97. But I'm a Movie Star

SO this one has been done before in many different areas but I throw my opinion into the mix now. I went to go see Iron Man 2 this weekend. So there I go getting all nerd with it as I start to talk about avengers...buy the IMAX ($18.00!!!!!...wtf? I should have gotten a bucket of popcorn for that price..oh wait...the popcorn and soda came up to $16.00 nevermind....sigh) ticket.

So as I sit down, there is a couple right next to me. what does the guy do? talk through the whole movie!!

okay...PSYCH!SENSE question...If someone is talking through the movie do you give them the ol' flat tire? (you know..the noise...shhhhhhh) Do you tell them to SHUT UP! but also..why is it that they talk during movies in the first place?

This one is hard to do...because I haven't done the research yet, but let me present my opinion.

Now when I was 5,6,7...15 I found myself always trying to talk to others around me about the movie. WHy? because I was so involved in the movie that nothing else existed. Meaning, the movie I was watching...geez...I might as well have been in it. Why do you think we enjoyed playing games about those movies right afterward? Right? when I was growing up...I would watch power rangers..then run outside and yell, "GO GO POWER RANGERS!" then I would always claim to be the red ranger (jason)...just until the white one came out (tommy)...

anyways, during the show I would kinda talk to others around me...friends, stuffed animals, my imaginary friends...I would tell them, "check this out! oh no...wait..why don't you call out your dinosaur"

Can't you all remember that? talking to the television as if it could hear you...how fun..how playful...it was "childish" as memories of my yelling at the lakers on tv flood my head.

PSYCH!SENSE tells me that our engagement/absolute engagement into a movie creates the connection and full attention into it. In other words, someone talking to the movie is so engaged with it...they are actually part of it. Quite the experience. I would also start to think about their childhood experience...were they paid enough attention to? The habits and psychological gestures we make as adults were created out of our lack of somehting in our childhood, often- not always.

This is different from those that will sit in a movie like Iron Man then turn to their partner and start talking loudly (or on the phone) about a magazine article entitled "exfoliating the fungus out" (yes I've heard this conversation before...and no you don't want to know). These people who talk about random other things during the movie are doing a few different things...not engaging with the movie, lacking courtesy to others and being arrogant in their lack of respect and acknowledgment of others.

See the difference? engaging with a movie....engaging with something else at a movie.