People not paying attention to the movie you’re watching – you are trying my patience.
When watching TV it’s somewhat acceptable to pay less attention. It is after all a machine of perpetual unintellectial superficial - imagined or real - entertainment.
When watching a rented video you paid for it’s stupid. You wanna pay and then not enjoy it? Well, that’s your prerogative, since it’s in the privacy of your own home.
When doing it in a movie theater - it’s infuriating! One of the few offenses to which I find capital punishment more than called for. Unfortunately most legal systems don’t share my view…
My big problem with people not paying attention to the movies they’re watching is not they’re own waste of time. You know I don’t care about that! But the failure to follow the plot inevitably leads to – questions! Lots of stupid questions, none of which would ever had arisen, had they been paying a minimum of attention.
And then they expect that the person next to them – who may or may not have been paying attention themselves – to answer these questions.
Is he the bad guy?
Why did he kill his wife?
Is that his wife?
Is that Robert Deniro? Or is it Robin Williams? (This is in the final phase of a long sad medical history of not paying attention to movies.)
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