Dear Espurr and Mindwrench, Thanks for your input. I do tell people what both of you suggested, namely in my words, that I hope they realize that I am not judging them if they want to continue to watch the movie without me, but that if I do not like a movie, I will go sit in the lobby and read or embroider. Or like I said before of what I'll do if it's a video. It helps that both of you have confirmed what I have experienced, that society considers it a 2 hour obligation on my part if I go to a movie with someone! Espurr, you are fortunate that you consider going to a movie to be largely to share time with friends. I've never been like that. I share time with friends in other ways, EXCEPT sometimes one or more than one person and I will go to a movie we all want to see together. But just "going to the movies" without knowing a lot about the movie we are going to see, is not something I can do. I do continue to ask if anyone at the forum is as intensely involved with a movie or video as I am. The moving picture and sound swallows me up, and as I said, I like that if I like the movie, but if I don't like the movie, it drives me over the edge almost.