watch = "(of a motion picture) to seem through viewing"

[Bill Palmer]

Would it not be analogous to "read",  e.g. "this reads like something Joel
Berson would have written"?

Bill Palmer

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> At 8/24/2009 11:13 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>Cf. "read." Not in OED, but it must have been around for a while:
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>>2008 (Apr. 19) IMDb _Redacted_ [
>>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0937237/usercomments?filter=hate]
>>This is "The Blair Witch Project" meets "Full Metal Jacket" meets "Loose
>>Change". It really watches like some teenager decided to make a war movie
>>after spending a weekend watching Vietnam flicks.
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> The inverse of TV newscasters (and probably others I haven't heard)
> saying "take a listen"?
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> Read : watch :: look : listen.
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> Joel
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