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I love you, but your taste in movies …
All this hype about women going to the Sex and the City movie in droves (and men staying away in droves) got me thinking about the movies that divide us. Most of us have movies we love, but our loved ones hate them - or we have movies we hate that are loved by our loved ones.
So let me ask you - what movies make your significant other flee from the room with a grimace? Or what movies make you decide you’ll go out while they’re busy watching their movie?
Responses don’t have to be “I like chick flicks and hate action movies” or vice versa, though those examples are certainly welcome. These can be movies your kids watch to the point of exasperation, or movies you try to understand but simply don’t get.
Truthfully, I can’t give a great answer my own question because I have neither kids, nor much in the way of significant others. But here are a random handful of movies that I love that usually prompt responses of “You LIKED that? Really??”
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Punch-Drunk Love
The Star Wars prequels
Pretty much anything directed by Stanley Kubrick
Your turn!
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By SwissMiss
May 30, 2008 10:32 PM | Link to this
I didn’t want to ramble any longer with my post, but I’m behind you, Sir Critic, on Stanley Kubrick. There’s some sort of real genius there. Seeing “A Clockwork Orange” the first time was life-changing. The book is on my reading list.By SIr Critic
May 30, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this
“Napoleon Dynamite” was another film I couldn’t light on, actually. I suppose I get what people see in it, but that film seems to laugh AT the geek, rather than with them, as, say “Superbad” does. As for “Bad Boys 2,” it’s not AS bad as you think - it’s worse. Finally, in the midst of all this negativity on Kubrick, I guess I’ll have to take refuge in the fact that Scorsese and Spielberg agree with me and love his work. So there. ;)By SwissMiss
May 30, 2008 1:10 AM | Link to this
I don’t think my beloved fiance quite sees what I enjoy about a favorite movie from my childhood, “The Adventures of Milo and Otis.” Made me laugh as a child, now it makes me cry every time. And, too bad for him, I just got it on DVD last Christmas. Other than that, we largely agree on movies. He is just incredulous that I haven’t seen some “classics” of our generation, like Caddyshack (I tried, but I can’t deal with Dangerfield), Tommy Boy, and the Goonies. I just recently saw Forrest Gump all the way through, too. Guess who grew up under a movie rock?By SRCputt
May 29, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
Q: “…how I can feel that way about Kubrick�s work while worshiping that of Alfred Hitchcock?” A: Because Hitchcock is a better director.By SRCputt
May 29, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this
Indeed, Bad Boys II is as bad as you think.By Allie D.
May 29, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this
I have to admit that I am mostly on the fence with Kubrick. I find a lot of his stuff to be a little too artistically aloof for my taste, and I have to admire it from a distance. Now, how I can feel that way about Kubrick’s work while worshiping that of Alfred Hitchcock, I don’t know. Love is never a very logical thing. :)By Allie D.
May 29, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this
I love this question. lol I guess for me, my love of Napoleon Dynamite is met with slight disdain by some. Oh and well… there is Blade (ahem, Eric). But the vice versa scenario is more applicable for me because I’m much more of a movie snob than most of my friends/family. For instance, Ken loved Ultraviolet and Stargate, both movies that I found I mostly despise. My parents loved Armageddon, and one of my best friends thinks Bad Boys II wasn’t “nearly as bad as [you] think.” barf Alas, love must transcend film. lolBy SRCputt
May 29, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this
I guess the Kubrick reference was for my benefit, as that is our biggest disagreement when it comes to movies. (I agree with you on the other movies you mentioned.)By SRCputt
May 29, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this
Well, anything is possible with the arts and love. After all, I’m married to a country music fan. Although she doesn’t understand what I saw in Superbad, Knocked Up, and 40 Year Old Virgin.