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Movies we pretend to like

  • 06-07-2011 9:46am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭


    What sort of distasteful movies have you had to endure for the pleasure of your other half & still wore a smile at the end of it while dying a little inside?

    I myself being young(ish) have had to sit through the Twilight movies, luckily I have escaped the likes of the Notebook & other devious movies of the sort.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Mamma Mia!


    Never again though - never!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,470 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    The notebook.

    sat there with herself watching it and when it ended she quietly began to weep.

    The hell!? why would you watch a movie that makes you cry?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭Pyr0


    I can never sit through a terrible movie and fake a smile, doesn't matter who it is!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,191 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    I can't recall having to sit through a movie to please my OH. I'm lucky, she doesn't like infantile rubbish.

    Chic flics are fine, so long as they are quality.

    She'd prefer a good war movie, though, or something directed by Spielberg.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,385 ✭✭✭✭D'Agger


    I've seen far too many movies with Katherine Heigel in them.

    I think Burlesque was the worst one of all tbh although the scantily clad ladies did make it a little less shít


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭Gandalph


    Mamma Mia!


    Never again though - never!

    Ha I was forced to go see this on Broadway, I was prepared to blow my brains out going into the theatre....ended up loving it haha


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,925 ✭✭✭Otis Driftwood


    If a movie is crap I will say so.Why would you placate someone by pretending you like something you dont?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,470 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    If a movie is crap I will say so.Why would you placate someone by pretending you like something you dont?

    How else can I get her to be quiet to watch Xmen/Transformers? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    RedXIV wrote: »
    The notebook.

    sat there with herself watching it and when it ended she quietly began to weep.

    The hell!? why would you watch a movie that makes you cry?!

    Haha, did you like it though? :D I was going to watch this one by myself. I warned my boy that it was a bit of a chick flick and he was ok with it. Insisted we watch it together.

    Turns out he enjoyed it more than me. He was shushing me when I was picking holes in the plot. Oh and neither of us wept! :eek:

    I was roundly encouraged to sit through Predator ("What the hell do you mean you've never seen Predator? Never??? What do you think I mean when I keep saying "get to da choppa!"?"). I actually really enjoyed it though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭Gandalph


    If a movie is crap I will say so.Why would you placate someone by pretending you like something you dont?

    Make them happy? If the mother in laws dinner is god aweful you dont tell her so....man rule no.4002


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,470 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    Malari wrote: »
    Haha, did you like it though? :D I was going to watch this one by myself. I warned my boy that it was a bit of a chick flick and he was ok with it. Insisted we watch it together.

    Turns out he enjoyed it more than me. He was shushing me when I was picking holes in the plot. Oh and neither of us wept! :eek:

    I was roundly encouraged to sit through Predator ("What the hell do you mean you've never seen Predator? Never??? What do you think I mean when I keep saying "get to da choppa!"?"). I actually really enjoyed it though.

    it was alright, i did think it was a clever movie with the twist at the end but my movie taste in general is abismal. very simple formula. If it has:
    • martial arts fights
    • explosions
    • comic or video game references
    • ridiculous one liners

    Then i'm all over it. I'm not one for these arts-y films. they tend to bore me. give me Die Hard any day of the week :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Saw The Notebook in the cinema, it was a first date and I was out to impress. Load of balls but got me in the good books.

    I usually don't mind watching a stu[id rom-com as they are usually easy watching and tolerable. Marie Antoinette however was unforgivable, and what makes it worse is I saw it with my ex and a mate (guy) and I was over ruled and had to see it. I blame my mate more than my ex.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,844 ✭✭✭py2006


    This thread is hilarious!

    I was forced to watch a 'Sex and the City' SEASON from a box set with a girl!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭MitchKoobski


    I've lost two women so far by refusing to accept that The Notebook and My Sister's Keeper are "powerful" and "meaningful" films that change people's lives. I argued they were both a heap of up-yer-own-arse-feel-bad-for-other-people shite.

    It's been happening a lot lately with Glee too. It's TERRIBLE.

    Couple of the girls ended up taking film studies as part of their Arts course, and their tastes changed dramatically. Now they're actively trying to watch all the films we recommend


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Myself and herself have quite similar taste in films. If anything it's a competition between us to find the next badass action movie/anime/zombie film or whatever.

    We watch plenty of stuff that can be deep and meaningful (The Fountain, The Fall, Blueberry etc ) but we both feel this overtly contrived romantic bollix is just a heap of crap.

    If you ask my girlfriend what the greatest movie of all time is she is probably gonna say Bladerunner...and that right is there is why i love the woman.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    In college yrs ago I pulled a bird and we went back to hers. Her flatmates were about to put on Titanic and as there was only one seat left in the sittingroom she suggested I took it and she sit on my lap.................... for THREE FREAKING HOURS until the movie ended. Such torture!!

    It gets better though................when it finished she said 'come one, lets go upstairs'. So she stood up and so did I but I had two dead legs and immediatley crashed to the floor as they would not work for me. Took ten mins to get me upstairs.

    TITANIC = BALLS!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭MitchKoobski


    If you ask my girlfriend what the greatest movie of all time is she is probably gonna say Bladerunner...
    Any chance she has a sister? :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,762 ✭✭✭✭ecoli


    Tip: If she tries to make you watch something you are not interested in ,reciprocate next time with something that will make her compromise

    This one works wonders for me. First time they try and make you watch the Notebook etc you say sure. Next time make sure its your choice (Clockwork Orange being one of my favourite films is a good choice here) After this they then decide best to watch something you will both be interested in rather than taking turns. Problem solved :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Andrew33


    Yiz all need to man up and grow a pair, going to see a crappy movie just cos your other half wants to see it???? jaysus, tell her to go on her own if you don't want to see that particular film, jeeeez.:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,925 ✭✭✭Otis Driftwood


    Its not about watching the movies,its about lying and saying you liked it just because you are trying to impress someone.I will watch most anything if an OH wanted me too,doesnt mean Id like it nor pretend to like it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,239 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    My ex insisted we go see Sex And The City the day after the funeral of someone close to me. The day after that, it was very nearly my ex's funeral! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭Gandalph


    frag420 wrote: »
    So she stood up and so did I but I had two dead legs and immediatley crashed to the floor as they would not work for me. Took ten mins to get me upstairs.

    TITANIC = BALLS!!

    Thats what you get for bringin home a fat bird! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Sanjuro wrote: »
    My ex insisted we go see Sex And The City the day after the funeral of someone close to me. The day after that, it was very nearly my ex's funeral! :pac:


    :eek:, oh god that's horrible. I don't believe she would do that to you after suffering one tragedy already. Sex and the city is where I drew the line with my ex, luckily she always had her sister or girl friends on hand to step up.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭vangoz


    No, No No and did I say No?

    Wouldnt rape my own senses by sitting through twilight and the likes. I dont see any compromise. I just would feel I let myself down, it would result in me cowing in the corner of a very hot shower.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,154 ✭✭✭ImpossibleDuck


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    I can't recall having to sit through a movie to please my OH. I'm lucky, she doesn't like infantile rubbish.

    Chic flics are fine, so long as they are quality.

    She'd prefer a good war movie, though, or something directed by Spielberg.

    Don't ever let her go :pac: or alternatively, give her to me! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 764 ✭✭✭floutingmaxims


    py2006 wrote: »
    This thread is hilarious!

    I was forced to watch a 'Sex and the City' SEASON from a box set with a girl!!

    That's dedication.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    py2006 wrote: »
    I was forced to watch a 'Sex and the City' SEASON from a box set with a girl!!

    Did you strangle her with her own colon? Because that would be a fair trade off in my eyes.

    Can't say I've pretended to like a film to impress a lady. I did once say "James Blunt is like pretty cool and stuff" once.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Can't say I've pretended to like a film to impress a lady. I did once say "James Blunt is like pretty cool and stuff" once.


    I sincerely hope you got laid for taking that bullet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    NothingMan wrote: »
    I sincerely hope you got laid for taking that bullet.

    I certainly did! and repeatedly at that for a duration of six months.

    Not worth it TBH.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Galvasean wrote: »
    I certainly did! and repeatedly at that for a duration of six months.

    Not worth it TBH.


    6 months of James Cunt, I couldn't do it. No matter how good the sex.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    NothingMan wrote: »
    6 months of James Cunt, I couldn't do it. No matter how good the sex.

    Oh no his fad had well and truly worn off after a few minutes when I found out she wasn't even in to him. Still, the shame remains.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Oh no his fad had well and truly worn off after a few minutes when I found out she wasn't even in to him. Still, the shame remains.

    Haha, she probably thought you were into him. How did ya back track on that one?

    "Oh thank god, I only said I liked him cos I want to have sex with you."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    NothingMan wrote: »
    Haha, she probably thought you were into him. How did ya back track on that one?

    "Oh thank god, I only said I liked him cos I want to have sex with you. wanted to talk about something without sounding cynical. That said, it is a song about nicking some other guy's bird." (the Blunt was the background music at the time)

    FYP


  • Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭Detour


    To be honest, I'd guess that men pretend to like certain movies more for the benefit of other men. Certain movies have slipped into male psyche as being great movies - I didnt really like Predator, dont know why, just missed it when I was younger. But whenever it comes up everyone seems to love it and I can't be bothered being the lone voice of descent.

    Don't know many blokes that pretend to like chick flicks. We don't like them, our girlfriends know we dont like them, but it's just something a guy does with a girl cause it's nice to be nice!


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