Bagel and a movie: Movies on ipad?

Monday, April 12, 2010

Movies on ipad?

Dana Stevens at Slate just wrote a piece on using the ipad to watch movies...Sounds fairly thumbs down to me. Every time I think about this thing--or read a new commentary--all I can think is, why not just get an itouch and do the same thing--with more portability?

6 comments:

amateur idler said...: Amen. Seems a little silly.
I just ran across your blog and must say, very cool. For some reason, although I have no disinclination to do so, I've never been to a movie by myself. I'd actually like to try it now - I think I tend to let my fellow moviegoers opinions dictate my own. It might be interesting to see what my own head comes up with.
Thanks.; May 27, 2010 at 1:17 AM
Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn said...: try it, who knows? it may not be for everyone, but i love it--gets me in a meditative frame of mind that i really enjoy.; June 1, 2010 at 9:45 AM
Rhybo said...: I have to say, I'm glad I'm not the only one. Granted I do not see as many movies as I would like and I am usually with my wife and friends but back in college I did see a couple on my own and it was sedative... in a good way. The first one I saw on my own was Wall-E, which may be an odd choice, but I remember being suprised when the movie was over because I had to come back to reality. I felt born anew and for a few brief hours I had a different but exciting perspective on everything.

That was my exhausting way of saying that I'm quite empathetic with your experience, and thanks for talking about it!

I also noticed you are a freelancer so forgive me for any spelling or grammatical headaches I've caused thus far.; July 20, 2010 at 7:51 AM
amberr. said...: So true... I would get one, but when my big brother let me use his once, it took me three min. to figure out how to unlock it hahaha.; August 6, 2010 at 11:43 PM
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Welcome to bagel and a movie

I had the normal upbringing with regard to movies, which is to say I went occasionally but nobody, including me, made too big a deal out of them. That changed in my mid-twenties, when I lived, for a brief and unhappy year, in Chicago. I knew few people, didn’t have a lot of work, was lonely, and needed to entertain myself. I discovered that I loved going to movies alone. That they left me in a contemplative, introspective state of mind that I really enjoyed.

When I moved to New York and began freelancing, I found that going to movies helped me write. I’d review my notes on a story, go to a movie, come back, sit down and the story—which had nothing at all to do with the movie—would just pour out. Maybe I was letting my subconscious work while the rest of my brain enjoyed itself. Maybe it was that contemplative state of mind I was talking about. Who knows? The only thing I really knew for sure was that it worked.

When I was writing my first book, I often saw a movie every morning as a prelude to the afternoon’s work. That meant I saw A LOT of movies, some great, some awful. You can’t be too picky when you’re seeing movies at that pace. My favorite movie experience during that time was when I went to see “Lord of the Rings.”

I had not read the books. It was long. I hadn’t read any reviews—I almost never read reviews (too many spoilers, and the critics’ views have a way of worming their way into your brain). I wasn’t totally thrilled about it, but I had few other choices. It was lunchtime, and on the way I stopped, on impulse, at Murray’s and got a sesame bagel with whitefish salad. And I picked up my customary enormous diet coke on the way in.

Well. The movie was beautiful—it was shot in New Zealand—and enormously entertaining. It had Ian Mackellan in it (a big plus), and the bagel with whitefish salad and (it almost goes without saying) the diet coke were sublime. And it was a LONG movie. So I really got to relish the experience. It was, in short…perfection. And that, my friends, is how this blog--which is, in essence, a movie lover's diary--got its name.

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