I have a very difficult time watching movies. I can't stay focused. Thirty minute sit-coms are ok, but I don't really watch much.

I can read a book for hours, but day dream or sleep through movies.

I voted yes, but in contras to reallydown, I'm very drawn to realistic war movies, especially ones that show the effects of combat on the soldiers. I think this is because some of my own trauma involved things that usually only soldiers in combat have happen to them. I like fantasy for the escapism, too.

No. Ican't sit & watch news & violence

depends...

detest fantasy, but am prone to high drama /emotional stuff... usually only of the true kind tho....

ie: good example when i became vegan, obsessed with knowing all the atrocities of animal cruelty/abuse.. not sure if that counts or just makes me obsessive and weird...

Not drawn to movies, watch them but when I want or not, but I am a news junkie. There was a time I could not watch enough news, channel switching to see everything, sometimes up to 12 hours a day. With medication and help from my family I have slowly withdrawn from this and can now get by with only 4 to 5 hrs a day of news. any lessand I get a creepy feeling that there is danger coming for me and I can't see what it is. Strange that I know it is a symptom of my PTSD but it still eats at me until I have to watch

I obsessed about 2 forms of media; info on up to the minute as possible surveillance and communications technology - I surfed the www 2 hours/day looking up anything to do with that; I was a techno sales rep for 15 yrs... and at home,
war movies turned up loud with the surround sound on. I stopped doing both after about the first 6 mos. Right now watching Beverly Hillbillies.

I used to be drawn to any/all types of gruesome movies. I've watched every "Halloween", every Freddy Krueger (Nightmare on Elm Street stuff) movie; movies about possession, evil, ghosts, haunting - but only the heavy, really scary stuff.

Also, I had an extreme fascination/draw to war movies, particularly about Vietnam. I watched Platoon probably 30 times - when it was on our cable channel years ago, I watched it over and over and over - often back-to-back for hours. Watched both Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now many times.

Now, however, I don't like ANY of those types of movies. Anything like that, especially about possession and evil, really triggers all kinds of strange fears. I remember I went to see Blair Witch Project and didn't sleep for 3 days.

I like action/drama/adventure now.

-Dylan

Well I love movies like The Day After Tomorrow. But nothing like the thriller movies. I used to love to read anything by Dean Koontz but can't concentrate on books any more. To bad because I have always loved to read.
Judy

yes deffo.

i love anything different and fantasy like harry potter and narnia and lord of rings.

i hate any films that are staulking/slash horror such as halloween uncut etc

i like horrors involving vampires werewolves and supernatural horros but not anything like texas chainsaw masacre.

i dont like anything pointing towards abuse, rape or helplessness or being restrained . my boyfriend put one on at the beginning of our relationship unaware of how upset i would get and i got very aggressive with him and stormed out.

i have been told to stay away from a film called irriversable. its got a graphic rape scene in it so i advize everyone to do the same

I love,love,love!!!!! horror movies. Disaster movies. End-of-the-world movies. Also any books or tv with the same themes. Good fantasy is a staple- in any format. G.K. Chesterton (an author) said "Fantasy stories don't exist to tell you dragons are real. Fantasy stories exist to tell you that dragons can be defeated." For me, the same sentiment applies to horror, disaster, apocalyptic, cops&lawyers etc. The bad guy ALWAYS gets his come-uppance. There is ALWAYS at least one survivor (or 2 to begin human population again). I need to experience the defeat of all kinds of monsters- from dragons to serial killers- because I didn't get justice in my real life. In my real life, the monster just died. He never paid in any way for the things he did to me. So I find this stuff very cathartic. My friendsandrelations don't really get it. They can't see why I watch and read some of the stuff I do. I'm glad they don't get it. I bet you guys get it, even if you don't do it yourselves. red