#i'd watch the same 5 will ferrell movies with my dad and i'd go to the theatre with my friend

[strangesickness]

getting a ps3 and a TV fundamentally changed me as a person. not because of all the new video games i suddenly had access to, but because of all of the movies i can now go out of my way to pick up once a week at the library that i've always had instant access to on my computer.

#okay but for real #i never ever watched movies before i got my ps3 #like i only ever watched movies socially #i think the last movie i watched by myself before i got my ps3 (a month ago) was alice in wonderland over a year ago #watching movies was only ever a social activity for me #i'd watch the same 5 will ferrell movies with my dad and i'd go to the theatre with my friend #but other than that? i had little to no interest #whereas now its like i can't get enough lol #pre-ps3 i can think of six movies that i was ever genuinely excited to watch (not for social reasons) #and those were barbie (2023) rocky horror the sonic movie IT chapter 2 frozen 2 and the batman movie #thats it. my entire life. those were the only movies i was ever genuinely excited to watch #and now its like every week i'm beyond excited to pop in a dvd and watch a movie #reminds me of being a kid and going to the video rental store with my parents #really heartbreaking to me that kids these days will never get to experience that #scrolling on netflix will never capture the same wonder as spending 20 min in the store carefully considering your options #i'm really not very old so it's weird to think that “kids these days” will have such a different childhood to me #anyways i love watching movies and have so much stuff to watch so thats cool