Movies Vs. Books - The Final Showdown !?!?

I feel that first of all to even have a opinion in this debate ( if thats what you would like to call it) that holds any water or weighs anything you need to be at least familiar with both party's. In this blog i will try to be as unbiased as I can. When I initially came up with the idea ( I was at work during a big rush, in case you wanted to know) other then being very excited, I started asking friends, (through face to face interaction or texting) customers, and anybody else I could in the time between work and getting home.
The overwhelming answer is movies. And on paper this would make a lot of sense. Why? well first of all movies are much much easier. Its easier, faster, and much more convenient to stay home and rent, go to a theater, ( even a popular date idea with your significant other) or you can now even rent them straight from your computer now.Metaphorically it would be the equivalent of going to Mcdonald's to get a cheeseburger rather then grilling in your back yard. So this is why I feel that, at least the majority of Americans, would choose movies. In fact i bet the average American could name more movie directors then authors. Books are much more idealogical, you actually learn things by reading them. Unless your watching a documentary your not going to learn much from.. say Transformers 2 thats going to come in handy later in life. ( I'm not at all saying thats why some one would go see a movie of the sort, and I also heard that Transformers 2 is a huge flop)
On a Psychology stand point there is a self fulling prophecy side that may go unnoticed. In other words if your cynical about a particular movie or book ( or even movies and books in general) your going to get that out of it. If your walking in the movie saying to yourself " this movie is going to suck" it really doesn't matter how good or bad the movie really is, your reaction and your memory of the movie is going to be negative. And vice versa respectively. It doesn't matter if the movie is " The Godfather" if your going to be cynical about it don't even go. You really could turn " The Godfather" into " Transformers 2". This is because if you form an opinion about something and are set on that opinion your setting your self up to fail or succeed (depending on if your being positive or negative.) You have to have an open mind about everything you try and retry. If you would like another metaphor I have a great one from a speech class I took in collage. If your nervous and think that your speech is going to fail miserably, then your going to turn the experence into that. Even if the speech goes well, your memory of the speech is that you were a nervous reck and were completely unorganized. ( Even if the speech went well and nobody could tell that you were nervous) My old Speech teacher Mrs. Thaler would video tape the speech's to have her students view them later. You could feel your cynical memory's of a speech fade away as you watched yourself do completely fine. This technique is very good for breaking nervousness and building confidence. On a side note I was telling a cousin about this, because he's about to enter the same speech class. A co worker of mine stated that doing your speech in front of a mirror would be the same. The answer is no. It would not be even close, watching your self on tape, you have a chance to develop your opinion and memory of how it went. Only to see it crushed by what really happened.
However one thing that is always interesting to me is how similar words get replaced in the memory of the speech, movie , book or story. For example maybe you might remember " Yes, I did fool you" when the actual line in the movie is " Yes, I did trick you". This is because fool and trick are interchangeable. Its something that goes unnoticed more then you realize. Yes, I know that this isn't really important to the debate. But its something that interests me and it is somewhat related to the topic.
So in conclusion, I would say that if your in a hurry and want some entertainment, a movie is definably a good choice. Just make sure its worth seeing.( stay away from Transformers 2) My personal choice would be to jump in to a good book and obtain some meaningful knowledge. Theres nothing quite like jumping into a great book next to a window on a dreary and rainy day. And its also a good way to get your mind off of an up coming event, to relief stress.
Thanks for reading