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I feel like a bit of an outlier here. But I just don't care for them. I much prefer playing video games.

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[–] ptc075@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I stopped a long time ago. I just prefer interactive entertainment over passive. TV was easy to axe, cut the cable bill & never looked back. Movies went much later, too many shitty movies back to back, eventually stopped going, so stopped seeing previews, which in turn broke the cycle of wanting to see the next one.

I will say that not watching movies or TV makes it harder to interact with folks. There's something of a shared culture we have through our entertainment, and not having that makes it harder to connect.

Oddly, I just started watching movies again this year. I've been getting better about getting on the elliptical, and I'm now at the point where my 'runs' take about 90 minutes. So been catching up on all the movies I considered watching over the last ~25 years. Turns out I didn't miss much. lol.