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Frankly, I find a lot of films are better as "background watching".

I especially find Marvel movies much better at home. I might find one entirely OK watched at home, but get frustrated and bored with the same film in the theater, and leave feeling pretty unhappy with it. This is because I can divide my attention at home, and most Marvel movies are kinda worse the more closely you're watching them. Poor filming and editing, interminable action scenes that have me wanting to take a nap rather than watch them by a certain point—all that's better if you can check out for chunks of the movie.

And this isn't a my-attention-span thing: I closely watch "boring" shit like silent films all the time, because they reward close watching far more than a lot of modern blockbusters do (older blockbusters often reward it better, too—at least, the ones we still remember)



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