Art participatory? Listening to music… looking at paintings…watching films…are all passive (though engaging).
What distinguishes art from entertainment/games is an attempt to describe the world as humans experience it.
You can make a clever and outstanding game with junk-tier story, sound, and visuals, cf. Return of the Obra Dinn.
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It depends on how you conceive of engaging with media, but the strongest way I can put is actively passively engaging, which is in line with what you were saying anyway. Glad we could eventually agree 
Super Mario is kind of messed up if you think about it
I don’t recall ever hearing about it, though I probably did. I was pretty fond of Isabella Rossellini at the time, back when she was just a 44yo youngster.
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Looks promising. I’ll give it a shot.
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Wild at Heart may be the only movie I’ve ever walked out on in the theater. Not that it would have been bad for me to have walked out for this reason, but I was going along. Went to see it with 3 women and they wanted to walk out in the rape scene.
I stopped watching Don’t F*!k With Cats for essentially that reason; I don’t need to see pretend animal torture, regardless of the how amazing the rest of the story is/isn’t.
For this reason I have to go to doesthedogdie.com before watching any movie with my wife. She can’t stand cats dying.
I said the exact same thing about Warlock II: the Armageddon
Minding the Gap is good.
Watched it last night. Especially this time of year, when horseshit narratives on the American experience are drowned in seasonal condiment, this film captures how minimally opaque the scheduled ritual of holiday is to the actual heartbreaking dysfunction and volatility of normal life.
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A+ phrase
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Lol don’t give into peer pressure, trolly
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Love this guy 
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She liked how he resolved that riff.
Imagine being so pompous, that you’d dismiss an entire decade of music lmao
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I think I’m just done with war movies for a while. I’m a Nolan acolyte, but I couldn’t bring myself to watch Dunkirk. The upcoming 1917 is directed by Sam Mendes and has no less than Roger Deakins as cinematographer, and plus the trailers look outstanding, but I cannot bring myself to see that one, either.
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Never saw Dunkirk. I did see 1917. It’s good, but not great imo. The cinematography is good I reckon, but I saw it at home on DVD before it came out because I’m special. (Sister-in-law is a member of SAG and got a screener)
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You ever seen Vietnam A Television History? It’s a documentary in like 11 hour-long installments and the absolute Goat.
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I saw Dunkirk and liked it very much. Nolan also came up with an original way to tell the story.
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