Addicted to cinema?

First off, I guess this is not the place to discuss this, but Office Party feels out of place and Conquering Challenges seems a bit too extreme.

Do you think it's possible to be addicted to cinema and fiction in general? A very dear friend of mine whom I sadly had an argument with alleged this with me, claiming a bit of escapism in life is not bad but mine was too much and affected my behavior and relationship with others.

I really don't know what to say, I do have a very large DVD collection and simply love cinema, for me, it's almost magical to see this mural, this little universe where everything converges to tell a story...

What do you think? Is cinephilia something to worry about?

To get some perspective, we had a bit of an argument over going out and she's currently mad at me. She considers I have issues fuctioning within the society since I have led a very overprotected and sheltered life (something I cannot deny) and that since I have very few real life experiences it's hard to me to interact accordingly to the rest of the people, usually hiding behind electronic, mostly written, means. For quite a while she suspected I had some kind of autism, though I deeply suspect her studies of psychology may influence her seeing everything as part of an ill, who knows...

She has said she has wanted to talk to me about it for a while, but prefers, and I quote, to leave me see for myself how precarious is my situation; and even though she has never read anything I have written, she suspects characters must be very flat because of it.

By the way, as far as I know, she doesn't have any hobbies, but she says she has a bit too much of an addictive personality and prefers not to, perhaps she's projecting something unto me? Though this is not the first time someone who deeply loves me comments that I use films, literature and the internet to hide from my social troubles, to hide from the world, to hide from myself.

An unexpected twist...

Last night I talked with my friend and she apologized of what she commented, saying it was mostly out of spite, she also added that it was thanks to me that she has started to observe cinema not as mere entertainment but as a way to express art and appreciate it as such...

Mission accomplished, I guess.

Nonetheless, this also touches topics I have mentioned and worry me, you know, the feel more and more than cinema and fiction is more real than actual reality. Or perhaps I am going too much Videodrome/Serial Experiment Lain with this.

It's interesting to see all the different opinions about it, but what makes it interesting is that perhaps this is the first time we're able to consume fiction at such pace and variety and holds such a well-regarded place in our civilizations.