Should materialistic movies be avoided?

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Your examples of travel channel and HGTV types also depend on the person. You are happy with what you have and enjoy seeing how the other half lives. Some people watch home improvement shows and it makes them unhappy with what they have. They start “needing” to knock out a wall or remodel the kitchen.
 
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Your examples of travel channel and HGTV types also depend on the person. You are happy with what you have and enjoy seeing how the other half lives. Some people watch home improvement shows and it makes them unhappy with what they have. They start “needing” to knock out a wall or remodel the kitchen.
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Which is exactly why I said
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It’s when it monopolizes your life that you have a problem.
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That doesn’t mean watching them is sinful or that they shouldn’t exist in the first place.
 
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Ironically it was those shows that convinced us we really will take down that annoying wall in the living room (because we know now how to have it done and about what it should cost) and it was how I convinced my husband that the fireplace that serves no purpose whatsoever (it’s never used and is just a place for hot air to literally go up the chimney with devastating effects on heating bills - it spends its life blocked by plexiglass!) will be closed over if we ever do live in that house again. 🤣

All that is far cheaper than buying another house at retirement. So there are a lot of ways stuff like that can be viewed.

You are so right, though - I’ve known people like that, and my husband (a property broker) has seen what happens with the opposite effect. LOL.

As for the distracted posting, that happens to me all. The. Time. 🙂 No harm no foul.
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
Side note not directed at the OP: I can’t believe there are so many people (dozens besides the OP) who worry so much about whether looking at a non-porn movie, listening to a record, or playing a video game is somehow sinful. You need to live your life without worrying about whether every magazine, every ice cream bar, every time you spend some money at the store is a sin.
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As someone who is just coming into the church, this phenomenon is totally perplexing to me.
 
mrsdizzyd said:
As someone who is just coming into the church, this phenomenon is totally perplexing to me.
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I knew about it only because I had of course heard about it growing up (and because of tongue-in-cheek jokes about Catholic guilt by my Catholic friends), but I was surprised to see it as prevalent as it is.
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I find it scary that so many people watch Satanic movies and seem oblivious to the Satanism.
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Like what?
 
Well I’ve barely had time to even look at a movie in months. I treated myself to one movie a few months back because it had Daniel Day-Lewis and period clothing in it and it was so incredibly stupid I’m done with watching any movie that doesn’t feature the Pope and isn’t a “classic film” for another 11 months.

I suppose when I was young I was more influenced by movies to want stuff. Age has taken care of a lot of it.
 
DisorientingSneeze said:
I was always hung up on the Sex and the City main character not seeming like a very talented writer to be making a living at it living in her own apartment. It suspended belief too much.
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If I remember correctly, Carrie’s apartment was rent controlled.
 
Yes, but mainly because there are better things to do with your time.
 
A better question. How much time should we dedicate to entertainment
 
I was thinking “sure, rent controlled, at $6K a month” LOL, just based on what the place looked like. 😆😆😆

At least Monica’s and Chandler’s apartments did resemble what I think about when I hear “rent controlled”. I always thought Carrie’s was a bit too swanky to fall in that category - but she did live in a different area, right? (I know London, not NYC.) I think “Friends” was meant to be closer to Greenwich Village?
 
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Carrie was on the Upper East Side (I think around 71st). As far as rents go, some parts of it are cheaper than the trendier parts of Manhattan like the West Village.
 
“Materialistic movies” is hard to describe because many movies are materialistic on a level.

However, I do think it’s good to avoid shows that tend to glorify misbehaving and don’t really don’t have a good moral to their story.

The 2 movies you posted really have little moral value (both don’t get to the moral until the very end) and Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars simply have “bad morals” written all over their titles. It’s just hard to see how there is going to be a good lesson when watching shows like that.

God bless
 
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I knew about it only because I had of course heard about it growing up (and because of tongue-in-cheek jokes about Catholic guilt by my Catholic friends), but I was surprised to see it as prevalent as it is.
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I don’t think it’s that prevalent. CAF represents a small fraction of just a fraction of the people who go to Mass every week (if not every day).

I think there are far more Catholics who don’t even think about it.
 
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Maybe an hour or two a day. But I guess that depends on work and other stuff. What qualifies as entertainment is kind of vague…
 
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Pup7 said:
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Jump4Joy:
I am generally content with my own life. Watching those movies or shows makes me wish I had enough money to travel wherever I wanted, could afford high-end cosmetics and fashion and looked effortlessly beautiful.
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But we don’t even need to watch them to have those thoughts. It doesn’t make watching them a sin.

Heck, I watch the Travel Channel and think, dude, where would I be right now if I were loaded and didn’t have to work? LOL. And I watch HGN and think, dang, I’d love to have a house like that.

The first house we bought was very simple, but very nice. And I cried when we signed the papers because never in my wildest dreams did I ever believe at only 29 I’d ever own a house that nice. We still own and rent it out and I’ve had nicer houses since, but I can’t wait to live in that one again, likely when I retire. That’s “my” house. 🙂 So I’m content. But I like to dream, too. And wish.

That’s not sinful in the least. That’s just human nature. It’s when it monopolizes your life that you have a problem.
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Hey, I never thought I’d own a house, period. 🤣 Then again, the house we bought out here would have been nearly double the price back in Northern Virginia 😮
 
That house sits on over a third of an acre, which is average for that area. Can you imagine what it would cost up here? 😄😄😄

(We basically stole that house - it was one step this side of short sale - so there was also a bit of luck involved because it really was insanely cheap.)
 
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