That sounds terrible 😅 I’m not sure I’d have the patience to see a film I don’t like that much *three* times, in the cinema no less.
I really was the least assertive person on the planet, especially when I was a teenager — it essentially took moving to the other side of the globe, emerging from the other side of an abusive relationship, and a whole lot of other life experience before I became the kind of person able to say 'no, I don't want to do that,' even in relation to something so trivial as someone else's choice of movie. Teenage me would not even have dreamt of voicing an opinion on such things — which resulted in sitting through a lot of films (both in the cinema and as video rentals watched during sleepovers) and activities in which I had little interest.
Even my first date when I was 15 involved watching Charlie's Angels (the one with Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu) for the third time in cinemas because I wasn't assertive enough to tell the guy who invited me that I'd already seen it twice ... the fact that he later broke up with me for (as I found out years later) always seeming anxious and uncertain is absolutely hilarious in retrospect.
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I really was the least assertive person on the planet, especially when I was a teenager — it essentially took moving to the other side of the globe, emerging from the other side of an abusive relationship, and a whole lot of other life experience before I became the kind of person able to say 'no, I don't want to do that,' even in relation to something so trivial as someone else's choice of movie. Teenage me would not even have dreamt of voicing an opinion on such things — which resulted in sitting through a lot of films (both in the cinema and as video rentals watched during sleepovers) and activities in which I had little interest.
Even my first date when I was 15 involved watching Charlie's Angels (the one with Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu) for the third time in cinemas because I wasn't assertive enough to tell the guy who invited me that I'd already seen it twice ... the fact that he later broke up with me for (as I found out years later) always seeming anxious and uncertain is absolutely hilarious in retrospect.