For example, he named a Clerks character Caitlin Bree after Caitlin Ryan, his favorite Degrassi character, wrote Shannen Doherty's character Rene wearing a Degrassi jacket throughout his Mallrats film, and had Jason Lee's character in Chasing Amy specifically mention Degrassi Junior High as the television show he would rather be watching, instead of going out.
Until the movie's final third, that is, when O'Connell forces the action out of the studio and on to the streets of New York like some errant rehash of the above-ground portions of The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three, just one of many movies you'll wish you were watching instead of this one.
It's really hard to start caring about something when you're watching instead of participating.
"If you were to see me as a cheerleader," he once said, "that would mean I was only watching, instead of thinking".
If the N.B.A. and the players were actually partners, with players having an ownership stake in the league, we might be watching basketball instead of owners against players, owners against owners and players against players.
He was lucky it was me listening and watching instead of someone who might have used the information against him.
Even if you don't particularly like the movie you are seeing, try to watch instead of sitting on Facebook the whole time.
Then the audience will be watching your elastic/ribbons instead of you.
I appreciated the way she could oscillate back and forth between being a suburban white lady watching HGTV and then jolt you back into realizing that she's watching HGTV instead of being the president of the United States. .
Say something funny, that way at least you know you're laughing with the people watching instead of them laughing at you.
