I moved in with my partner on Saturday. Last night he and I were sitting watching a Cubs game and I decided that I wanted to see a movie. I wanted to see Julie & Julia before I started a weight loss program today, because I read that the film is like food porn and didn’t want to watch it when I had to be eating salad and fresh fruit all day.
The fiance wasn’t really in the mood and wanted to stay and watch the game, so I went by myself. By the way, it was food porn!
The point is, I called someone on the way home and told them I just came out of a movie and her first question was: “Who did you go with?” No questions about the movie at all. I go to movies by myself all the time. Apparently this is a weird thing to do for many people…
Solo Movie Watching is on my list of single habits to keep after you couple up – anyone have any other suggestions?
5 responses so far ↓
lauren // August 10, 2009 at 10:17 am |
small world! the missus was out of town on saturday night, so i took myself on a double movie date: julie and julia (he had no interest) in the theater, and raging bull (too violent for him) at home. i wasn’t questioned as you were – maybe it’s more common here (i run into women at the theater alone all the time)?
April // August 10, 2009 at 4:42 pm |
But how was the movie?
Going to the movies alone is still something on my to do list. It doesn’t sound as scary as eating alone (which I have done, but still hate), but I’d still miss being able to talk to someone about the movie afterward.
Onely // August 14, 2009 at 4:46 pm |
My coblogger Lisa saw it and said the film was highly heteronormative. (Not to speak for Lisa, but I’m going to anyway.) She was irritated because all the people she saw it with liked it. See, if she had gone alone, she wouldn’t have had that problem. = ) = )
Christina
Therese // August 15, 2009 at 4:47 pm |
It was highly heteronormative – but isn’t everything? (lol) But Meryl Streep was so charming as Julia Child that I did not care…
sara // August 27, 2009 at 1:07 am |
well, let’s see, things i do by myself: eat out, attend rock concerts at smaller venues, classical music concert-going in full-blown concert halls or amphitheatres, go to the sawdust festival in laguna beach, the movies, go to museums…to name a few things i do & have done. pretty much things where i either want my space or if i can’t think of an appropriate person to share the experience with. and sometimes it simply is more enjoyable by myself.