What do you search for?

I like movies that are entertaining and have a happy ending. I like fantasy, like The Lord of the Rings series, because I'm still a child at heart, so I like wizards and elves and all that good stuff. I also like to watch good romance movies and stories about people who overcome obstacles to come out ok. Just about any movie that makes me feel good. I don't care for ones with lots of violence or bad language or real deep stories that are depressing.

I usually only watch family entertainment, I have 4 young children, its nice usually when there is a lesson for them to learn from the movie. They usually are full of questions after a good family movie.

Cinema was originally a method of recording history, which then developed into an entertainment for the masses, and then into an art form. When I watch a film, the first and most important thing is the story, which should contain a few plot twists, good dialogue and a beginning and end. Add in some good direction, cinematography and a decent score, and you've got a good film. Neither Hollywood nor Bollywood have ever taken cinema to be artistic, but to be entertainment. The artistic and stylised approach to cinema has always been developed by the independant film makers, with the possible exception of Eisenstein, whose films were made for the state, and for propagandist ends. He did, though, redefine many movie ideals, and, of course, famously devised the suspense aspect of a pram rolling down stairs, which has been stolen by many later directors. Many of the films made as art are relatively unwatchable, and tend to disenfranchise the viewer. Films such as Bergmans 'Seventh Seal', Polanskis 'Repulsion' & Goddards 'Sauve qui peut' may contain many great and stylish moments, which later directors have taken from, but are bleeding awful to watch. Alternatively, such directors as Hitchcock, Almodovar, Reed & Lynch have managed to embrace both the artistic and the storytelling aspects of cinema, and created true masterpieces, Unfortunately, Hollywood at the moment seems to have completely forgotten the artistic, and storytelling aspects, and are just re-hashing old films and turning out puerile drivel, with all the intelligence of a 10 year old in the playground. Bring back the great days of Humphrey Bogart, or Hollywood will disappear. The Asian film directors and actors are producing the best films around at the present time. Korean horror, Japanese action and Chinese romance are flourishing, and in this modern globalised age, their movies are available for us all to enjoy. Mainland Europe still maintains a number of quality people who appreciate the art of storytelling, and are making good films, though in France, there seems to have been a switch of talent from the big screen to tv. Film can be an art form, but should really be used as a modern tool for recounting stories, just as Fairy Tales, Trobadours, and Mummas Plays were in the past.

I go to cinema halls for movies with tales of life with cinematic narration. I think if I say few of my favorite movies you could make an idea about my film viewing. Bicycle thieves (Vittoria De Sica), Chaplin films, Battleship Potemkin, Seven Samurai & Red Beard (Kurosawa), Decalogue (Kieslovsky), Gabbe (Makhmalbuff)... Lot more are there...lol Thank you Missak, I have seen your sketches in your profile. Liked most of them.

know that some people go for fun and there is some movies that teach you stuffs that you don't know.

If I go to the movies, I prefer the ones that has a fantastic reality, the realistic movies are quite a bit boring for me. I mean, the main reason why I go to the movies is to escape reality in the first place. I want to see something spectacular or out of this world. True, I often complain to my boyfriend that in action scenes of mission impossible and the likes are not realistic and if done in real life, it would probably kill the person, but still I really enjoyed it. But I do see realistic movies if the story is good.

I like to watch light hearted comedies, family entertainers, or romantic movies. I basically like to watch feel good movie like bollywood romantic movies like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and DDLJ. Such movies have drama, comedy, beautifully choregraphed songs, good story, and happy endings which makes it all worthwhile. LOL. Though i am not movie buff as such and watch them only occasionally. Cheers:)

i love more of realistic movies as these are more close to life and does have an impact on our lives, whereas we try to forget the imaginative movies. well if the movies closely reflects my emotions or more close to the situations in my life then i really feel that it is happening to me

I like to escape into fantasy or science fiction but I like it to be a bit challenging intellectually - something that can make me stretch my imagination and my curiosity. I love to write speculative fiction that is based in hard sciences - but I like to also write based on fantasy, building on the mythology our world already has. I like seeing similar work on the screen ;-)

It truly depends what I'm in the mood for..and often I like to mix types of movies. I'll watch an intellectual horror flick on the average movie night for instance. Nearly as often as that I'll watch the fantastic..from fantasy, science fiction..to the things out of comic books. Then, going in sequence to how often I'll watch these movies..I only watch something depicting regular life as half as much as fanatasy. Artistics..classics, historical..period pieces..it truly depends on what they are, and how interesting I find them. I've never had trouble being inside the movie..or any kind of story for that matter. It's automatic..and I switch from different characters points of view. So..for those moments, I am those characters inside my cranium. Helps me as a writer I suppose..and does rather reflect on my style of writing lol.

I'm into all sorts. Because I have a 4 1/2 year old, I mostly watch childrens movies which are fun too. Now and then I get to watch a drama, thriller, action packed, family movie as well, and I don't often watch horror movies, gets to me sometimes! Thrillers I love though and I often imagine myself actually in the movie, acting out the parts LOL Iknow funny and weird but oh well.

I like and appreciate fictitious movies, sci-fi, because they take me to another world and create new feelings. that is why movies made for isnt it?!!

I prefer action, adventure, thriller type and science fiction movies. I watch the movie for the story and character development. Sometimes I guess right about the ending and sometimes not, but to me a movie is for entertainment and not for analyzing.

the movies i can upload from internet,so when i want to load,i will wacth the brief introduction for the movies,and will load the movies i like.i like to the imaginative movies.

Before we head to the theater, we know what movie we're going to see and know a little bit about it from the preview.

when watching movies, it really depends...sometimes I watch a movie coz I like the actors who are in them. Sometimes I watch a movie because it looked interesting in the trailer. Sometimes, it's because it was taken from a book and I'd like to see how it was translated into a movie. Sometimes, I pick a film at random and watch em...

Though I always thought that my tastes in movies were pretty simple, your discussion proves in otherwise! Having read your discussion, I was struggling to come up with the best description of my movie tastes. I generally avoid things that are out and out fantasy, like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, but I did enjoy movies like the Matrix Trilogy immensely, as it provided for a lot of thinking. I loved The Green Mile, American Beauty and movies like The Terminal, Forrest Gump and even a couple of war flicks like Thin Red Line and Saving Private Ryan. I look out for intellectually stimulating movies or those that portray reality as it is, without too much of dramatization.

I like both imaginative and realistic movies as I usually like to watch comedies or suspense thrillers. I also like to watch romantic comedies.

I go to movies when I've got a hardday. So, I can fresh my mind. I never divide the kind of the movies just having fun.

i too like watching movies in my mother tongue and english.i always do search for movies which have happened in real with some action+romance or fiction movies like harry potter of other movies like that.just saw spiderman 3 some days back and it was great.