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Why sitting through a movie is a bad thing? Have you tried watching some “harder” movies? Maybe you’re just bored with the specific movies you are watching. I f

Why sitting through a movie is a bad thing? Have you tried watching some “harder” movies? Maybe you’re just bored with the specific movies you are watching. I for example know that I have a very specific love for sci-fi genre; but unfortunately a lot of sci-fi is basically trash with good CGI and I can’t help myself but think that I am wasting my time when I watch stuff in that comfort zone. However there’s a lot to film that is quite hard to watch. Maybe of the recents Almodovar comes to my mind. It’s engaging and very unique.

pdimitar 5y ago
Severely off-topic to the OP but have you tried watching "Battlestar Galactica" in full? (The remake from the 2004+, not the original -- tried the original and didn't like it at all.) I mean, you don't get much CGI there but the premise is extremely realistic and the actors are absolutely brilliant. Plus, you'll get to cry, a lot, during the long series finale.
- tomrod 5y ago
  Or Downton Abbey, or ST:TNG, or... Lots of great shows out there to just enjoy.
- goatlover 5y ago
  Or The Expanse, if you want realistic space battles and what our potential future might look like if we do colonize the solar system.
- uxcolumbo 5y ago
  Star Trek Deep Space Nine. One of the best. Avoid the newer ones like Discovery and Picard... utter trash and not Star Trek at all, thanks to Alan Kurtzman.
- gfxgirl 5y ago
  Seriously? The "and they have a plan" which turns out they have no plan and it's just Androids that find religion?
  - pdimitar 5y ago
    Yeah, that part was a bit weak and not well explained but it was IMO a natural evolution for thinking and feeling beings. I agree it could have been shown better and more gradual -- it was kind of sudden in the series and that's one of the valid negative remarks towards it. 90% of everything else was IMO top notch.
devchix 5y ago
A reasonable question. But, it's very hard to watch a "serious" movie or read a "serious" book while at the beach. There's a reason why there exists a genre called "beach reads". I am not going to watch Almodovar or Bunuel or Bergman or Aronofsky or Inarritu on the beach. I can't watch trashy movies either, but my tolerance for them is more flexible at the beach.
WalterSear 5y ago
It's a moving target. At first I wouldn't sit through genuinely asinine popular media, like 'Friends'. This is not unhealthy: most of it is shit. But over time, I've found that I can't sit through anything that isn't utterly engaging. My SO used to joke that I 'hated everything' until that started to make me feel bad. Paying attention to anything that isn't doesn't at least appear to be addressing existential dread has lost all flavour. I'm not sure what the solution is. Before anyone suggests it, it's clear that I'm dealing with clinical depression, but medical help has been of limited benefit. Therapists don't seem to be familiar with the situation that is being described by posters here, don't have tools to suggest. I suspect that it's not so widespread a phenomenon outside of knowledge work.
- treme 5y ago
  if you've already exhausted traditional routes, perhaps give psychedelics a chance.
  - WalterSear 5y ago
    Psilocybin results in profound sadness for me, that lasts for days. Microdoses, macrodoses - it just varies the intensity/duration of the dysphoria. NMDA antagonists were an amazing find. A ketamine prescription allowed me to function at all for the last few years, until I started to develop bladder pain and had to discontinue it. I've recently experimented with nitrous oxide, but hasn't turned out to be feasible. LSD, I can't source. Given my experiences with Psilocybin, I haven't tried very hard. The further out stuff, such as salvia divinorum, is so under examined as to be utterly speculative. Can't say it had much of an effect, either. I've also used induced hyperthermia, which has a minor effect on my mood. The effect is also of very short duration.
    - ska 5y ago
      Question: how much time do you typically spend outside in something approximating "natural" surroundings? Worked wonders for friend, is why I ask.

pdimitar 5y ago

Severely off-topic to the OP but have you tried watching "Battlestar Galactica" in full? (The remake from the 2004+, not the original -- tried the original and didn't like it at all.) I mean, you don't get much CGI there but the premise is extremely realistic and the actors are absolutely brilliant. Plus, you'll get to cry, a lot, during the long series finale.

tomrod 5y ago
Or Downton Abbey, or ST:TNG, or... Lots of great shows out there to just enjoy.
goatlover 5y ago
Or The Expanse, if you want realistic space battles and what our potential future might look like if we do colonize the solar system.
uxcolumbo 5y ago
Star Trek Deep Space Nine. One of the best. Avoid the newer ones like Discovery and Picard... utter trash and not Star Trek at all, thanks to Alan Kurtzman.
gfxgirl 5y ago
Seriously? The "and they have a plan" which turns out they have no plan and it's just Androids that find religion?
- pdimitar 5y ago
  Yeah, that part was a bit weak and not well explained but it was IMO a natural evolution for thinking and feeling beings. I agree it could have been shown better and more gradual -- it was kind of sudden in the series and that's one of the valid negative remarks towards it. 90% of everything else was IMO top notch.

devchix 5y ago

A reasonable question. But, it's very hard to watch a "serious" movie or read a "serious" book while at the beach. There's a reason why there exists a genre called "beach reads". I am not going to watch Almodovar or Bunuel or Bergman or Aronofsky or Inarritu on the beach. I can't watch trashy movies either, but my tolerance for them is more flexible at the beach.

WalterSear 5y ago

It's a moving target. At first I wouldn't sit through genuinely asinine popular media, like 'Friends'. This is not unhealthy: most of it is shit. But over time, I've found that I can't sit through anything that isn't utterly engaging. My SO used to joke that I 'hated everything' until that started to make me feel bad. Paying attention to anything that isn't doesn't at least appear to be addressing existential dread has lost all flavour. I'm not sure what the solution is. Before anyone suggests it, it's clear that I'm dealing with clinical depression, but medical help has been of limited benefit. Therapists don't seem to be familiar with the situation that is being described by posters here, don't have tools to suggest. I suspect that it's not so widespread a phenomenon outside of knowledge work.

treme 5y ago
if you've already exhausted traditional routes, perhaps give psychedelics a chance.
- WalterSear 5y ago
  Psilocybin results in profound sadness for me, that lasts for days. Microdoses, macrodoses - it just varies the intensity/duration of the dysphoria. NMDA antagonists were an amazing find. A ketamine prescription allowed me to function at all for the last few years, until I started to develop bladder pain and had to discontinue it. I've recently experimented with nitrous oxide, but hasn't turned out to be feasible. LSD, I can't source. Given my experiences with Psilocybin, I haven't tried very hard. The further out stuff, such as salvia divinorum, is so under examined as to be utterly speculative. Can't say it had much of an effect, either. I've also used induced hyperthermia, which has a minor effect on my mood. The effect is also of very short duration.
  - ska 5y ago
    Question: how much time do you typically spend outside in something approximating "natural" surroundings? Worked wonders for friend, is why I ask.