[dmaul1114]

I have no issue following most movies, and of course you can re watch them. Just 90-120 minutes for most, vs. much more time to re-read a book etc.

I just find it superior personally as I'm more in the camp that a story teller needs to get the story to you exactly the way the want you to experience it. Books leave too much to the imagination--but I know that's what you and others love about them.

With film you have the words (dialogue) but also the images, the voices, the emotions etc. portraying things as the director intends and most everyone watching it should have a similar emotional reaction on a scene by scene basis etc.

But that's just me. I'm a very visual person, and not very imaginative/creative so I get more out of a great movie than I do a great book--though I enjoy both.

Similarly, I hate abstract art. I want to see an artist get his message across to nearly everyone who sees it, not make something that gives different experiences to different people.

So that's kind of where I'm coming from on my appreciation of art, movies, books etc.