Are you surprised when people say they’re not into movies?

What "good ones"? Hollywood has been producing mostly trash for the past 20 years.

No. I don't think so.

I know enough people who aren't much into movies. They might prefer the drama of sports, or the long-form storytelling of television, the interaction of computer games, or reading novels, or running repeatedly head-first into a plate glass window. It takes all sorts.

I think that's why sites such as MovieChat exist... to gather together the people who are unusually enthusiastic about movies. And do all those unusually enthusiastic people all watch and care about the same movies and agree which ones are 'the good ones'? No, they do not.

People having different ideas of a good time comes as no shock to me.

not at all. it might have been surprising 30 or 40 years ago, when movies were still probably the main source of entertainment and evenings out for adults. we're just not in that state anymore.

someone saying they're not into movies now is about as surprising as someone saying they don't care for video games or sports.

it's a big old world and we are all entitled to our preferences.

Yes. Music as well. They don't have to be hardcore into it, but just enjoy doing it.

Not really; if you had asked me just a couple of years ago, I'd probably have told you I wasn't all that much into movies, either.

No because everyone has different hobbies and interests.

i don't understand people who have no interest in any sport.

There are plenty of people into movies Here's a film buff with decades worth of movie expertise on the topic:

https://youtu.be/pYz8SSKsGOw