My comfy viewing is bad movies like breeniverse and the room etc.I can always have them playing and dip in and out or watch them through over and over.For context, I'm a semi-professional scifi/fantasy slop/pulp writer that has taught creative writing at degree level and I spend so much time writing that reading or watching other people's competent writing often fails to grip me because generally writing is pretty formulaic. We perfected the narrative form decades ago and more or less tell the same stories over and over.Sometimes something is written SO well that it still grips me but then I realise it's because I'm miring just how well it's written rather than getting immersed in it.Then I watch something like the room that is written by a complete idiot with zero training or knowledge of how to structure or tell a cohesive story so I find it equally fascinating and stimulating, because it's completely uncharted territory. Not a single rule of storytelling is followed.When you're good at something, you intinctively follow the rules of it, so watching someone who's completely oblivious to the rules try to make something is absolutely gripping.I figured that this board is the one place I could go where at least someone might understand exactly what I mean.Anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk kek
