> > > "I think the vast majority of people do the same."
> > > i have to disagree here.
> >
> > Did I miss something here, or are you honestly saying that you disargee that... people watch movies to be entertained? Pray continue. Why, then, do people watch movies?
>
> i believe people watch movies because they are unable to enrich thier own lives by doing things out of the ordinary and feel the need to escape the self-inflicted boredom of reality.

That sounds like a definition of "entertainment" to me. A very bleak and cynical definition, but without escapism, there would be no literature (let alone cinema), no Homer or Shakespear or Dickens...