[quote=FilmBuff]I read books and I seen films.[/quote]

[quote=John W Constantine]Read the book twice. Never seen the film.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]Never read the book. Seen the film twice[/quote]

[quote=AgrippinaX][quote=John McClane]i don’t care who i share it with i just wanna get there first![/quote]

Hence everyone says it sounds selfish. The being first part isn’t key, it’s just that I like an unmarred impression. Too many times people criticised the shit out of something I really liked on first watch, and that’s extremely annoying. I can understand it with subsequent/multiple watches, but it’s nice to have a ‘clean’ first impression.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]i don’t care who i share it with i just wanna get there first![/quote]

[quote=AgrippinaX][quote=Mr Minio][quote=AgrippinaX][quote=Mr Minio]All work and no play makes Minio a tired boy[/quote]

I bet you hate The Shining though.[/quote] I like it, actually.

But yes, "sharing experience" is pretty bad for the most part when it comes to art. It's best to experience films & music alone. Other people mostly ruin the experience and you can say that experiencing something with others is great, and maybe it is, but that's a different kind of great, and it's mostly great because it's with them, while at the same time you realize that the thing itself would be greater if it was just you. Art is a solitary thing.[/quote]

This is a big part of why I’m here: to occasionally get a sanity/insanity(?) check that I’m not the only one feeling this way. I’ve always enjoyed ‘showing’ people art/introducing them to it and being shown art by people, but it does diminish the art. It sounds terrible, but I always think I wish I’d heard/watched/read that alone. I do like rewatching/rereading/re-experiencing art again surrounded by family, but that first time is just too sacred.

Is it just the film that you like or the book, too?[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio][quote=AgrippinaX][quote=Mr Minio]All work and no play makes Minio a tired boy[/quote]

I bet you hate The Shining though.[/quote] I like it, actually.

But yes, "sharing experience" is pretty bad for the most part when it comes to art. It's best to experience films & music alone. Other people mostly ruin the experience and you can say that experiencing something with others is great, and maybe it is, but that's a different kind of great, and it's mostly great because it's with them, while at the same time you realize that the thing itself would be greater if it was just you. Art is a solitary thing.[/quote]

[quote=AgrippinaX][quote=John McClane][quote=AgrippinaX][quote=Austruck][quote=AgrippinaX][quote=John McClane]I thought BoJack was dumb.[/quote]

I’m still not quite sold on it. Briefly tried it with my ex but don’t even recall my impression.[/quote]
Same... but not with my ex. :D[/quote]

Oh, I’d have preferred it to have been without him. The guy introduced me to a lot of great stuff that I adore to this day, but god did he also ruin a few films for me that I used to really love and can’t perceive the same way anymore.[/quote]yeah, i feel this. there's a whole lot of things from my teens-20s that stirs up shit memories of an *******.[/quote]

There’s that. Not just that though. I essentially perceive the world mainly through films, books and music, the rest is secondary. Always been that way. People find that shallow (understandably I guess) but I kind of find the opposite shallow. My ex was someone who partly faked being into the things I like (not even specific films but just film, music, etc). It eventually came out that he wasn’t really into it, just into ‘spending time together’ and all the euphemisms. 

Sounds cute, I suppose, but I found it really off-putting. I think he mainly ‘endured’ the art/music/film stuff. Anyway, I think the whole ‘sharing experiences’ thing is really idealised; I’ve mainly had people ruin stuff for me permanently and rarely any long-term positive outcomes.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane][quote=AgrippinaX][quote=Austruck][quote=AgrippinaX][quote=John McClane]I thought BoJack was dumb.[/quote]

I’m still not quite sold on it. Briefly tried it with my ex but don’t even recall my impression.[/quote]
Same... but not with my ex. :D[/quote]

Oh, I’d have preferred it to have been without him. The guy introduced me to a lot of great stuff that I adore to this day, but god did he also ruin a few films for me that I used to really love and can’t perceive the same way anymore.[/quote]yeah, i feel this. there's a whole lot of things from my teens-20s that stirs up shit memories of an *******.[/quote]

[quote=AgrippinaX][quote=Mr Minio]All work and no play makes Minio a tired boy[/quote]

I bet you hate The Shining though.[/quote]

[quote=AgrippinaX][quote=Austruck][quote=AgrippinaX][quote=John McClane]I thought BoJack was dumb.[/quote]

I’m still not quite sold on it. Briefly tried it with my ex but don’t even recall my impression.[/quote]
Same... but not with my ex. :D[/quote]

Oh, I’d have preferred it to have been without him. The guy introduced me to a lot of great stuff that I adore to this day, but god did he also ruin a few films for me that I used to really love and can’t perceive the same way anymore.[/quote]