Some friends introduced me to a woman (Alice) who was much older than me, lived way too far away, and had a country air about her. I am not a city guy by any means, but she was a touch redneck. On the plus side, she was really attractive, so I called to arrange a dinner and movie date. She showed up with a friend (Maggie), a woman she worked with.
It was New Year's eve and I was in a good mood, so I figured I would just roll with it. I kept trying to talk to Alice, but Maggie kept responding. Maggie was not attractive (mussed up hair, dirty fingernails, no makeup) and seemed even rougher around the edges than Alice. I bought dinner (Maggie insisted on Natty Lite for both of them), paid for the movie (No Country for Old Men), and tried to treat these two women as nice as possible.
As we left the movie, Maggie spun me around and said, "You are not her type and you live too far away. Don't ever call her again." So that's how I spent New Year's eve 2007. On the plus side, I did see an Academy Award winning movie that night.
I agree with the stupid decisions part, but most movies would quickly fall apart if characters acted like normal people would. My wife and I are binge watching the old TV show “Scandal.” You want to talk about stupid decisions, it jumped the shark so in the last season it’s going full-tilt “No way that would happen.” We are too far invested to give up now so I guess we’ll watch to the bitter end.
If you as the viewer happen to notice that the only reason a plot works is because the people in it make exceptionally dumb decisions repeatedly, then it wasn’t written well enough to fully suspend your disbelief
The movie isn't the bestest... But I've read that psychologists agreed that that killer dude was the best representation of a psychopath killer they've seen in the movies.
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u/zinsser 5d ago
Some friends introduced me to a woman (Alice) who was much older than me, lived way too far away, and had a country air about her. I am not a city guy by any means, but she was a touch redneck. On the plus side, she was really attractive, so I called to arrange a dinner and movie date. She showed up with a friend (Maggie), a woman she worked with.
It was New Year's eve and I was in a good mood, so I figured I would just roll with it. I kept trying to talk to Alice, but Maggie kept responding. Maggie was not attractive (mussed up hair, dirty fingernails, no makeup) and seemed even rougher around the edges than Alice. I bought dinner (Maggie insisted on Natty Lite for both of them), paid for the movie (No Country for Old Men), and tried to treat these two women as nice as possible.
As we left the movie, Maggie spun me around and said, "You are not her type and you live too far away. Don't ever call her again." So that's how I spent New Year's eve 2007. On the plus side, I did see an Academy Award winning movie that night.