A friend found this on Engrish.com. Hilarious!

My Blinker

There's a logical fallacy here somewhere, but I'm not sure what it's called. We all make this mistake, getting upset at the actions of one, but feeling justified when we do the same thing because we know our reason.

Example
When I drive, I go nuts when people don't use their blinkers. My wife is always telling me to "calm the road-rage" and to "pipe down, they can't hear you anyway." Changing lanes, coming to a corner, whatever the reason, you have a blinker so please use it! Or do they?

That's where I come in. Lately, my left blinker has stopped working. Suddenly, I'm the one changing lanes and turning corners without signaling but feel justified because my blinker doesn't work. How many of those people had a reason that just didn't know about, but were equally as justified for their actions?

It happens all the time, day in, and day out. You're in the store approaching a register when someone jumps in front of you, cutting you off, so that they get through first. Makes you mad, no? Or you're taking a nap when the phone rings, and you go through all the effort to answer the phone only to find out it's a wrong number. Furious! But how often are we the ones cutting people off because we're in a hurry. Who knows what trouble we've caused someone when we call a wrong number?

That's where a little patience and consideration come in. We don't know the story behind someone's actions, but we do know our own. They don't know our story, but they know their own. My blinker has reminded me that this kind of thing happens. I should be slower to anger and judgement and quicker to give people the benefit of the doubt, a little slack. We could all benefit from the lesson of My Blinker.

What classifies a 'good movie'?

There are many different aspects of a movie to be considered when concluding if a movie was actually good or not. Most people will ask if a movie was any good, not simply if you liked it or not. But good is such a relative term!! Let's break it down.

For a movie to be classified as good, it needs to have certain characteristics.

1. Rewatchability- First and foremost, a good movie needs to have rewatchability or the ability to re-watch a movie and get further enjoyment. Some movies are good to be seen only once. That doesn't mean it was painful to sit through the first time, but that future viewings will not have a very high return on investment, the law of diminishing returns. Most comedies seem to shoot for high rewatchability.
2. Quotability- When a movie provides one-liners and quotes that you can use, it was a good flick. Dumb and Dumber is a great example of a movie with good quotability.
3. Quality- The overall satisfaction that one leaves a movie with: believable characters, intense fight scenes, well placed jokes, emotion, and a smooth flowing plot. I'm not one to really break down the cinematic elements or level of drama because I have no background or experience in acting. But there is a general satisfied feeling that comes to you at the end of a movie. Even a sci-fi movie has to have consistency and quality to make it believable.
4. Afterglow- When a movie makes you think or evaluate your life, values, and relationships without insulting you, we call that the afterglow. The ability of a movie to make you want to be better or make a change is important too.

I think that these 4 categories pretty much cover the aspects that make up a good movie and serperate it from just an average film. You can like a movie, but without certain levels of any or every one of these, you shouldn't really call it a good movie.

A little change

I decided to mix it up a little. This blog has changed in name and format. It has become my general blog allowing me to add thoughts about any and every thing.

I have also created a new blog specifically for sports, sportsfanalysis.blogspot.com.