Movies with DH

My DH and I like different types of movies, every now and then we see one that we both like the sound of, like recently we saw Slumdog Millionaire together - what I think are "unisex" films.

If I want to see a chick flick I will go with a friend or my mum. However occasionally my DH wants to see a movie that I don't want to see (an example at the moment is Gran Torino) and he reckons it is unfair that I don't want to go with him because that means he doesn't get to go. It's not that he doesnt have friends to go with but he thinks it is weird if two guys go to the movies together And he doesn't want to go by himself.

I don't want to go to a movie that I'm not keen on because I will be bored out of my brain and will fall asleep (I know this from experience!) and I think it is a waste of money.

So two questions:

1. Do you go to "boys" movies with your DH that you don't want to see?
2. Do you agree that it is weird for two guys to go to the movies together?

no way would my DH go with just one guy but maybe a group would go together if they could organise it. me and DH are generally into good boy movies, i hate chick flicks but i still go to the ones he likes if i think its gonna suck cos its still time spent together and he appreciates the effort. we might go out to tea first or something so that it doesnt completely suck if the movie is awful but normally i end up enjoying something in the movie even if im not keen

We don't go to the movies very often at all but when we do i often choose movies that i know he will like cos other wise he wont go.

I actully found Grand Torino really good. It started off really slow but got great at the end and isnt all action or anything and has a good heartfelt message. May be the preggy hormones but i even cried at the end....

I couldnt imagine DH going to the movies alone or with one other guy but if you dont want to see something maybe just wait til it comes out on DVD...?

Edited by Hannahbil

1. Yes
2. No

I have a slightly different taste in movies, I don't mind more "blokey" films in the slightest, in fact my favorite genre is war movies.

DH can occasionally be convinced to see a 'chick flick' too.

Mostly we just rent out movies, I can't be bothered with going out to the movies! But DH really loves to see a good sci-fi or action there. So he'll often go out with a bloke and I'll put my hand up for babysitting (instead of freaking out and shaking in the theatre lol)... so

1. Do you go to "boys" movies with your DH that you don't want to see?
Nope, I really can't handle the level that he can. But in saying that, I feel sorry for him watching chick flicks with me (I do like "light" action but that's a bit kiddy for him I think) so sometimes I'll go watch chick flicks at a girlfriend's house or when he's out.

2. Do you agree that it is weird for two guys to go to the movies together?
Not at all - especially if it is the bang crash boom type of movie.

lol you get to go to the movies?! lucky! I havent been to the movies since before I was preg. Make him watch a really sappy chick flick that he'll hate - THEN he'll stop whinging at you about not going to boy ones :P

Well we don't get out that much but we seam to like the same kinds or should I say I have come to like DH's movies he usually thinks mine are "TV" movies, I think he means girlie stuff, lol. But with saying that we have seen a few latley his pick & they have been fab.

I have kind of the opposite problem, I have a "man's" taste in movies and can't usually stand to watch chick flicks unless it's also hilarous (but usually I find them ho-hum and predictable)..

This means I can't really make plans with girlfriends to watch movies as we will never agree and I refuse to watch anything I know I won't like.

I think only guys think it's strange for 2 men to go to the movies together..

If we are going out to the movies, we won't bother wasting money on something we don't BOTH want to see (he wouldn't want to see a "chick" movie and I wouldn't want to see a horror, for example) so we tend to just see the ones that we agree on. (Luckily we both like most cartoons and action type movies, it's really only the sappy romantic comedies and horrors or hard-out action movies that we don't agree on).

But if we are hiring out movies from a DVD store, we just get what we want to see, and watch them together (or not). DH just doesn't want to waste money at the movies if he isn't going to enjoy it, fair enough.

DH doesn't have any probs going to see his horror/action movies with another guy/guys though. It's not like they hold hands and share a drink or anything