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The problem with silent or subtitled movies is you have to devote your full attention to them. I watch a lot of stuff while I'm at the computer or drawing board but there's no way to do that if you have to read all the dialoge.


Count Gamula, this is not a critic, just an opinion. I can't really understand how you can "watch" a movie while making anything else. Probably because my family didn't have a TV set, from 12 to 40 I ALWAYS watched movies in theaters, and now, with a TV, a computer, and a lot of other things, I'm still totally unable to watch a movie if I'm not in the same condition than in a movie theater. I never eat or drink during a movie, for instance, I only look the screen, and I have a cask so I heard only the soundtrack. Even the phone is disconnected.
You're not alone in your case, of course. I was a film critic and some of my colleagues wrote notes during the showing of a movie. I never made it. And after that, when I told them about a particular shot, or sometimes even a short sequence in the movie, well... they simply didnt' remember it - simply because they didn't look at the screen !