Significant Others and B-Movies

[JPickettIII]

I was just curious how our significant others feel about our affliction.

John.

 
 
 

[Poogie]

I am the significant other in this house, and I watch some of the movies. The hubby is the Bad Movie watcher. I'm the, more or less, student of Bad Movies and I'm having fun doing it. 

[Andrew]

Katie watches about half of the films that I do, but lately she has been giving up and leaving before they are over.  I attribute that to the movies.  Been trying to work through the "Blood Island" series and they are really slow going after the first.

[ulthar]

My wife watches most of the bad movies I get; sometimes she falls asleep, though (those durn work hours catch up to her).

We watched some wonderfully bad, bad movies on our first two dates.  Our relationship was built on a firm foundation!   

[JPickettIII]

My wife will watch some of them with me.  Other times she feels they are a waste of time.  I will give her credit though, she watched "Plan 9 From Outer Space" with me.   

[Derf]

My wife doesn't care for "my" movies; I have a portable DVD player that I watch bad movies on so as not to disturb her or our daughter. We have basically three DVD collections: My (bad) Movies, Our Movies, and My Daughter's Movies. Neither my wife nor my daughter (a teenager) have ever understood why I enjoy the messed up movies I watch. *Sigh* 'Tis a lonely life I lead sometimes. . .

[clockworkcanary]

I once thought about bringing this topic up.  Well, so far, I'm the only one who has voted the last option ...I get a hard time about it.   It is interesting to hear about other situations.

My girlfriend just doesn't understand...at all.  We do like some of the same "good" movies but I can't get her to watch any of my b-flicks as she just doesn't see the point.  I often get a hard time if I'm spending too much time watching and writing about bad movies, but mostly it's in jest.   

One time we caught something on TV that was pretty bad and we ribbed it all the way through, having a good time, so there's hope that I may bring her to the dark side yet.

[peter johnson]

My wife not only watches them with me, but frequently is the instigator -- running up to me in the video store with a particularly hideous cover:  "Look!  Martian Were-Spiders vs. The Flying Pirahnahs!!  Let's get this instead!!" -- We're both Ed Wood fans & she'll dutifully pick through the 50-cent VHS remainder bins, looking for that Bert I. Gordon treasure --
She has her limits & preferences, though -- she won't go at all for soft-porn parody films, and an overabundance of gore puts her off -- as it does me, come to think of it -- No, we like our B's stupid and full of "visible nylon strings attached to the jaw of a giant spider" -- some tittage is okay, but not a lot of moaning and grinding.  She liked almost all of "Shaun of The Dead", and really loved "Dog Soldiers", but some of the Italian zombie things she's walked out of.
We have our tiffs, like other couples, but after 20 years of marriage, we share quite a quality bad-film life!
peter lucky/denny fortunate

[Dr. Whom]

I used to subject my significant other to whatever I was watching. But once when we left the theatre after a 'regular' movie (yes I watch those too), she remarked 'strange, nobody got eaten in this one'. So I took the hint and eased off a bit.

[ghouck]

Mine will watch as long ast here is absoloutly no blood, guts, gore, zombies, monsters, killing, evil spirits, or Bruce Campbell. If I had a nickle every time she watched "The Cutting Edge" (A figure skating movie, I feel they squandered a potentially great title) or "You've got Mail",, , I'd be a very rich person. She especially hates it when myself or our son changes the background on his computer to the picture of one alien eating teh brain of another from "Bad Taste" (Got that picture from this very site).

[Poogie]

Your wife has good taste....I love those movies....   

[Viktorcrayon]

Generally, my girlfriends up till this date, have had more or less no interest in good/bad movies, my music, my drawing, or anything that i truly cared about.

It's a mystery to me, how i actually managed to be with them, since not particularly pretty, or ugly enough for it to be an insteresting thing.

It's encouraging to see, that there actually exists nice ladies out there, with interesting tastes. There is hope!

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

My wonderful wife does not mind my habits, but does not wish to be included.   Its just not her cup of tea.  It also makes movie nights a bit dfficult.
-Ed

[RCMerchant]

Tara Sue enjoys alot of them,and is a big Lugosi fan as well! She LOVES  Ed Wood movies,and has probally watched the The MAGIG SWORD almost 15 times at least! (and I just bought it a month ago.!)O f course,she also love.s movies I ain't to hot about,like HAPPY TEXAS,the PRINCESS BRIDE and all those Harry Potter/LORD of the RINGS/ geeky kinda stuff. Now, amovie like MAINIAC(1981) or the TOOLBOX MURDERS,and GATES of HELL....nah...she ain't into gore.Or kung fu. Or war movies. She's my sweetie.

[JPickettIII]

Mine will watch as long ast here is absoloutly no blood, guts, gore, zombies, monsters, killing, evil spirits, or Bruce Campbell. If I had a nickle every time she watched "The Cutting Edge" (A figure skating movie, I feel they squandered a potentially great title) or "You've got Mail",, , I'd be a very rich person. She especially hates it when myself or our son changes the background on his computer to the picture of one alien eating teh brain of another from "Bad Taste" (Got that picture from this very site).

The part about no blood, guts, gore, zombies, monsters, killing, evil spirits I can understand, but no Bruce Campbell, that is down right Un-American.  I think that you should punish her with "Yellow Beard" and or "Plan 9 From Outer Space"!  Just kidding, my wife goes,"oh" when I talk about the Evil Dead Movies and will not watch them either.  I did however get to watch "House of a 1000 Corpses".  That was a miracle.