In honor of the Opening of Harry Potter #6 ………

 

Someone likes to go to the movies. He likes ‘going to the movies’ in general . If he had asked as few logical questions when he met me, he would have soon scrammed, as I am not good at going to the cinema. 

 

I get motion sickness at movies. If there is a lot of movement on the screen (action movies and hand held cameras are the worst) I sometimes have to close my eyes and breathe slowly, get up, and go sit in the lobby.  Most movie contents don’t interest me. As I deal with human foibles and relationships all day long at work the last thing I want to do is see more of it and pay 10 dollars to boot.  

Violent movies make me upset and edgy, as does human cruelty.
So movies without violence, ‘movement’, or people acting badly makes for a limited choice of film. 

 

Someone is broad minded – he’ll go to almost anything ‘to see what it is like’.  I want to go to something researched viz. a near guarantee of enjoyment. If I am going to pay 10 bucks I want to be near certain of satisfaction.

I like ‘escape’ movies. This often means fantasy and kiddy movies.  It is mildly embarrassing to be an adult without children at the latest Pixar or Walt Disney flick.

 

Thanks to an ADHD wiring system, I don’t sit still for long periods of time. This happens in movies too. I tend to get up and walk around. I take advantage of the scenes with movement or tensions.  I’ve learned not to ask ‘what happened?”

 

I like to see a movie a few weeks after it opens, so I can sit in a relatively quiet and sparse audience. Someone likes “opening weekend” which usually means standing in lines, crowds, and rowdy loud people.  

 

Poor Someone. He often ends up going to the movies without me. 

 

I am trying to take more chances and say ‘yes’ more, so we can go more often together.  As he is a trooper to attend the opera, I should try to brave and go to more movies.