Which happens frequently with Phil and me. I loved GRAVITY. He found it a snoozer. He thought PRISONER was a stronger film than I did. He falls for movies with twists and suspense, and I fall for movies with heart and lessons. He hates romances; I hate horror.
Does this go on with you and your friends, partners, kids? How often do you and your primary companion disagree on a movie?
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Well, we do agree a lot of the time, maybe most. There are just movies I won't go see (or watch on television) because I know I will dislike them and I tend to make rude comments. Jackie is more amenable to watch things I like than vice versa.
But then, she doesn't watch Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives or Man v. Food, or football.
Jeff M.
My wife and I enjoy watching comedies, especially Laurel and Hardy, musicals, animated, and family movies though my tastes stretch further to superhero, suspense and thriller, war, and western.
We're generally in agreement on movies as a whole, though we may discuss things we thought worked better or worse. We each make allowances for the taste of the other, as well. I'll will occasionally pout up with a romantic comedy or an action movie we know the has no discernible plot, and she endures periodic moody crime stories with less than uplifting endings for me.
She will watch Hallmark and Lifetime movies. I won't.
Jeff M.
Jackie likes REVENGE and SCANDAL (two shows I would never watch) and REVOLUTION and UNFORGETTABLE. Apparently shows with one word names are big with her. On the other hand she hated DEADWOOD, which I liked a lot. Neither of us like the new IRONSIDE.
Jeff M.
Like Jeff, I hate Hallmark and Lifetime movies and my spouse loves them. There are thigs we can watch together, but the list is short.
Lana watches a lot of movies I just won't. When we watch movies together we usually get pretty good agreement on them. I liked Iron Man 1 and 2 better than she did. She liked a time travel movie we saw recently better than I did. It had the guy in it who played John McCain in Die hard.
For some reason, my comments keep disappearing. It looks like I've posted them, but then they're gone. I hope this one stays. Anyway, what I wrote before was that my husband and I have to agree to disagree. He has no interest in shows on the Food Network or HGTV, which I watch frequently. On the other hand, I grab a book and head for another room when he starts watching an AMC Steven Segal or Rambo marathon. But when we go out to a movie, we try to choose one we think we'd both like.
Deb
Diane is a fan of romantic comedies. I like action and suspense movies. But, we can find common ground with movies like BLUE JASMINE.
I recently went out a few times with someone who couldn't understand why I refused to spend two hours of my life on Margaret Thatcher.
She did not graduate to primary partner.
some things are unforgivable!
Alice, as a child and adolescent psychiatrist, would like to avoid anything too depressing (oddly enough), so it's a pretty rare Ingmar Bergman film she'll check out with me (well, he did do comedies, and she did love PERSONA)...she also likes kid-oriented films more than I do. I refused to attend either Smurf movie with her, which she admitted were bad but nostalgic for her. I will enjoy the likes of LILO AND STITCH with her (it was suitably clever, and I enjoyed the Hawaiian setting and the feel more of WB cartoons than the typical Disney product, in the years before they bought up Pixar and Marvel). The likes of DEXTER or ORPHAN BLACK are likely to hit our mutual sweet spot. The most memorably disappointing day at the cinema for us both together was the day we traded seeing MISS CONGENIALTY (hers) and O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU? (mine) back to back, and both apologized sincerely afterward. (Neither abysmal, but both Far from good.)(We both found CARS and WANTED--the comic-book assassin film, which verged on trading, abysmal, but we didn't suffer through them on the same day.)
And since you write horror and noir, I assume you mean you hate graphic splatter? Or you genuinely can't handle horror onscreen? (Jackie Kashian kinda likes horror in fiction and graphic fiction/comics, but can't handle suspense or horror drama, for example.)
Horror is definitely the wrong word. I hate being startled. Or too much gratuitous violence.
A "jump" scare has to be pretty well-planned or -executed for it not to simply annoy me, and any gratuitous violence is likely to put me off (though smugness, as in WANTED or Tobey Maguire's portrayal of Spider-Man, is even more annoying.)
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