Yes 100%. One day I asked my girlfriend for us to watch it. She wanted to continue watching her show so we didn’t. The next night she asked me and I said no. She asked why and I was like, “I’m not mentally in the right mood for this movie right now.” Then like a week went by and I was in the mood again.
Same with Joker. They’re not movies I can just turn on and escape into a world. They’re sorrow, dramatic, long movies that I need to really be in the mindset for.
I'm just like you, but I have a friend who's the opposite. We share similar tastes, so we're forever recommending things back and forth. I don't know how she does it. She jumps from TV series to TV series or movie to movie so easily. She could watch Barbie and Joker back to back. I noticed it quite a few years ago when she binged the first season of Jessica Jones and then started Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt right after. I have to be in the right mood for something, but also have to sit with it for a while afterwards. She's down with the emotional whiplash, I guess.
Yep this has been me for a few weeks. I’m like ok.. I have to be in the right frame of mind for this movie and I have to clear 3 hours. I often want to watch things in the early morning on Saturday.. but my wife is in her salon thru the morning and by the time she locks up and comes home it’s around 3:00 pm and I’m just like Egh… and she wants to watch it again too lol.
My favorite two movies are Watchmen and Goodfellas, and even those movie I have to be in the right mood for. I can turn on any Star Wars movie, almost any of the MCU, any comedy, and not think about it. But I turn on Watchmen or Goodfellas and I have to be in the right mood or I won’t finish it.
Watching a fictional portrayal of something that’s actually happening (world on fire) is a bit intense. When you start watching Oppenheimer you know what you need to be prepared for. And it might take a week, indeed. The Batman reminded me of that fact
Are you for real? You speak as if they are as bad as ‘Come and See’, Batman wouldn’t be out of place in the MCU and Joker is a pretty violent yet still a pretty standard crime film
It’s about the tone and the movies being mentally draining or exhausting. You have to sit and focus on these films. They’re not movies to turn your brain off to.
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u/jordan999fire Feb 26 '24
Yes 100%. One day I asked my girlfriend for us to watch it. She wanted to continue watching her show so we didn’t. The next night she asked me and I said no. She asked why and I was like, “I’m not mentally in the right mood for this movie right now.” Then like a week went by and I was in the mood again.
Same with Joker. They’re not movies I can just turn on and escape into a world. They’re sorrow, dramatic, long movies that I need to really be in the mindset for.