To me it's more like reading a book or a series, and finding yourself in a place where important characters, for whom you've developed a connection, are in trouble. They might die, they are separated from their loved ones, perhaps injured... and you know as you read on things might get worse. They might get awful.

But you keep reading, because you still want to know what happens next.

Its more like if you go into every movie worried about how terrible its going to be you’re going to have a shitty time on the way to the theater, just relax and stop taking things so seriously.

Life sucks until about 40 and then things level out as the older generation realizes they are no longer the ones running the show, i see my 70 year old parents finally coming to the realization that their opinions wont matter soon and they’ve shifted their focus on making the most if the time they have left.

Its not the destination its the ride.

They haven’t got the furniture yet, so technically they haven’t even “started the movie”. Still pretty clever tho

This is kind of a woosh moment. Which is rude but still. Like, they directly are addressing what you said. Yet you still made this statement.

I think it’s more like admitting that some of the movies you’ve seen were boring and disappointing but, rather than declaring all movies must be boring and disappointing, you now hone in on which genres or directors or writers or actors have been more enjoyable to watch. It’s a refinement process where you focus on which movies bring you satisfaction or contentment or at least amusement, regardless of whether other people say they are good movies or not. Then you watch more of the movies and stop wasting energy on the ones you know don’t work for you.

That's like me sitting through Tenet.