The Snooze-Timer

It's usual for me to doze off while watching a movie in bed. Actually...I doze off even in the middle of a screening inside the cinema. No matter what's on. It's craaazzy.

I guess it started sometime in 2009, when watching a movie from my laptop became a bed time habit to let me relax while trying to catch much-needed sleep, to somehow keep my brain cells alive after all that writing and deep thinking. It didn't help that after a year or so, I now have somebody to watch with. Kudos to the SO for having the patience to get all those movies on disk, setting up the screen, speakers and the comfy pillows for a (supposedly) night-long viewing in the room, then gently putting everything away once I no longer talk back and bury my head in the sheets. And this happens ALL the time.

It's good if I stay awake way past half the entire movie, which I can do when I'm not too tired, it's not too late, or the movie is really good. When all three conditions are met, you got me wide awake, baby.

What I realized after spending some time reading the reviews of the movies I saw (or slept through, hehe) is that critical acclaim is somehow proportional to how long I'd stay awake watching them?! Case in point, saw every second of "RPG Metanoia" which I enjoyed immensely in the theater . But then...spent about five minutes in deep slumber during the first halves of "Iron Man 2" and "Clash of the Titans", and was awake only for a total of 10 minutes of "The Tourist". Mind you, I watched those movies around the same time,in the middle of the afternoon, a few months ago. At home, I liked "Inglorious Basterds" enough not to sleep in the comfort of my plush pillows. I also almost finished "Inception", "Toy Story 3" and "Love and Other Drugs" in one viewing (and of course, separate occasions), except that I started really late in the night, and couldn't lift my eyelids with any mighty strength that I may still have.

And so to test if this holds, I am putting up the "Snooze-Timer", which tells how long I stayed alert and awake through a movie's entirety.Ooh, my...I'd be one, mean, mean critico if I were actually in the movie business...