- Sep 11, 2006
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My husband and I kind of have clashing tastes on movies,
We just have to kind of make the effort to watch each other's favorites
alot of the time. We have agreed on seeing movies in theaters that were "big hits in the box office", like The Dark Knight Rises or The Hobbit.
At home, we have odd preferences.
First of all, unlike popular stereotypes, I don't enjoy chick flicks.
Neither does he of course.
I have watched The Notebook and Sleepless in Seattle... a few meaningful ones,
but I don't like to waste a whole evening on something like
"How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days"
Sometimes I tend to fall back on stupid movies.
Not as brain-melting dumb as Dumb and Dumber,
but something like "Vampires Suck", the hilarious spoof on Twilight.
I have also seen the real Twilight, but mostly to make fun of it.
I kind of want to grow up a little and stop only renting dumb comedies and spoofs.
Then I go from one extreme to another and I'll enjoy something that's really intense, like "End of Watch". (ok maybe that was too intense lol).
Hubby didn't like the ones that were all intense and violence.
He confuses me because he used to love phsychological thrillers
and messed-up stories like Silence of the Lambs... then he changed.
Growing a little more in Christianity made him decided not to watch so much disturbing stuff.
Lately, he only likes documentaries and then the big box office films I mentioned earlier.
Up until recently, he also loved dumb futuristic flicks starring Tom Cruise. Ugh.
Horror movies don't scare us. We think they're dumb.
He recently said he didn't want to rent alot of big time popular movies because he's seen them all several times. We are 80's babies so we grew up with 90's and 00's top release films like Jurassic Park, the Fifth Element, Titanic, Good will Hunting, Harry Potter (all of them), Lord of the Rings, Transformers, The Dark Knight.....
I was thinking of filling the Netflix cue with a bunch of movies that were a little more intelligent, maybe some heartfelt stories or based-on-true-stories or independent films.
When I looked at movie critic lists of the best movies ever, most were independent films. The one-liner description sounded intriguing. When I read a full breakdown, however, it would turn out that it was a story about a misfit teen that was raped or a single mom that had to be a prostitute. No thankyou. It might be too disturbing. You know how sometimes a movie can just make you feel dirty?
yeah.
I found a few other films by the people who produced "Fireproof" and I thought "ok Christian movie about people solving tough stuff biblically. sounds uplifting". He thinks they're cheesy, but I will rent them anyway for me.
I haven't seen "The Social Network", about the guy who made Facebook.
I haven't seen the new "Great Gatsby".
I haven't seen "soul surfer" about the CA girl attacked by a shark and still surfed.
I only saw half the movie "Flight", about the drunken pilot who crashed the plane but somehow was hailed a hero
There's some I saw a few years ago that Id see again, because sometimes putting a few years between viewings adds new perspective.
I haven't seen Gran Torino since 2008, Pay it Forward since 2006
and I NEVER saw Artificial Intelligence, but it released in 2001. (I think)
I do know that the 70's and 80's produced some classic stories that were less over-the-top than modern ones. We've seen Terminator, Back to the Future (all 3), War Games and Ferris Buellers Day Off numerous times already.
Any ideas?
We just have to kind of make the effort to watch each other's favorites
alot of the time. We have agreed on seeing movies in theaters that were "big hits in the box office", like The Dark Knight Rises or The Hobbit.
At home, we have odd preferences.
First of all, unlike popular stereotypes, I don't enjoy chick flicks.
Neither does he of course.
I have watched The Notebook and Sleepless in Seattle... a few meaningful ones,
but I don't like to waste a whole evening on something like
"How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days"
Sometimes I tend to fall back on stupid movies.
Not as brain-melting dumb as Dumb and Dumber,
but something like "Vampires Suck", the hilarious spoof on Twilight.
I have also seen the real Twilight, but mostly to make fun of it.
I kind of want to grow up a little and stop only renting dumb comedies and spoofs.
Then I go from one extreme to another and I'll enjoy something that's really intense, like "End of Watch". (ok maybe that was too intense lol).
Hubby didn't like the ones that were all intense and violence.
He confuses me because he used to love phsychological thrillers
and messed-up stories like Silence of the Lambs... then he changed.
Growing a little more in Christianity made him decided not to watch so much disturbing stuff.
Lately, he only likes documentaries and then the big box office films I mentioned earlier.
Up until recently, he also loved dumb futuristic flicks starring Tom Cruise. Ugh.
Horror movies don't scare us. We think they're dumb.
He recently said he didn't want to rent alot of big time popular movies because he's seen them all several times. We are 80's babies so we grew up with 90's and 00's top release films like Jurassic Park, the Fifth Element, Titanic, Good will Hunting, Harry Potter (all of them), Lord of the Rings, Transformers, The Dark Knight.....
I was thinking of filling the Netflix cue with a bunch of movies that were a little more intelligent, maybe some heartfelt stories or based-on-true-stories or independent films.
When I looked at movie critic lists of the best movies ever, most were independent films. The one-liner description sounded intriguing. When I read a full breakdown, however, it would turn out that it was a story about a misfit teen that was raped or a single mom that had to be a prostitute. No thankyou. It might be too disturbing. You know how sometimes a movie can just make you feel dirty?
yeah.
I found a few other films by the people who produced "Fireproof" and I thought "ok Christian movie about people solving tough stuff biblically. sounds uplifting". He thinks they're cheesy, but I will rent them anyway for me.
I haven't seen "The Social Network", about the guy who made Facebook.
I haven't seen the new "Great Gatsby".
I haven't seen "soul surfer" about the CA girl attacked by a shark and still surfed.
I only saw half the movie "Flight", about the drunken pilot who crashed the plane but somehow was hailed a hero
There's some I saw a few years ago that Id see again, because sometimes putting a few years between viewings adds new perspective.
I haven't seen Gran Torino since 2008, Pay it Forward since 2006
and I NEVER saw Artificial Intelligence, but it released in 2001. (I think)
I do know that the 70's and 80's produced some classic stories that were less over-the-top than modern ones. We've seen Terminator, Back to the Future (all 3), War Games and Ferris Buellers Day Off numerous times already.
Any ideas?
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