Oh, you know what? Offering to loan it so he can watch on his own time, without having to socialize? He might actually watch it, then - especially given it's a proper production and not a studio film.

"Very well! Leave it there, on my writing desk, and I'll get to it eventually," he 'sighed', as if so put-upon! He hooked the iron into the scaly neck of the gator - the thing lunged out of the water, both pitch black and glowing with green magic stitching as it snapped its jaws dramatically at the other duelist.