User blog comment:Pramirez351/Movie Night Rules/@comment-4849011-20131003130746

I generally agree wholeheartedly. What kind of a jerk changes a movie that other people are in the middle of watching?! When it comes to a traditional movie night with friends, I don’t believe in stopping (as opposed to just pausing) the movie unless it’s an emergency situation (such as someone needing to go to the hospital). Let me share a story about a jerk I had classes with in high school. Our English teacher would sometimes show movie adaptations of novels we read for class. Since our periods at that time were less than an hour long, it took more than one period to watch a full-length movie. On one occasion, time was running out, so she stopped the movie shortly near the end. Later on, a group of us (it was a mixed class, so sometimes more than one lesson was being taught) were sent down to the school library to watch the rest of a movie while she worked with some other students in the classroom. There were only a couple minutes left to go when this jerk got up, turned off the VCR, and said, “Now you know we’re not supposed to watch the end!” Mmm-hmm. He turned off the movie, despite there being ample time remaining to watch it, because he was upset with the teacher for turning off a previous movie. She had a legitimate reason for turning off the movie, but he did it just to spite the teacher – who, let me remind you, WAS NOWHERE NEAR THE ROOM WE WERE IN! He had issues and took them out on us! No one called him on it, but that was because we were all trying to figure out what in blazes had just happened. Not one person gave him any praise or supporting gestures. Oh, it gets worse. We had the same teacher three years in a row, so I’m pretty sure the incident he was getting “revenge” for (by depriving US of a movie ending) had happened THE PREVIOUS YEAR! ~shrugs as the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” theme plays in the background~

As far as pausing the movie goes, if you don’t pause it when someone goes up to use the bathroom or accept food delivery, be considerate enough to let people know what happened while they were gone. Raidra (talk) 13:07, October 3, 2013 (UTC)