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You know what I hate about girlfriends or close female friends? We’ll be talking about seeing a DVD/Bluray and I’ll mention a really good one and she’ll say “okay, sounds good, I haven’t seen that, let’s watch it” and then I pop it into the player and ten minutes later she says, “Oh, I’ve seen this.”
So which is it? Girlfriend or “close” female friend?
Inquiring minds want to know…
My parents do that all the time. It would appear that many people who follow the movie business regularly, all the way from script to shoot to festival to wide opening, have the title pretty well drilled into their head by the time it’s out on BluRay. Titles are REALLY important if you talk about and think about movies all the time.
For a lot of people, it doesn’t go any further than, “that Tom Cruise movie with the car chase”. Or just, “that car chase movie I saw a few weeks ago, on TV, though I missed the first hour. It was alright I guess, I was reading my text messages too”.
What difference does it make? It’s happened to me many times with both girlfriends and female friend-friends.
And here I thought Andy Rooney died.
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For the record, I’ve double checked – apparently guy friends NEVER do this. Not once.
Well, this Thanksgiving I’m grateful that this particular post WASN’T called “Dismember With An Axe.”
Funny you should bring it up now, though. I just handed my wife a stack of Blu-rays that are wanting complete viewing, and asked her to pick a couple she’d prefer to see. She handed me two: “The Guns of Navarone” and Antonioni’s “Identification of A Woman.”
I’d say “Sucks to be you,” but that would be RUBBING IT IN.
By the same token, she’s completely useless on such topics as Penny Flame’s retirement from adult, so there’s that.
OK, to “Navarone,” then…
I have this uncanny ability to know which of the 1000′s of movies I’ve watched in my life and which ones I haven’t. Anyone else?
Glenn, I’d have picked the Antonioni.
Penny Flame retired!? When did this happen? Or that’s right – she blogs for Huffington Post now: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/hp_blogger_Jennifer%20Ketcham?action=profile
C’mon, Sasha, you’re better than this.
We’re thinking double feature, Jason.
@Glenn
That’s funny. The complete opposite situation happened to me last year with my girlfriend. She was shocked I hadn’t seen Guns of Navarone.
Say what you will about Wells…but damned if this doesn’t happen to me ALL THE TIME.
I’ve been with the same gal for six years now and she constantly does that. I’ll even give her the title and the cast. “No, I haven’t. Sounds good.”
(ten minutes later)
“Oh I HAVE seen this. It ends up being a sled, right? I love this movie.”
I’d make fun of Wells for his Rooneyishness too if it weren’t so damned true. (in my experience)
But THEN Jeff says, “Yeah, but you’ve never seen it like this, in Blu-ray!”
And the girl says, “Regular DVD, Blu-ray … who can tell the difference?”
At least she humors you enough to start watching. My wife usually won’t give films with subtitles a shake, despite my constant prodding.
god help the woman who is cool with watching 12 Angry men at 1.85:1
I’ve actually made the mistake of buying a duplicate Blu-Ray I already owned, more than once. So yeah, there’s that.
The 1.85 brain police need to slap Criterion around for presenting Twelve Angry Men (1958) at 1.66. Are you guys men or mice?
You realize this is a public forum, right? One that close friends / girlfriends might read.
@Discman
Wait until he talks to her about the aspect ratio of Barry Lyndon. “The 1.85-to-1 Nazis are at it again!” “…what? I don’t really see the difference.”
I hate it when halfway through Human Centipede 2, my date claims she’s already seen it. How do you forget that movie?
Never dated someone who wasn’t also a film fan so this never happened to me. Ever.
The fact that Jeff is obviously dating women who have only a passing interest in cinema speaks volumes. A certain line that Pacino says to Azaria in HEAT comes to mind…
‘The fact that Jeff is obviously dating women who have only a passing interest in cinema speaks volumes.’
No way do I believe that anyone is dating Wells.
The 1.85 brain police need to slap Criterion around for presenting Twelve Angry Men (1958) at 1.66.
uh why, the film was exhibited in that ratio and looks fine that way
you’re the one who’s turned this into a matter of rigid principle (“more headroom all the time!”)
In my experience (okay, take your potshots about it being limited, but still…), most women fall sound asleep on the couch watching just about ANY movie, and usually are only sitting through it to humor film-geek you… You sit there thinking, “Wow, wait’ll she gets a load of THIS!” and time and again, inside of 19 minutes she’s either got a date with the Sandman or is texting her Yenta friends through the whole fucking thing.
…but throw on a TiVo’d Project Runway, they’re amped, alert and watching it with the intensity of Jim Garrison studying the Zapruder film.
And here I thought Andy Rooney died.
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You know if I hadn’t experienced exactly this with my gal pals and even done it a few times (I’m much worse with books, I will BUY them more than one) I would be offended by this, so I’m not, and I’m a professional. Curiously, no man I have ever known, dated, married or conversed with has ever done this. I have no explanation for it.
Man, this kind of thing makes me shake my head. I mean, I know this is sort of narrow and ridiculous, but there’s part of me that just doesn’t comprehend people hearing the title of a movie (at least, a well-known one) and not instantly knowing if they’ve seen it or not. Or not knowing that Casablanca won Best Picture, that Saruman from Lord of the Rings was played by Christopher Lee, who in his younger years played a Bond villain and various horror characters, that Joan Fontaine and Olivia deHavilland are sisters and are still alive. Fuck, man, why doesn’t everybody care about movies?
Sandman or is texting her Yenta friends through the whole fucking thing
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