♣ Choosing movie & anime.

Here are my rules of choosing movie or anime that I'm going to watch.

1. Choose based on the theme or actreess or actor.

It depends on my mood. For example, when I re-watched Gundam Wing and read Final Mission Status, it influenced me to watch military or war or soldier movies. It doesn't have to be 100% exactly like that but the movie has that kind of element. What did I watch? Atonement, The Lucky One, Bourne trilogy, etc. And since I love James McAvoy in Atonement, I watched his other movies such as Penelope, Becoming Jane, Starter for Ten, etc.

2. After that, I'll check the rating.

I'm one of those people who think that considering rating is helpful. Honestly, the reason why I watched Sherlock from BBC was because the rating (It has so many version, doesn't it? But why do I see its rating is high on IMDB?)

3. The last thing I check is the summary.

I personally think that looking for the movie from summary will take so much time. It will help but I don't pay so much attention to it. Most movie whose summary I read, the summary isn't well-written. It's not persuasive enough. 

Those three are points I use for choosing movie that has been released already. If it's not, I usually check the summary and trailer (oh yes, trailer!). The actreess or actor who plays there doesn't matter. The genre doesn't matter. As long as I'm interested to one of those summary or trailer, I (usually) will watch.

Now what about anime? Basically the same. But until this second, I choose anime like this..

1. Poster or artwork.

Seduce my visual first! If the picture is something like Wedding Peach or Sailor Moon (fairy tale, anyone?), you know, pretty and cute girl, I normally don't watch it anymore. My friend asked me, "What's wrong with poster? What does it do?" My theory is it's for promotion, isn't it? Years ago, I found that Harry Potter the 1st and 2nd poster are not better than the rest. If HP were some-times-ago-movie, I wouldn't be interested to watch the 1st and 2nd movie.

2. Rating

3. Summary

That's all. At least those are some criterias that I use. Everybody has different taste or opinion. I realize that some of you may disagree. But yeah, they are mine.

PS. Sailor Moon and Wedding Peach are my chilhood favourite. But if anime nowadays is like that, I don't like it.

Image via Margarita Bloom.