My Mother's Movies

[Ash]

Maybe your mother is like mine when it comes to movies.
Maybe not.

My mother seems to lately be on a DVD buying binge and loves to purchase films where the main character is a young white female between the ages of 18 & 25.  

I tease her about it all the time but she takes it in stride.

I believe that inside, she is trying to deny the inevitable...that she is growing old and realizes that her days ahead of her are less than those behind her.

She deals with this moral delimma by buying such films.
She seems to be trying to recapture her youth.

Keep in mind that there is absolutely nothing wrong with her liking these types of films....it's just a weird little thing that I happened to notice.  She never buys or seems to like films with women her age.
She's 51 years old.

What do you think?

Does your mother..assuming she's still around, go for these types of films?

[wickednick]

Hmmm my mother is usually oblivous to movies.What I mean by that is she rarley knows about any new movies that are coming out.Usually when she and my dad go to a movie they look in the paper and read the little reviews and go see it.But if there is a movie that has had its trailer on the tv every 20 minutes she still won't know about it.I just find this weird that I usually know everything about a movie coming out but my own mother dosn't have a clue what movies there are.
You people should remeber my little adventure when I went to go see Kill Bill with my family, and how that went.

[The Burgomaster]

My mother is actually the person who got me interested in movies . . . especially horror/sci-fi.  When I was a kid, I remember watching movies with her on Saturdays and Sundays.  WAR OF THE WORLDS, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, and THE BIRDS are among the movies I have vivid memories of watching.

She's still a movie fan, but she seems to have a very wide range of interests.  There isn't any one particular genre that she seems to enjoy more than others.

[Mr_Vindictive]

My parents aren't actually movie fans.  They usually go see/buy films like "It Runs In The Family".  Crap movies.

Over the past few years I've been trying to get them to watch more quality films.  My successes have been Donnie Darko and Boondock Saints.

[Will]

My mom likes dirty movies. It makes me uncomfortable.

[Vermin Boy]

My mom has a weird habit of connecting any movie we see to the Wizard of Oz. It's the strangest thing; I haven't mentioned it to her, since that'd probably either make her stop or start doing it consciously.

My dad has cool taste in movies; he loves b-movies and weird stuff, and he turned me on to David Lynch. My mom doesn't like weird movies as much (she can't stand violence unless it's in a murder mystery), but she's supportive of my obsession; she brings me home stripped copies of Fangoria from her job at Barnes & Noble.

[JohnL]

>stripped copies of Fangoria

What are stripped copies?

[Susan]

You think you'll be any different when your 51..only buying movies with senior citizens as the lead character? lol

My mom doesn't own any dvd's, my dad does. I can easily buy stuff for him, we have the same taste when it comes to sci-fi. obviously my love for movies is not inherited..in fact in real life i don't know anybody who loves movies as much as I do.

[Ellie]

When I was a youngster I remember movies like "Porgy & Bess", "Paint Your Wagon" and "South Pacific". I know my mom liked other things. I remember "Dark Shadows" being on the TV all the time.  As a family we watched "National Geographic" episodes. Both parents were/are James Bond movie fans. Me too. These days my mom watches alot of Animal Planet shows as well as The History Channel. She is 62 years old.

[Susan]

My mother is in her 50's and is june cleaver. And yet...she likes Eminem. Because my father thinks rap sounds like shoes in a dryer she wants me to take her to movies like "8 mile" and knows more about new music artists than I do.

The body ages, the mind never grows up

[Vermin Boy]

When a magazine passes its "sell-by" date, bookstores are required to send back the covers of any unsold copies, and theoretically throw the magazines away. However, it's common practice for bookstore employees to simply take home copies, stripped of their covers. This can come in handy when making a collage; I needed to make a collage for a school project on our artistic identities a while back, and my mom came through with a great assortment of filmmaking magazines, comic books, tattoo mags, Highlights, and paranormal stuff.

[Newt]

Films where the main character is a young white female between the ages of 18 & 25?
 
Well...why is it NOT odd that my DAD likes those kind of movies??  He's 71.  And my Mom watches them with him.  I think we are all in our prime, in the privacy of our own heads.

[JohnL]

>When a magazine passes its "sell-by" date, bookstores are required to send
>back the covers of any unsold copies,

Ok, I knew they did that with paperbacks.