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I'm not going to dispute the author's lived experience and their personal attitude to movie watching, but the arguments seem so alien to me. Being tired of an
by petercooper 5y ago
I'm not going to dispute the author's lived experience and their personal attitude to movie watching, but the arguments seem so alien to me.
Being tired of an entire medium because there are patterns and tropes would, to me, be like being entirely bored of music because most of it uses similar scales and chord sequences, tired of nature because, well, you've seen a lot of trees before, or, heck, being bored of being alive due to all that boring breathing, eating (how many food groups are there, really?), and copulation (only so many positions..) you have to partake in.
I watch a few hundred movies a year and continue to be blown away by the diversity of the experience, much as I do when reading, watching YouTube videos, meeting random strangers, or even reading Hacker News comment threads.
- kajaktum 5y agoAccording to your logic, boredom is an impossible concept. Movies aren't consumed the same way trees are.
- petercooper 5y agoAs I said before, I can't dismiss the OP's personal opinion, but at the objective level I think boredom is an undefinable concept, proven by how what's boring to one person can be hugely invigorating to another (or even to the same person at a different time of their life). Boredom with an entire medium is what really caught me here. I can appreciate being bored by, say, "1950s Westerns", once you have exhausted the majority of the genre, but being bored of the entire premise of movies in general suggests a very restricted diet or a lack of imagination. But that's just my take. My favorite author absolutely detested music and almost listened to none in his entire lifetime. Different strokes and all that. But the idea of being wholly bored of one of the deepest, plentiful, and most creative media invented by man remains alien to me.