Why do people like to watch movies that are far away from reality?

People like them for that reason. It's an escape from reality. Not everyone likes to be serious all the time, so we watch stuff that could never happen, but would be awesome if it did happen.

Yes, I like these sorts of movies.

The Aristocats plot line is a little sinister.... same with 101 Dalmatians. The Disney movies I let Mason watch are as follows: Cars Finding Nemo Tangled Jungle Book Monsters Inc ( I realize it's about scaring kids while they sleep but he loves Sully and Mike) Despicable Me Toy Story 1 & 2 Mason likes a couple of the scarier Disney movies too.... How to Train Your Dragon being one of those which has some pretty scary imagery. He doesn't seem scared by that thought. However, he did not like Toy Story 3 because there's the little crazy Monkey clanging the cymbals together which to me was even a little disturbing. That freaked him out and I won't let him watch it again. Some of the movies have some pretty dark undertones. It's the whole good vs evil villian story line that is common in all fairy tales. I just try to use caution and if I notice him cover his eyes or getting a little uneasy, I just turn it off.

Because it's intresting to know what's beyond reality. Those include surrealism, fantasy, existentialism, etc.

It has to do with the mind. Ask Sigmund Freud. Inside out brains, we look for an unknown world.

Some movies I like such as the ones you mentioned, and some I don't.

It's the appeal of the whimsical. I myself hate to read fiction literature, preferring an encyclopedia over a novel any day. I'm a big NON fiction literature fan.

I do however love sci fi and fantasy movies. I suppose it's a left-over trait that I'll never lose of enjoying something just so completely off the wall...you know, fantasy stuff like trolls, elves, unicorns...so on and so forth. Like I said, it's the notion of whimsy, fable and lore. It's also an escape from the everyday. For me, it's the escape into a world without logos, advertisements and cell phones in everyone's hand. Other's might prefer to enjoy it as an escape to just the harsh realities of life surrounding them.

BTW - 300 was BASED on a true story but the guy that did it took shameful cinematic liberties.

Because REALITY SUCKS! Or haven't you looked outside lately?

I want something that can't possibly happen, to happen for me when I watch a movie or read a story. I've always been like this. As a child, I read historical fiction, until I discovered science fiction and fantasy as age 13.

I have never seen the movie "Jaws" because it is way too real for me. I could never go swimming if I ever saw that movie. I love swimming, and it would break my heart to have to give up swimming if I even remotely thought that something that big could really exist, and it really could, if you have seen a dinosaur skeleton in a museum, like I have.

My justification for this is the fact that i live iife every day, I watch movie to entertain and stretch my imagination, okay movies basied on true events are good too, but i like my movie to be a bit out there and different from everyday life, this is also the reasoning for my not watching reality tv shows, i have enough of everyday life on a day to day basis tv is an eschttp://uk.faqs.ign.com/articles/450/450118p1.htmle from the mundane.

I absoloutley love harry potter just because there differnet i guess, the movies that are normal and real just get kinda boring after a while, and the story behind the harry potter movies etc. are very interesting for some people, but everybody had their own opinions! Hope I helped :)

i believe a combination of all of these is a great answer. it is interesting to stretch our mind to the unknown, reach out for what's beyond reality. it's good to escape the everyday, mundane and let our minds wander to what the imagination holds....even if it was created from someone else's imagination first. it keeps us sane, having something to let our minds, hearts, and souls become completely absorbed in...especially that which has a semi-happy ending. when you turn on the news, open a paper, all you see anymore is the bad, negative, and sometimes down right cruel. it's good to escape that, even if deep down we know it doesn't exist and it's only temporary.

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Just because of that:

* out of this world,

* into fantasy land (with or without science mixed with fiction),

Because makes us remember our children dreams / games.

Because we want to rest for a while of taxes, work, tasks, mown the yard, real world, etc.

Because we like the "what if" thinking.

Because it is fun.