Terrible people after the movies

I do get a weird kick out of seeing something stunning at the movies, and walking out of the theatre in a bit of a cinematic daze, and slamming back to reality when I overhear somebody else leaving the cinema talk about how it was terrible in extremely wrong ways.

I once followed a middle-aged woman out of Everything Everywhere All At once, and she was excitedly telling her poor family that Michelle Yeoh was too old to do this kung fu nonsense; and was fascinated by a zombie hipster who pontificated on the stairs of the Regent Theatre in Dunedin, explaining how there were just too many jokes in Shaun of the Dead.

They're always wrong, of course, and that's what makes it so funny.