How much time should you spend watching movies?
I was on the Mobius Home Video Forum, and some people were posting a tally of how many movies they had watched in the past year. One guy posted that he had watched 449, and another person also posted a number over 400. That made me feel a little ashamed and uncomfortable, because according to my records, I had only watched 83. But then I started doing some math. There’s no way for me to know how long the movies he watched lasted, but it would be reasonable to estimate that the guy who watched 449 movies spent about 800 hours watching films. That would be a total of 33 1/3 days watching movies. In other words, he spent more than an entire month sitting down, watching films. Or, you could say that he spent more than 1/12 of the time in one entire year watching movies. It’d be even more extreme if you subtracted the amount of time he spent sleeping, and calculated the percentage of his waking hours he spent watching movies.
So, while I think the answer to “How much time should you spend watching movies” is “As much as you want,” spending 1/12 of the calendar year on it is a bit much. Really, when I think of it in terms of hours spent, even my total seems a bit excessive.