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Do You Ever Pause a Movie.. to Imagine?


It's rare, but I love to do it.. Create my own scenes, perhaps future scenes (and then seeing how it actually plays out).. Usually inserting myself and editing it to expand the imagination. Sometimes I'll wonder about a remake, and how it would be made modern.

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I don't think I've ever done this, but it does sound appealing/interesting in some way.

I'd have to get in to it though/be in the moment with the movie, as this may not work on a more superficial thinking level.

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Yes but not if I'm watching it for the first time.

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Yes, I do that, but not typically movies I am watching for the first time. For example someone commits a blunder and I insert myself not making the blunder.

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Yeah, it's a better idea to do it the 2nd time, but the moment usually forces me to imagine for a few minutes.

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It's fun to speculate the road not taken, to evaluate the chain of events that could change things drastically.

One genre where this is always possible, at least in my case, are murder mystery films such as "Clue" (1985).

Each viewing is a new opportunity to explore all the subtle details lurking in the background.

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Yeah. Not even intentionally. Sometimes I have to pause because I'm already imagining things - my mind likes to add and edit all on its own. I think, because I'm a writer, it's just my nature to re envision other people's stories.

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I'm an author, and a reason I stop a movie is so I can write before something happens that might sway my train of thought.

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I generally do my imagining after the movie is finished, I cant say I pause.

If I really like the movie, I imagine more things going on in that setting. If I'm disappointed but intrigued, I imagine how it could have been done better. And very rarely, I imagine what I'd like to do to someone who made a really painful piece of crap!

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I do that too. The only time I pause is if I can't wait!

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Sometimes, I find that I tend to like the first half or two thirds of a film over the endings. This post also reminds me of people who get all butthurt when their fave TV series gets axed without a resolution. Can't they just dream one up on their own?

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