my boss, on movies

Yesterday, the boss at work came out to hang out of the office to hang out with the minions. One of my coworkers mentioned an article about Iron Man 3, and the boss said he had seen it. In an effort to seem like a friendly and well-adjusted employee, I said, “Oh, did you like it?” He said (direct quote), “It was good.” The tone was dubious, though, and not a single additional word was uttered. The three of us (original article-mentioning coworker, the boss, and me) stood around awkwardly in silence for a minute, then fled the scene.

Today, somehow, movies came up again. I mentioned Star Trek, he said, “I’d like to see the new one with Tom Cruise.” After indicating that I had no idea what he was talking about (though thankfully managing not to utter any unkind comments about Tom Cruise), he explained the movie as this: “He’s cleaning up the planet, and finds humans still living underneath.” Word for word.

What could I say? I mean, that sounds — what even is that? I said nothing, which upon reflection still seems like the best of a bad set of options. Why is communication so hard?

(Note: after checking, I assume he was talking about Oblivion, which looks like maybe someone along the way should have suggested the plot have something besides clones to carry it.)

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