When you watch movies do you usually not identify actors?

I much prefer reading to watching movies, although that's partly because I don't really have the attention span for two hours of nothing but watching a video if there are any distractions around. It's a hell of a lot easier for me to identify the characters if they have a particular outfit they wear the whole time, but there's usually context clues and, if all else fails, voices to go by if they change clothing, and when I'm watching a movie I'm going to be being alert for that.

My mental image of people I know well tends to be sort of out of focus on the face. The people whose faces I keep "catalogued" are based on individual features - like you mention remembering what boobs look like, that's because the boobs stood out to you as memorable features, right? Titties, hell yeah. But that same person, you probably don't remember something like their elbow or whatever. I'm the same way, only with individual features - I remember my boyfriend's basic jawline and facial shape, and I lean heavily on hairstyles to identify people. The actual face, except for the individual features I've memorized, is just really out of focus, like a "generic" face.