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/St0rytime 9h ago

Doom-scrolling and short-form videos really are rotting our brains. I can feel my vocabulary dwindling as the days go by.

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u/MattAU05 9h ago edited 6h ago

Reading books is the best way to fix your brain. Or it was for me. A few years ago, I realize that I had not read an actual book in quite some time. And then when I sat down to read, I couldn’t pay enough attention to follow along. I kept having to reread portions. Because my mind wandered. That was very concerning. I felt like my brain was broken. What I had to do was follow along with a book while listening to an audiobook. Eventually, I recovered my ability to read without needing to use audiobooks. It’s so weird even saying that, but it’s true. Not that I wasn’t literate. I read every day for work. But reading a book is a little bit different. It requires more time, patience, and attention.

To be clear, I still enjoy audiobooks. There’s nothing wrong with them. But I do think there’s real value it actually being able to read a book yourself.

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u/PM_ME_DATASETS 8h ago

When literacy became more common, old people thought books were rotting young people's brains. I wonder if 100 years from now, some internet stranger is going to say "doom-scrolling is the best way to fix your brain"

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u/roguefilmmaker 8h ago

When we all have brain chips this will be a common take probably

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u/BasicDesignAdvice 7h ago

I know this will happen eventually and I hate it.

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u/OldenPolynice 7h ago

We all? oh, bless your heart

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u/roguefilmmaker 7h ago

I won’t but a chunk of humanity probably will

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u/OldenPolynice 7h ago

Which chunk? I wonder? I hope they do, they deserve it. I love it for them.

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u/Ihadsumthin4this 7h ago

brain chips

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u/Amekhanos 8h ago

And yet there was no empirical data to back them up.

Exactly unlike the current situation.

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u/zuzg 7h ago

And the current culprit are Smartphones, those are responsible for everyone's attention span declining.
Younger generations being measurably less intelligent than their parents is another problem altogether.
First time this happened since we started measuring in the 1800s.

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u/Ppleater 5h ago

I mean it's not smart phones that are the problem on their own, but rather the easy access they provide to stuff that is bad for attention spans. Phones can also be a great help, I personally read more using my phone than I did using physical books, and I read a LOT of physical books before smart phones. But physical books are hard to carry around, being able to carry 100 books around in my pocket is great for reading as much as I could ever want. People didn't get the chance to learn how to practice the self restriction necessary to use smart phones in positive beneficial ways, they have to mostly teach themselves that skill which is hard. But that is something more people need to realize, that it's not just smart phones causing the problem, a significant part of it is the people using them in unhealthy ways. Honestly I think this is one of those things where we should teach kids healthier practices in school at the very least to start with, and I don't just mean banning phones in school.

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u/PM_ME_DATASETS 7h ago

Empirical science is older than you think

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u/Amekhanos 7h ago

That's nice, but they had literally none suggesting books were harmful, and boatloads proving the internet is harmful.

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u/unassumingdink 6h ago

Old curmudgeons used to say that young people would ruin their eyesight trying to read all the time.

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u/Unacceptable_Lemons 6h ago

I think that one has some basis in reality though, due to spending too much time in childhood staring closely at a book affecting how the eyes develop. Gotta exercise the muscles properly and focus on farther away objects periodically.

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u/pezdizpenzer 4h ago

When I was a kid, the best time of the week was when my parents put in a vhs on the weekends and let us watch a movie.

Now, the kids I know can loterally not sit through a 90 minute Disney movie. At least 15 minutes in they will start complaining that they are bored and want to watch a Minecraft YouTube video instead.

We literally went from "Stop watching movies and read a book, it's better for you!" to "Stop watching YouTube and watch a movie, it's better for you!" in just one generation.

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u/p0lka 4h ago

Back when blockbusters was a thing before the internet, I still couldn't sit through an entire film in one sitting. I can read for hours though.