Good Story Line or Visual Effects?Which 1 Would You Prefer?

I much prefer a good story line, over "eye candy" (visual effects). Of course, "good story line" is subjective. A lot of people found "Open Water" to be a good story line, though lacking in budget. Lack of budget, for me, isn't what I despised about "Open Water" though, it was the terribly boring and uninteresting story line coupled with the fact that it was advertised as a horror film but lacked the ability to frighten me. I understand that it was based on a true story, and so this actually did happen to a degree. But, that fact alone isn't enough to engage me in a story.

Of the choices you've given, I would go with "Lady in the Water". I enjoyed both films, but I found Gladiator a bit too predictable, and more "commercial". On the other hand, I found "Lady in the Water" to be rather unpredictable, chalk full of plot twists. I found the story original, with elements present from nearly every genre.

I prefer to go for a storyline more than the effects. Effects dont impress me anymore, nor do they hold my attention very much the way a good storyline does.

As for your question abou which movie... I never seen either of them, but I really want to see Gladiator. I've never even heard of the second one

hhm.....*thinkin*......GLADIATOR...also...am,,,i love the story..

i always go for the story. the effects have no significance if the story is bad.

i prefer good storyline, which is getting hard to find these days...most tend to be boring and no storyline. hollywood needs to fire old writers and hire new writers with fresh ideas because they are going downhill these days. they are boring society...

I try to find a movie with both quality. Very rarely of course. Example: Gladiator and titanic and Forrest Gump both have good story line and visual effect. But these days most of movies with great visual effects usually neglected the story lines. They try to jam tons of action in the movie and try to minimize the story plot. But if I had to chose, I will chose a good story line.

right out i will say both, but i will have to chose a good story line, thats the entire reason for going to see a movie,, i will to prefer to see gladiator,i still don't know what lady in the water was about,movies are suppose to leave us with a lesson learnt,make us think.,there is always a inner message to movies

I prefer a good story line.:)

for me its a little of both. what good is a movie without a story line? Now the acting can be horrible as long as the special effects r good im good.

hello farmaz,

hmmmm...

this will be subjective on the type of movie, if the movie is about drama or a real-stories, documentary type or historical, a good story line is better...

but if the movie is a horror one, fantasy movie, an action, based on DC or Marvel comics, best special visual effects is expected.

but nothing best if the two combines, it's like spending your money wisely and watching that movie becomes a commodity...

hahaha...

kidding around.

digerati