Watching a movie with friends is a pretty fucking rad way to spend your afternoon. I might be one of those guys that spends 60 years or more tending bar. Which means that I really better find someplace easy to work. It doesn't mean much more than that. In the meantime I will need to find some pass times to help me run out the clock on my life and one of those is watching movies with friends.
Horror movies are obviously the best for this kind of evening. We have, ideally, a very small crowd. We are all under no social pressure to act in a way that isn't true to who we are. Because we are close with these friends and they are real friends. So we can get scared at the chronic masturbator and woman slasher that we see lurking on the TV and also lurking through the shadows in our apartment as we go for a pee break midway through the movie.
Inviting unknown elements into the fun is a must, sometimes. We have a flow, we don't need to fuck with that flow too much. Just a little bit. Inviting someone that we aren't too sure of care be a great way to mix things up, but inviting people should not be a part of the routine. I might spend the next 60 years of my life studying water only to choke to death on a cup of tap water after a pack of peanut butter crackers. But in the meantime, I will have watched a lot of movies with my friends and only sometimes with random, unconfirmed folks.
Drinking alcohol while we do what we do is a goto for me. In the same way that some guys will tell you that they have a way with the ladies only to die as miserable old virgins, I like to drink. They like to bullshit you and I like to drink. Okay it's not the greatest comparison ever but whatever. If it's a bad night, and by that I mean the group has decided to watch a comedy, then yes I am most certainly going to drink. I just do not enjoy most comedies. I mean, we are hanging out and we're all funny, we make each other laugh. Why would we listen to somebody else for that? I'd rather be scared and then make each other laugh about that.
The guy who talks through a lot of the movie about other shit is not welcome up in this bitch. We are watching the movie and occasionally, OCCASIONALLY providing commentary. If you aren't into the movie, do not try to redirect the whole experience to yourself. Just fucking leave or play on your phone. If you're the guy who does this shit then you are probably also the kind of guy that tells people that you'll own your own business for 25 years without ever even making it to manager at your travel agency. Doesn't stop you from calling yourself director of sales agents. It also doens't stop you from masturbating constantly until the day you realize enough is enough and put a bullet in your head.
Deciding when the movie actually sucks and we have to make our own fun is a subtle skill and indicative of experience. Watching The Shining we barely said anything. It was such a flawless film. We watched some shit during the summer that had a lady take a bath with her dad's dead body. At a certain point it has to be a conversation about "Should we bail on this freaky shit?" or "Woah WTF? Are we about to talk through the rest of this freakshow?" The dead body bath movie had us making a lot of jokes. So we still had a good time. If we would have done that to The Shining then I would have found new friends. But also it would have ruined the movie. It's all about balance.
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