I think a large amount of being good has to do with how much the movie draws you in, makes you connect with the characters, makes you invested with the movie, is is bassed almost entirely on the suspension of disbelief, because lets face it, we all live fairly boring lives. and thus to entertain us, movies, and TV and books present us with interesting situations, which are interesting to us, because they are so unusual, and thus by definition fairly unrealistic. Thus the mark of a good show is how much it can draw you into the world, and make you look past how unreal it may be, but there are different ways, and different levels of doing this
good shows ave these elements of interest, however not much else, explosions, hugely different worlds, life or death situations, these shows drive have a plot composed entirely of completely unrealistic situation, but you go with it, because it is so much more interesting than your own life. My guilty pleasure of choice is nikita, which features a host of explosions and girls kicking some serious ass, but not much else, better good shows fully embrace their own unreality, (usually through humour see castle) so you forgive them, because and embrace the show, just for going where no other show dares to go, (in bending suspension of disbelief waaay to far)
Good movies feature talent. These are the serious movies the one winning the awards (I cannot even remember the last time a comedy was nominated for a best picture oscar) Movies like The Social Network, The Iron Lady which you sit back and go wow after you've watched it, movies that you could study for english, that have deeply layered symbolism, that make a point, and don't bang you on the head with it. Instead of using unrealistic situations, they use the raw talent, depth and exceptional film-making to draw you in, make you connect with the movie
However bring me to my original point of this blogpost GOOD movies (and my personal favourite) however do both, ie they have both technically brillent, but have interesting things like explosions, Sherlock Holmes is a GOOD movie, while the acting was not phenomenal it was certainly very decent, but what really stood out for me was the film making, where you went inside Sherlocks head during a fight, the slow-mo explosions or everyone running (note to all film makers out there, do more of this!) how they took you inside the machinery, it was hilarious and witty and just plain fun to watch. The Tv equivalent of GOOD shows usually ends up as a leaning towards the serialised spectrum with Fringe and Homeland insistently coming to mind (after all when you can suck an audience member in that well, you can basically do what you want with them) and some of the movies do attract a bit of a cult following, I suppose because they are so deep, meaning you can read so much into them, and for such a long time,which can sometimes give them a bad rep but whatever I really enjoy this type
Of course the main purpose of a movie/tv show is usually to entertain, and all of these categories do entertain, in fact most of the stuff I watch I would classify as 'good' especially TV, not because there aren't talented people working in TV, its just that if you have to make a 45min episode practically every week there isn't a whole lot of time to perfect performances and deeply layer an episode
Anyway in completely unrelated news after we watched the movie, we went shopping, were we saw an american horse in myer, more than a bit weird considering its australia day today
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