movie making styles

I concentrate on the story. But, I'm not educated in things like technique, so it goes over my head. But, for people who are interested, I don't think it takes away from the pleasure. It's just a different way of finding pleasure. The only way I can think that would take away from enjoying a movie is if someone goes around nitpicking every single detail to find something wrong and ignoring the story altogether. Like noticing a really good angle in a shot (sorry, like I said, I don't know much about this) could be a person's way of adding a different element to their pleasure. Even being able to say that the story was worth telling but they could have found a better way to film it could still be form of enjoying it. Some people get enjoyment out of analysis. I do, but I analyze stories and characters. And, even find flaws, but I also find good things in a work. But, when you notice mistakes in technique and let that totally override anything good in the story or performances and say the movie completely fails because of how it was shot, then I would say the pleasure is being taken away. If one aspect of a film is bad, but most of the others are good, then it's taking away to ignore everything good just to harp on the bad is taking away the pleasure.

Sometimes I find it adds more to the movie. Anyone with any kind of stage or screen background does this. I was fascinated with the time, energy and technique behind training the horses in Planet of the Apes, for instance. A horse will not allow a man in a monkey suit anywhere near them, much less on them naturally. It's computer technology now that fascinates me.