Watching films with people who talk/ask questions, or just generally don't get it!

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Does anyone else know someone, or be unfortunately to live with, or be in a relationship with someone who just doesn't understand story lines from films/TV.

My GF is an intelligent person, however she is so slow when it comes to films. I honestly do not know how she enjoys any film as more often than not I have to explain things to her.

Sometimes a few days after the film we'll be talking about it, and I will mention something, and she will suddenly have a brainwave and understand the story. I get annoyed when she asks me questions DURING a film, but I almost get more annoyed when she lets it go and ends up not understanding the film.

We watched Quantum of Solace recently, and I must admit, I was a little confused at times. However, she honestly had no idea what happened, AT ALL!

Does anyone else know people like this. Or is anyone else like her, and just doesn't get a decent story line?
 
I always talk when watching movies, I like it when other people talk too, better than sitting there in silence like couch potato zombies.
 
the worst one is when you've literally just turned the channel on and you get the questions "who's that?" and "what's happening?". i have no idea darling i've been watching it for the same amount of time as you.
 
I'm sure some peoples minds wander, or they just can't be bothered to put the effort in to listen and keep up with the story. Very pleased to say my GF doesn't have this problem as it would probably annoy the hell out of me.

If I'm watching a good film especially at the cinema I sometimes get so engrosed that I actually forget I'm in the cinema.

I'm trying to think of a film that I didn't manage to keep up with first time I saw it and all I can think of is the latter part of the second Matrix film.
 
Unfortunately all of the girls and one of the guys in my house are like this. Two of the girls just sit there taking the mick "oh that SO wouldn't happen, even if it is a film" and the guy joins in etc etc. The third girl just sits there screaming at anything even slightly loud or scary.

Then they wonder why I come up to my room to watch the film on my own :p
 
Skyfall said:
I always talk when watching movies, I like it when other people talk too, better than sitting there in silence like couch potato zombies.
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Yeah I agree, sometimes. But other times I just want to engross myself in the story, not be asked what we should have for dinner a week on Thursday.

nin9abadga said:
the worst one is when you've literally just turned the channel on and you get the questions "who's that?" and "what's happening?". i have no idea darling i've been watching it for the same amount of time as you.
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Yeah this also annoys me, haha :)
 
The problem was the choice of film. Most GF's thought pattern during the new bond goes:

"Daniel Craig, explosion, daniel craig, fluffy kittens, laundry, dresses, ooh more Daniel Craig, whos that guy?, explosion, time to leave cinema and cook and clean when I'm home".

:D


In all honesty my GF has the same problem with any film that is mildly complex in storyline. I put it down to her shocking facial recognition abilties.

For film stars she generally has no idea who is who and after a while forgets who is who and what they did.

A good example of this was "The Departed" a good film but rather complex. She saw Matt Damon and Leo DiCaprio as basically the same person and when they switched roles "cop becomes bad guy, bad guy becomes cop" she had no chance.

I don't get the questions durng the film though! That would get annoying :p
 
Welcome to my world. My girlfriend is very intelligent (degree from Cambridge, etc) but the plot of James Bond is beyond her grasp. :o
 
nin9abadga said:
the worst one is when you've literally just turned the channel on and you get the questions "who's that?" and "what's happening?". i have no idea darling i've been watching it for the same amount of time as you.
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Heh, I do that to my wife when she insists I watch soaps with her. Eventually it annoys her so much that I get told to go play on my xbox :D
 
Gah I cant stand these people, especially when you have seen the film before and they ask you who this person is or whats going to happen. I usually just tell them to shut up and watch the film as I really like to sit there in silence and concentrate on it then talk at the end. Granted if its complicated I dont mind explaining but wait until the end!
 
It took the missus about 4 times watching Casino Royale and then me explaining it before she understood why the bad guy wanted to blow up the new Airbus.
 
Spunkey said:
It took the missus about 4 times watching Casino Royale and then me explaining it before she understood why the bad guy wanted to blow up the new Airbus.
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Lol, that must have been annoying because it wasn't even that complicated. I have to admit at one point in Quantum of Solace I was lost, won't say which bit because it could spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it.

One of my friends never understood the film Hero, he didn't understand that it was the same story told from various different perspectives, and the background colours in the scenes changed to reflect this. I don't think I have ever genuinely been lost in a film, I sometimes get so engrossed in a film I don't see a twist coming when other people do though.

Also, people who talk during films annoy me like crazy, especially if it is a film with a lot of dialogue or a complicated storyline. Its one thing to talk during a comedy or action movie, its quite another to chat all the way through something like the Godfather or the Usual Suspects. Its often the people who have been talking that then ask what happened and expect me to explain the film to them! :mad:
 
My GF is another one, very intelligent but sometimes gets lost trying to understand what is going on in films. She also tends to fall a sleep easily if we are at home whatching one on the couch or upstairs on the bed. I also like to get engrosed in the film if it is a good one. She just sits there quietly trying to understand it...at the end i ask her if she got it and she is usually like..."ummm...what happened during this part?" or "who was he again?"
 
Slightly unrelated, but reminds me of when me and my housemate went to see the National Treasure sequel. We both loved the first one and just wanted more of the same, which was pretty much what we got.

There was a guy who'd brought his family with him, and one of the kids was obviously too young to really get what had been going on. Right at the end of the two-hour film, in that split-second silence you get between the last scene and the music over the credits, a lone five-year-old voice just cried out.. 'Well I didn't like it!'.

Cracked me up. :D
 
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