Analyzing movies!

In response to Casey's thoughts about analyzing movies I totally understand. I am the same way. I have to watch a movie at least twice before I can really analyze it. Especially with war movies and other movies that are particularly moving. So what I recommend is to first watch a movie emotionally and then it again and look for more details and in a more in depth way. Also I think it is good to use the emotions that are evoked by the movie. Just ask what about that scene made me feel mad, sad, happy, etc. Was it the characters? Was it the setting? Was it the music? Then ask why that particular thing moved you. Why did the music touch me? Did it remind me of something personal in my life? Did it remind me of a certain time period? etc. This can really help get your brain kind of jump started into analyzing when your emotions kind of take over. To me, a lot of war movies seem to be the same. They all kind of run together to me until I do analyze them and really think about the issue at hand rather just sit in awe of hollywood's amazing graphics and other technologies.