Poll Do You Feel Drawn to Disaster / Fantasy Movies?

[miahowl]

Nothing captures my attention more than a massive disaster scene in a movie. My husband thinks I'm morbid because I am fascinated with the true crime t.v. shows - just spent my Saturday night watching back to back "48 Hours Mystery" (my favorite show). Why do I have such fascination with other people's trauma?

 

[Robin]

My top 5 movies are
Lord of the rings
The brave one
Usual suspects
Shawshank Redemption
Batman

They are all about stuggle and the blurred line between right and wrong and how wrong can be right. maybe I am reading too much into it, but they all feed into my feelings that it takes a remarkable person to survive this world. All of them feed into some of my stuff, but I am really drawn to fantasy as it's not as real.

The really real drama's have me in a spin for days. So will stick to fantasy and movies where stuff get blown up like batman, or the matrix, ect. Some release of anger.

 

[Nicky31]

Hi Hodge,

Thanks for posting this. I voted no. Since the trigger event for my PTSD, I have avoided disaster and violent films and dramas on TV. Just two days after my trigger incident I realised that something was wrong, when a film that I would normally have been able to watch (with an agressive, violent, threatening scene) triggered a very severe panic attack. Ever since I have avoided such things and know that even when I can hear them in the background I am still hypervigillant and anxious.

Nicky

 

[onebravegirl]

I have always loved movies but when I was in the thick of my PTSD two movies almost haunted me. I was equally disturbed and fascinated by them.The one is a Biography type movie called The Grizzly Man. It was a kinda "there but for the grace of God go I" Thing. Its about a Bi-polar,drug addict man who escape to Alaska t o live his summers (13) in a tent with Grizzlies. The most beautiful footage I have ever seen-he filmed himself. He found his sanity by trying to connect with theses huge animals and educating others about their true behavior. Then one summer, on the last day of his stay, a rouge Grizzly came into his camp and ate him and his girlfriend.
The other movie is called UNLEASHED. Fascinating from the perspective of PTSD. A man is held captive and used as an assessing. A collar is kept around his neck and is only taken-off when he is to attack. When the man escapes he is afraid to take off his own collar, kinda like how frightening it can be when we face our fears and have to choose to be well and free from our captive selves. Viewer beware, it is a violent movie, but profound for me.
O

 

[damaged goods]

oh yes definately....and I have no idea why that could be. I like all kinds of war/action movies - some of my faves were starship troopers, resident evil, etc. I've watched LOTR enough times to know every line of dialogue.
I'm also very attracted to industrial heavy metal - eg. Rammstein and/or Fleshfield. Music with lots of anger really gets me going. Also early Linkin Park, and one of my fave albums was 'jagged little pill' from alanis morisette - I think she therapied herself with that album and her music is now too bland for me.

 

[skyp56]

I voted "depends" (and not saying I wear them, either, tee hee hee!)

I like any kind of movie that has a happy ending: one where the "good guys" win. Not so much for blood and gore--or slasher types--they seem too real for me. My trauma was childhood trauma, so I have trouble with movies and shows that depict violence; especially some of the crime dramas that show violence being done to children. Those I avoid at all costs!

Thanks for this poll, it made me think!

 

[Waga]

My movie of all times is...

... Matrix. I feel that I live in Matrix, I've always lived there.

 

[ams]

I think part of why I'm drawn to more intense movies (thriller, psychological, disaster, etc) is because I've been moved up on the tolerance continuum. I've been through the worst, so anything less-than goes into the box of things I can handle. I get bored with a lot of movies. But the problem with being drawn to more intense movies is they usually have scenes in it that I CANT handle well. And I try to shrug it off, but if I'm watching it with someone who knows my issues, it's awkward. And I'll think a movie is good until I'll see that scene, then it's more of an "ugh" moment than anything else.

 

[vietnam2nd]

i like fantisty movies i love star war movies and lord of the rings movies. i don't go for vietnam war stories as it makes my ptsd worse. i like the movie air force one and movies like that.

 

[garden]

I love movies with a fantasy element...
I think it's an escape. For example, I loved the show Heroes, I loved Iron Man... Okay, the truth is I love anything comic bookish, and then documentaries. So it's either fantasy, or fact.... Not much into romance unless there is comedy involved.

 

[Ronin]

I don't know how to answer this well; what I watch, I watch not for the fantasy aspects, but for what it reflects on current societies & human nature. And I like the discussions movies inspire in communities after often more than the movies themselves. The sense of connection, intstead of isolation. The sense of being able to express values and loyalties without the risks of here-world problems.

So not much of a true 'escape' for me, or if it's escape it's escape -to-, instead of -from-. Fandom stuff often leads me to better life around me physically. Whatever's motivating, I cherish.

 

[OneWing]

I find myself drawn to comedy. I've already lived the disaster. lol