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Am I the only one who refuses to watch TV and movies? (self.MGTOW)

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I find nearly all TV shows and movies to be boring and overly long, often causing me to fall asleep and not follow the plot (if the movie even has one). I have never used Netflix and don't follow celebrity news or gossip at all

When people have talked about the latest movies, celebrities, etc, and I mention I don't follow it or haven't heard of them, I've often gotten negative reactions, such as people treating me like I'm extremely weird, socially inept, etc. I've been mocked numerous times for it with comments like "so all you do is study?". It's not so easy for me to have decent conversations and connect with people. I'd rather just play video games (or even attempt to make my own games), read books, read up on places I want to travel to, go exercise, etc.

Heck, I'd rather live my own life rather watch other live their lives, which is basically what watching TV/movies is. It just seems to me that watching TV/movies is an outlet for people to escape their miserable lives by wishing they were elsewhere

Am I the only one here who just doesn't care at all about the latest movies and popular celebrities? If not, how do you guys deal with stupid people who label you? What if it's at the workplace?

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[–]DangZagnut 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

In order to care about labels, I'd have to respect the person labeling me.

If some 13 year old blue haired, "I just learned about feminism" tells me I'm a misogynist, I certainly don't give a fuck. They're a child and couldn't even beat me at arm wrestling much less rational thought.

If Bill Gates told me my boot loader was written inefficiently, I'd give that more credit.

[–]Hernes777 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

No, I dumped TV years ago. A huge waste of time and it's a mental waste. I still watch movies on occasion but increasingly less so since they've gotten retarded, and poorly made with shit actors and propaganda. Every minute you spend watching nonsense is less time you are spending doing things more enjoyable while improving yourself.

[–]silive 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

No. I haven't watched the regular TV for 20 years now. I have the Amazon Prime though and watch some of the staff like BBC nature documentaries and classic movies. You can't claim that the Pulp Fiction or Usual Suspects are boring, can you? But I won't touch the current sitcoms with a six foot pole.

[–]Rhodesius 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

There's a few things I'll watch. Most shows are uninspired, cookie-cutter drivel. Why watch someone else's story when you can either experience it or create your own with games. Commercials are the main thing that ruined TV for me.

[–]DWShimoda 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Haven't even really had a functional TV since the switchover to digital (housemate at the time got one of those converter boxes, but it never really worked well, and I couldn't be fussed to give a shit either way) -- which I guess is over a decade ago now.

Movies though are another matter -- not that I give a crap about what the "latest/greatest" movie crap is (most of it is overly hyped/promoted garbage), much less about "celebrities" or "stars" -- but I have a amassed an incredibly large DVD library (and yet never once alphabetized it, LOL)...

I view them more like "fiction novels" and escapist entertainment, occasionally "edifying" in other ways -- whereas television shows are more about pushing some propagandistic "agenda" these days (whether "news" or "infotainment" or "sitcoms"), and I have ZERO interest in that.

But my DVD's (like my music albums) are actually a fairly "eclectic" collection -- mixture of a lot of old (I suppose you could say largely "classic" though I think that word is overused) films -- along with a smattering of newer ones (some "popular" and many not) that I found, or at least potentially thought would be, "interesting" in terms of plot, story, characters, etc. (And based on everything from other people's recommendations, to various odd reviews I've read, to simply semi-random selections that were "cheap" and in some $1 or $5 bin at walmart -- all methods of which seem to work equally well {or equally poorly as the case may be}).