Welcome to Wrong Planet.
I like films. One of the tools that I use to learn from is watching films at the cinema. Since about 1980, I have watched a little over 2,360 films at the cinema, or on VCR tapes, Capacitance Electonic Discs (CEDs), Laser Disc, or on various formats of DVD’s. It is one of the ways I learn and experience life through the other people’s eyes. It relaxes me and gives me pleasure.
In the early days of man five hundred generations ago after the invention of fire, I would be the child sitting around the campfire at night listening to the wild stories from the elders and taking it all in and absorbing all those experience.
As the ages wore on, the media changed from campfire stories, to books, to plays and to films.
I can understand why Aspies loves to watch films, television and play video games. The experience is almost addictive. An introvert recharges their energy by being alone. As a child, introverts loved to play with their toys and hobbies, but later as teenagers and beyond, they migrated to other forms of entertainment. But watching movies and television does not pay the bills, or buy the latest role-playing video game or a back issue of a vintage comic book from when comic books merely cost a dime, or a rare copy of a 500-year old book.
I like to watch movies. In a way, they are an advanced form of storytelling, and their stories generally have merit or fragments of knowledge tucked away inside.