My Friday Night
Wow, it has been so long since I’ve posted on here. I guess I just sort of let it slip my mind for a little while and found other things to be a little more interesting with the weather getting nicer here. Anyways, I’m going to try to post a little more often.
Anyways, Friday night I went out with D and some of her friends from work. We met at a bar downtown before going to see the new Indiana Jones flick. ….. And now this post is taking a completely different turn than I had originally intended. Originally, I was going to post about how much I didn’t like the movie and that the coolest part of going to see Crystal Skull was the Dyson Airblade hand-dryers in the men’s restroom.
However, I was just bumming around on one of my forums and found a thread on a review of the Indian Jones. I spent some time reading this and it brought up some something I’ve always noticed but never really given too much thought too until now; how much one’s expectations for a film, effects their review of the film. I know there have been several times that I have gone to a movie expecting it be horrible (most recently Ironman) and I left really enjoying it.
With Indian Jones I went in fully hyped up to see the movie, having been hyped up to see it for several months, and came out of the movie severely disappointed with the film as another installment in the Indiana Jones series. What interests me more is that in the thread I was reading, many people had very low expectations and came out “loving” the film or rather at least liking it. To me it is amazing how we as humans let our expectation influence us so much. And what is even more amazing is that professional movie reviews claim that their expectation of a film don’t influence their review, I sort of doubt that.