I stay up late at night to watch movies specifically so nobody joins me.
Let me preface this with, I love my wife, I love my daughter. However, I do not love watching a movie with them. Movies should be watched in the dark, with a big bowl of popcorn, and minimal to 0 talking.
My wife INSISTES on having the lights on full blast, not even dimmed, but bright as noon. Then she enjoys chatting, and then asking 15 minutes later what’s going on in the movie. Or when I’m doing my annual Vincent Price marathon in October, call them stupid old movies. The biggest cardinal sin are the distractions, “hey can you get me some milk?” “run to the kitchen and get me a snack” etc.
When i watch a movie that’s what I’m doing, I’m watching a movie. No phones, no laptops, no tablets. All the while paying attention to the movie and not 15 other things.
So if there’s a movie I want to see and I know she won’t be interested I wait for her to go to bed then make some popcorn and watch a good movie, by myself with no distractions.
After I type this and hit post I’m making some popcorn and watching the new Knives Out movie. I’ll see your replies in a couple hours.
