OK first I know cinema is kind of a crappy date...but it was how I hooked up with my last GF so I thought it would be ok...since then I have read PUA's say it's not a great idea.
OK so: I went on a date with a girl to the cinema, we definitely had chemistry before then (we were in the same class), but didn't really know each other that well. We had been texting for quite a while, quite intimately (but not sexual), in the last 1 or 2 weeks before the date.
We were getting on ok on the day of the date, I was listening to her talk about her family etc. Then in the lobby I got a bit distracted and not really listening to her because of some noisy people nearby. So maybe this explains her attitude next, but who knows (I had done that kind of thing before and she had forgiven it).
So anyway as soon as we get in the cinema, I say to her something like "are you comfortable", and try to move the conversation onto relationships, why is she single, etc. Straight away she crosses her arms and is turning away from me. I tried through the whole film to do kino with her, to get her to open up, to relax, talking softly in her ear the whole time...but nothing.
OK so I realize now that she had a game plan: "This guy who I barely know thinks he can take me to the cinema once and make out with me? No chance, he will have to do better than that".
But at the time I didn't realize, I just assumed it was natural like with m last GF, that if we went to the cinema, she was desperate for me to kiss her straight away.
So anyway after the whole film of her literally "cold shouldering" me, we walk outside for a bit. I now realize that her body language and her replies to me outside, were not SO bad...she was prepared to stay a bit longer (saing I MIGHT have to meet a friend after - eg keeping it open), and she was walkign close to me again. But I despaired from the fact that a whole film, and NOTHING had happened...I didn't think that was possible lol. So I made rookie error from my desperation (basically told her I liked her up straight, which didn't go with the situation).. Obviously it didn't go well.
So anyway next time, when a girl plays this game, of cold-shouldering me on a date, what should I do? How to escalate / kino, when she has her arms crossed and sits with her shoulder to me? Just wait some time and talk to her like 10 minutes later? Take it very slowly? I hate to leave a silence on a date. I did not want to just have some dull convo about the weather...but at the same time, every attempt I made to be intimate, just seemed to make her more defensive. :-S