did you hear that?

don't expect to get through an entire movie quietly. he is sure to ask questions, state what just happened, or check to make sure you are aware of what happened.

Again, movies. Always a treat. My father wasn't always a sit-down movie-watcher. I really depended on the movie. Sometimes he wouldn't actually peak interest until 30 minutes into the movie, which was really great because the remainder of the movie he would be asking who this was or that or why this person was doing that (needless to say, most of this is explained in the first 30 minutes of the movie). Or, if the movie was meant to be mysterious from the beginning, the first 30 minutes are spent asking who is this, why that, which the response would always be: you'll find out. Sometimes he didn't, because he would get up in the middle to do something else and come back at the end with another slew of questions.
Another thing he did was while he was slapping your knee because he found a line so funny, he is also asking if you heard that. Did you catch that? Did you see that? Meanwhile, you're missing anything that happened after that brilliant line, as is he, and then will be asked why this because he missed the next five seconds.

however, don't make noise during a movie. you will be shushed or told to listen.

My father apparently was the only one allowed to talk during a movie. If he was into it, and you asked, "Pass the popcorn," you were immediately give a short shh or my father would grunt out "listen". That's not to say that my father was mean about it. You just had to pick your spots. Conversation was saved for points of the movie that my father lost interest and got up and left; requests were reserved for my father's fits of laughter, knee-slapping, and elbow grabbing. Naturally, this narrows down the movie categories to comedies. Watching a serious movie that requires you to follow the story, such as Taken or Inception, requires silence and patience because he will ask you if you are following what is going on, or ask, "What just happened?"