Not watching TV and Film is the equivalent of saying "I don't read" in the Victorian era. Good fiction explores the human condition. It poses questions to the reader / viewer to consider. It uses alternative settings to reframe real world events and forces you to re-evaluate things from different perspectives. It can break you out of rutted thinking.
Now there's an awful lot of shit out there too, but not watching Schindler's List because Love Island is crap is ludicrous.
Kind of a shit take. Printed material was the only widely distributable/available vehicle for fiction in the Victorian era, which is absolutely not true of tv/film in the modern era. I generally avoid TV and movies as well; not because I don't like fiction, but because I don't like my fiction to be filtered by financial ghouls and focus groups clutching their pearls hard enough to turn their knuckles white.
You know theatre existed, right? That was the predominate medium for fiction before the explosion of published literature in the 18th/19th century. Publishing became a business. Big business. Some of the richest people around were publishers. "Financial ghouls" filtering what was produced.
Film/TV is the dominant narrative art form of our age. Print was the dominant narrative art form in that time. Hence my comparison.
but not watching Schindler's List because Love Island is crap is ludicrous.
There devinetively are films that a lot of people should watch (Schindlers list is one of them), but mostly people don't refer to these xclassic films" but one of the 6 trillion other films that I havent watched. The Marvel films are nothing that someone should watch (they aren't one of the classic films)
Yeah, it's always so wild to me when people start talking about movies and every other person is like, oh yeah, I've watched that movie. I'm entirely aware that I've watched barely any movies, but in my head, normal people have watched like 20–30 movies or so. But yeah, then you listen and it feels more like they've watched 100+ movies.
100s? I bet most people have seen thousands of movies by the time they hit adulthood now (dependent on their parents of course). Like do you even realize how many hours people just spend slumped over in front of the TV? It's absurd
I've surely watched many hundreds of movies at least in my lifetime, and I wouldn't say I'm an above average movie watcher
My old coworker watched 2 movies on a week night, i take 2 weeks to watch a single movie half the time.
I asked him how he did it, turns out the kid does well on half the sleep i require.
Ah man, i miss my teens and early twenties xD i was taught that the older you get the less sleep you need...so that was a lie.
Big zoomer energy
I watch things in the background while I do stuff on my main monitor. Most shows/movies aren’t worth my full attention but I like the background noise.
Sorry have to ask: if you think the movie isn't worth full attention, why even bother? It's like reading one in every two pages and saying " this book didn't require my full attention" lol
I almost never watch movies, but when i do i giving it all
Me too. Although I've switched to audiobooks and podcasts predominantly now.
The two shows were Firefly and Work It.
But The Wire exists!
I'm genuinely curious how many I've watched. I barely ever watch movies, maybe one or two a year, and probably about as many shows.
