The streak had to be broken, right? My seventh movie in the project
wasn't that good. It wasn't that bad also, but… it was okay. Just okay. Nothing
spectacular, nothing to fancy about, nothing worth remembering from, one of those
movies that you just watch and 5 seconds later you don't remember anything
about it or from it. God Told Me To was a watch & forget nothing more and
nothing less.
It is a movie about a cop who investigates a series of murders committed
by unconnected and too ordinary men. Slowly but steadily he learns that there's
far more to it than what meets the eye. Yeah, even the plot is a big cliché,
but at least the director knows how to do it. ;-)
And after this movie I did learn something. I learned that not every
session has to be perfect, or great. In order for those really great sessions
to feel great, they have to feel unique, well above the rest in terms of their
level and all. If the rest of the sessions are nice, good and enjoyable, the
campaign is in good hands.
And for me, that was kinda new. I learned to accept bad days, or sessions
that were almost perfect, but sessions that are just nice- that was inconceivable.
I expected from each one of my sessions to be at the very least almost perfect.
And the sessions just took too much energy from me, and there were days that I came
from the sessions depressed because they didn't live to my expectations.
And I don't know, maybe it is just a certain stage in my GMing career
that had to come. And yet, this movie ranked better than some perfect movies
like Cronos. And it says that maybe, just maybe, sometimes a nice and no
spectacular session is better than the most perfect session imaginable. Sometimes
"nice" is just enough.
How about you? When did you learn this truth? And what did you think
about this movie?
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