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Almost all my friends echo your sentiment that film is much harder to commit to than a TV show; and I can't disagree more. Watching a TV series means I'm commit
by stnmtn 5y ago
Almost all my friends echo your sentiment that film is much harder to commit to than a TV show; and I can't disagree more. Watching a TV series means I'm committing to 8+ hours per season, across many days of my life. A film, even a 2 hour one, I watch in an evening and can enjoy taking it in in full, with all questions that it wants to answer itself being answered. A TV show will end with cliffhangers each episode just to make sure it demands your attention again tomorrow night.
That's not to say TV=bad, movies=good; just that IME respect your time way more and are easier to commit to most nights.
- fleddr 5y agoBoth of you should give this lecture to people in the third world. The act of sitting on a couch, watching something entertaining that thousands of people put work in to produce, is a "commitment". And in fact, the commitment is too much. Because for this same commitment, one could replace it with several smaller ones that entail the exact same thing, but with even less thinking. If only there were a device that would just directly inject the memory of a movie into our brains, saves us from all this "effort".