Movies should be watched with friends. Especially if it’s a classic movie that a friend loves.
Some of the most fun I had in college was anime club movie nights, where the leads of the club would pull up these 80s era bootlegs that some guy who graduated two years ago had learned Japanese to help fansub. Not because “Grave of Fireflies” or “Angel’s Egg” or “Aeon Flux” were as much fun as a cutesy Miyasaki film or DBZ or FMA, but because they gave us hours of “what the fuck did I just watch?” conversations to have over beers at 2am.
Movies are a fundamentally social experience. You’re not meant to watch these things on a cell phone in a closet.
i agree generally speaking, but we enjoy watching movies we anticipate to be bad (such as red riding hood starring henry cavill). we enjoy poking fun at movies.
I hate watching movies with friend when I’m not sure I’ll like it. If I don’t like it, I’m not good at pretending it was a good movie. I’ll do everything in my power to not hurt their feelings, or be rude or anything like that. I’ll probably tell them it was good. But in the moment watching it they’ll probably be able to tell, and then THEY feel bad, and then I feel bad, and now nobody is having a good time watching the movie.
Now if we go into it with the understanding the movie is bad and we are all here go laugh at it, then it’s always better with friends.
If it’s something they love, I’ll watch it by myself and lie to them later.
I love bringing bad movies to movie night and making fun of terrible effects, clunky dialogue, bad acting, and extras who look at the camera.
Movies should be watched with friends. Especially if it’s a classic movie that a friend loves.
Some of the most fun I had in college was anime club movie nights, where the leads of the club would pull up these 80s era bootlegs that some guy who graduated two years ago had learned Japanese to help fansub. Not because “Grave of Fireflies” or “Angel’s Egg” or “Aeon Flux” were as much fun as a cutesy Miyasaki film or DBZ or FMA, but because they gave us hours of “what the fuck did I just watch?” conversations to have over beers at 2am.
Movies are a fundamentally social experience. You’re not meant to watch these things on a cell phone in a closet.
i agree generally speaking, but we enjoy watching movies we anticipate to be bad (such as red riding hood starring henry cavill). we enjoy poking fun at movies.
I hate watching movies with friend when I’m not sure I’ll like it. If I don’t like it, I’m not good at pretending it was a good movie. I’ll do everything in my power to not hurt their feelings, or be rude or anything like that. I’ll probably tell them it was good. But in the moment watching it they’ll probably be able to tell, and then THEY feel bad, and then I feel bad, and now nobody is having a good time watching the movie.
Now if we go into it with the understanding the movie is bad and we are all here go laugh at it, then it’s always better with friends.
If it’s something they love, I’ll watch it by myself and lie to them later.
I love bringing bad movies to movie night and making fun of terrible effects, clunky dialogue, bad acting, and extras who look at the camera.
I prefer watching the majority of movies alone so I can focus entirely on the movie without distractions.
Some movies absolutely do benefit from watching with friends, but not all of them.