to not want to spend one of our rare and precious 'date nights' going to see a film about Margaret Pissing Thatcher?

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DH and I don't get out much. When we do we go for a meal, actually talk, have some drinks, come home and ahem snuggle. It's a lovely break from our usual evening of sitting in front of the telly.

We are going out on Saturday. Last night he mentioned looking up to see when this is on (don't click if of nervous disposition.)

I am not absolutely sure he was serious, although I know he would like to see it.

I made a face and reiterated my usual objection to the cinema, which is that we spend most of our evenings watching a screen and so I'd prefer not to do exactly the same on the one night out we get every 6 weeks or so. I promised to buy him the DVD as soon as it comes out.

Now as luck would have it it doesn't open till 6th Jan - he doesn't know this yet - which means I get my meal out this Sat.

However AIBU to say if he does want to see this at the cinema on our next opportunity, the following conditions apply:

1. He pays for the babysitter
2. We eat out as well (and not just popcorn)
3. He doesn't expect a shag afterwards because that would just be, well, wrong.

MN jury, I need you.

Apparently it's good!

But then I liked the film about Brian Clough, manager of Nottingham Forrest FC.

YANBU. Also add the following conditions:

1. You get to take a hip flask
2. You reserve the right to boo and hiss every time the bad lady comes on screen

It's supposed to be excellent. I'll be going.

Point 3 might put him off entirely.

I don't know if YABU or not but I must just register my intense loathing of the term 'date night'. Yuk, puke and double yuk.

As you were.

I'm imagining this film like a kind of Comic Strip Presents.

The Iron Lady - steely on the outside but underneath all woman. Strong. Yet Vulnerable. Misunderstood. With perfectly coiffed helmet hair. Always.

Well we don't call it that MenopausalHaze am just trying to summarise for purposes of the title.

I know it's meant to be a good film. I would like to see it.

But it's not romantic though is it?

What would you think if you were taken to see it on a first date?

i'd be happy to take turns in doing things that we both want to do

maybe he doesnt want to do what you chose every time

Downfall was also a really good film, you don't always have to cheer for the lead to enjoy it!

I think OH and I would watch it together, if only to heckle the old witch every time she appeared on screen!

Oh neither of us are/were Thatcher fans.

DH was a raving leftie very politically aware in the 80s, I expect there's some John O'Farrell-like nostalgia in this for him.

YANBU unreasonable in that its fine not want to see the film (although I do ) and to be ticked off that a treat that you only (both) get every 6 weeks or so is not your idea of a good time. We have a similar set-up. When my DH was desperate to go on an outing, I went along, but with the proviso that he did this for me inbetween our going out nights:
Cooked me a yummy meal
Ran me a lovely scented bath
Gave me a massage
It was worth the boat trip that I enduredwent on the Manchester Ship Canal !

^I'm imagining this film like a kind of Comic Strip Presents.

The Iron Lady - steely on the outside but underneath all woman. Strong. Yet Vulnerable. Misunderstood. With perfectly coiffed helmet hair. Always.^

Yes! I'd definately watch that with OH, we watched The Huint For Tony Blair a while ago. It was quite good. We also watched Dowfall together, which is excellent, but I think if we were having snuggle time we would probably choose something else

relax
it is not out til January I hear

...and I will be going when it is out

She was interesting, though. In a strange kind of way. Could never trust anyone with absolutely no sense of humour.
Am running away to start new thread

what was Downfall about?

It just seems a waste of a night out. I really really REALLY wanted to see the Star Trek film but didn't see it at the cinema for the same reason. I waited breathlessly to get the DVD for the following Christmas and watched it avidly on Christmas night. And it was shit.

Well, the reviews have been good thus far - and has been pointed out, you don't need to like the main character to enjoy the film. I loved both Downfall and Frist/Nixon....but all the main characters were dodgy (to different extents, obviously.)

TBH, I would be more about being taken to see a 'romantic' film as they are generally formulatic badly acted pap. So YABU.

If it is about not going to the pics at all so you can talk over dinner (rather than not seeing a particular film) the YABalotlessU.

But each to their own.

Frist = Frost

Downfall - stunning German film about the final days of Adolf Hitler as the Nazi regime fell. Come on - you must have seen the clip of Hitler ranting - and all the internet spoofs?!

And the re-worked Star Trek was awesome Much better than previous film attempts.

Downfall

It just seems a waste of a night out. I really really REALLY wanted to see the Star Trek film but didn't see it at the cinema for the same reason. I waited breathlessly to get the DVD for the following Christmas and watched it avidly on Christmas night. And it was shit.

Can't you do a meal and the cinema? I love going to the pictures - especially if we actually get to see something that isn't aimed at 8yr olds

You could do an early meal, then the film some of them are licensed now

Mery Streep is a good actress. Margaret Thatcher was a very dogmatic Tory Prime Minister. I gather the film starts with Maggie as a very old woman Which she is.

I quite fancy seeing it too, but why not make a deal that if you do go in Jan that on another night out is all your choice?

(says the woman who had a lovely nap in Star wars 4 or was it 5 may have been both)