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My real life, my good life is in the movie theater. Movies are my drug, my dependency. Movies are the only way for me to activate some circuits of emotional life which never worked for me. They have not become atrophic, they just never worked. And it appears strange that these circuits, which have never been really used, are still alive in my mind. Like for the people addicted to the soap opera: they will never be rich, married to beautiful people and happy, or unfairly sad.

Well yes, this has something to do with voyerism. For cognitivists the modules are there, are not learned. I agree.

I was like that, ten years ago. I used to go to the movies, twice a month. It started with the re-issues of the Star Wars movies, and it ended with the movie, Titanic with Austin Powers, in between.

Twice a month? I see normally five movies per week; I suffer from abstinence if a stay more than two days without a movie. I just come back fom "Heaven's gate" by Michael Cimino, a three hours and an half long movie.

Many years ago i used to visit the cinema 4 or 5 times a week.
That was before DVDs, cable TV and downloading.
I can't remember the last movie i saw at the cinema: i really must get out more.

I would go to the cinema if I had someone to go with, but these new ones really are bad designed with flat floors, especially showcase cinema, I hate flat floored cinemas.

Need a (Black and Decker GK1000 Alligator Powered Lopper) to chop peoples hair to see past them, or even so a 6ft something guy sits infront of you and end up not been able to see…

I rarely go to the movies. I have to be very interested in the subject matter.

Like Paulo, movies are my drug of choice.

I've just gotten back from seeing "The Holiday". Yes, it's a bit of a chick flick, but it made me remember how much I really miss England. I have only been there once, but I know in the bottom of my soul that I'm supposed to live in Europe.

As for going how many times a week? I MAY have you all beat.

I was in the worst possible relationship over ten years ago, but during this time, I probably went to the movies 6-10 times a week. Weekends would involve double features.

I loved the escapism involved. I would leave the house and "run away".

I wasn't really sure I had Asp until about a week ago....but it's strange how many things in my past fall into place now that I know.

Now that I don't make the big bucks (I made serious money back then)...I only go to the movies MAYBE once a month. It's getting hard for me to go anymore, anyway. The movie has to look REALLY good for me to go and spend my money on it....and there really haven't been any exceptional movies coming out (I don't like horror movies)...Action/Adventure or comedies....those are my most favorite.

I'm SERIOUSLY looking forward to Harry Potter!

Jen

I love movies... but I have grown to hate going to a movie theatre to watch them. The seats are not comfortable, the sound is played at ear-splitting loudness, people around me talk during the movie (especially if they have a cell phone), and the cost is getting too high.

I recently signed up with Canflix, a DVD-by-Mail service (the best-known one in the USA is Netflix). So I am regularly getting 2 or 3 DVDs to watch every weekend. I find that much more enjoyable, to curl up on my couch with some popcorn I just popped myself, and watch the movie at my leisure.

In the last two months, I have seen:
- The Producers
- Aeon Flux
- Ultraviolet
- Underworld
- The Ice Harvest
- One Hour Photo
- V For Vendetta
- Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith
- Agent Cody Banks
- Superman Returns
- The Emperor's New Groove
- Femme Fatale
- The Interpreter
- Cars
- Capote
- Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
- Accepted

On their way to me should be The DaVinci Code and Over The Hedge.

The main reason I go so much to the movies (and also look at VHS and DVD: in VHS you find often films very particular that you don’t find in DVD) is that I see life there. I don’t experience life in my sonnambulistic everyday actions. It’s not so much a substitute for acting, as a reminder that all my acting is something miserable, deprived of vitality, false. When I see a good movie (dramatic-intimistic is my genre: the trilogy of Apu by the Indian Ray, the Japanese Ozu and Kurosawa -especially his modern Japan films, the Dardennes - they are all in DVD) I don’t feel consoled, I see clearly the wasteland of my life and my only consolations are this flashes of clearmindedness I can obtain. For a while they make me whole and angry for what I missed in life.

A film I still enjoy seeing is “The Little Fugitive” an indie film of 1953 by Morris Engel (now on DVD). Engel’s film is an example of how you can do a nil budget great film. I used to like also the "cinema verité". The Canadians were good at that, but there is not much of it now.

I'm not really into films. i prefer music. People are always trying to have conversations with me about films and I 'm unable to comment. I can't identify most of the actors who other people consider mega-famous. I can tell you all sorts of details about bands, though!

Why angry sometimes is good? When something goes wrong between the world and you, you may feel guilty. But why should you feel guilty for your misery? This happens all the time to me and I think also to others. Guilt is one of the main sources of depression. I find somewhere this quotation:“anger is energy, a sign that we are alive instead of physically, intellectually, and emotionally dead”. One way to chase guilt may be alcohol or drug or valium. For me the best, healthiest way to combat guilt feelings is good cinema, and in general, good stories, fiction, intellectual vitality. Another even better solution would be a loving friend who accepts you for what you are. But how difficult: nobody knows what your life really is, so it’s difficult to feel accepted.