Good Movie Manners Cost Nothing

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Jul 19, 2011 14:27:59 GMT -4 Malle Babbe said:

Your story reminds me of a recent review of Game of Thrones in which the writer would only let a relative see the series with him if the relative didn't ask any questions while watching.

I so need to institute a rule like this with my BFF. I love her, I do, but whenever we're watching a movie or an episode of a TV show that I've seen before but she hasn't there are just non-stop questions from her. Questions that are answered if she'd only just be quiet and watch the freaking movie/show.

[Malle Babbe]

Came across this article[/color] recently in the NYT on the subject of movies and the ability of different audiences to follow what is going on in the story.

[celerydunk]

Jul 19, 2011 15:02:34 GMT -4 @roisin54 said:

Jul 19, 2011 14:27:59 GMT -4 Malle Babbe said:

Your story reminds me of a recent review of Game of Thrones in which the writer would only let a relative see the series with him if the relative didn't ask any questions while watching.

I so need to institute a rule like this with my BFF. I love her, I do, but whenever we're watching a movie or an episode of a TV show that I've seen before but she hasn't there are just non-stop questions from her. Questions that are answered if she'd only just be quiet and watch the freaking movie/show.

I have that friend in reverse. She likes trivia, so she reads all about the movies and shares what she has learned. "They cut a part from the book. The main character.." or "I read some reviews and we really have to watch for the scene where..." "see that guy in the background reading the paper. He was also in another movie you've never heard of." etc, etc. And this is for stuff she hasn't seen before. I refuse to watch anything she has seen. It's really pointless to anyway, cause she has literally said things like "Ok, see how Bruce Willis' character just got shot and now his wife is crying? The rest of this movie, he will be dead."

[divasahm]

This discussion has triggered an old memory of a college friend who, when her companion started the running commentary, got up as if to go to the restroom, then found a seat several rows back and watched the rest of the movie from there. And she never went to the movies with that person again.

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Jul 23, 2011 16:05:11 GMT -4 celerydunk said:

Jul 19, 2011 15:02:34 GMT -4 @roisin54 said:

I so need to institute a rule like this with my BFF. I love her, I do, but whenever we're watching a movie or an episode of a TV show that I've seen before but she hasn't there are just non-stop questions from her. Questions that are answered if she'd only just be quiet and watch the freaking movie/show.

I have that friend in reverse. She likes trivia, so she reads all about the movies and shares what she has learned. "They cut a part from the book. The main character.." or "I read some reviews and we really have to watch for the scene where..." "see that guy in the background reading the paper. He was also in another movie you've never heard of." etc, etc. And this is for stuff she hasn't seen before. I refuse to watch anything she has seen. It's really pointless to anyway, cause she has literally said things like "Ok, see how Bruce Willis' character just got shot and now his wife is crying? The rest of this movie, he will be dead."

Yeah, that was me for a while. But my aforementioned BFF and her husband yelled at me enough that I stopped. I also had a bad habit of ruining endings, and everyone hated that. I'm much better about not doing that those days. Though it was really really hard to not say anything about the plot of the last Harry potter movie when I went to see it with my dad.

[Augustus]

Jul 23, 2011 16:05:11 GMT -4 celerydunk said:

Jul 19, 2011 15:02:34 GMT -4 @roisin54 said:

I so need to institute a rule like this with my BFF. I love her, I do, but whenever we're watching a movie or an episode of a TV show that I've seen before but she hasn't there are just non-stop questions from her. Questions that are answered if she'd only just be quiet and watch the freaking movie/show.

I have that friend in reverse. She likes trivia, so she reads all about the movies and shares what she has learned. "They cut a part from the book. The main character.." or "I read some reviews and we really have to watch for the scene where..." "see that guy in the background reading the paper. He was also in another movie you've never heard of." etc, etc. And this is for stuff she hasn't seen before. I refuse to watch anything she has seen. It's really pointless to anyway, cause she has literally said things like "Ok, see how Bruce Willis' character just got shot and now his wife is crying? The rest of this movie, he will be dead."

I'm sorta like your friend, in the sense that I too tend to have read reviews and whatnot, but I don't blab during the movie. I either will note something really interesting about the movie beforehand and after, but never during. Because like everyone else, I just want to watch the movie!

[Shalamar]

I confess to sometimes asking my family to pause a DVD so that I can share an interesting (to me, anyway) fact. I think I will not do that anymore.

At least I ask for the movie to be paused, though. I have a know it all friend who kept up a running commentary about snakes while we watched (or tried to watch) Snakes on a Plane. It's a dumb fun movie from which I don't expect 100% realism, so SHUT UP.

[celerydunk]

How many times do you ask for the movie to get paused? If you have to actually ask for it to be paused because no one will let you have the remote then you may be doing it too much.

[FiggyPudding]

Jul 23, 2011 16:05:11 GMT -4 celerydunk said:

I have that friend in reverse. She likes trivia, so she reads all about the movies and shares what she has learned. "They cut a part from the book. The main character.." or "I read some reviews and we really have to watch for the scene where..." "see that guy in the background reading the paper. He was also in another movie you've never heard of." etc, etc. And this is for stuff she hasn't seen before. I refuse to watch anything she has seen. It's really pointless to anyway, cause she has literally said things like "Ok, see how Bruce Willis' character just got shot and now his wife is crying? The rest of this movie, he will be dead."

If someone did that to me, I would have to CHOKE them. I guess I'm not a very tolerant person.

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Jul 25, 2011 16:36:16 GMT -4 Shalamar said:

I confess to sometimes asking my family to pause a DVD so that I can share an interesting (to me, anyway) fact. I think I will not do that anymore.

At least I ask for the movie to be paused, though. I have a know it all friend who kept up a running commentary about snakes while we watched (or tried to watch) Snakes on a Plane. It's a dumb fun movie from which I don't expect 100% realism, so SHUT UP.

I do somewhat the same thing with my dad. Except he asks me to pause it because he knows there's a good chance I'll know something if he has a question, and if he minds when I pause it on my own he's very good at hiding it. I always have the remote because he's a huge technophobe and refuses to learn how to use those things.