The Hangover learning

Jul 14, 2009 by mydh
I know I know everyone's been going gaga over this movie and how awesome it is. However, this is not about the movie per se but about my experience while watching it.
So it turns out during Mondays, struck with the blues, women (dare I generalize) tend to make quick (sometimes stupid) decisions (that turn into interesting experiences). (Tell me later, if you read that sentence with/without the parentheses, ok.) After a friend and I decided to go watch The Hangover and reached the theater only 20 minutes after the show started we realized our seats were at two different corners of the hall. We figured we'd make puppy eyes at strangers and manage to get good seats. Turns out the hall was full and the puppy eyes strategy had a flaw (its usually dark in theaters?). And so we ended up sitting in two different corners.
The first half, I spent watching the movie from one corner of the theater that seemed to be occupied mainly by males. The second half, me and the friend decided to swap seats and I ended up sitting on the corner of the theater that was female and couple dominant. So it was easy to distinguish how these two groups react to the same movie. While the guys made discrete signals to each other during a completely A rated scene, women tend to just say 'eww' or 'how stupid.' the couples just giggled. At slapstick comic scenes the former group would just laugh and leave it at that while the later group would say something like 'why don't they just leave the tiger alone!' (oops, did i mention spoiler alert? :D ) or other such 'helpful' comments. (For all you people who are thinking of the G word, no I am not generalizing, I am only putting down what I saw) Also, I saw that I reacted differently to the movie in these different settings too. I realized that I was laughing oh so softly (and almost forbidden-ly) and watched the movie tapered to my side of the wall as far away I could from strange men who seemed to be loving the 'dirty jokes.' While my tolerance levels of the 'dirty jokes'  seemed to have gone up when I was watching the movie with a bunch of girls who found the humor to be 'ewww'. Experiences such as these teach you a lot about mob behavior; gender differences in enjoying entertainment - sensible thinking Vs. mindless watching  and not to mention decision making on Mondays :P
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1 comment:

freak-y said...

neither here nor there eh?

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