Same here when it comes to preferring to go alone -- I'm usually the violator when it comes to commenting while it's going on, or at least often enough that I can't complain if someone else does. (Except when it's someone with no viewing comprehension skills who keeps asking me to explain what just happened and then misses even more shit due to our conversation going on over the dialogue.)
But I can't cope with trying to schedule an outing for a theater that's not too bad a drive for either of us with a showtime we can both live with. Especially since in recent years my movie-viewing has been along the lines of, "Eh, I'll go if I'm in the mood Friday night, and if not then I'll wind up Netflixing it eventually." I've gotten really bad about things I have to show up at a particular time for, due to not wanting to leave the house once I've gotten settled in for the evening or if I'm in the middle of something when it's time for me to gather up and leave, and if it's just me going I can leave it up to the last minute whether I'm actually going or not, but if I'm showing up for someone else that whole sense of obligation makes me drag my feet about it.
And this was a topic on my mind this week since I wanted to go see Stardust last Friday night, but someone saw my journal post mentioning it and basically invited his wife along with me, which means I didn't get to see it last weekend because our schedules didn't mesh and now I pretty much wish I'd just gone Friday night and pretended not to have seen his LJ comment till the next day, because by this point I really don't want to even bother...
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But I can't cope with trying to schedule an outing for a theater that's not too bad a drive for either of us with a showtime we can both live with. Especially since in recent years my movie-viewing has been along the lines of, "Eh, I'll go if I'm in the mood Friday night, and if not then I'll wind up Netflixing it eventually." I've gotten really bad about things I have to show up at a particular time for, due to not wanting to leave the house once I've gotten settled in for the evening or if I'm in the middle of something when it's time for me to gather up and leave, and if it's just me going I can leave it up to the last minute whether I'm actually going or not, but if I'm showing up for someone else that whole sense of obligation makes me drag my feet about it.
And this was a topic on my mind this week since I wanted to go see Stardust last Friday night, but someone saw my journal post mentioning it and basically invited his wife along with me, which means I didn't get to see it last weekend because our schedules didn't mesh and now I pretty much wish I'd just gone Friday night and pretended not to have seen his LJ comment till the next day, because by this point I really don't want to even bother...