The American author Kurt Vonnegut once wrote, “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.”
It turns out Kurt was onto something. According to some scientists, laughter can boost your immune system and decrease the hormones associated with stress too.
Sad films can have a positive effect on your brain chemistry too. Research from Oxford University suggests that watching a traumatic film boosts the production of endorphins, a chemical associated with increased pain tolerance and, ironically, feeling good.
Movies can help on a psychological level too, to the extent that some therapists now prescribe movies as a form of treatment. Practitioners of cinema therapy suggest watching a movie that mirrors your current worries – like Forgetting Sarah Marshall if you’ve just broken up with someone or Predator if you’re dealing with an indestructible killer from space – can shift your perspective on your problems and help you deal with them better.
Anyway, this page is going to be my sum up of some of the movies I've watched and my top 10, so get out your notebook to write some down! (pun intended)
Some Of The Films I've Seen Recently.
With lockdown happeneing, there isn't any cinemas you can go to, but I've still been watching loads of movies at home - probably too many - so here are just a couple I've seen in the past few weeks.
Die Hard
Live Die Repeat - Edge Of Tomorrow
The Mission Impossible Series
Scream
Alien and Aliens
The Fifth Sense
The Thing
A Quiet Place
Train To Busan
The Conjuring
It and It Chapter 2
As you can probaby tell, I love horror films and I have a soft spot for action too.
Horror is a genre that people tend to look down upon and not take very seriously. It has a reputation of being a low, somewhat trashy, titillating genre that appeals to our basest instincts. But it’s a wonderful, popular art form through which very complex ideas and creative techniques can manifest themselves — and if you can get past that very cliched view, you realize there’s an embarrassment of riches in the genre.
These are just some of my favourites in this genre, horror movies are literally everywhere, and I can't seem to get enough of them! The movies I have chosen for my list have been watched recently, but are some I feel I could watch over and over again and never get bored - which is definitely in the recipe for a perfect horror movie, if it's all based around one event, it can get a little boring. An exception would be 'The Fifth Sense, because once you know what's going on, it just seems to get more exiting rather than boring.
