Shut. The fuck. Up.

I actually had to pause a movie once and re-explain that that I’d never seen it before, either.

edit: the amount of upvotes this comment has gotten both validates and saddens me

I'm pretty sure I married your friend.

My 8 year old does this. Most of the time it's during movies I've already watched so I could answer her questions. But fuck man, just watch the movie and it will answer your questions. We spend more time talking about what's happening than watching/listening 🤦

Its called rhetorical question. Mate is just thinking loud.

I'm that friend and I'm really sorry. I cant control it. :(

Every time I see this skull mask character I laugh, he just looks so stupid!

"Why is-"

"I don't know, it's almost like the movie is intentionally setting up questions to be answered later when the plot calls for it!"

If I do this I'm not expecting you to know the answer, I just want to discuss our thoughts. What's wrong with that?

So... do you all just sit there and watch movies in complete silence?

Could be that they think they missed something

My family does this. Even if I have watched it, if it's a movie worth watching, it's gonna answer all necessary questions. Just give it some damn time!

Devils advocate here, because this sounds like my wife and I. She gets really annoyed at me, but she doesn't understand that I don't expect her to answer my questions. I just need to let them out of my head so I can concentrate on the rest of the movie. What she could do is either just ignore me, or agree that it's a valid question and let it go. On some occasions, I may ask a question because I feel I may have missed something that she might have caught, but usually the questions are more rhetorical in nature...

I never got the point of watching a movie with someone if you're both just totally silent and not interacting the whole time. Then at the end it's like "what did you think of the movie" "it was ok" "yeah"

2 hours wasted

Maybe they got something that you missed. I often miss details like that.

My sister is ADHD so she legit has real questions that I can totally help with despite having seen the same stuff so far. But of course she has no idea which stuff is intentionally vague and which stuff she hasn't been able to connect that was intended to be solved so far. So if it's an intentionally vague moment my answer is "we don't know yet".

I definitely get that it can be annoying if you have no idea why they are asking. But they wouldn't have learned that behaviour if it didn't occasionally matter. Since this behaviour is common, and ADHD is common, I wouldn't be surprised if it's always the case. But it's probably only some people with ADHD, depending on how theirs presented. And of course some people may have this trait of ADHD without enough of the rest of the traits to be able to get diagnosed.

But yeah, it's one of the traits of ADHD that makes them feel like they must not be smart, despite any evidence to the contrary. Cuz they just don't "get" what are obvious clues to other people. But it's simple topic linking, basically their brains see everything in it's own bubble, and they can be very good at figuring out everything in that one bubble, but if a puzzle in that bubble needs a part from a different bubble, that puzzle is never gonna be solved for them without outside help to find the bubble that has the needed part.

My wife does this all the time. I make her pause and then we chat a bit. Works well

In this meme, is the cool looking guy you or him?

I've never seen anyone doing that, who the hell are you people friends with?