where you barely have to concentrate like Road Trip, or American Pie, because the only plot is teenagers drinking lots, trying to impress their mates and getting laid. Then there are films like Inception, where even though you have watched the film in its entirety, you exit the cinema not knowing whether you are in the second level of dreaming someone's trying to plant an idea in your head, so you become sceptical of anyone that approaches you with ice cream, and you have to leg it across Leicester square and literally grab your friend just to make sure he is real.
It's films like Inception that shouldn't just be certified 12 or 15, everyone is used to boobs and swearing nowadays. When you have friends round, you don't have time to read all the back covers of every film to explain each one, but everyone does know what kind of film there in the mood for. If you certified Inception, 'Mind Fuck', then you immediately know that this is the kind of film where you're not gonna know what dimension you're in, or if you are alive or not when it finishes. You need to be mentally prepared for those kind of films and instead you may just be in the mood to watch a bit of Notting Hill (guys we all know its our guilty pleasure really, you can only watch the Matrix so many times), sat down with your sweet and sour Chinese takeaway, after a long day at work.
So I propose a new way of labeling films (I have only thought of a few above but you get the jist) a way that instantly makes sense from all the way over on the couch, maybe even colour code the sides of the films, so when you go into BlockBuster and you can't make a decision, the decision is almost made for you by colour rather than reading. Most the time I don't really care what I'm watching anyway, as long as it's moving images and it's not The Notebook or P.S. I love you.
It's films like Inception that shouldn't just be certified 12 or 15, everyone is used to boobs and swearing nowadays. When you have friends round, you don't have time to read all the back covers of every film to explain each one, but everyone does know what kind of film there in the mood for. If you certified Inception, 'Mind Fuck', then you immediately know that this is the kind of film where you're not gonna know what dimension you're in, or if you are alive or not when it finishes. You need to be mentally prepared for those kind of films and instead you may just be in the mood to watch a bit of Notting Hill (guys we all know its our guilty pleasure really, you can only watch the Matrix so many times), sat down with your sweet and sour Chinese takeaway, after a long day at work.
So I propose a new way of labeling films (I have only thought of a few above but you get the jist) a way that instantly makes sense from all the way over on the couch, maybe even colour code the sides of the films, so when you go into BlockBuster and you can't make a decision, the decision is almost made for you by colour rather than reading. Most the time I don't really care what I'm watching anyway, as long as it's moving images and it's not The Notebook or P.S. I love you.
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If anyone else has any great, medium or crap ideas then send them to reuben_leon@hotmail.co.uk and Ill whack them up.
If anyone else has any great, medium or crap ideas then send them to reuben_leon@hotmail.co.uk and Ill whack them up.
Great concept. Maybe the classification could be rolled out to include not just a generic typology but also a bit of a critique, e.g 'funny for Steve Martin' 'don't bother' or 'Warning, contains Adam Sandler'
ReplyDeleteOn a different note I don't think any blog post is harmed by ending with the words P.S. I love you.