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Does watching a lot of movies mean you have a mental illness?

posted a year ago by BrandNewPoster (10996)
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This person on Reddit seems to think it does. They posted in the Letterboxd sub with the title:
"A lot of this sub is unchecked mental illness" and said:

"I’m sorry guys but far too many of you take this app insanely seriously and it’s hilarious. Obsessing over the quantity you log (gotta hit 500 this year, social life be damned!) and the try hard all lowercase one line reviews, paying $50 a year to change posters and make your profile “aesthetic” and caring about your ratings curve… wtf is this? Just watch movies.

I literally use it to keep a personal log but I think I might go back to boomer IMDB after seeing how seriously people take something so trivial.

I saw normalization over someone who had logged over 700 reviews so far this year. Sorry guys but that’s not okay. Watching a movie a day I can get behind, but logging 3 or more is having a serious affect on your social life whether you realize it or not."

Then this poster said it was off putting and odd that I watch so many movies and said I don't have a life and then called me an incel because I watch a lot of movies. Do you agree with this person that watching a lot of movies is some kind of mental illness?

[–] quartz (482) a year ago

that's reddit

I'd perrrobably prefer to be at the pub with someone who reviews movies than someone who's claim to fame is updating wiki entries (no offense to anyone who does)

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7386) a year ago

The point s/he is making isn't actually about movie watching though, it's about needing validation from "social media" if this counts as social media. Coz lots of people probably watch more than 500 movies a year and don't advertise it, don't update their profile ever, etc. This is all about the attention their actions are getting and the need to seek further attention by doing more, at times ridiculously more. Has nothing to do with movies, it's just a variant on the same online attention seeking behaviour you'll see anywhere with a vocal audience.