samk77•1d ago

Watched The Room for the first time with a buddy in 2015 and waited 45 minutes for the famous scene.

I thought I was doing bad movie nights all wrong. I used to skip around looking for the funny parts. My friend Mike made me sit through the whole thing without any fast forwarding. He said you have to earn the bad moments by seeing everything else around them. That 45 minute wait for the "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!" scene made it hit so much harder. Now I watch every bad movie from start to finish like that. Has anyone else had a viewing ritual that totally changed how you enjoy these movies?

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sethfoster1d agoMost Upvoted

Ngl, that "you have to earn the bad moments" thing your friend Mike said really sticks with me. It’s kind of the same as how people skip the boring parts of life waiting for the good stuff, but then the good stuff doesn’t mean as much. I started doing that with bad movies too, and it actually made me appreciate the dumb scenes more because you feel the buildup. It’s like how in a bad relationship, the little annoyances build up until one dumb thing makes you finally lose it.

king.eric1d ago

Man that's deep, now I gotta sit through the whole hangover before remembering why I drank it.

nathan1001d ago

Actually it's 11 beers not 12, I counted the bottles in the fridge earlier today. But yeah, I get what you're saying about the hangover thing. Mike's point about earning the bad moments works better with something like a long drive to a great vacation spot - the boring highway miles make the beach feel earned. With drinking though, the hangover isn't really a buildup to anything decent, it's more like the price you pay for getting stupid the night before. Kind of like how sitting through a bad movie doesn't make the good parts better, it just wastes your time waiting for something that might not show up.