Has anybody else reached a point where they're just tired of movies and shows? Games and books too, to an extent. The itch to discover a new show or an undergroud film or show is gone. The warm sensation of watching some of my favorites is nonexistent. I cannot say exactly why, but I think maybe because I've realized that... it's pointless. All those space battles and aliens, themes of pure escapism, always were without further "substance", but they used to be "fun". Now? Not so much. But what really gets me, is how much of a farce the dramas are. I put on "The Great Beauty" a bit before. And I as I was sitting there, watching it, I realized that... I'm not "living" it. I sit here, and watch people in everyday situations, wondering about their place in the universe, reminiscing about past loves and experiencing situations not exactly fantastical. And yet I just... keep on watching; not acting.
Is this just fatigue? Or is it the inevitable get off point? Every second spent here or infiction, is a second wasted. All those characters, born out of someone's imagination, didn't sit there, reading about others; they acted, they lived. What is the point of me watching a man's journey in self-discovery, while ignoring my own? What is the point of watching a couple fall in love, while I'm letting my own love life remain stagnant and frankly, imaginary? What is the point of... all this? To build a "character"? That's built through hobbies, your profession; tangible things. Watching fiction, no matter how interesting it is, is just... a zero sum. I can see the argument for escapism, but again, every second spent watching that low circulation indie flick from 2014 is another second I could've spent honing my craft and going after my /own/ purpose.
I just feel... worthless, doing this. When I painted, when I wrote; those had results. This is just being a consumer. The only thing I have found that has stood this test is Mad Men. The only "product" of value.
This. The mediums are infested with toxic identity politics and lacking any true creativity and talent. It's on oversaturated failed market that isn't allowed to fail, so it will never get better, only worse.
Ryan Rogers
oh christ not another one of those malcom gladwell 10k hours fags
Ayden Morgan
Are you by any chance 29 years old like me?
Nicholas Taylor
I wish I could, discord tranny. If I had friends, I wouldn't be watching movies. I used to do a lot of stuff back in the day. I'd write, play the piano, paint, sculpt, make customs, make stopmotions, and then... gradually I stopped everything. I even stopped collecting statues and traded it for comics (it was around the time of the Image Revival, so I thought I could buy the next Walking Dead #1 and make some bank). And I just started watching shows. I began to live through characters. I don't regreat watching Mad Men or Leftovers, but what was the point of L O S T, for example? It's done and... I've gained nothing from it. I guess. But I stopped playing vidya due to the same feeling, and that was back in 2011. I haven't picked up a controller since then. I think I'm just done with fiction. Maybe I'll watch a flick on a rainy afternoon again, but I feel as if I've wasted enough time watching. I need to do things. But I'm studying physics and engineering; it's not my goal to become a director. 22 this year.
I used to, when I was a kid. I even gathered money for a while to buy one of those 500$+ ones. Then I stopped caring and used all the money in clothes. Now I cannot even remember the basic rules. My mom used to read me the Greeks to go to bed. I read Schopenhauer as a teen. Now I can't even get arsed to read Kundera. I just feel so... empty. As if everything I ever knew leaked out, and I never replinished my insides, let alone built upon them. What does that have to do with anything? This isn't societyposting user.
Leo Brooks
It is, your a baby in college with too much time on your hands, stfu go back to your studies and get a job.
I felt sort of the same way for quite a while. Turned out my tastes had just shifted as I aged. Try out different genres, even ones that you never once thought you'd ever like. You might find something you couldn't properly appreciate in a previous stage of your life.
Andrew Young
>that one 16 year old who pretends to be a boomer Have a last (you). I've tried all genres though. As a kid, my favorite was sci-fi. And as I began growing, I got more into dramas, romance movies and the like. It's just that I was watching the scene where Jep gets visited by his first girlfriend's husband, and I realized that I'm sitting here, watching a 65 year old man reminisce about his 20s and his place in the universe, while I'm /in/ my 20s, and not doing anything to make them worth. I don't want to be the life of the party or whatever, but the 3 hours I waste every day to watch a movie, could've been used in getting more work done, at the very least.
William Watson
>I've grown tired of this Same here, user.
Pretty much the only thing I've been looking forward to. I should probably stop visiting Yea Forums like I did other boards to avoid spoilers
I have some shows stored, but I have no desire to watch them. I think I should just delete them and be done with this. It's just that, after all the hours of watching, I haven't gained anything. I guess so. But that begs the question; where does cinema go from here then? Maybe people in general have stagnated.
Camden Rivera
Damn, it's happening earlier and earlier. I'm almost 35 and have lived to see many of my favorite franchises burned to the fucking ground. When I was younger, there was a TV show I used to love watching called "Movie Magic" that was all about special effects, think it was on the Discovery channel. They had amazing shit that SFX artists and directors used to do, and the show inspired me and filled my mind with wonder and possibility. Now I imagine if they made the same show, it would be an entire floor of an office building full of hipsters and fat people staring at computer screens all day.
Where the fuck did the magic go?
Julian Foster
It's not about franchises for me. I still have those memories of the Iron Man and Batman issues I liked. I don't need to still buy the current drivel. It's just that I moved on to more "mature" entertainment, and I find it empty. Gosling falls in love and gets cheated on. Good, but /I/ have never been in love. Some guy feels like a fraud or some woman has to deal with her unfaithful husband of whatever. And I ask myself, "what's the point"? I can understand watching something purely fictional with friends, family, or to relax on a Friday night. But what's the point of just watching things in general? I never thought of it as a hobby but, no matter how good such a product is (movie, game, show, book) it will always be a waste of time. Unless of course it's non-fiction.
Then again, I do go back to a few scientists saying they got their ideas from capes they read as kids, so I suppose this kind of fiction, at least in my job, can be of help, once in a while. It's just that past a certain age, wasting time doing nothing should be removed from one's life.
Caleb Phillips
This is my sense, I think stuff like Star Wars struck the chord it did because it was many people's earliest exposure to the heroes journey when it was new, and no one had seen anything quite like it before. Now that you can drown yourself on a whim with all this sort of crap the mystery and wonder is gone. At its core I think most deconstructions are what happens when you're just bored with what works, and arbitrary impactlessness is permeating everything both for audience and producer. In capeshit and vidya especially the resentment for the source material and the people that might like it is barely concealed. The only idea outside of that is apparently run of the mill misery porn and trying to portray how shitty everything actually is. We chew this shit every day and wonder why we're miserable.
Camden Collins
Kind of disappointed by the lack of good tv series in the past couple years. For a long time there were a lot of great tv series and there was at least something good to look forward to once a week.
William Adams
>Where the fuck did the magic go? Lining the pockets of Jewish producers who want cheap vfx and count on naive audiences who will buy tickets anyway
Chase Harris
>I just feel so... empty are you trying to make a dramatic pause here? it's not working, you're not don draper
Jayden Morris
That's true, in a way. There's The Young Pope S2 coming up. But the days of Leftovers, Black Sails, True Detective and the like, all running at the same time, are done. Christ user, it's just adding some sauce to the text. It's why punctuation exists; to make it flow better. Don't long paragraphs with no change of pace tire you?
Brandon Diaz
But fictional stories are the backbone for thousands of years of inspiration and ideal. Myth, virtue, heroism, and fable have contributed to the spirit of mankind just as much if not more than anything. The power of creative culture is the power to inspire us or terrify us, even warn us like Orwell's 1984 which is literally coming true before our eyes.
You're probably just at a point in your life where you long for real experiences. Do that, it's normal and healthy and you'll only be happy if you do, but you might come to appreciate fictional things later in your life, or view them from a different perspective than you used to.
Our modern western culture is absolutely drowning in man-child fantasy bullshit. Nerd culture is a fucking nightmare for actual nerds that grew up with this stuff.
Adrian Martinez
Shut up fag this is actually a good thread with a good convo going. Going shit up one of the other countless shit threads with your shit post from your shit brain.
Camden White
Get out and meet people
Dominic Evans
this unironically, treat people as a book or movie and have fun with her/him, you can even play a character that is not you, most people would believe whatever you tell them
>But fictional stories are the backbone for thousands of years of inspiration and ideal. Myth, virtue, heroism, and fable have contributed to the spirit of mankind just as much if not more than anything. The power of creative culture is the power to inspire us or terrify us, even warn us like Orwell's 1984 which is literally coming true before our eyes. Fair point. That's what I'm coming around to. I used to only consume sci-fi after a certain period, because I thought "I'm training to be a scientist, what's the use of all those magical myths and tales". Then, I had this dream of me reading a book to my imaginary daughter. And it got me thinking; what would I read to her? >You're probably just at a point in your life where you long for real experiences. That's it, in all honesty. >Our modern western culture is absolutely drowning in man-child fantasy bullshit. Nerd culture is a fucking nightmare for actual nerds that grew up with this stuff. Exactly. As someone who grew up with comics to such a point that I was ordering special toys from overseas, it's absolutely sickening. I still go back and read an issue of Green Lantern or Iron Man from the 80s, from time to time, but this whole climate is absolutely disgusting. - But generally, my point wasn't about fiction. I get fiction; it's about escapism and inspiration. The good kind, anyhow. I just discovered that I see absolutely no point in "real world" movies. A biopic I can appreciate, but all those works about people in love, with doubts, and so on and so forth, they're all mundane, yet exaggerated. And having spent so much time consuming them instead of living them, seems shameful to me. I haven't taken off my Cross yet, in all my years. But I have doubts. Not so much about God as about myself. How strong my belief is. What its point is. How can I reconcile it with what I plan to do? The man I want to be, the man I have to be, the man I could be; they're in a gunfight.
Xavier Walker
You're burned out, find a new hobby desu. I hadn't watched series for a couple years and now I've started since last week and I can't stop. These things come with ups and downs.
Wyatt Walker
I don't know, generally I completely abandon things when I stop enjoying them. As a kid, I loved Spider-Man, but once I got bored of him, I never looked back again. I got tired with vidya and haven't touched one in close to a decade. I got tired collecting figures, and haven't gotten a single one in about 5 years.
I guess my problem is that I feel as if I'm not doing anything that matters, and, instead, I'm wasting time watching others lead lives that could very well be my own. I'll never be a pirate, so I don't regreat watching Black Sails over the course of a summer, but I've grown tired of movies like Youth, or shows like Six Feet Under. They're an exploration of life through the lens of someone who has lead a full one, while I'm sitting alone and taking it all in; using it as a substitute for mine.
Landon Long
Nah mate you just have absolutely no life. Get a life, get a gf, travel, do something you love, work a fucking shit or good job for hours on end and cut yourself off from media for a few months then try again.
i think i just enjoy the news and discussion the saturation and accessibility have things less interesting
Aiden Richardson
Never read Malcom Gladwell, but I did fuck your dad so you're not off, I am just one of those guys.
Jeremiah Thompson
Sorry, user, but something in your life. A real trial, a real bout of suffering, is what it will take to bring back the freshness of art.
It’s really going to hurt, but you will get the gift of a keen artistic eye, or at least you will begin to hone the eye.
Once you’ve gone through a bunch of tough shit (relationships, family problems) you’ll start seeing the value of art again.
Best
Parker Foster
Thanks user. I really will do it this time. There’s no other course of action. This is it. Otherwise I’ll die alone and fat, from alcohol poisoning, never having amounted to anything, or bred a ginger. And that I will not accept.
I've watched so much movies and series that i don't even look for new things to watch, i just rewatch something i havent seen in a while when i'm drinking alone and thats it.
People in movies usually get pulled into big events.
As a real person, the most you can really do is go out and get drunk in a bar and hope to meet some new people somehow, but the absolute most you can do together is have sex and do drugs. You're not going to have an adventure like on TV.
You could travel if you had a lot of money, but there's nothing to see or do out there. You can sit there in a hotel room doing nothing or you can go to a foreign bar just like a regular bar.
There's nothing out there.
Gabriel Butler
I've found the opposite to be true. I haven't been able to enjoy art nearly as much as I used to before a bunch of traumatic shit happened.
I'm really critical and sensitive about things I didn't used to be, and nothing feels as entertaining as it used to.
Nolan Reed
There’s good old stuff you’ve missed. Rarely but surely, something actually good will pop up. 95% of what we’re market fed is forgettable garbage, so you just have to put up some effort to find the entertainment that speaks to you now
