Movie Night

Movie Night

For being one so sensitive to visual stimulation, I sure can't sit through a movie. Everyone - EVERYONE - watches movies, often using them for excellent point illustrations and always as a common denominator in conversation.

Youth of today use movies as a communication medium. It's as if an energy (in addition to social) takes place in the universe through the movie. I understand the dynamics, I just can't join 'em.

For me movie watching is a form of torture. I figure out the ending long before I should and everything seems completely implausible. Violent images haunt me - so I will never sit through one of those. Musicals are kinda cool. I liked ET and the dacha in Dr. Zhivago. Matrix scared me into doubting reality just a tad too much - I won't do THAT again!
I have never watched TV either. But if I walk by one that has a good commercial on, I will get sucked right in - but only for the good commercial.

The only other person I know that this holds true for is my mother. .....Scary.