I love video games but I also really love film. I went from playing Silent Hill games to watching films like Jacob’s Ladder, Lost Highway, and Session 9. I’ve been watching a lot more films lately. David Lynch is one of my favorite filmmakers right now. I guess most of my life I was watching the wrong films. Even today lots of great films are still being made, you just need to wade through lots of shit to find it. For every great film, there’s probably 10 shitty cash grabs. Cough, cough Minecraft Movie.
Games are interactive, movies are passive. Makes sense to me.
Also, there’s the cost and community aspect of games. For the price of a movie ticket and popcorn, I can buy a game that I can play with friends for easily dozens of hours instead of us silently sitting next to each other for an hour or two.
With the increasing death of third places and the increasing cost of existing outside, video games have become their own sort of third place for people to get together and just hang out.
I’d still rather play video games than watch a movie, and I’m in my 40s.
I’m rapidly approaching 40, but I’m there too.
Most “normal” people see watching a movie or playing a game as a passive experience, you’re “doing nothing.”
For me that couldn’t be more wrong. I almost never “just” watch a movie or show, that’s wayyyy too passive for me. Playing a game is engaging, you may not be physically running around, but you absolutely are “doing something.”
I’m a millennial but same.
Movies suck ass right now. And honestly videogames too.
Videogames have replay value though so I can stick to the good ones from the past.
Movies have rewatch value up to a point.
Make a movie we want to see and we’ll watch it.
I’ve never been a movie person, always preferred video games. Besides, many video games are like movies these days, but you interact with them.
