Things your GF/BF are currently forcing you to watch...

'Clean House' and 'What Not to Wear'. My wife is addicted to these two shows and is constantly calling for me to COME IN HERE AND SEE THIS!!!!! Apart from those two shows, our tastes are pretty compatible.

Tonight I have to watch Definitely Maybe because I made the foolish mistake of saying I had never seen it. She reacted as though I had just said I've never seen Casablanca.

It's not all bad, though, she is also demanding we watch the entire series run of Battlestar Galactica and The Shield. She won't get any complaints from me, there.

The girl I am currently seeing is forcing me to go see Halloween 2 with her. I might just break it off before then, but then I remember that she loves The Wire.

I'll never forget my wife begging/forcing me to take her to see 'Bean'. She owed me bigtime for that travesty, and I've cashed in that debt many times over the years.

Definitely Maybe is watchable. I'm a Ryan Reynolds fan, so it helped, but I've seen worse. Much much worse.

The wife makes me endure True Blood. But it go better since a couple of episodes.

I'm hoping it's an absolute travesty so that I can give her hell about it. She said she needed to see it because she "loves horror movies" (of course she did not see Drag Me To Hell). But hey, a free trip to the Alamo Drafthouse with complimentary beer and food.

I think the worst thing ever was my high school girlfriend making me endure 8 Seconds. Repeatedly.

I will say right up front, i've got you all beat when it comes to horrific entertainment i've been forced to endure do to a bf.



PRINCE OF TENNIS


a tennis anime.

SERIOUSLY.

he was taking japanese and would poorly and haltingly translate dialog for me (IT HAD NO SUBTITLES!!!)

after i was iniated into the prince of tennis show...( i imagine this is what children inducted into the hitler youth had to go through)... he started me on prince of tennis.... LIVE ACTION STAGE MUSICALS! (absolutely as retarded as it sounds). i'd watch endless clips of this nonsense with him on youtube. i couldnt figure out what was going or... or even when he would explain it, why on earth i should care

then it got even more in depth. as i would watch tehse endless clips in a language i didnt speak, he would tell me about the background of the musical "this is the second actor to play this role on stage! this person won their role in the musical through a tv show contest!" "this person got in a car accident and is leaving the show, thats why the audience is clapping so hard, its their last night on stage"


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there is a reason why people you date in the summer you dump in the fall.

i;ve never wasted so much time on mindbogglingly dull nonsense in my life

I made a few high school girls endure a pretty hellish 8 seconds a few times, too. Luckily, my stamina improved.

I don't understand the relationship dynamic most people seem to get into, in which you're "forced" to watch things you don't want to watch. That's fucked up. If I see something I think my wife would like, I recommend it, and she decides to watch it with me or she doesn't. And vice versa. What's with the pressure?

The Disney channel, including Hannah Montana, Witches of Waverly Manor, and some other glossy, boring, child-soul-destroyer. She's 21. Luckily this bad taste is the worst thing about her!

well... i *felt* forced. youre right, its messed up, but i was on a tony jaa kick having recently discovered him, and if i wanted to get him to watch clips from the protector and ong bak, i had to be polite and watch prince of tennis (EDIT: what kind of guy doesnt want to watch people get kicked in the skull? that should have been my first clue to stay away). i'm sorry, tony jaa is in no way equally as entertaining as a musical based on an anime... ABOUT TENNIS.

i feel preasure like that in relationships all the time...

"oh, you like videogames too?"-him "yeah! love my 360"-me "wanna play madden 09 with me?"-him "uh...well... ok...."-me

There are these things called books.

My boyfriend doesn't make me watch much that I don't like, he's got mostly great taste in films & TV, and we're into a lot of the same things (big shared interest in horror, though I've been a little off it recently which is bugging him, I think). The one thing that annoys me is he keeps forcing me to watch black and white films, which give me migraines. Yes, I get that some of them are amazing, but nothing is worth that pain. It's not even like I can enjoy the film - it starts to hurt within the first 20 minutes, usually.

Oh, and occasionally he insists on showing me new video game trailers. I play games occasionally, but I don't need to see the trailers. They all look the same to me, I can't get interested.

I fully expect him to turn up in this thread for a good bitch about me, though. I'm hardly innocent of this. Look out for the guy whining about The Lake House, Ghost & Dirty Dancing.

If you made him watch that piece of crap he has a free pass to bitch non-stop.

Yeah, I don't really get the pressure to do everything together or like all of the same things either.

I'm lucky in that Tigeroovy and I have very similar tastes, we both love all the same movies and genres pretty much. But if he DID try to 'force' me to watch something I didn't want to watch I would just use the word NO.

I guess we DID watch The Love Guru together at his suggestion and it was terrible, but that's pretty much the only example I can think of and I wasn't forced, I agreed to it grudgingly.

True Blood. Confessions of a Shopaholic. Twilight.

Holy fuck we have Women on this forum? Aside from Diva? Amazing.

Luckily I've never been forced into watching anything, though I have been the forcer. Amongst other things there's 'The Wire' and 'The West Wing'. If neither are greeted with love they get the evil eye of shame.

After having to sit through "Just Like Heaven" with a gal I was dating, I've since decided I'm better off single.

Fucking movie rips off "Ghost Dad." "Ghost Dad!!!"

My and my missus have a one for you, one for me, one for us kind of thing.

One for us would be something like Sideways, on my recommendation; The Proposal on hers. We both know we're gonna enjoy it, but one of us puts in the enthusiasm to share it with the other (I had previously seen Sideways, she had already seen The Proposal) and we both get a kick out of the end product.

One for her that she took me to see was The Ugly Truth. She got what she wanted out of it, whereas it actually depressed me for the rest of the evening. What a hateful, bilious piece of turd.

So I got her back by taking her to see Orphan two days later. Having seen her react to Drag Me To Hell - she downed a bottle of wine within minutes of it ending - I didn't think it would go down well, but she said she kinda wanted to see it. So we went.

She didn't talk for about 10 minutes after it ended and then started crying. It wasn't really funny, but I don't think I'll be talking her to see The Thing when it comes around to my local cinema next month.

Yeah, I don't get that either. How much fun are you going to have if you know your husband/wife/girlfriend/boyfriend... shit, even your friend, isn't having a good time? It just drags things down. The uninterested party can do something else for two hours or whatever.

Yeah Im much the same Greg, my missus isn't a gamer, I am. So often when I'm playing 360 or watching a film she's not interested in, she's on her laptop watching Weeds or Mad Men or whatever. Conversely, when she's watching Americas Next Top Model or Project Runway, I'll be on my laptop catching up on episodes of South Park Ive missed or watching (or playing) something else.

Maybe its a 'been together long enough that its not a big deal' thing, but that works just dandy for she and I.

Cube, The Fifth Element, Alias, that show where they makeover houses.

How about we replace 'forced' with 'you disagree with their high estimation of'?

My fiance has discovered reruns of The Golden Girls on We. And it wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that they run THREE HOURS of them EVERY NIGHT.

It might be a bit of sadism but I used to love making my ex watch horror movies exactly because I knew she hated them. The reactions were priceless but 9 out of 10 times she'd end up enjoying herself.

I managed to escape from Weeds, but I'm still stuck watching Entourage.

I did the same thing with my ex, but with anal sex.

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My wife is the one that actually bothers to watch the episodes of Rescue Me that get backlogged on the DVR. Good thing too, because the last handful of episodes have been really good, and the show is actually kind of funny again. I would've just let them pass by otherwise.