I must watch upsetting shit or else I'm an empty-headed fool.

t still hunting for the Like button.

Raymond Chandler has an essay on "escapist" reading, summarized thus: "I hold no particular belief for the detective story as the ideal escape. I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living."

I figure the same can be extended to movies.

Thanks, everyone. I'll save Snowpiercer for when I can watch it on my couch with a friend to hide behind. The Apes movie was already off my list, partly because Animals, and also partly because from what I can tell from the trailers those chimps aren't acting like chimps, they're acting like humans in chimp suits, and it bugs me.

I don't have any complacency or naiveté left for Art to shake me out of. I want Art and its disciples to leave me alone.

And something something "Art is supposed to destroy your complacency," something something "all you want is empty-headed pablum!"

I would probably just reply "YEP!" to that and peace out.

I sat through Un Chien Andalou in film class and Eraserhead at home; hopefully that gives me enough Disturbing Art Cinema cred that I can get away with rainchecking Gravity (because I can tell from trailers the combo of the main character pinwheeling uncontrollably through wide open vistas and being enclosed in a suffocating spacesuit would make me queasy).

Zenkitty, with regards to your whitefont: it's somewhere in the middle, really, and one of the big issues in the movie is what distinguishes the apes from the humans.

We all have qs about various content in movies and many of your responses helped me a great deal. I am glad we can help each other discern whether a movie is for us or not.

Matt, I am super sensitive to motion sickness, like, had to leave the theater during the first Hunger Games movie levels of sensitive.

I had no problems with Gravity. Just FYI, Fwiw.

Yeah, I've avoided watching Gravity for the reasons Matt cites. I imagine I'd be terrified.

Just reading Buzz Aldrin's recent description of being on the moon gave me chills and that's without the whole pinwheeling through the void.

Strangely, the Apes movie did not trigger my animal harm squick simply because they act more like humans than animals.

I saw Gravity and I had to suppress several screams during the first half of the movie. It stands out in my mind as one where I was seriously considering leaving the theater in the middle of the movie. The only other movie where I seriously contemplated leaving the theater in the middle was "Splice." But I think I made my feelings known about that movie. Worst movie I have ever seen in a movie theater, period. Bad quality, Squick, Troubling, the whole 9.

For Gravity, I was not sick, I was anxious. And I am not agoraphobic or claustrophobic (except in MRI machines).

It is a good movie, but I am not sure I would recommend it to anyone.