Adam Sandler, Ryan Gosling, Quentin Tarantino and a few other people definitely won’t help guys get to a second date.
Despite its banality, a date at the cinema is convenient. Firstly, out of the three or four hours allocated for it, you won’t have to talk at all for about two hours, and then you’ll immediately find at least one topic for conversation. Secondly, in a dark hall you can allow yourself a little more than in a park. At the very least, you can run away unnoticed if everything goes wrong.However, it is easy to screw up here, because the main thing in the cinema is still the movie. Below are 10 types of films that can turn a date with a girl into a horror.
1. Movies with overly attractive actors
You’ll already be compared to your exes, your girlfriends’ boyfriends, and your girlfriends’ ex-boyfriends. And if you have any hope in this fight, Michael Fassbender and Bradley Cooper may leave you with no chance.
You can be infinitely confident until Ryan Gosling in shiny shoes tells your girlfriend that only losers dress at GAP and drink cocktails at the bar through a straw, and only Steve Jobs is allowed to wear sneakers.
2. Movies with ideal heroes
To avoid the syndrome of inflated expectations, just in case, exclude films with noble, intelligent and generous heroes, even if you shaved, came to the date with flowers and bought tickets at your own expense. In other words, you can immediately cross out half the films with Colin Firth and remember comedies with Simon Pegg or Ben Stiller. This way, even an unsuccessful date will be useful: at the very least, you will learn how to get out of idiotic situations.
3. Movies with lots of sex scenes
This is the case when you should not go to see “50 Shades of Grey”, even if it is the last movie on earth. Try to avoid films that will make the girl feel uncomfortable, and be prepared for the fact that the most intimate thing on this date is sharing one popcorn for two.
4. Movies with subtitles
Also known as the biggest romance killers. Firstly, documentaries or non-mainstream films from festivals are most often shown with subtitles. There is no guarantee that your date will react to it like Julia Roberts to the opera in Pretty Woman.
Secondly, from the last row (a tribute to the classics) you can hardly see anything, and you will have to squint and shed tears throughout the entire film, like when watching “Hachiko”. Thirdly, in order not to miss anything important, you will constantly be looking at the screen, and when the lights come on, you risk finding an empty seat next to you.
5. Melodramas
In a perfect world, the girl starts crying, and you say, “Oh, yeah,” and hand her a tissue. In reality, she might find out ahead of time that you, too, shed tears over Nicholas Sparks adaptations, and start to hate you a little for your red nose and ruined makeup.
6. Aggressive films
First dates are supposed to be where you start forming shared memories and inside jokes. You probably don’t want them to involve someone getting their brains blown out in a Tarantino movie.
7. Movies with a complex plot
A movie date is also a test of how compatible you are emotionally and intellectually. It won’t be a test if after watching it you both can’t say anything except “what was that?”
It’s not just David Lynch or Lars von Trier that’s dangerous, but also films like Inception or Arrival. The script has to be such that you can easily get distracted, and then continue from anywhere and pick up the meaning.
8. Long films
It’s unlikely that Saving Private Ryan has ever saved a single date in human history. Stick to something around an hour and a half to two hours long, or she might get tired of you before you even tell her how you’re doing at work.
9. Films of favorite directors
If you’re more serious about Woody Allen than you are about the girl when you first date her, don’t rush to introduce them. After all, you’re unlikely to be prepared to find out that she likes Machete Kills more than Magic in the Moonlight.