• SadSadSatellite @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    That’s a caveat I inform people of beforehand. I am really into movies, but I have very discriminate taste, so I don’t watch very often because movies are generally dogshit. All my friends know, I will watch anything with them, but I’m going to talk mad shit the entire time. This is a really fun group activity in most cases, and often helps less informed people see through the bullshit that is modern media, but sometimes there’s someone who doesn’t get it, or needs to hyperfocus on the screen.

    That signifies to me:

    1. This person doesn’t understand the point of hanging out in a group

    2. This person falls for blatant marketing

    3. We will probably not be good friends

    • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      I was with you until you started trash-talking people who enjoy media that is specifically designed to be enjoyed.

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        6 months ago

        Can you believe this guy over here is enjoying something that was engineered for the enjoyment of the greatest number of people?!? What a maroon!

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        6 months ago

        It’s also just generally not a good train of thought regardless of the quality of the media or the individual person’s enjoyment.

        For instance - my wife struggles to maintain an understanding of the story of whatever she’s watching unless she focuses completely on it, meaning if we want to discuss what we’re watching we pause the TV to discuss and then press play again. If we talk throughout something or she’s on her phone, she misses out entire pieces of critical dialogue or visuals that carry the story and so she ends up not being able to follow it and then therefore doesn’t enjoy it at all, or alternatively she has to ask what’s going on which kinds ruins it for both of us.

        It makes no sense to make some weird inference that because of that, she’s somehow more susceptible to marketing or doesn’t know how to spend time with groups of people. Both are definitely untrue. I think it is fair, however, to assume that she probably wouldn’t be good friends with someone who is as judgmental as the previous poster, so at least they got that one right.