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Title: Movies your parents like
Post by: lester1/2jr on April 08, 2008, 03:10:54 PM
My father likes James Bond movies. 

my Mom like Lifetime bs and some decent 4 star/ foreign movies that play at the little theatre near here.

how about you and yours?


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Patient7 on April 08, 2008, 03:43:09 PM
My grandfather likes Fargo and The Sixth Sense.


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Mr. DS on April 08, 2008, 05:20:06 PM
My father also liked Bond flicks hence why I got into them.  He's always been big into most action films all the way up through the mid 90s.  He is also a big classic comedy fan.  Stuff like Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World.   

My mother never seem to watch movies.  I know that sounds crazy but I'll be damned if I can remember a film she liked. 


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Neville on April 08, 2008, 05:25:36 PM
None of my parents cares much about movies, but I do know "For a few dollars more" it's one my dad's favourite films. It was the oinly time I saw him pick up a VHS tape personally.

My granny is lots of fun, though. She's 90 and keeps on complaining of all that "vile, bloody stuff" I watch. Yet, whenever I watch movies in our dinning room, she invariably sleeps through the "serious" stuff and stays awake with the horror, even discussing the movie as it plays.


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Rev. Powell on April 08, 2008, 07:00:21 PM
My father likes only comedies, often ones that I find incredibly stupid.  He really can't stand anything, from horror to serious dramas, that explore any kind of negative emotions.

My mother used to love supernatural horror films, especially older B&W ones.  Her taking me to movies like THE HOWLING as an impressionable child helped shape me into the man I am today.


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Derf on April 08, 2008, 07:46:07 PM
My dad likes mostly westerns, especially John Wayne. He's had a series of mini-strokes, so his comprehension isn't the best any more, but he still seems to enjoy them. I can't think of any movie my mother has commented on recently besides Monty Python and the Holy Grail; she just couldn't stop laughing at the scene with the Black Knight.



Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Killer Bees on April 08, 2008, 07:52:55 PM
My stepdad liked anything violent:  John Wayne was his favourite, but any kind of war movie or western.  Anything with death and guns and blood and killing.  I haven't seen or spoken to him for over 20 years so I don't know what he likes now, but I hear he's the same violent bastard he always was, so I guess his tastes haven't changed.

My mother didn't watch much of anything when I was a kid.  I haven't spoken to her in a long time either.  But my sister tells me she loved Dennis The Menace with Walter Matthau and The Devil Wears Prada.  So that nicely dovetails with her personality:  lame and snobby *lol*



Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: SynapticBoomstick on April 08, 2008, 07:56:27 PM
I have the kind of parents who can't be pinned down, they just like movies :teddyr:


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on April 08, 2008, 09:40:21 PM
My parents have a horrible habit of putting on a movie.  Going off to mow the grass or build a shed and then come in every 15 minutes and asking what they missed.  Then they complain how it was a terrible movie and made no sense.   

When they do sit down, they really like some of the Steven King adaptions.  They love Misery, Shawshank Redemption, and the one where the woman tricks her husband into falling down a well when drunk (i don't remember the name). 

My grandfather loved Bridge over the River Kwai.  He would drop everything and watch it when it was on.  I also recall him liking Lawrence of Arabia. 
-Ed


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: RapscallionJones on April 08, 2008, 10:25:35 PM
My dad loves classics.  Real golden age stuff.  We couldn't possibly be further from one another in terms of taste.  While I can certainly appreciate the old flicks, he is usually drawn to Marx Brothers comedies and stuff like The Thin Man.  Thing is, my dad's not THAT old.  I really don't know where it comes from.

My mom doesn't like much.  She's super critical of anything that takes a degree of suspension of disbelief.  If she's asked to go out on a limb a little in order to enjoy the plot of this movie or that, she declares it far fetched and then moves on.  At the same time, she also loves Jackie Chan.  Drunken Master 2 is her favorite.  Mine, too.


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: ghouck on April 09, 2008, 12:38:06 AM
My dad liked Start Wars, the original 3 movies, and other Sci-Fi flicks. He also got a bad rap for choosing "Chariots of Fire" once when it was in the theater and dragging us all to it. The funny part was that one of the kids was grounded, so they didn't "get" to go see it.

My stepdad watches some scifi stuff, but mainly cheesy comedies, same with my mom. The only movie I know my likes that I think is good is Shawshank Redemption. Nobody in my family shares my taste in movies.


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Shadow on April 09, 2008, 01:17:24 AM
My dad considers himself a real movie buff and will watch anything. While he likes his share of scifi, horror and fantasy, much of it is beyond his ability to really get into. He tends to watch older films more, going back to the 40's and 50's, though he still loves quite a bit of new stuff.

My mother was never a movie fan and 99% of the time only watched a movie because the rest of the family was watching. Still, she did have a few that she liked, notably Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. We would throw quotes from that one back and forth to each other. Alas, mom has been gone for nearly five years now and dad moved out of state.


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: frank on April 09, 2008, 01:44:14 AM

The first movie I have seen with my parents was Arsenic and Old Lace. Scared the heck out of me back then. When I was 10 I watched Them with my dad while on vacation in the US. When I visit my parents on weekends, we usually watch the Simpsons, which my mother also enjoys. Otherwise she's more into the "arty" films, the last ones she's seen in the theater were The Kite Runner and the one about the girl and the fox by Luc Jacquet. So I think I have about the same taste in movies like my dad and he is quite interested in the horror and scifi 50 movie packs I recently bought.

The last movie I've seen with my dad at the cinema was Jurassic Park. Although he liked it, he fell asleep alot....


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Jack on April 09, 2008, 06:55:32 AM
When I was a little kid, my mom took me to see Alien in the theater.  She fell asleep during it.   :question:  She's not much of a movie buff, but she does like a good comedy, like A Fish Called Wanda or Four Weddings and a Funeral.  She loves British comedies like Keeping Up Appearances, Are You Being Served and that one with Judi Dench.  She also liked The Devil Wears Prada, and some romance/comedy with Jack Nicholson that came out a few years ago.  She hears about these movies somewhere and actually will go rent them on DVD.  I don't know what her source is, probably Oprah. 

Dad likes action movies, cop dramas, westerns, war movies, pretty much anything except horror.  He thinks all comedies these days are idiotic, starting with Dumb and Dumber and every comedy after that was just a sequel.  I can't say I really disagree with him on that.  He watches the prime time schedule of the networks, NCIS, CSI Miami, New York, Timbuktu, whatever.   Neither of them watch reality shows or game shows.


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: frank on April 09, 2008, 08:17:57 AM
....  She loves British comedies like Keeping Up Appearances, Are You Being Served and that one with Judi Dench.  .... 


In that case I would recommend "Death at a funeral", although very british (deep black comedy)...


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: lester1/2jr on April 09, 2008, 09:04:14 AM
also my sister has strange tastes.  ultra- mainstream.  I think she's seen legally blonde like a thousand times.  She's a bit of a yuppie and I think when she comes home she just wants the most blandly upbeat entertainment possible.


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: peter johnson on April 09, 2008, 12:38:04 PM
My mom was big on South Pacific, The King & I, and some other big-budget movie musicals.  She also liked David Lean films, and anything offbeat that involved exploring or foreign countries ("A Boy 10 Feet Tall").
My dad watched The Time Machine and IT! The Terror From Beyond Space with me on TV, but didn't go out much.  We used to laugh at Rocky and Bullwinkle together, but I'm sure he got more of it than I did. 
Strangely, my obsessive love of silent film didn't come from either of them or their parents/my grandparents.  I sort of got it on my own that these very old films are a form of High Art unto themselves.
peter johnson/denny crane


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on April 09, 2008, 05:35:21 PM
also my sister has strange tastes.  ultra- mainstream.  I think she's seen legally blonde like a thousand times.  She's a bit of a yuppie and I think when she comes home she just wants the most blandly upbeat entertainment possible.

Mine too, she really likes "normal" movies. 
-Ed


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Oldskool138 on April 09, 2008, 05:41:19 PM
My late grandfather was huge (I'm talkin' HUGE) John Wayne fan.  I think he had 90% of his films on VHS (which I got when he passed on).  We did find common ground when I turned on the TV during the holidays to Vertigo.  He couldn't believe that I actually liked Jimmy Stewart/Hitchcock movies.

My mom likes your standard fare but she has a thing for Johnny Depp, Al Pacino and Harrison Ford.  It broke her heart when I told her that all three of those guys smoke.  She hates smokers.   :tongueout:


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: JaseSF on April 09, 2008, 06:51:39 PM
Our interests vary widely but I do have to credit them for first introducing me to Ma and Pa Kettle, The Three Stooges, The Beverly Hillbillies and the Police Academy films, all of which I also like. As one could probably tell, Mom and Dad prefer old-fashioned comedies, both the older ones and the more modern ones like Grumpy Old Men and Dennis the Menace, which of course still featured some classic acting stars. Dad abhors anything with violence, killing or gore although he doesn't mind some hanky panky. Mom loves comedies and romance films. I did manage to get them to watch the Star Trek, Star Wars and Planet of the Apes films with me and they actually enjoyed all of those strangely enough. My love of classic 1950s Sci-Fi and 1950s/60s Sci-Fi TV though was something I came to embrace all on my own. Still I cannot say that I generally dislike romantic comedies and those classic comedies my parents love either although I like them a bit less perhaps than my parents do. They definitely do not share my love for monster movies.


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Killer Bees on April 09, 2008, 08:00:55 PM
When my grandfather was alive, he liked comedies.  But mostly physical comedies like Benny Hill.  He was Eastern European and didn't understand English very well, even after 60 odd years in this country.  So clever lines and subtelty were lost on him.  He actually thought Robin Williams was an unfunny idiot  :lookingup:

But he loved Milo and Otis and one of his faves was The 10 Commandments with Charlton Heston.  That's also because he was quite religious.  My grandmother, God bless her, is a bit of a ditz, even before the senility set in.  She'd watch the same comedy as my granddad and come away with a completely askew comprehension of what she just saw.  Then my grand dad would start on her about how much of a ditz she was  *lol*

My psycho middle sister loves romcoms.  Legally Blonde, Hitch, While You Were Sleeping, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, anything that dripped with saccharine and had the girl and boy ending up together after a series of misunderstandings.  She also likes Meet The Parents.  She also has an inability to understand anything beyond what she likes.  I think she got her ditziness from my grandmother.

When zombies take over the world, she'll be the first to be assimilated because she never watched supernatural movies to find out how to survive.  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Patient7 on April 09, 2008, 09:05:04 PM
My sister likes anything with a rich girl who likes to dance with a poor guy, no matter what society thinks.


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: BeyondTheGrave on April 09, 2008, 09:34:27 PM
My Mother and Grandmother (R.I.P) are/where huge movie fans B-Movie,Classics whatever. My grandmother bought me tons of Godzillia tapes and had movies like "Day of the Day" on VHS and was a huge horror buff. My mom would bring me to any movie really. She bought to Robocop 2 when I was 9-10 years old. She watchs my dvds when I get them from Netflix and if its a old one usually says "Yeah I saw that".  :smile:


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Jack on April 10, 2008, 08:22:11 AM
....  She loves British comedies like Keeping Up Appearances, Are You Being Served and that one with Judi Dench.  .... 


In that case I would recommend "Death at a funeral", although very british (deep black comedy)...

Thanks Frank, I'll have to check that out. 


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: The Burgomaster on April 10, 2008, 10:04:21 AM
My father likes just about anything, but prefers comedies.

My mother is really the one who got me interested in movies (at a very young age).  She used to like a lot of horror and sci-fi stuff.  She still does, but probably not as much as she did when I was a kid. 


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: lester1/2jr on April 10, 2008, 10:14:34 AM
Ed-  I wonder if  iwasn't creatively inclined if I wouldn't have a similar perspective.  To most people, movies and music are just light entertainment.


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on April 10, 2008, 12:59:28 PM
I can see it myself, Mr. 1/2Jr.  Some years ago I decided I wasn't going to waste valueble movie time on anything that I find disturbing or not fun.  That usually involves excessive violence, and rape.  Or the painfully bizarre, like Pi. 
I'm a film escapist, I have to admit.  I'd prefer to watch cardboard box robots and rubber monsters than uber real drug movies or something.

-Ed


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: moman on April 11, 2008, 02:36:43 PM
My grandparent's favourite movie is Trainspotting.


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on April 12, 2008, 05:01:42 PM
My mother was fond of Disney films. She would have to have been, as she took my younger sister and I to enough of them.

My father was fond of anything with John Wayne in it. Whether that had to do with him being a Navy lifer, is anybody's guesss.

But my parents' favorite film has to be "Shane." Three times they tried to see it at the drive-in. Three times the fog rolled in and interrupted the film showing, before it was over. The fourth time, the drive-in manager seeing them in line again, just waved them on through, without having to buy a ticket. That must have been it. Finally, they got to see it all the way through, without a fog interruption.

As for myself, I was old enough to attend the showing with them, but not old enough to remember seeing it.


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Ryantherebel on April 12, 2008, 07:30:08 PM
My dad loves the hell out if Time Bandits.


Title: Re: Movies your parents like
Post by: Hammock Rider on April 18, 2008, 09:10:49 AM
My Dad was your Standard Dad when it came to movies. He liked anything with Action,especially John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. He also liked EVERY Tarzan movie ever made, even the ones with that annoying little Manuel Padilla Jr. Loved Laurel and Hardy too.

My mom was not much of a film fan. She didn't like many "made-up stories" She did enjoy the Biblical epics though and was embarressed of her crush on Jeffery Hunter and Jimmy Stewart. Strangely, she loved "The Blob" with Steve McQueen and it was one of the only movies she would let us kids stay up late to watch if it was on the Late Show.