What affects you most?
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Topic: What affects you most?
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Subject: What affects you most?
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 16:45
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An interesting question I thought of yesterday. Which of the 3 hits you harder? |
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 16:47
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I'm a huger music fan than a literature and movie fan, but I think movies and books tend to hit me harder.
No vote, yet.
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 16:50
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Movies by far.
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 16:52
Using the wrong "effect/affect." I know that I should probably pick a good album on a music site, but in all honesty a good movie can move emotions in me that I've never known before. Don't get me wrong, good albums and books are also very effective (as well as good video games,) but I don't think I'll witness any form of art as mind-blowing as the last 30 minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 16:55
Fixed.   |
UndercoverBoy wrote:Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 16:55
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I love all three for the effects they have on me, but some of the albums I listen to just bring me to tears some of the time. No greater feeling in the world to me. ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 17:13
You never cried with a movie?
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 17:19
| Records, then books. I don't care for films. |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 17:21
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Always the books. Following the advices of a friend, I started to read Ivo Andric for a few years and I prefer Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman to any fantastic/SF movie. For some reason, I'm not a cinephile. |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 17:51
| I enjoy all 3, but for me, a good book just is the best. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 17:51
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Movies. Though I prefer musics. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 17:54
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As for the effect they have on me, all three are pretty much on the same level but I just have to pick the great ones. An excellent movie will affect me more than a bad book, for example. ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: Klogg
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 18:06
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I am not a good friend of books, I like reading but it doesn't affects me emotionally, just Graphic Novels. Movies affect me, but I don't watch then frequently. Music is the most abstract of the 3, probably the hardest to affect a person, but it strikes me perfectly. A good album is my choice, by miles. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 18:20
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A good film probably. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 19:13
| I do love a good album, but I'm most stirred by a good movie. |
Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 00:29
I'd say books, movies, then music... it's very close between them all, though, to be honest. Lunar Park hit me extremely hard, as did King's The Shining. I love Blade Runner, 2001, and Office Space is one of my favorite comedies  . Misplaced Childhood effects me greatly, as does PT's...well, any album by PT.
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 00:37
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 01:43
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Hm, wow. This is actually quite difficult. Books are the least, and while they can be powerful and quite moving, its the most difficult for me. For me, its easier to be taken in by a movie than music. But I prefer music. I guess its the loner aspect of me, but with music I can lay down, all lights away, and really "meditate" on the music. Doesn't work at a theater, or even in my room. Maybe its the looking at a screen thing. When I get deep into the music it takes to me some great places. Good music has to take my vote, though you made me think on this one! |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 07:29
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Good question. Probably three of the greatest things civilization has gifted us with. I'm going to have to go with music as I have so saturated my life with it. Scratch that, when I read read the choices it was album and not music. Since most of my books are cooking, politics, and humor, they often don't affect me as a whole. Music doesn't affect me as much on the album level except for concept albums. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 07:44
Besides females' wotsits. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 08:52
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Definitely a book; it leaves the imagination free. I have cried many times when reading a book; this rarely happens to me in a movie (though it has happened to me, of all movies, in the old "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" by Walt Disney).
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 08:55
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Music. Music both augments and explains my emotions and thoughts more than anything else. I hesitated on movies for a second, but thinking about it, how many movies would go from excellent to neutered if the score was taken away? Music wins. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 16:38
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 16:40
| All three can touch me enormously. Maybe music a bit more. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 16:43
It's not that strange. Snow White was one of the best Disney movies ever. The first they made at Disney, and it has some touching moments for sure. It was still all very fresh, new and exciting in those days, back then.
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 16:48
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 16:48
I mainly watch comedies so I don't really watch heart-wrenching movies ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 16:50
Watch Grave of the Fireflies and be prepared to cry like a baby. Saddest movie I've ever seen.  |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 16:54
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Definitely a book. No album has ever made me cry, but every single Victor Hugo novel has.
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 17:03
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Posted By: Anirml
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 17:03
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Nothing ever comes close to Supper's Ready or Close to the Edge. Music then books and movies a few times. ------------- 
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 17:12
| I had the best time of my life affectevly when I watche Lawrence of Arabia, many a-ha moments occured while i watched it (so it is here Spielberg, Coppola, Scorcese and Lukas have learnd their trick). |
Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 17:12
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All three. Only a few instances of any of them have ever made me cry, though. I admit, being moved to tears via art is...ethereal for me. Sling Blade and Grave of the Fireflies do it, for films. Flowers for Algernon did it for literature And Tom Wait's Small Change did it. |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 17:43
Am I terrible because that didn't make me cry, but I did "sexy cry" over Toy Story 3? It did have a very profound effect on me, though, more so than almost any other film.
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 17:44
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There is some music which can make me cry too, like for example the fourth movement of Mahler's ninth symphony. And Bach makes me cry for sheer beauty. But nothing compares to some tears I shed when reading books. When I read how little Nell died in Dicken's "The Old Curiosity Shop", for example - I wept like a waterfall then.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 17:51
Yes.....quite. This is what happens when you respond to a post that you haven't read properly.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 17:53
That's not true, it's pronounced tamber. -------------
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 17:56
This post puzzled me for a while. But then....... Well done...  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 18:04
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 18:31
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though I listen to much more music and watch much more movies, a good book is still the most affecting medium for me |
Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 18:40
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Books definitely. And the writing styles of Thomas Harris and Jon Krakauer top the list.
Music and movies - too many variables thrown in (actors, directors, musicians, producers, etc,) Books - the writer and your imagination (okay, the editor - but that's only one)
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Posted By: Anirml
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 18:41
Books  why you listen to music then?
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Posted By: June
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 20:19
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Albums. Easily. Tearing up as we speak over a song I've been listening to for a while now and just took out the lyrics. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 20:22
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snow mold a-CHOO |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 20:29
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So any of you booksters done The Real Frank Zappa book yet?
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 22:17
What an absurd question. -------------
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 22:19
One of my top 3 books of all time. |
Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 22:40
Thanks pal. I tend to ignore comments like that, but it's refreshing to hear someone else voicing my own thoughts.
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: July 27 2010 at 23:48
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I honestly can't choose between books and music. But movies are way far behind either, in my mind.
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