Who’s your worst movie-watching partner?

My sister. She always asks questions constantly, from the beginning of the movie to the end. She cannot handle even a moment of misunderstanding or mystery...even if the movie is just introducing itself, its characters, and its concepts. Also, I don't know why she asks me. If it's a movie I haven't seen before, I have no better idea than she does, and if I have seen the movie, I'm still not going to explain things because I think the movie introduces information in a particular order for a reason!

Saying lines before they happen on a rewatch. Or if theyve seen it and I havent, telling me to get ready for the next scene. 

My wife. She plays phone games through almost every movie, misses a lot of details, doesn't know who people are, and doesn't laugh when something funny happens because she wasn't paying attention, so it's just me laughing. And yet, she has strong opinions while I'm trying to select a movie to watch or gets upset if I watch a new movie without her. The contradiction is one of life's mysteries.....

My wife. The questions about why characters are doing things, well hon, you watch the movie and that will be explained as the story is told.

This is a little bit different than a specific partner. When I saw Top Gun Maverick in a movie theater it was filled with baby boomer couples. Remember that that movie was the one of the first huge blockbuster hits since the pandemic and I think it was the first time back to the theater for a lot of these older folks. What I noticed is that these couples would just start making comments about the movie to each other, as if they were watching something on their couch at home. In a normal tone of voice, not hushed at all. And not just one or two people, either, but dozens. I was really blown away by how they seemed to forget how to watch a movie in the theater. It was quite annoying.

You ever had a "What's happening?" "Why'd he do that?!" "Who's that?" person watch a movie with you? My Mom was that and I ponder how they managed to function in the rest of their life when they do. Like for some reason they treat you like you're some footnotes they can read for context at the bottom of the page.

My friend's nephew would keep up a running commentary all through movies, replying to the characters, injecting "witticisms," etc. The worst was "Airplane!" If you've seen it, you know how fast the jokes come at you. You REALLY don't need someone chattering away and talking over punchlines. It was like: "Surely you can't be serious." "I am serious, and don't call--" Nephew: "HE LOOKS PRETTY SERIOUS TO ME!"

It's either my wife who plays on her phone and then says that the movie makes no sense and/or is boring or me who plays on his phone and then says that the movie makes no sense and/or is boring. Actually, on second thought it's my kid who gets us to turn on any random kids' movie but leaves the room within the first ten minutes and never returns.

I used to be friends with this guy who was really intelligent but absolutely insufferable to watch movies with. He would critique everything, from the dramaturgically derivative to the logically inconsistent to the historically inaccurate. Whatever the movie, he would find some way to describe why it was trash.  Also: >My brother can’t help but Google the movie, all the actors, and the director, and read their Wikipedia pages to me while we’re watching I feel personally attacked. The IMDB trivia page is my jam.

I love my mom but she asks the most annoying questions during movies and will bring the whole film to a stop if she doesn't understand something. Also no matter the movie or how little it has to do with the plot, she literally will always ask "what city are they in?" I find a lot of it endearing now since I don't live with her anymore but at one point she drove me crazy lol.

I have a friend who has to always insist he predicted everything in a movie, at first I thought it was him actually doing it, but after the 5th movie with him ending with "yeah I knew that was coming, whatever," I found it pretty annoying. Even if you did predict it, there is NOTHING else to say?

My older sister. She’s fairly conservative, and she always has to make political remarks or make something political when it doesn’t need to be. She’s unbearable when we watch anything Star Wars.

My missus is from Toronto. Nearly every 'American' movie is filmed in Toronto. My missus points out it's filmed in Toronto. Every time.

My friend who is always on her f****** phone. Like, can't you be in the moment while we both watch a movie? I know she's just doomscrolling, it's not even important. I've steered away from watching anything with her. I find it's better just to watch TV shows or movies solo.

My friend who's on her phone, misses half the plot, then either asks what's happening or straight up tries to make conversation while I'm trying to focus. Or my mum, who keeps asking what's going to happen to this or that character: either I don't know because I've not seen the film before or I ask her "do you want me to spoil it?" if I have, and she invariably says "no"...but keeps asking anyway!

my mum will ask questions constantly even if it means ruining the whole story, like if it's a murder mystery she'll constantly ask "did they do it?" every time a new character appears, or a new character will show up and she'll go "who's that?" b**** if you just keep watching they'll tell you! that's literally the point of a story!!!

My wife's friend who repeats every line of dialogue.

Girlfriends mom has to have a tablet to play phone type games at all times because "can't focus otherwise", but she can't focus with it either. It's rotting her attention span. We also cannot watch anything that isn't a formulaic happy ending Disney style story, or it makes them freak out. So when we visit for a few weeks a year we are pretty much recycling the same 5 approved movies (or Harry Potter series) over and over, and if I go on my phone during the rewatches she will make a comment about me not paying attention. On top of that, she constantly gets up mid-film to do something unnecessary, on purpose so that she misses some of the film- but her husband ALWAYS pauses it til she is back even if she says "don't pause it for me". So I am forced to sit there watching a 2.5 hour movie (plus 1-2 hours of breaks) and pay full attention to a movie we JUST recently watched while she sits on her tablet. Meanwhile any time we watch something new she has 100 questions or comments about the movie that the movie addressed but she didn't pay attention so we have to fill her in as it goes. It's awful. After years of this, I'm at the point where I'm ready to explode or die of boredom- especially because there is nothing to do but watch movies when we are visiting.

My brother in law. My wife is 32, her little brother is eleven. He has really bad ADHD. Despite our protests, their biological mom lets him doom scroll YouTube when he's with her and he spends all his weekends and breaks with us. As a result any time a new movie we were excited for comes out he wants to watch it with us and spends the entire time spoiling every 'cool' scene as they start because he saw it on a YouTube Short and wants to tell us all about it. Across the Spiderverse, Zootopia 2, every popular movie.

Went to see The World’s End and my friend would always grab her soda by the top (around the lid) not the sides like a normal f****** person. I told her, “You’re going to make a mess if you keep doing that” lo and behold, halfway through the movie she grabs her soda from the top and spills it all over me. Doesn’t apologize, doesn’t help clean it up. Just shrugs like “oops”. She would also always pause a movie at her house for any and all reasons, so a 2 hour movie would easily take 4 hours. Even if we’ve seen it before and know what happens. She has to talk, pauses. I have to pee, she pauses. The dogs barked, pauses. I’m not longer friends with this person.

My mom!!!! “Okay who’s this? “Okay why’d he do that?” JUST WATCH THE MOVIE AND THEYLL EXPLAIN I PROMISE!!!!!!!!

Well my girlfriend is my only movie watching partner. Sometimes she is the worst though. My biggest issue is she often decides in the first 5 minutes whether she likes the movie or not and then if she doesn't, she groans and complains and wants to stop watching or makes fun of it for the rest of the runtime. It sometimes makes me feel bad if I was the one who suggested the movie.

people who pause every 4 minutes to explain the plot back to me like we're both in witness protection. just let the movie cook lol

I used to watch movies with a friend who is a gun nut (then we moved to different states). Really knows his stuff (history, ballistics/mechanics, combat protocols, etc). Unfortunately, this ruins many movies for him as guns are constantly getting misnamed, mishandled, or sometimes just completely fabricated out of loonsville. If you watch a movie with him, he will share everything that is wrong with every scene involving a gun. I won't deny it's informative, but it gets a little much. That said, every now and then a movie would get something right, and then he'd get super excited. So it all evened out.

My Sister.  "Why did he do that? Who is this guy? What are they doing? Wait is that the guy from the other thing?"  Lady, I'm watching the same movie you are. I trust the story will unfold as we keep watching.  Shut up.

So someone else pretty much summed up their spouse as being like my girlfriend in the fact the she plays on the phone and misses details, doesn't laugh at funny moments, etc. but I wanted to add something else that drives me nuts. We'll be watching a movie and a very important scene is about to happen, something that you should pay close attention to, and she'll pick the moment right as it's happening to get up to get a drink in the kitchen.

The people who need to see this, will never see this. Finding someone who you can sit down and watcha a movie with, silently, whether it's good or bad, is so difficult. Once you do, you know that that person is special. Watching a movie with someone can tell you how patient, discerning, and observant a person can be. Someone who can sit still with you for the length of a movie and appreciate it with you is someone who can match your mood, and is attentive to your hobbies and likes. It is then your job to be just as attentive to theirs if they have a different one.

Guy in my high school dormitory. Ruined the *How I Met Your Mother* finale for me cuz he was impatiently waiting to play the dorm's PS3 after I'd finished (I'd been following the series for a few year with family so I'd watch while at the dorms then call to talk later) He had a lot of annoying and incorrect opinions "You know this isn't even gonna be the final season? They're gonna make more long as it makes money!" "That actor is probably a crackhead, look at the eyes, half of Hollywood is one" "I heard that guy (Neil Patrick Harris) has HIV and still married some younger guy without telling him". Just stupid teenage shit from someone who thinks they know how the world works but is just dumb. Thankfully he left to have a snack before the scene where Barney meets his daughter which at the time made me weepy. Don't want to imagine his idiot comment on that. Anyways, that's the worst partner I've had. If you need more proof of his level of stupid, apparently if you spent thirty minutes in the capital you were gonna get mugged by some immigrant gangster. I must be a true miracle in that case cause in almost twenty years living here I've not been mugged once, same for any of my family.

My wife. We spend half the movie with her pointing out what the actors were in previously followed by nonstop questions caused by her focusing on what movies the actors were in lol

My anxiety sometimes. It can be a real pain to watch movies with!

My ex, always on their phone

My sister. She'll complain endlessly about things she doesn't like, for a example an unfunny joke. And she asks questions about character motivations or the plot she doesn't understand as if we wrote the story. Sometimes these are revealed later in the movie or in a later episode. I was a bad movie-watching partner for my wife for one movie. We were streaming a Korean movie and a character got stuck on an island in the beginning. He did everything wrong for survival. He smoked his last cigarette and flicked it into the ocean. I yelled OMG, set the trees on fire, get a smoke signal. He wrote "Hello" on the beach. I said he should've written "Help" instead. My wife said if he would've done any of that, the movie would be over already.

My son has a film degree and will laugh at the most inappropriate times from a story line just based on the cinematography choices. He was cracking up all through Nosferatu. Second is my friend who is on his phone the entire time. Please sir, put that phone away

The question askers.

My old roommate if the movie had any of his special interests. I've been watching/blogging the National Film Registry on and off for years. He came in while I was watching *Spartacus* with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis, then sat down to complain at length about the Third Servile War's effects on the Roman Republic. I love the guy like a brother, but damn. He also didn't appreciate me saying any group of slaves or prisoners have an unlimited natural right to try to stop being slaves or prisoners, even if the situation is perfectly just for what they did.

My MIL. Super picky about the movie then plays on her phone, gets up to do other things, or talks during the movoe. Says theres no need to pause or rewind, then asks lots of questions about the movie and complains it makes no sense. And my wife is a movie talker. In fact her whole family are movie talkers.

My best friend’s girlfriend. *new character comes on the screen for the first time* “WHO’s THAT?!?” ?? “We don’t know. This is the first time seeing him.” “Well I don’t like him.” This happens for every character. Then later: “WHY DID THAT GUY DO THAT?!?” “Because he’s the main character and his action is in direct alignment with the plot.” “Oh. Well he shouldn’t have done that.” This happens 10x. And so on.

My wife. Interesting how many people answered that haha. My wife will talk on the phone with speakerphone on to her mom, read her emails out loud, scream at her laptop, yell about coworkers, and then ask what happened in whatever we’re watching. I will say that I’m so used to it that whenever I watch something by myself it seems off and I can’t concentrate. I’m currently watching something right now and had to open my phone.

My dear ol' mother, recently passed, would always, *always*, ***always*** ask plot questions *while they are being answered on the screen at that exact time*. "I dunno, maybe we could watch it happening right this moment, Mom!" Damn, I'm really going to miss that immersion-breaking inconvenience.

I actually think it's kind of cool but half of my family are actors and in the movie industry so watching a movie with them is a *very* analytical experience with some anecdotes of their own times in movies sprinkled in which can be tough when I just want to passively watch a movie. I do love them though and it is interesting! On the other hand, I didn't pursue acting and went instead into academia :D So when it comes to book adaptations I'm probably the unbearable friend. I'd like to think I'm not as bad as your friend and I try to just enjoy the movie especially when I'm with other friends. But my boyfriend has definitely heard a fair share of "that's not how it went!" or "that makes sense because Shakespeare was pretty gay" lol

My Dad. As much as I love him he can’t help but comment on how hot/s*** he finds the actresses in literally anything we watch. It gets tiresome after the hundredth time. I also can’t stand people who try and actively guess what’s gonna happen in the plot and ask me to explain why something happened. Like, watch the movie, your question will probably get answered.

The thing is, I bet your history friend loves watching these films with you for precisely this reason.

My roommate is a wonderful person, but a huge science and facts nerd with autism who has real trouble understanding that they shouldn't point out inaccuracies in movies while I'm watching them for the first time, and once they get going, they're impossible to stop. Like, I love MST3King a movie once I've seen it already, but it really kills my ability to suspend disbelief when they won't stop fact-checking the filmmakers. So I try not to watch movies with them unless it's something I've seen already.

Me. I laugh loudly at things other people dont, or before the punchline lands because I see it coming. Or I notice the story structure, and plot points, and twists well before they show up to the point I can actively hate a movie if checkovs gun doesn't go off in the 3rd act.

When I saw Mystery Men in theaters I sat next to a buddy who bitched all the way through and ruined it for me. I liked the movie. When I saw Spider-Man No Way Home I sat next to a friend who was just so damn excited and talked all the way through it. It got old. I told myself I’d never go to another movie with him. A few months later he went swimming in some tide pools and got washed out to sea. They never found his body. I miss my friend.

My uncle doesn’t shut the f*** up when the movies on. He’ll point things out that are extremely obvious. He repeats things over and over again. It’s really annoying.

One of my cousins. Love the guy to death, one of my best friends, but he is absolutely the worst person to watch a movie with because he won’t even be paying attention 75% of the time. He’s on his phone scrolling social media and sending me instagram reels WHILE IM RIGHT BESIDE HIM.  The most annoying part is that watching a movie is usually his idea lol 

My cats. They'll jump up in front of the screen and just stay there, resisting any shoo or splash of water. They fight for no reason, as is expected of cats They also keep me warm and cozy when they're not being f****** assholes.

My ex was the worst. She’d hold the remote, and even if it was some dumbshit movie like Air Bud, she’d have to stop it and ask what’s going on, who’s that, why’d they do that. And this was in the 90s so she wasn’t dividing her attention between screens. She was fully engrossed and could not follow the simplest plot. Once I made the mistake of watching JFK with her. It was like five - six hours of hell.

My spouse was in the military and watching any movie that has ANYTHING military in it was the worst! I just want to be entertained I am not worried about the accuracy of a weapon, phrase or uniform. Thankfully we no longer watch anything together anymore

Me. It’s me. I do the Wikipedia thing. BUT I do it BEFORE deciding to watch it. And I don’t share the details with anyone.

Me. It's definitely me.

Mark.....f****** mark would rewind a funny scene no less than 5 times and repeatedly ask if you saw it. Just really milking the dopamine out of the situation until you beg him to stop. And keeps doing it. Every. Single. Funny scene. Completely killed Wayne's world for me. Sucked the joy right out of it

This one girl I was interested in. Someone put on Caddyshack, and she sat there laughing too much while speaking every single line of the film as it played. Never saw her again.

My fiancee would say me haha. I have an eye for small details and notice continuity errors and/or goofs quite easily. I will then rewind to point it out to her... she hates that lol

I used to make fun of my girlfriend for her frequent interjections while we were watching a movie, but I was doing it too. We laughed a lot about it though.

my roommate in college would literally bring a notebook and take notes during movies like he was studying for finals or something

Probably myself. I keep on researching and checking imdb bout the movie or things that's happening in the movie whether it's plausible.

My brother in law who totally misses the obvious in any movie and requires explanations.

Anyone who starts pointing out how whatever thing in the movie isnt realistic or doesnt make sense logically. Like ok..just enjoy the movie for what it is..entertainment. 

No longer a friend, but I did have a movie watching buddy that fell asleep in like 70% of the films we watched together. And he would lie about having watched the whole thing. Lol

Honestly, I’d probably live your history friend, especially with historical movies I wasn’t too invested in. I remember watching Iron Eagle with a friend of mine in the Air Force, who’d stop the movie to assess the uniforms in the characters and what that said about each one. It was a great time.

Took a coworker to see the Minions movie when it came out, and she was laughing SO hard at every joke to the point of like coughing. I stopped inviting her after that, it was just way to disruptive.

Probably me, I have to pause every few seconds to explain some stupid bullshit about the production to my wife and then every hour to take a piss

Small children.

Really sounds like people don't know how to watch a film at home anymore . Keep your comments till after the film is over please. Geez I'm glad I don't have this problem . But thank heaven for the rewind feature just the same.

I'm a history nerd too and I always recommend The Kings Man to other history nerds. It's silly enough that no one would think this is an accurate depiction of WW1. However, there are a ton of Easter eggs that only a history nerd would catch. Stuff like Mata Hari being one of the side characters or how someone casually mentions a Telegram intercepted by Arthur Zimmermann.

My father because he had vision issues and after a certain point I realized hearing issues. Not sure when I realized it but once I did I couldn't ignore it any further. Before he passed we were just at the point we just would re-watch old stuff he's seen so I wouldn't have to have him ask me what the person said. He had a great DVD collection at least. I can't imagine if I had tried to watch Tenet or something like that with him. I couldn't even understand what the hell was being said.... OH .. Oh no, lol....

Anyone who doesn't enjoy a movie I am enjoying is annoying. What do you mean Frankenhooker isn't enthralling you? Which is to say that I'm the annoying one.

Wife, but it’s just a quirk and I love her. Constantly asks questions that the viewer has no idea the answer to but will likely find out in the next 10 minutes, lol.

My brother went to film school and bores me to tears with constant commentary on lighting, casting, trivia et al. I just want him to shut up and watch the film

I want to think I'm a great partner, but I am quite like your brother. Just tell me to shut up LOL

My wife. We don't have the same taste in what we like to watch. Almost opposite actually.

I'm the partner who is awful. I have adhd and I pause the movie too many times to go do something else for a minute. I don't talk through it, in my defense.

My brother talks right through anything I watch. Movies, tv shows, youtube videos...It doesn't matter. I just don't watch things I haven't already seen with him.

This is somewhat shallow on my part but one of my friends is loud mouth-breather, but only at the theater? You can hear him all throughout the movie unless there's action going on. I've politely brought it to him but I guess he just doesn't notice. On a more general note, it's funny because if somebody brought that up to me I would be hyper aware of it and it would never happen again, but not everyone is wired like that.

My mother. She won't SHUT THE F*** UP for real ma just please stop talking everyone's looking

Friend from highschool.  She doesn't pay attention, so it's always "what did they say?" "Why are they doing that?" "Who is that?". Every movie. The whole movie. 

Whenever watching a movie with my sister she's either on her phone or sleeping half of the movie. Unless it's some terrible straight to dvd horror movie.

My partner doesn’t have the stamina for a full movie. Gets tired, wants to go to bed. But I also had a friend who was a total attention w**** and at cinemas was definitely trying to have the loudest laugh. Like no one could find it as funny as him. It was intolerable.

All I know is I'm *everyone's* worst movie watching partner. I'll speak along with my favorite lines, point out plot holes, poor story structure or character development, correct historical inaccuracies, highlight scenes, twists, or shots taken from other movies, etc... Can't help it, it's a curse.

Oh shit that second one is me :(

My wife. If at home, she stops the movie to know in what other movie/series she saw the actor on the screen…

My cousin is the same. When we watched Saving Private Ryan he kept pausing the movie to show visible crew and equipment as well as continuity errors. 

I love watching movies with my mom but either she falls asleep, ends up on her phone or asks 20 questions. I feel like quite a few times I have to be sure she’s actually watching the movie 😂 although this weekend we watched One Battle After Another and KPop Demon Hunters and she thoroughly enjoyed the latter more than the former!

One of my teens just can’t stop talking, and then misses the plot and starts asking questions that can always be answered with, “ just keep watching, the movie will explain.” They are however, my favorite movie watching partner when it’s a really shitty movie, then we have a blast.

Anyone that asks multiple questions during a film. I had a roommate like this and I got in a habit of saying just watch for every question they had 

My high school best friend who, unbeknownst to all of us and her at the time, was rawdogging bipolar disorder that was incorrectly diagnosed as ADHD and prescribed stimulants. She wouldn’t shut the f*** up and would ask asinine questions that would be easily answered if you would just be quiet and watched the movie

My wife. She falls asleep in less than 5, wakes up at random times and asks “what did I miss?”

Anybody who has to say something every 30 seconds is the worst. Especially when it's in a theater.

I'm single, now so, no one. HOWEVER, my ex would call people during movies and refuse to leave the room. One of the most annoying things about her personality.

My partner! He talks through the movie about various actors cv’s etc and then misses what’s actually going on!!! I have to pause constantly

I'll admit that I would actually love that but I really enjoy learning the actual history and comparing so maybe I'm weird. For me it's my mom. She won't stop asking what's going on instead of shutting up and watching to find out.

I watch alone 90% of the time, but I guess my Mom. She loves asking questions that can't yet be known.

I have a friend that I sometimes watch things with but get quickly annoyed because I'll make a joke or tangent off of something that just happened, not to be annoying and I don't think I'm overdoing it or anything, just sometimes I have a witty comment for something occuring in the show... 9 times out of 10 with this friend I just get responded to with "Huh?" or "What do you mean?" and it really yeets me out of literally any positive feelings I was feeling beforehand. Half the time I just say "Never mind its nothing don't worry about it" because I get annoyed having to summarize what happened the last 15 seconds of the show.

I lowkey would love to watch a historical movie with the history PhD. That sounds like a blast to me, but I can be a yapper. I think it all depends on who I’m watching stuff with. I can turn a lot of these quirks in this thread on and off depending who I’m watching with to match vibes. Otherwise, I can just sit and watch.

I had a friend who would announce the twist to a movie we were currently watching if he predicted it. Didn’t keep it to himself, just told the rest of us. So I never watched movies I hadn’t seen before with him.  This is also why I hate sitting in the back in a crowded movie theater. Too many damn loudmouths who just say the twist out loud. Happened during Knives Out. I was just enjoying the movie when the older dude just kept telling the rest of us what was about to happen.  This is why I sit in the front. Few it any others want to sit there, and those who do generally don’t talk as much. Unless it’s a huge sold out show then you never know. 

My husband will loudly criticise a film if the car is not right for the year the film is set in. I am the IMDB maniac, although I will wait until after the film to share my new found knowledge!

My gf. Shes on her phone the whole time; so her face lights up in the cinema…

Mcu nerds. No Way Home weekend premier, this dude was verbally reacting to shit as if he was recording a video.

How do y'all tolerate this. I CAN'T STAND talking during a movie, it's a huge oet peeve especially at a theater. They would have to shut up or I would simply refuse to watch a movie with them. Ever.

MiL asking questions constantly like I know anymore than she does. She's just the worst all around tho.

My sister. WHY ARE YOU ASKING WHAT’S HAPPENING WHILE IT’S HAPPENING?!

I have a dear friend who he loves to stop movies to explain things to me. This will be a film we’re both watching for the first time, but he’ll pause the film to either explain the plot or explain a bit of cultural background information and double meaning. The cultural commentary is more common when we’re watching Korean or Japanese films. We’re both white dudes from the western US. After explaining this factoid or plot point, he will usually then talk about something unrelated for a while before we start the movie again. This entire break will last often 10-20 minutes, though they have gone longer. If he’s seen the film before and I haven’t he will be pointing out foreshadowing and background information, which in turn makes it incredibly easy to guess plot points, twists, and endings. These breaks occur usually every 30-45 minutes. It has taken us four hours to watch a two hour movie before.

If it's military movies. It's me. I can be one of those Veterans. They take themselves sooo seriously, then get it wrong. Meanwhile, a comedy will come in and get the details right.

My mother... She always used to be the sort-of person who would ask dumb questions and whatnot during movies, and she would habitually fall asleep during the climax without fail. No matter what movie, last twenty minutes, she'd zonk out. She also has a bad tendency to do other things if she asked me to pause while she went to the bathroom. She's use the bathroom, get a snack, check her phone, etc. So a 2-minute pee-break could easily turn into a 15-minute ordeal. (Her personal record was about 45 minutes since she kept getting distracted by other things.) And since she's started to experience some cognitive decline with age, it's getting worse. She has a harder time keeping up with things she hasn't seen before, and so I usually have to stop the movie 4-5 times to explain what's happening. (It's weird... she has like photographic memory of movies we watched 20 years ago, but can't keep up with newer movies... it's like she has a harder time making new memories, while he long-term memory has improved.)

Get new brothers and best friends if they can't be reasoned with to not do those things. Texting and that nonsense in the middle of a movie is unacceptable.

My bladder. I would love to go to the movie theater and just relax and watch a movie. But my bladder says "f*** you" every single time. Doesn't matter if it's a hour and a half movie or a 3 hour movie, or if I have food and drink or not, I will have to pee about 30-40 minutes into the movie.

I don't have one because I won't allow it. If we're having a Bad Movie night, then it's understood that talking and joking and checking phones is part of the experience. However, if I notice that you won't pay attention to the film we've agreed to watch, then I will avoid having you over to watch anything. My wife's ex is a lovely guy, and we both love him and his current wife, but they are not fun to watch movies with because they ask questions frequently and he has ***no*** patience. If something is exploding every few minutes, he gets bored.

My husband. If he likes a movie he’s great and makes perceptive comments. But. He comments on overused tropes, badly delivered lines, overly dramatic or esoteric content, actors he doesn’t like, plot holes, you name it and he’ll mention during the movie. Even if I’m rewatching he repeats previous critiques. And wants acknowledgement that he’s right about what he pointed out. At the theater he’s quiet during the movie but has complained about the ads so much that I’m more annoyed by the complaining than by the ads.

My mother-in-law. We made the mistake of watching Ferris Buellers Day Off with her and she was sighing and Tsk-tsking with a pinched face the entire time b/c she didn’t approve of the language.

There is a simple rule in my home that has worked well for forty-plus years: We do not talk during the movie. We may pause it for bathroom or snack breaks but that is pretty much it. My wife loves this, my sons loved this and both abide by it at their homes. If a friend cannot abide by this rule, he doesn't watch a film at my house. Children are an exception since they sometimes need help understanding things, but they get the idea pretty quickly. After the film is the time for discussion.

Maybe not the worst, but nothing is more disappointing when you're watching a movie with someone, he or she gets up to go to the bathroom (or something else) and says, "you don't have to pause it." Wait, what?!? If you are ok missing part of the movie, even just a sentence or two of dialogue, you're clearly not into the film. In my book, doing something like this immediately disqualifies the person as a good movie watching partner.

Me, anytime there's an IT scene. I'll call out that bullshit IPv4 IP address when I see it on screen

It's also unbearable to have your life's passion in the hands of a Hollywood script writer.

My mother. She cannot pay attention to anything which is not ALL about her. She looks through catalogs, picks lint, gets up to get coffee, and then is angry when you don't want to tell her everything that she missed. She doesn't know anything about the characters or the story, but starts rating all the people based on how fat they are. "They shouldn't listen to him, he needs to lose weight!". Oh, and if you take her to IMAX, she throws up.

Anyone who talks to me at all.

I love my mum but she is the queen of absolutely missing the point when it comes to movies and it drives me insane. She said she wished that they revealed whether the two main characters in Looper were father and son or the same person from two different points in time. Found Waitress really sad because she felt that the main character never gave her marriage a chance or really tried to work on her relationship with her husband. Thought that Othello was about Iago trying to steal Desdemona away from Othello because he was in love with her but his plan going horribly wrong.

Mine constantly checks their phone and then asks “wait what just happened?” every five minutes. Like… you were literally right there 😅

My ex-friend who always fell asleep and when she woke up afterward, she always exclaimed, “That was cute! Just cute!” That includes The Exorcist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Rosemary’s Baby! I’m glad that I didn’t show her Schindler’s List.

My 15 year old .. if she is not looking at me to see my reaction, she is constantly commenting everything that is happening. I love jeg to death, but I absolutely cannot watch anything with jeg that I haven't seen before because she will distract me.