How do you do with movies?

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Oddly enough I tend to see right through the plots of most movies I see.

As I am Autistic I think this may be due more to the fact that the plots are deliberately built transparently to pander to the masses, than to me being a particularly astute movie watcher!

Aside from my obsession (since discovering my AS) with movies that explore aspects of Autism, I enjoy a broad range of movie genres.

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Poor concentration and short term memory get in the way. When I saw Avatar despite me enjoying it I had a whole other movie going on in my mind. I do sometimes have a problem of following a movie.

How? How do I not think of 10 things at once?

I can't tell you, I'm afraid. My mind focuses entirely on the movie (if it's good) after about 10 minutes and everything else just fades into the background.

Sadly, commercial breaks completely mess it up. I hate commercial breaks.

i have to mention the sensory aspect of the cinema- sticky floors from the slob sitting behind me who spills his drink, the noise from adjacent halls leaking through the walls of flimsily-constructed shoebox multiplex theatres, the dimness of the screen due to lower-wattage projection bulbs so the theatre-owner can save a few bucks, the noise of fellow patrons slurping their drinks and munching their popcorn and gossiping so loudly that i can't hear the actors mumbling their lines- why can't movie theatres have supertitles??? in addition, there is the technical issue of judder -

[definition: a sniglet or neologism- a combination of jitter and shudder, a phenomenon of 24 frame-per-second motion picture film projection where there is a noticeable "visual vibration" when large objects pan across the screen too fast or too slowly]

judder makes me sick to my stomach, it gives me that jittery/fuzzy feeling similar to being flashed by a strobe light- like a seizure will happen unless i close my eyes NOW! it is one of the reasons i haven't been to a movie in almost a decade. when watching movies at home on anything larger than 27," i get the same problem. right now i use a "120-hertz" flat panel which has an anti-judder feature, this makes watching movies a joy for me now. no more sticky floors, stumbling in the dark to find a seat.

i turn on the subtitles because i have difficulty understanding the mumbling actors these days, when they are not being drowned-out by all the explosions, etc. btw, my hearing is normal per audio exam- my brain just isn't made to handle more than one clearly-spoken line of dialogue at a time- watching movies without subtitles or movies directed by robert altman who liked using overlapping dialogue, is out of the question for me.

I never use nonverbal communication to see the plot of a film.
It is easy enough to follow the plot from the actions of the actors.
It does sometimes make me fail to see why a movie might have emotional value.

I follow plot [IF there is plot, far too many character / feel movies around]. I get angry if the idiots miss where the plot OBVIOUSLY is going, applaud if they pull a sophisticated switch and outdo the expected plot.

But I often do not rdecognize an actor from one film to the next, and, yes, too many actors in the same film often look confusingly identical.

Nobody wants to watch movies with me, and I can rarely follow the plot.

This is because I don't pay attention to the plot and I point out every single factual inaccuracy in the film. I may be the only person in the world who cares if a license plate on a car in the movie has the wrong amount of numbers or the alpha-numeric code isn't in the right order. NTs just don't want to hear about it.

When it happens to me, it's usually older black & white films, and it's always some average white male in a gray suit with dark hair and a mustache @_@

Count me in on having trouble following the plot, as well as not being able to differentiate similar-looking characters. I don't watch many movies because it's just too hard to keep everything straight without taking written notes. Doesn't sound like a good use of my very limited leisure time, LOL.

I generally don't have too much problem following the plot, then again it was a problem when I was a kid. I do have problems with similar characters though.

How can you think at 10 things at ONCE!?
Personally I found a lot of movie to be boring and understimulating.

Watching movies is all I do...if I'm not playing a video game, but to me games are just like movies. I never usually have problems following plots and I usually watch a movie repeatedly until I can watch it in my head (and that is no exaggeration I assure you.) In many ways I suppose I love movies and games so much because they make more sense than the real world, and by that I mean, in movies there is always a cause and effect, this happens so that this other thing can happen. I guess they feel more structured and less chaotic than real life so I take confort in that aspect. Oh, a good example is when I'm watching Dragon Ball, I know the rules and laws of that world so I always know what is happening and why. Hope that makes sense

Hollywood Movies..suck! the I watched the Matrix again recently and like everyone was wowed by the idea's/ effects and acting etc..until the end when they kiss..and i thought "why!?!?" why spoilt a decent movie with a kiss when it's got nothin to do with love/ romance?!?! !?

most movies/ films are full of popular people and no-one with Autism could ever achieve their standards so why bother watching them?

i like Shawshank and maybe the Docu - film Touching the Void..but besides that..nah!! !