I hate watching movies with other people.

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I am watching the movie, enjoying it jsut fine. Then here comes an apparently funny bit. Everyone else starts laughing their heads off. I just continue watching the movie quietly, trying to concentrate on the movie and not on the excessive noise that everyone else is making.

Then everyone starts to ask me, "what's wrong?" and assume I'm not enjoying the movie just because I'm not laughing my head off like a maniac at every single little funny thing that happens to occur.

Just leave me alone!

I know exactly what you mean, as I am the same. I prefer watching tv on my own, in my room. I never laugh out loud even if it's something funny. I guess I enjoy the movie in my own way. The worst thing though is watching sports and having people around. I love sports, but they don't and so lose interest quickly. And what do they do? Start chatting and talking loudly. I mean if you don't want to watch the game let someone who does watch it in peace.

I'm reminded of that simpsons episode where Homer gets the crayon up his nose taken out. When he's in the cinema they all turn on him because he isn't laughing at the bad jokes. Then he gets kicked out by the usher to "point out his plot holes elsewhere".

It might not be autism but intelligence (or a combo). I find it almost impossible to watch or sit through a bad movie. Recent examples of things I've walked on are "Knowing" and "The Happening". Even things like the "Saw" series, everyone talks about the horrific tortures afterwards etc... but seemed to have missed the experiment Jigsaw was doing the whole time. I sympathise with him and look at it from his view point. I'm completly unaffected by watching an actor in a scene depicting a gruesome act. I only like the series because I'm interested in the killers perspective.

Imagine if I said that to everyone afterwards.

I don't mind watching movies with other people unless they don't understand what is going on and decide to chatter about what might be going on for half of the movie. It's just like "Watch the bloody film, then you'll find out!" I prefer to watch movies alone because then I can choose when to pause it, and don't feel under pressure to sit through the whole thing.

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My ex-husband always yapped during TV/theatre viewing. I need to view in private, like CleverKitten.

When going to a movie theatre I have to sit by myself, in front, directly in the middle. I can't bear the idea of people sitting around me, and have in fact, drawn stares for getting up and moving because people were all crowding around me. In Los Angeles here, you can pick your own seat, but the guy at the counter did not definitely did not give me the seat I asked for at this one movie, so I moved. I think a lot of people thought that was rude, or I understand that they thought so, but I feel like if it's my money I'll sit where I want, and I don't feel like I'm rude for moving, I think other people are rude for crowding me!

Also, the whole laughing out loud thing? Well, I laugh at things nobody laughs at. Like I think stuff is funny, but it just happens that it's not what anybody else thinks is funny. But what a lot of people laugh at is not comedy to me.

And it's boring having people tell me what they thought was going on. It's like, watch your own movie! Because even though I'm sitting in the same theater as someone does not mean my perception of the movie is the same as theirs. It really took me a long time to understand that my viewpoint is unique and I don't have to give it up because people don't see what I see.

I don't mind watching movies with other people as long as they are quiet. Anything interruptive ruins it for me because I can't concentrate on the movie itself. It could be a critical part in the plot yet someone will feel the need to just burst out some worthless comment. It isn't uncommon for me to just tell people to SHUT UP during a movie (those exact words, and yes capitolized verbally as well).

Things that jerk me the wrong way:

"Hey thats the guy from the movie ... what's his name... Blah blah blah" - Just go to IMDB afterwords if you REALLY care because I don't.

"That actress must have gotten a face lift" - I don't care.

"That's so ridiculous, that can't happen" - What is? I didn't notice it because you cant shut your mouth. It's a movie, it isn't real, they are all ridiculous.

"Munch munch munch" - Popcorn and movies don't go well together. Food and movies don't go well together, I want to hear the movie, not your first pass at digestive noises.

"That must be a political message" - No, you're interpreting it as political message because it fits your views.

"hahahaha" - I'd laugh too but I missed half the joke since you prematurely started laughing before the punchline hit. GJ.

"Character so and so did it, I solved the mystery!" - You're probably wrong. If you aren't, you just ruined the movie.

"ring ring ring ring ring" - Not talking about cell phones in movie theaters. Talking about phones in your own home. You're watching a movie, and 99.9% of the calls can wait an hour or 2, its not the end of the world. Watch the movie.

Turned into a rant, sorry!

I'm better than I used to be but at one time if I was in a cinema and one small portion of the screen was obstructed by someone's head, I would keep glancing there because it bugged me not to see the whole screen.

I am one too who may see something funny in a movie but never crack a smile. Must be detachment.

That's what happens when you are watching something and everyone thinks it's funny but you. I hate it when that happens!

Sometimes people assume you're offended when you just thought it was stupid.

I don't mind watching with another person but I do not like movie theaters at all and tend to get panic attacks when surrounded by lots of people. I also hate the stench of popcorn and the noise of people eating it.

I don't like really sudden and loud laughter either and remember I used to jump then glare at my mother when she found something funny.
It really used to annoy me.

Haha, I'm the exact same. I quickly learned that my thoughts on the matter are not the normal reaction to the movies, so I don't talk to people about it anymore. Jigsaw is fascinating though.


As a general rule I like watching movies by myself. I am easily distracted, the tiniest things distract me either in or out of the movie, and sometimes people in the movie talk too quickly and I get confused about what's happening. Because of those things, I like to rewind and rewatch parts when I'm watching a movie to make sure I understand what's happening, and most people get really annoyed when I do that. I also sometimes pause the movie to go on imdb to look something up (usually an actor I recognise) and I end up totally distracted and don't get back to the movie for many minutes or hours. Right now I'm actually 17 minutes into a movie that I started watching 2.5 hours ago. It's sad really.

Most people want to eat during the movie and I can't stand chewing noises. They also ask questions about the movie during the movie. And afterwards they want to discuss it right away while I like to sit and think about it for a while and formulate my thoughts on the matter.

The only time I like watching movies with other people is when I've watched it already and I like it so much that I want to show someone else in the hopes they'll join me in my new found love of that movie (it works sometimes!). The last time I watched a new movie with someone else, I missed it completely. I have no idea at all what happened in that movie. I need to watch it again because it actually sounds really good.

And now to return to my movie, it's actually a pretty cool movie so far. I feel bad for abandoning it for so long.

Edit:
THIS! I somehow missed your post on my first read through of this thread. I HATE when people guess about the ending or the twists! I agree with everything else you ranted about too, but this is the number one thing I can't stand about watching movies with other people.

And now back to my movie.

Last edited by SamwiseGamgee on 07 Nov 2009, 9:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Thats so me! Im always the guy saying that. Sometimes these questions bug me for the whole movie then i go onto imdb and im like... oooohhhhhh thats who that guy is!! ! Glad to see im not the only one.

Other people in general in a movie theatre I can tolerate. As long as they aren't a group of chatty teenagers and people who like to talk about the actors and never turn off their phones. Sorry if this turns into a rant.

Since I'm a fan of animation I always go to see the latest animated blockbuster, which never fails to have little kids in it. I'd be able to tolerate it if the kids kept quiet, but they have to ask questions about the plot and characters and stuff all throughout it. Once I went to see Iron Man, and this little 3 year old got out of his seat and ran all around the theater, distracting me as he ran past my seat multiple times. Sometimes I wish there were sessions for kids movies that kids weren't allowed to attend, but that would defeat the purpose.

This might not have anything to do with the topic, but in my country, the cinemas have set up an allocated seating program so people who buy their tickets over the internet can reserve their favorite seat in the theater. When you buy your ticket at the cinema, they ask where in the theater you want to sit, and they place you in a seat (they even let you look at their computer and choose a specific seat), with the seat number printed on your ticket. What REALLY ticks me off is when I go to buy my ticket for a movie HALF AN HOUR before it starts and choose the available seat I want to sit in, sometimes I find that a whole family or a group of kids have sat in MY ALLOCATED SEAT!! !! (well not all of them in the same seat, just in an area which included my allocated seat) And there were plenty of available seats left everywhere else in the theater, why did they have to sit in mine? I really felt like telling them to shove off but I didn't want to make a scene and thought it really didn't matter after all. It's just a seat. But still, what's the point of having a seat allocation system if nobody's going to follow it?

Once I had to sit next to a bunch of chatty teenage girls who kept saying that (well stuff along those lines) throughout the movie. I tried desperately to sit somewhere else but the theater was full and my allocated seat was right next to them. They also had chips and ate them noisily.


While I am guilty of this, I try not to be. The movies need to get food that doesn't crunch like popcorn or chips, and has wrapping that doesn't make a loud crackly sound when folded.


Sometimes my mother doesn't go to the movie and just waits for the DVD release because of people who say that.

I usually watch my TV shows by myself, but I love showing new things to my friends. There might be a movie I've seen a dozen times that I don't want to watch anymore for a long, long time, but if I meet someone who likes my kind of movies and they haven't seen something that I think is amazing, I want them to watch it, and I want to be there when they do.

Same with music. I like the experience of observing someone else's reactions. I wanted to school my friend Ricky on progressive rock, and he said to make him a mix of a few bands to listen to. What's the fun in that? I want to be there when they hear everything.

Hi CleverKitten, is it when you watch it on dvd? if it is? i would just watch it in the middle of the nights, cause i apparently have the habbit of doing that after i watch it with my family/friends to concentrate on the film.

I'm actually pretty similar when im playing games, at times it does get quite irritating because then i end up losing concentration. it even gets me even wound up that i end up losing.

It doesn't bother me so much when im drawing.... but id rather prefer being alone when i draw.

But on the bus i dont at all like to be interrupted with my daydream unless i know the person...