Pick one: movies or music

[pete's montreux]

I've always had movies higher than music on the totem pole of importance. I'd feel awkward if I was in a situation or conversation where I hadn't seen the movie that was being talked about. I watch movies constantly, It's like my fuel. I watch two a night, sometimes three.

If someone put a gun to my head and made me choose, I'd pick music. Music, to me, is timeless, and I can get around to it whenever. I don't think It's as important to listen to a new album as it is to watch a new movie, but I can live without movies, I can't live without music.

Don't get me wrong, I love movies, I think everyone here knows that, and a lot of people will say the same thing, but if it came down to it, I'd choose music.

[AtomSmasher]

I enjoy both so much. I'd have to slightly lean towards films since I aspire to make films.

[YAWN]

id be unemployed without music, so im going with that one :D

[AtomSmasher]

id be unemployed without music, so im going with that one :D
what do you do?

[franchise#3]

I'll choose music although I love movies.

[ZeN]

Films

[InspiredLebowski]

Nonsensical as the question is, film. Can still enjoy it with the loss of either sense, very much so with the loss of hearing.

Can't forget non-professional forms of the given media. Is listening to the "thanks dad" of giving your son his first basketball able to match the look of joy (well, hopefully) in the same instance following teaching him through sight how to follow through on a J? No comparison for me.

Maybe I extrapolated too much, but it boils down to sight vs sound.

[fiddy]

I hate watching movies. 95% of them is pure garbage. Music no doubt.

[Brujesino]

music for sure

you can listen to music and imagine the mood of the music in your head created a small movie..atleast i do

[pete's montreux]

music for sure

you can listen to music and imagine the mood of the music in your head created a small movie..atleast i do

F*ggot, only homo's do that.

Just kidding.

[YAWN]

what do you do?
booking agent, and starting to do a little management on the side.

just hit me that i can't even remember what the last movie i saw in a theater is.. maybe children of men in 06? :oldlol:

[ZeN]

I hate watching movies. 95% of them is pure garbage. Music no doubt.


That means you are frequenting the wrong type of films.

[fiddy]

That means you are frequenting the wrong type of films.
I have watched from the most commercial movies to the indie created type of movies. I am disgusted how irrational and fake most of the scenes are. Its just my mentality id much rather bump music all day long.

[AtomSmasher]

I have watched from the most commercial movies to the indie created type of movies. I am disgusted how irrational and fake most of the scenes are. Its just my mentality id much rather bump music all day long.
straight outta bulgaria

[Brujesino]

F*ggot, only homo's do that.

Just kidding.
this song is about suicide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez1ei8iJsI4

listening to it i imagined me shooting you in the head
One shot and you'll die,in the head in ther center of the eyes

and iam not kidding:mad:


ok iam i love you

[ZeN]

I have watched from the most commercial movies to the indie created type of movies. I am disgusted how irrational and fake most of the scenes are. Its just my mentality id much rather bump music all day long.


oh okay..


you taste sucks then..


No offense..

[momo]

Music. It is a no brainier.

[StroShow4]

Music, not close.

[fiddy]

oh okay..


you taste sucks then..


No offense..

I guess so. :D Something a lil bit different

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrmR1ER5ExU

[fiddy]

I'll see that and raise you this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52xoRLh2dWw
Industrial is a lil bit too much for me. Hardstyle 15% of the time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQrfUBeAcrg

Rap/HipHop 85% of the time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STB6wT81v3w :pimp:

[Jasi]

(As my avatar may suggest) Music, and it's not even close.

I consider music the highest form of art that the human kind can produce.

[playtetris]

music, not close.

[InspiredLebowski]

music, not close.

Says the guy with drum pads for fingerprints. Disqualified.

[Jasi]

I always find it a little odd when people from other countries are into hip-hop. I know, I know, it's spread, but it just seems like such an American form of expression to me. Just thinking out loud here.

Because it was born there. Same goes with jazz.
Of course both styles had their global diffusion afterwards, but I can see why you see them as particularly "American", and I agree.

[fiddy]

I always find it a little odd when people from other countries are into hip-hop. I know, I know, it's spread, but it just seems like such an American form of expression to me. Just thinking out loud here.


Hip Hop is spread all over the world these days. Best B-boys are from Europe/Korea/Japan. Rap is very different story and i agree with you that best rappers are from the USA. Why do i listen to it? I just dont like local music.

[ZeN]

(As my avatar may suggest) Music, and it's not even close.

I consider music the highest form of art that the human kind can produce.


**** that bullshit, the written word is the pinnacle of what man can produce. It epitomizes what it means to be a human and it is the only free form that gives a clear expression of the essence of ones soul.

[Brunch@Five]

yep, and classical music can only be enjoyed by Europeans :hammerhead:

[Jasi]

**** that bullshit, the written word is the pinnacle of what man can produce. It epitomizes what it means to be a human and it is the only free form that gives a clear expression of the essence of ones soul.

I agree to some extent.
What makes music so peculiar to me derives from what you have just said: music has a major power of expression while being "abstract" (because a note does not have an objective meaning, it does not "represent" anything for real, whereas words or images do).

It's a matter of tastes anyway, no need to "f**k no bull****" :cheers:

[ZeN]

I agree to some extent.
What makes music so peculiar to me derives from what you have just said: music has a major power of expression while being "abstract" (because a note does not have an objective meaning, it does not "represent" anything for real, whereas words or images do).

It's a matter of tastes anyway, no need to "f**k no bull****" :cheers:


While I agree with many of your points.. I do resent your passive denial of my insulting '**** The Bullshit'.


I cant have a conversational drunken fight, if you lay down with such reasonable banter. :ohwell:

[Jasi]

While I agree with many of your points.. I do resent your passive denial of my insulting '**** The Bullshit'.


I cant have a conversational drunken fight, if you lay down with such reasonable banter. :ohwell:

:rolleyes:
I am sorry, but I am writing a report at my job in the meantime, so I'm in "Reasonable Mode" :D

[ZeN]

:rolleyes:
I am sorry, but I am writing a report at my job in the meantime, so I'm in "Reasonable Mode" :D



Oh well excuuuuuuuse me.. :ohwell:

[Jasi]

Oh well excuuuuuuuse me.. :ohwell:

F@ck off, you bastard :pimp:

[ZeN]

F@ck off, you bastard :pimp:


If you are asking me to go away from the OTC... then you never really knew me..

[Jasi]

If you are asking me to go away from the OTC... then you never really knew me..

I can guess... But the problem with me is that I cannot go into a conversational drunken fight here, because I am not an English speaker and you would kill me with any slang insult whose meaning I cannot even imagine :D

[Maga_1]

Music, for sure.
Music is with me in the most of time, at the metro, at the practice (sometimes), when i'm home, when i'm travelling to a game away .. all the time.

Movies still catch me, but i live without them. I see maybe in movie every 2 days, but it's just when i'm not doing nothing.

[JohnnySic]

Music every time. Although I love movies, they generally do not affect me like music does.

And btw, they're called movies, not films, for the pretentious folks...

[Abd El-Krim]

Music. Ridiculously easy decision.

[Obama=ROY]

Movies. Movies contain music while music doesn't contain movies.

[Jasi]

Movies. Movies contain music while music doesn't contain movies.

:oldlol:
I was sure someone would have come up with this.

So if I make a movie where the whole Goldberg Variations are heard while the camera shows the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, I will be as good an artist as Johann Sebastian Bach and Michelangelo combined.
Cool :hammerhead:

[macmac]

Movies. Movies contain music while music doesn't contain movies.

Oh RLY?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ

[Obama=ROY]

So if I make a movie where the whole Goldberg Variations are heard while the camera shows the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, I will be as good an artist as Johann Sebastian Bach and Michelangelo combined.

Strange reply seeing nobody mentioned making movies or comparing it to great artists.

[Jasi]

Strange reply seeing nobody mentioned making movies or comparing it to great artists.

Oh well, we were comparing two types of art, which is made by artists.
My reply is what is usually called "an example" and it meant that you cannot say that something is better because it contains what someone else has created before.

[LJJ]

Plenty of alternatives for movies...

[bigkingsfan]

Music can't do this
<--------------

Next question.

[Obama=ROY]

Oh well, we were comparing two types of art, which is made by artists.
My reply is what is usually called "an example" and it meant that you cannot say that something is better because it contains what someone else has created before.
Wasn't the question is which one you pick if you have to give up the other one for life...:confusedshrug:


I can live without movies, I can't live without music.

Don't get me wrong, I love movies, I think everyone here knows that, and a lot of people will say the same thing, but if it came down to it, I'd choose music.

[macmac]

Music can't do this
<--------------

Next question.

You haven't seen Pete's threads on Robert Plant then

[Jasi]

Wasn't the question is which one you pick if you have to give up the other one for life...:confusedshrug:

Sure, and I usually tend to pick what I believe is better.
And music is better than movies, or if it isn't, it wouldn't certainly be because "it cannot contain movies" :rolleyes:

[Maniak]

Music ten times out of ten. I don't think I could function without music, but without movies I'd just read more.
Agree 100%

[Obama=ROY]

Sure, and I usually tend to pick what I believe is better.
And music is better than movies, or if it isn't, it wouldn't certainly be because "it cannot contain movies" :rolleyes:
Nobody said anything about being better. Neither is better than the other. But by picking movies we can still enjoy some music while if we pick music we cannot enjoy movies anymore.

[Jasi]

Nobody said anything about being better. Neither is better than the other. But by picking movies we can still enjoy some music while if we pick music we cannot enjoy movies anymore.

It's ok then.
I'd just pick what I really prefer ( = what I believe is better), and not "what can also give me a surrogate of the other pick". But it's just me

[HylianNightmare]

music and it's not even close

[ZeN]

music and it's not even close


Yes it is.

[v-unit]

Music has taken over my life. I used to have a phase where I was downloading movies and watching 4 a day. I realized that it's best to rewatch movies and catch things that went over your head but I can't do that because of the boredom factor. I feel 99% of the movies I cant rewatch until a few months have gone by. The only exception I can think of at the moment is Dark Knight because of the joker.

I listen to music in the morning, on my way to anywhere, whenever I'm on the computer, when I'm doing work and when I try to fall asleep. I would say out of 24 hours a day, 10 are listening to music (I sleep a lot). The problem is that I listen to so many different albums and I overplay in a short time period which leads me to search and find MORE albums.

[bigkingsfan]

I used to like music but it has been replaced with radio podcast, I can easily live without it now.

[Jasi]

The problem is that I listen to so many different albums and I overplay in a short time period which leads me to search and find MORE albums.

I perfectly know what you mean...
What genres are you into?

[nbastatus]

Music.

[v-unit]

Do you get into TV shows? The detail they can go into is amazing, you can watch a movie for 3 hours max or you can watch a series (Which if watched one after another straight everday) will take you 2 weeks to finish.

LOST > Any movie I have ever seen. They touch on more themes, symbols, references, etc than any movie can IMO.

[vapid]

Movies, easily. You can listen to movie soundtracks sometimes and enjoy them, but you can't watch music.

[v-unit]

I perfectly know what you mean...
What genres are you into?


When I say I like everything, I really mean it hah. I have higher quality/ more lyrical hip hop (Nas, Eminem, Jay-Z, Underground artists, and then some). I also have a lot of classic rock (Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Beatles, John Lennon solo, etc). But then I have some current softer rock (lol), Maroon 5 and the Killer's first album, respectivly, because I didn't like either's second album. Then I have artists like Amy Winehouse to Alicia Keys, to Leona Lewis. Haha all over the place.

What about you.

[Jasi]

When I say I like everything, I really mean it hah. I have higher quality/ more lyrical hip hop (Nas, Eminem, Jay-Z, Underground artists, and then some). I also have a lot of classic rock (Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Beatles, John Lennon solo, etc). But then I have some current softer rock (lol), Maroon 5 and the Killer's first album, respectivly, because I didn't like either's second album. Then I have artists like Amy Winehouse to Alicia Keys, to Leona Lewis. Haha all over the place.

What about you.

I also like to explore everything. I literally range from medieval & renaissance music to experimental techno.
Of course there are styles I like better (late-romantic classical composers; singer-songwriters such as the guy in my avatar mr. Tom Waits; hard bop jazz musicians such as Charles Mingus; post-rock dreamy soundscapes

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Film also. I can just ask my ******* azz construction worker neighbor to take out his jackhammer and scare away the birds on a windy day, and a symphony unfoldz itself. He can yell curses for the lyrics too.

[Juges8932]

That's a really hard choice, because they are both a big part of my life, but I'd probably have to go with music, because I literally have my iPod everywhere I go, even if I'm just leaving the house to go to Taco Bell. When I'm going from the parking garage to class, I have my iPod. Even during tests I listen to my iPod sometimes.

And a lot of times, in movies, the music combined with the scene is what makes me love it so much. I would find it hard to enjoy certain movies nearly as much without the music accompanying the scenes.

[Jasi]

I hate when people say they listen to "everything" when in fact almost no one does. Do you listen to polka?

No.


Japanese noise rock?

Yes. Masonna is my favourite, leaving apart the obvious Merzbow.


Opera?

Yes, of course. I'm from Italy and we had the best authors. But lately I've been exploring the very origins of opera, dating back to the medieval Jacopo Peri.


Ambient electronica?

Yes, one of my favourite styles. When I named "dreamy soundscapes" I also included that. Swod, Fennesz, Deaf Center, Library Tapes, Murcof, just off the top of my head.

You got me with polka, huh.
But then again, I never say "I listen to everything", I say "I like to explore everything", and actually there is hardly anything that I'm not willing to lay my ear on.

[Jasi]

That wasn't directed at you, just in general. It seems most people who claim to listen to everything in fact have maybe two go-to genres, and don't want to completely stab themselves in the ears when they hear something a little more unusual.

I agree, in general it's like that.

I often had a dialogue like the following:

Me: "What music do you like?"
He/she: "A bit of everything! I like music!"
Me: "Like what artists for example?"
He/She: "Well, no one in particular... The ones that are played on the radio!"
Me: :rolleyes:

[Doomsday Dallas]

http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt216/Doomsday2036/terminator3.jpg

[quasimoto]

Yep, same here. I often find myself in situations like that in the car with someone.

Me: Let's listen to some music. What do you like?

Them: Oh, I like pretty much everything.

Me: No ****? Cool.

Me: *inserts Shpongle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQyR-FXJCLk) CD*

Them: WTF is this ****!?
Shpongle + shrooms = another dimension.

If you like really music you're probably not sticking to just one or two genres so 'a bit of everything' is the easiest answer most of the times. Although I think the concept of 'genre' itself is overrated.

[Jasi]

I think the concept of 'genre' itself is overrated.

What do you mean?

[Beebo]

Music.

I'm not that big of a movie fan. Certain movies are nice and all but it gets old after awhile. Music is something that I can always listen to.

[duckfeet]

if porn streaming through teh interweb is considered movies--- then I have to go with that.

if not--- then definitely music;--- its more of a way to augment the current task at hand then to completely replace it (as movies).

[Chamberlain]

I love movies, but I literally have music playing on either a stereo, computer, or ipod about 85% of the day. Really the only time I don't is if I'm at school or work.

[Raj Da Dodge]

Awww man this is tough...I seriously LOVE both, but I love music way more. Music is my 2nd love after basketball/Rockets/sports. I JUST love music and I listen to it any chance I get, like idk what I'd do w/o it. At first it was just indian music I LOVED, but now since I started to listen to American music and get into it back in Junior and Senior year of HS I started to listen and every time I used to listen to a song back then I just got into it more and more every time, and now its like my fav thing to do and I just LOVE music. Like who can not like music? How can you not like it I mean? you know what I mean? So yea, pretty sure yall know what I'd pick now out of music and movies. But don't get me wrong, I like movies too, like that's all I do during my breaks from school is watch movies, I love watching movies too but I like music more. So yea...

[phoenix18]

Split Decision.

I love music, but martial arts movies have been in my life almost as long. In the end, I would have to choose music, but its closer for me than some of the other people in this thread.

[ukplayer4]

Quote:
Originally Posted by quasimoto
I think the concept of 'genre' itself is overrated.

What do you mean?



yes, what hes written doesnt make sense but it is obvious what he means.

[L.Kizzle]

music

[Jasi]

yes, what hes written doesnt make sense but it is obvious what he means.

Well actually I wasn't arguing at all about how he wrote it... I just really wanted him to explain his view with further detail, because I'm interested in this kind of topic

[1~Gibson~1]

Music

[Jasper]

I have alot of albums , but listen to very few now ... but music is prty over film.

But lately THIS channel is airing a ton of old western flicks that were great - real film making.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

One's REALLY REALLY based on mathematics, the other's based on imagination.

I'll take the first.

[ace23]

I listen to music 4-5 hours a day and watch maybe 2 movies a year so yeah.

[Jailblazers7]

Lots of old thread bumps lately. :lol

But definitely music for me. Movies are awesome and I've had some great experiences where they have challenged, comforted, and inspired me but I could live without them.

There are dozens of times in a week where a song comes on and totally changes my mood or gets me through a tedious assignment. Plus music is versatile and important to our lives in ways we don't always notice. Background music to set the atmosphere or dance to at a bar, filler music for awkward environments, workout at the gym, no more live performances and concerts, etc.

[TylerOO]

Music and it's not even close. I don't use my television unless it's for sports. Movies suck, ain't been to theaters in years too.

[Joyner82reload]

Movies. I bet 90% of these dumb****s saying music exclusively listen to some bullshit that isn't even music like rap.

[SugarHill]

Movies. I bet 90% of these dumb****s saying music exclusively listen to some bullshit that isn't even music like rap.
:rolleyes:

I also pick music

[ThePhantomCreep]

Music easily, and I'm huge film guy too.

Your favorite songs = soundtrack to your life. How could you possibly do away with that?

[Dresta]

Music by a distance too long to measure.

[Dresta]

Lots of old thread bumps lately. :lol

But definitely music for me. Movies are awesome and I've had some great experiences where they have challenged, comforted, and inspired me but I could live without them.

There are dozens of times in a week where a song comes on and totally changes my mood or gets me through a tedious assignment. Plus music is versatile and important to our lives in ways we don't always notice. Background music to set the atmosphere or dance to at a bar, filler music for awkward environments, workout at the gym, no more live performances and concerts, etc.
There is just something inherently divine about rhythm (or our perception of it) - it has a hold over the human mind that is difficult understand, there's something ethereal about it. This can even be seen in poetry, where something rendered in verse is so much more memorable than anything rendered in prose, and thus that much more convincing (for so long philosophers were quoting poets for authority - it distorts clear thinking that much).

Also, without music, most films would be shit: so many of them use classical music to elicit far more emotion than the content of the film actually deserves.

[SugarHill]

There is just something inherently divine about rhythm (or our perception of it) - it has a hold over the human mind that is difficult understand, there's something ethereal about it. This can even be seen in poetry, where something rendered in verse is so much more memorable than anything rendered in prose, and thus that much more convincing (for so long philosophers were quoting poets for authority - it distorts clear thinking that much).

Also, without music, most films would be shit: so many of them use classical music to elicit far more emotion than the content of the film actually deserves.

Music is so much more useful in terms of having like in the car, or on your headphones, etc. You go out of your way to watch a film whereas with music, it just boosts something you were already doing. They're not even comparable.

[Akrazotile]

Music and it isnt even remotely close.

What I'm gonna do when I exercise, play a ****in movie dialogue in my headphones??

[Akrazotile]

I've always had movies higher than music on the totem pole of importance. I'd feel awkward if I was in a situation or conversation where I hadn't seen the movie that was being talked about. I watch movies constantly, It's like my fuel. I watch two a night, sometimes three.

If someone put a gun to my head and made me choose, I'd pick music. Music, to me, is timeless, and I can get around to it whenever. I don't think It's as important to listen to a new album as it is to watch a new movie, but I can live without movies, I can't live without music.

Don't get me wrong, I love movies, I think everyone here knows that, and a lot of people will say the same thing, but if it came down to it, I'd choose music.


This dude was always so desparate to be recognized as a credible movie authority.

[J Shuttlesworth]

id be unemployed without music, so im going with that one :D
This. Plus I enjoy TV series more than movies anyway

[L.Kizzle]

Imagine films without music ... now choose.

[ZeN]

One's REALLY REALLY based on mathematics, the other's based on imagination.

I'll take the first.
Math derives from the 4th dimension which is imaginations playground..