Married/Dating DUers: The Movie Game

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

My wife and I have a rule where we alternate who picks the movie we go to.

I am now realizing there is a fair amount of gamesmanship involved in this.

What is important, is if there is a movie we BOTH want to see, to get her to use HER pick on it, so that it's like 2 picks in a row for ME. If she is running through the list of acceptable movies for HER pick, I try not to let on what movie I actually want to see, so that she might use her pick to choose MY movie.

She never does though. It was her pick this weekend and she went through a whole LIST of movies and never mentioned the one movie I MOST wanted to see, which only happened to be the number one movie nationally 2 weeks running! (We saw it the next day on MY pick).

What's worse is, if we used her pick to see a movie we both wanted to see, she claims that I manipulated her into using MY pick, and therefore I've used two picks in a row, and she gets two picks now!

There's NO REASONING with the woman!! :banghead:

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. Why not rent two movies?

We don't rent often, but when we do, we generally each pick one.

[WeRQ4U]

2. Like me, you suck at the game and your wife owns you.

This is why I haven't watched anything with a masculine theme for over 5 years. Last time, we watched the fucking "Wedding Planner". I loathe Lopez.

[LeftyMom]

3. Here's an idea:

go together to movies you both want to see. If only one of you wants to see something, go with a friend.

That's basicly what we do, although we usually wait to rent unless it looks like the sort of movie that really ought to be seen on the big screen. For example, I had no interest in seeing Spiderman 2, so LeftyDad and a friend went. When I wanted to see a more family oriented movie LD had no interest in, my sister and I took my Grandmother to see it.

Alternately you could alternate a movie you both want to see, then one for each of you. That way you don't have the "this is my pick but you want to see it too so I get to pick again next time" thing going on.

Either way you need another system, you're making this waaaaaay to complicated. :shrug: