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May. 21st, 2018 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI have now watched Black Panther. It was a perfectly good MCU movie and was doing things other movies haven't.
Sadly, my main takeaway had zero to do with the movie as a work and rather a lot to do with my own disabilities. There were a lot of scenes that I couldn't watch because my eyes and brain couldn't process the movement. On a smaller screen than our TV, I might still be able to, but it's confirmation of something I'd suspected for a while but hoped wasn't happening.
The first time I noticed this sort of problem with a movie in a theater was watching The Last Emperor in college. The last movie I watched in a theater was the first Harry Potter movie. That left me in bed with a migraine for three days.
The last year or two (definitely at least since we got Wonder Woman), I've been less able to get myself to watch superhero DVDs and TV. I'd realized that some of it was that I lost track of what was happening very easily. I just wasn't sure if it was me not paying enough attention or me protecting myself by not paying attention. (Which is a distinction that may not make sense to everybody but is a real thing.)
Watching Black Panther, there were a lot of times when I just had to shut my eyes because the speed of things on the screen hurt. I deliberately left the room during some of the fight scenes.
Watching the movie on my laptop might help since going smaller generally has in the past. There's a limit though as things on my phone screen tend to be too small for me to follow. I don't know. Scott bought the Blu-ray, though, because he wanted the extras and because he perceives a difference in how Blu-rays look/sound that I simply don't.
Given the past progression and the fact that TVs keep getting bigger, I expect I don't have more than a decade left of watching anything on a screen the size of our TV. Even things that are relatively static will probably get to a point of overwhelming me. Wearing an eyepatch in movies bought me a few years of movie watching, so I'll look into getting one.
Sadly, my main takeaway had zero to do with the movie as a work and rather a lot to do with my own disabilities. There were a lot of scenes that I couldn't watch because my eyes and brain couldn't process the movement. On a smaller screen than our TV, I might still be able to, but it's confirmation of something I'd suspected for a while but hoped wasn't happening.
The first time I noticed this sort of problem with a movie in a theater was watching The Last Emperor in college. The last movie I watched in a theater was the first Harry Potter movie. That left me in bed with a migraine for three days.
The last year or two (definitely at least since we got Wonder Woman), I've been less able to get myself to watch superhero DVDs and TV. I'd realized that some of it was that I lost track of what was happening very easily. I just wasn't sure if it was me not paying enough attention or me protecting myself by not paying attention. (Which is a distinction that may not make sense to everybody but is a real thing.)
Watching Black Panther, there were a lot of times when I just had to shut my eyes because the speed of things on the screen hurt. I deliberately left the room during some of the fight scenes.
Watching the movie on my laptop might help since going smaller generally has in the past. There's a limit though as things on my phone screen tend to be too small for me to follow. I don't know. Scott bought the Blu-ray, though, because he wanted the extras and because he perceives a difference in how Blu-rays look/sound that I simply don't.
Given the past progression and the fact that TVs keep getting bigger, I expect I don't have more than a decade left of watching anything on a screen the size of our TV. Even things that are relatively static will probably get to a point of overwhelming me. Wearing an eyepatch in movies bought me a few years of movie watching, so I'll look into getting one.
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Date: 2018-05-24 04:08 pm (UTC)