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The old ways are best (europe.pub)
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[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Same with movies.

It's annoying when you ask someone if they've seen a film you loved. Only for when you start talking about it, they reveal they just watched a Youtube summary and ruined the whole thing for themselves...

[–] paraproto@szmer.info 2 points 2 weeks ago

There are many movies I don't intend to watch, but then if they are culturally significant I read the plot on Wikipedia.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People who do this are very odd to me. I'm not sure if its a younger person thing or what. I think people can't sit still for a movie now.

[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's more common with younger folks but since even my own father spends hours a day on Youtube while being "too busy" to watch movies anymore. I'm not going to say it's only a young person thing.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah totally. A lot of brains were fried by corpo big tech.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I just watch summaries for two reasons

  1. I don't have the time to sit down for two or more hours to watch a story that's riddled with plot holes
  2. Due to poor sound and visual editing from the last decade, I don't have the patience to squint to see and read everything on subtitles

if I'm going to read anything it's going to be a book or a foreign film that's at least original and edited well.

[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Due to poor sound and visual editing from the last decade

I ain't gonna disagree on this point.

But I will say not knowing about whatever popular franchise isn't a crime. And I'm tired of people pretending like they have to "keep up" with everything even if they have no real interest in it.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

absolutely not a way for me to keep up with the Joneses. more of a curiously scratching an itch if the movie is even worth making time for. surprise, 99% are not.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Those are two (perfectly valid) reasons for not watching full-length films, but they're not reasons to watch summaries. Watching the summary is worth it if you enjoy that experience, but even as another soul who barely watches any movies I am kind of curious myself to understand the appeal.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I eat breakfast and lunch at my desk. while I eat I watch a recap.

I actually have been watching less since most of them have been using AI to narrate and it does a shit job at it.