I took it as general advice, not as a personal critique. I do have other interests, like cooking and trying to create new flavor combinations, or maintaining the woods (I really need a chipper shredder right now), or walking the woods looking for skulls and sheds and morels, or building and tinkering with stuff, etc.
I also like entertainment. I find that older movies are geared more toward just telling a story rather than trying to teach a lesson, especially a woke one. If they occasionally teach a lesson, it's more about being a good person, the power of love, the danger of temptation, or the search for justice and stuff like that. Movies take you places that books can't, and books take you places that movies can't, so I like to read too. Like movies, I read mostly older stuff that isn't packed with wokeness.
Overall, it's good to have a balance. When I'm cutting up yet another dead tree (ash borers can burn in Hell), my brain is analytical and my body is breaking itself down. When I'm watching a movie or reading a book, my body is rebuilding and my brain is at play.
But I still think that having to pay for a service like Prime, and then having to pay for access to really old movies is ridiculous. Even if it's 3 or 4 bucks, you can't tell me that that the people who made or starred in these movies are getting royalties, because most of them aren't even alive. And I doubt their heirs are getting much of that fee at all.
