Interlude #4, Movie Thoughts

Some thoughts while watching movies:

• I believe it is absolutely possible to die from second-hand embarrassment.  What I mean by this is in those moments where you want to curl up and die along with the character who is going through the most embarrassing moment of his/her life, even if the character doesn't even have the good grace to be ashamed.  
• If you assume that horror movies take place in an alternate universe where horror movies don't exist, your characters seem a lot more believable and less "dumb."
• Will we look at post-apocalyptic movies in the same way that we look at movies set in the future?  With Back to the Future hitting its thirty years into the future this November, there are a lot of points where we can reflect what was right and what was waaaay off-base.  If, hypothetically, footage survived after some kind of apocalypse, would we look at some of those movies in the same way?
• Sometimes, an actor/actress is more distracting when you know them from other things, particularly when envisioning what their other character might have done in this situation.  This game is particularly fun when said actor/actress has had some specific defining roles and/or odd ones or when the current movie is particularly dull.  
• How much plot have I missed collectively from trying to figure out where else I know a particular actor/actress from?
• How bad does a movie have to be to be enjoyably bad?
• When watching a movie or reading a book, there is a suspension of disbelief.  Where do we draw the line for when things get too unbelievable to suspend it any longer?  For me, I find that this varies for me based on what kind of world I'm expected to buy into.