"The Revenant"

Wow, the use of Movie Pulse seems to offer some surprises. Although me and a colleague have recorded a few pulses, this graph is kind of special. At first: I haven't read any reviews or plot summaries of "The Revenant" beforehand - which is my preferred cinema experience.

What can I say about the extraordinary first 30 minutes of my pulse? If this app would be an analog TV set, it looks like it needed some force taps. And of course I am not sure if the generated trend line is perfectly calculated in all situations. But one can identify large parts of intensity as well as those of relaxations.

The extreme change of large calm and excited moments is so unique. After the first 30 minutes my pulse gets more comparable to heart rates measured with other movies. But the trend line now reflects my feelings: the emotional tension goes up and up.

What an archaic story! Great movie, great actor. Two things bothered me: The unmotivated water sound, where no water is (especially around/after 2:00) and two of the three cases of breaking the fourth wall: the fogged lenses by DiCaprio's breath and the bloody snow at one fight scene. Maybe it's been used to prepare the last look onto us, the audience.

I can't wait to see the movie pulse of my colleague. We both agreed to watch "The Revenant".

And how about yours? Would be interesting having more pulses of the same movie. Please send in, we're not after your personal data, just the anonymous graph while you where watching the same movie.

The Revenant · Alejandro G. Iñárritu · 2015

Movie Pulse of "Legend"

Another dilemma is, of course, the absence of plot information. We might be able to improve this in future somehow. But for now I can just speculate about obvious peaks like the hammer scene and other brutalities in this movie.

The less wavy trend line seems to match my feelings about the story overall: flat.

But there is one thing, one man - or two if you like - Tom Hardy is great in this kind of "Jekyll-Hide" character.

Legend

Btw. I had to manually change the poster, because the "Open Movie Database" has not offered a "legend" movie of the year 2015. If you have other problems finding movies - tell me.

Star Wars · Another Try

A colleague of mine watched as well "Star Wars: The Force Awakens". She used the watch and app as well, and so far I can tell - there are differences (besides the fact she's not seen the movie in an energy drop time of the day).

Star Wars: The Force Awakens · A different heart rate

This looks more "spectacular" to me, which has been the reason to use this pulse for the default movie - not mine.

Movie Pulse of "The Brand New Testament"

This is a movie which perfectly depicts the dilemma:

A pulse graph will not obviously tell if the film has been loved by you.

This movie is hilarious - I deeply loved it.

The Brand New Testament

And here we go with Star Wars

Unfortunately, I went to the cinema in the afternoon, when I usually have my energy drop.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The movie which gave me the kick

The idea for this app has been kept, stored in notes, put aside. Summer came, summer left. Another app needed an update, illness, laptop stolen, such things.

Then something happened to my: I saw a movie which got hyped all over Europe. Exaggeration, words of praise, few of blame. In such times I tend to avoid those movies. At least I try not to read and hear about it. I managed it.

And the I saw "Victoria" - spontaneous, unprepared and unspoiled. It worked, I went with those naiv adolescent night strollers in realtime without editing through their story. And I promise: I am sure, my heart beat never ever run that fast.

I knew instantly: drop everything else, make Movie Pulse work!

Thank you so much, Sebastian Schipper, for directing this fine piece of film history.

Victoria by Sebastian Schipper

One note of watching movies and measuring heart rates in parallel: too bad - this will work in such intensity only the first time...

My first Movie Pulse

Today I watched my first movie with the preliminary Version of Movie Pulse. Funny enough: I had to construct a temporal storage solution. The idea, the app might be ready to use, came 2h before the movie...

 James Bond 007 - Spectre

This is the reason this movie is chosen as the default one inside Movie Pulse (besides the fact I had no time watching movies while making the app).

My heart rate during the movie