Different strokes, I guess...

[Evil Matt]

It dawned on my yesterday that my wife and I have totally different tastes in cinema.  Case in point:  She decided to sit around and watch "They Live" with me.  During the scene when Roddy Piper strolls into the bank with the shotgun and shouts "I have come to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum!", she replied "This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen" and left the room.  I think my reply was something like "Isn't that the point"?  At least the kids sat down with me and mentioned that it was the coolest thing they'd seen since "Army of Darkness".  Oh well.  Sometimes it's hard to be a film geek AND please the ladies...

[ErikJ]

Join the crowd my friend. My wife and I have different tastes as well. I see you mentioned Army of Darkness, well this film is one of my wifes favorites. Matter of fact she loves the whole Evil Dead series, I myself I can't stand them. Honestly I'm not a real fan of horror films. But I do know good ones when I see them (Halloween, Hellraiser, Dead Alive are examples) But her taste in film goes way beyond that as well. She likes films that use as much gore as they can and be devoid of any story at all. Wizard of Gore comes to mind. She loves this film, I can't see the joy in it. Maybe I'm starting to show my age, who knows.



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[Deej]

My girlfriend will watch old vintage movies with me, she seems to be okay with the fact that most of the stuff I bring home was made before 1950.

But, she still doesn't quite get the idea of purposely sitting down and watching a film chock full o' crap acting and bad dialogue. She did laugh at Dead Alive(the reason I love her), but she won't stick around for any slashers,monster flicks,cheesy potboilers, or 50's SciFi. I guess some people just don't have the stomach for it, but in her favor, she doesn't bug me about it(much) and she doesn't watch Lifetime!

[Evil Matt]

I will give my wife credit for admitting that "I'm a Derek...Dereks don't run" (from "Bad Taste") is one of the funniest things anyone's ever said in a movie.  And to be fair, she really is a good sport about watching movies with me.  Most people I know won't even consider checking out "Deathrace 2000" once they hear what it's about.  My wife, on the other hand, bought me a DVD copy for Christmas.

[nshumate]

So... You've been married how low? You have children with this woman?  And JUST NOW you're starting to figure this out?

Well, at least no one can accuse you of jumping to conclusions.

(Me:  Married ten years, and we knew our movie tastes were irreconcileable before we tied the knot.)

[AndyC]

Women can be tricky. Before we were married, my wife was willing to drive to Chicago with me for B-Fest. Last Saturday night, the only way I could convince her to watch Repo Man was to point out that the last two movies we saw were The Life of David Gale and some period piece with Robert Downey Jr. treating the plague. Women change when you marry them.

[Fearless Freep]

Women change when you marry them.

A man marries a woman thinking she won't change, and she does
A woman marries a man thinking he will change, and he doesn't

[Evil Matt]

Been married to her for 7 years, but this isn't a new revelation for me.  I'm just using the chance to play my "Idiot Husband Amnesty Card" and wonder about the situation out loud.


Speaking of the "Idiot Husband Amnesty Card", I'm pretty sure I've maxed that sucker out by now, but they haven't sent me a bill yet.

[Fearless Freep]

The bills have been sent but, being an idiot, you didn't notice




(yeah, me too...)



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[The Burgomaster]

My wife likes comedies, dramas, and musicals.

I also like comedies, dramas, and musicals, but I also like action films, horror, sci-fi, and trashy grade "B" (and grade "Z") movies.

One of my biggest problems is buying DVDs. I may go to the store or shop online and see 2 or 3 horror movies that I want to buy. But I also have to buy some movies that my wife will enjoy so that I don't appear to be selfish. (I AM selfish, but I don't want people to know it).

As a result, I spend more money than I intend to spend.

Does anyone have a solution to my dilemma?

[Evil Matt]

Easy enough.  I'll just pay it off with that ten million dollars I may have already won.

[G-man]

 I know what you mean Matt.... My ex used to try and watch scary movies with me, or so she said..... I tried to get her to watch "School's Out" and she made me shut it off after the first 5 minutes of the movie.....Admittably, School's Out is quite possibly the scariest movie I've seen. Now, how do I get her to jump into my arms when she won't watch a scary movie long enough to get scared?!? The answer: I don't!!! She has to be my ex for a reason, right?!?
And again, School's Out had ME walking around for 3 days jumping at shadows...
I could imagine what that movie would have done to her.....
I also agree that movies, such as Evil Dead Trilogy and They Live, should be watched without a shread of seriousness..... They were meant to be funny....and acheived it....




"But enough about me, let's talk about you....What do you think of me?!?" -Bette Midler (Beaches)

[Neon Noodle]

My wife is a horror movie fan as well. She and I have shredded movies like "Scream" for the wanna-be hipness and treasure the 80's classics that ruled before the MPAA crushed what once was beautiful... *sniff*

However, since I am a Hong Kong action NUT, sometimes before I put in a film she'll say "Can we please watch a movie in English?" or "Can we please watch a movie that I enjoy?"

Nothing wrong with this at all.

I have sat through Steel Magnolias, While You Were Sleeping, Dirty Dancing, Beaches and several other films so many times, I could probably recite them by now.

Comedies seem to be the happy medium, even though I like Austin Powers and she can't stand it - but hey, if everyone agreed on everything in marriage, there'd be no variety! or Cosmo, for that matter.