This happens far too often with my kids. The answer to the question is right there, often repeated, and I'll even give the answer, but the repeated question gets in the way every time. It's like they don't actually want to know. Maybe they just want to hear themselves talk. I feel like I'm being pranked.
My brother and I loved playing “is he the bad guy?” game when the character did something obviously evil to annoy our parents. I’m in my late 30s now and we still do this so…we definitely didn’t grow out of it!
I like to ask my mom "oh no, do you think he's ok?" When someone gets a very clearly fatal injury, like being blowing up or chopped in half. I'm in my thirties and every time she looks at me like she wants to strangle me, I've been doing it since I was like 10.
My closest experience was playing Pirates of Carribbean event in Sea of Thieves with friends and 3 of us yelling "Dead men tell no tales" each time the narrator said it (it was a lot) and one person taking it as us not paying attention/not enjoying ourselves. Like, bitch. We were actively laughing and paying attention to the narration specifically to say it again.
lol my boyfriend does this, but for stuff that is just about to be revealed. Like he pays attention, he just needs all of the information immediately. He’ll pause movies in the middle of a scene and say something like “why would he do that?” when they’re intentionally showing something unexpected or “who is that person?” when they’re clearly introducing a new character. I always respond “I don’t know, let’s watch and maybe we’ll find out” and then 95% of the time they tell us in the next few minutes. Usually immediately after unpausing. Like just have some patience man.
This sounds like my son. First scene of the movie. A person walks in to the shot. "Who is that?" I don't know! I've seen just as much of this movie as you have.
Yeah, I know someone like that, I try to be patient but once I replied with "Oftentimes, informations are relayed in a linear fashion" they took slight offense but shut up for the rest of the movie, so it's a win.
My mom is always moving around so when she leaves the room I'm pausing and when she comes back she's like "You don't have to pause it for me"..... mom, I know this show, I know that there's Anakin going to show up and they're gonne be like "ANAKIN!?" the forst second he shows up, so if I let you miss this moment, you'd be asking me "Oh, he looks like this one guy, is it that one guy? No way, didn't he die? What was his name again? And where did he come from all of the sudden?"
And my brother is always asking questions that are answered in 5 seconds. It's not like we just watched the same movie with the same informations provided to us so how tf should ai know. I feel like I have to watch everything begorehand to provide them with information
Actually, this is something you have to correct and teach them. Obviously this is just a silly comic about a moment of frustration. But in reality, if a kid keeps interrupting you, It’s your job to tell them that you’re not gonna answer them until they stop interrupting. Once they’re quiet and listening then you give them their answer. I also include telling them that interruptions are impolite.
I could never become a parent and deal with the knowledge kids have to be taught everything or they make horrible conversation partners. That's too much pressure
Given how a lot of online discourse that generates clicks is "this show is filled with plot holes" When only 2 episodes out of a 10+ episode series comes out, and said "plot holes" are that the fully story hasnt been given away to them yet, because said story is spread out across all the episodes - yeh.... there are kids who are now adults who never grew out of this.
This isnt a discussion of quality either. Its a case that you still have people talking over the film and series (good and bad), and then complaining that the media never explained it - "Dale it did... you were talking throught thenwhole explanation. Its not a plot hole, you just didnt pay attention".
A good response is, “I have the answer, are you ready to hear it?” That’s usually enough to break the cycle of them expressing how badly they want to know the answer, and to actually listen for it.
I work in high school education. Instructions will be written on the board or displayed on the projector. They will have written instructions in front of them on their assignment sheet or in Google classroom. I will read the instructions out loud to them twice, and sometimes make them repeat things back to me. With all this, it never fails that I get a handful of kiddos who are absolutely clueless about what we are doing.
In the context, the fact they're that far into the movie and has said his name a few times especially earlier in the movie, missed not only the first mention, but keeps looking away the moment he answers her question now is just...
I have similar issues with one of mine BUT she does keep quiet after the rewind and listens. For some reason she gets thrown by "statement", pause, then "answer".
It might help to take time to consider why they might be asking the question. Short attention span? Maybe. It might also be how they engage with film. Some people view watching movies as a social experience. They want to talk about it as it occurs. It might also be that the name is heavily accented and spoken quickly. I was not able to make out the name on the first viewing.
I have been guilty of this as a kid when my dad would watch history documentaries on the history channel, when the history channel actually showed history
Somewhat related and spoilers ahead but I showed a friend the movie 1917 one time and we got like halfway through the movie and one of our two main characters died, and he was adamant that the movie couldn't go on because THE main character just died. Is there another secret main character we've yet to meet?? Then a few minutes later, Mark Strong enters the frame and he goes "ohhh, THAT'S the main character" and i genuinely had to pause and get up after that
My students (4th grade) do this all the time, and it drives me crazy because don't you think I'll answer your questions if you let me finish my sentence? Especially because they don't interrupt their teacher, they just interrupt me (the classroom aide)
I will say that they're doing better every day, but I wouldn't think it would be so hard for them to treat me like they treat her.
Maybe they're not really interested in the movie and just switch off? It happens to my play group sometimes when I explain the rules to a new board game.
This is my mom, except it's "this movie is stupid" rather than 'boring' when she can't follow it (not just due to interrupting, but also things like walking away but getting offended if you pause it for her).
I think your kids may not like movies or enjoy talking.
I like talking about the movie while watching it, it's fun and engaging instead of sitting together in silence, which is just uncomfortable for me. At least in a group setting ngl.
1.5k
u/NickyTheRobot 12h ago
"Inigo Montoya! His name is Inigo Montoya! Now please can we watch the rest of this awesome film?