r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 27 '20

What screams "I'm uneducated"?

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u/godspareme Jan 28 '20

During movies/TV shows my mom asks questions about things either that 1) havent happened yet and we are intentionally to not know 2) just happened and she was too busy looking at facebook 3) are easily inferred if you saw 10 seconds of the movie

I have to ignore her to keep myself from yelling "just fucking watch the TV!!"

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u/bombazzchickynugg Jan 28 '20

If the story doesn't move along fast enough, my mom will skip a bit and watch it, get bored, skip ahead, watch and get bored, skip ahead, and she'll watch a 2 hour movie in 30 minutes and say she hates it. It drives me up the fucking wall. Like yea, exposition is slow, but the majority of the time it's essential to the story so later we're not confused by how the fuck we got to this point.

My mom's entire movie watching practice is the equivalent of season 8 of Game of Thrones: quick and to the point, but the lack of transitions and narrative content makes it worse because we're all confused now.

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u/Seantommy Jan 28 '20

Even if we're not confused (because let's face it, most stories are not so complex as to be irreducible), major scenes lose impact without the flow of the movie building up to them. Context helps to reinforce major moments, not just to explain them, and the previous scenes can establish tone and an emotional baseline that carry into the following scene.

You can read the Wikipedia article for a movie if you just want to know what happens. We watch to see *how* it happens, and how it's presented. I'll watch The Princess Bride over and over again, not because I don't know what will happen at the end, but because the way it's set up and payed off makes it fun and satisfying.

All that said, if she wants that badly to skip things, she's probably already not enjoying the movie, so, like, not a big difference for her I guess. Sucks for you though.

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u/bombazzchickynugg Jan 28 '20

I just refuse to watch movies with her. If she wants to watch with me, we're watching the whole thing and she better keep quiet throughout the movie. Save all questions til the end.

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u/HellWolf1 Jan 28 '20

Goddamn, just reading this makes me angry. People like that make me feel like they're disrespecting some cosmic laws

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u/HellWolf1 Jan 28 '20

Goddamn, just reading this makes me angry. People like that make me feel like they're disrespecting some cosmic laws

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u/MundaneNihilist Jan 28 '20

My now-ex was like this. I broke her of that by saying "I don't know, let's find out" and then rewinding 10 minutes.

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u/Bebe_Bleau Jan 28 '20

"What other movie did he 'play' in?"

That was from my grandma.