danfinger51

danfinger51 t1_iugi156 wrote

My wife does this and it is absolutely maddening. If the movie is 90 minutes, it will end up taking us at least 2 hours to get through. Pausing any time a new character comes on screen. I kid you not, we've paused movies more than a dozen times. She is much more interested in figuring out what she had seen that actor in previously than actually watching the movie. Oh and age! 'how old do you think so & so actor is?' "I don't care, I'm trying to watch a movie" Then she ends up literally 'losing the plot' and complains she doesn't know what's going on. She often gives me the 'oh I wanted to watch that with you. why did you watch it?'

Because watching anything with her destroys appreciating dialog, character relation, scene setting, tempo, direction etc. etc. It's maddening.

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