Difficulties with Movies

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I do the same thing. I like watching movies on Netflix so that I can pause it and walk away every 20 minutes or so and so that I can replay things when I get lost.




I do this too. I tend to be thinking about other things instead of watching the movie. I think most movies just don't interest me enough because I'm much better at watching documentaries about things related to my special interests. With those, I'm totally engrossed and I can hardly look away.

I'm sure you watched this as its quite old but what about Wimbledon

I'm not much of a film/television/video fan but I'm hooked on American Gods - it's like I'm watching a memoir of my own life on my own Amazon Kindle Fire, portrayed by one of my favourite reality TV series actors, Ian McShane (formerly actor of the title role in the series called, Lovejoy, here in the UK).

a memoir of your life? Crikey? Which character do you associate with Shadow , Wednesday or someone else ?

I despise movies because of this. My prosopagnosia makes me unable to distinguish between characters, and my auditory processing issues make it hard to discern what people are saying without closed-captioning. Movies are an absolute chore. It took forever to get my mom to stop forcing me to watch them with her.

I've got the prosopagnosia to the point where I can't recognise my own brother if he shaves or cuts his hair - I need a couple of days to adjust. I'm severe on the index. But I recognise movie characters.

Except in Dunkirk. Cillian Murphy I knew, Tom Hardy in the plane, and everyone else was "Dark hair boy in Danger", halfway through it became incoherent for me. Which makes sense, because I'm a "plot-person" and Dunkirk is a "visually driven" thing. But I'm already prepping my 2nd and 3rd IMAX viewings.

Audio-wise, subtitles aren't hard to come by. These days there are multiple sites with multiple versions. Most players cater for it. There are whole apps even. It's so automatic now, I get them before I press play. And I was obsessed with anime for long years as a child so I'm broken in.

I spent a lot of times out of school, like The Cable Guy. Movies, movie lines... movie plots... Plot structures. How genres work... Tropes... At one point I had the entire TV tropes site saved on Pocket (the app) so I could check anything at any point in case of an "emergency."

I love figuring out the mysteries... Being obsessed with movies and tropes and plot structures means that more times than not, it's all very predictable, but even this is fun. Just by the casting, odds are I can guess out backstories for characters.

Idk why, but I realise I like tragedies. I sit and anticipate the agony of the characters and then their crying triggers my crying. (Anyone needing to have tears jerked out of them, check out Manchester.) I get so deep into these things. Especially actors who are really good with their micro-expressions and their voices... I've watched whole series just because of the way a certain person blinks or the way their mouth moves when they talk or their posture.

Idk man. I think you're my total complete opposite. Beyond that even. If we were ever in the same room at the same time, our two bodies might explode or something. Movies and TV are my framework for processing events, for understanding people, social skills, everything...

My sister fell asleep in the cinema with me once and I didn't talk for her for maybe 3 days. The idea that something like that could be done by someone I grew up with? She was like an alien to me. Like a non-person. I think I actually tried to physically fight her over this. For being disrespectful. The quickest way to goad me into a fight is to bad talk a movie I like. I just see red. And it takes me sooooo long to realise that they're just teasing me.

I'm in the middle of a 2-day argument with my sister because I'm angry that she doesn't want to use her history knowledge and people-recognizing skills to explain Dunkirk to me, while she doesn't want to "waste money on Dunkirk at IMAX," and I can't & won't pay for her because she is a person who falls asleep during movies at the cinema... It was Godzilla, 17 years ago, but I carry that anger still

Now that I write this, I see how cray it is.

I sometimes have to look up a movie to understand what is going on in it. When I first watched The Accountant, I couldn't figure out if Ben Affleck in the movie was a bad guy or a good guy so I had to look it up and I couldn't understand why he was shooting people if he worked as an accountant. I used to be worse at understanding movies but honestly I don't know if it's because I am older now or if it had to do with me being a kid. I didn't understand certain behaviors or reactions and didn't notice them until I was an adult.

I also do not remember movies well either unless I have seen them a lot.