1. Planes, Trains And Automobiles
This is a movie where your friend surpassed even his own vainglorious powers of deduction through the wonders of reverse engineering. As soon as John Candys Del Griffith inhaled to introduce himself, your friend interjected, Oh, I know this one. Hes hiding something. The same thing happened in Due Date, and that one episode of Scrubs with Molly Shannon where she references John Hughes, who, your friend helpfully took a reflective moment to explain, Also directed this movie. Comedies always use laughter to pull you into drama, your friend elucidated as the filmmakers once again failed to get anything by him. I bet his wife died and hes just covering it up with compassion and cheerfulness thats going to awaken the humanity in Steve Martins character. Waitwait a secondthose arent pilloI knew it! He slapped you heartily on the shoulder. Isnt this great?
Conclusion
If a movie has a convention (which is all movies), this kind of friend certainly doesnt know how to keep his pie hole shut. From prophecies to romantic misunderstandings to deer mothers dying to temporal loops, he always somehow finds his observations not only helpful for you, but also for his social appeal. Im not even going to address movies that he has already seen beforemaybe one day I will in the article 10 Movies Ruined By Your A**hole Quoting Friend. You know, when your friend shows you a movie he loves that you havent seen before and makes comments before things happen, like, Oh THIS part is great, or Oh man watch THIS, or snorts under his breath before a joke happens, or tries to humorously trick you, by saying things like, Oh, this is the scene where the main character dies or turns bad LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Heck, sometimes he just quotes the characters lines AS theyre saying them, just because he loves the lines so much. Like a sing-a-long. Then theres the opposite end of the spectrumthe movies he cant stand. His vocal reservations about movie predictability are much more intensely conveyed when he already knows exactly how predictable a movie will turn out. But thinking he knows enough about everything to predict anythingand point it out to you and everyone elseis, nevertheless, even worse. And it doesnt help that as a viewer, he sure knows how to put the accent on the wrong syllable. Now if youll excuse me, my friend just asked if I want to play Scene It 80s edition. Wish me luck. He assures me Ill do fine.