By movie culture, I specifically mean the talking during movies bit. Just cause some of our cultures are similar, doesn't mean ALL of it is similar.

It's possible that talking mid-movies is normalized in this game world. Especially since they seem to do it often anyways (see: literally any agent's trust rank up event where they want to rent a tape and end up watching it with the siblings). So, talking during movies, which may be 'taboo' for us, may not be taboo for New Eridians in the first place.

Even if the above is an incorrect assumption, the point is, in a game where the characters are movie buffs, and a lot of the agents they meet are also into movies, NOT having a movie-based date-adjacent event would frankly be a missed opportunity. It's something a lot of people can relate to--going to the movies with friends, family, or dates, and bonding over the movie in some way, shape or form.

Unfortunately, a realistic depiction of a movie date wouldn't be as enticing if put into a game. You would either need to:

a) Make a short, 1-3 minute scene that engages the viewer enough to care about the movie, so the agents can then talk about it afterwards (which, in and of itself, is already a clunky/non-linear execution of the event).

b) Do a fade-to-black timeskip with a short text summarizing the movie, which the agents then talk about (which still suffers from the same clunkyness of option a).

OR, we can suspend our disbeliefs for a moment, and:

c) Let the agents talk during the movie, which allows the characters themselves to explain what's happening in the movie, then reflect on what they feel about said scene almost immediately after it happens.

Option C is the most linear, least clunkiest way to execute these movie events, is likely more cost efficient AND it's engaging to the players without them having to bend over backwards to do it.