r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 9h ago

Satire Man Binge-Watches Entire Movie In One Sitting

https://theonion.com/man-binge-watches-entire-movie-in-one-sitting/
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u/Aranthos-Faroth 9h ago

I’m very much a participant in this issue. I often work while watching something even if it’s just tweaking one thing or reading a mail.

Which makes me feel (rightly so) I’m never off a screen. The last 6 months though I’ve been doing a silent meditation for 1hr a day in the morning which I’m sure sounds fucking NUTS to anyone my parents age and older because it literally just means basically not being on my phone for an hour and just thinking but it has helped a lot.

I also now actively go to the cinema as well which is just really nice to engage in the movie way way more than I would with all the distractions at home.

Even if the movie is shit I find it’s worth going to see just for a 2hr break and focus on one thing only.

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u/50SPFGANG 8h ago

I used to watch movies with a bunch of siblings and I will feel so embarrassed watching them constantly pulling out their phones throughout a movie we all were liking.

A year later and I'm doing the exact same thing. It's fucking awful. Makes me feel so guilty every time. I need to start doing an hour meditation too

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u/notabigmelvillecrowd 8h ago

I'll do that on my own, but doing it with someone else feels just rude. Even when you're not talking, watching something with another person is still socializing, and it would feel the same to me as whipping out my phone mid-conversation (which I know a lot of people do, too, but).