# Movies you love your SO doesn't "get" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 29, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-your-so-doesnt-get/210337 "2003-10-29T23:20:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-your-so-doesnt-get/210337/21 "2003-10-30T12:38:05Z")
One of the oddest thing about my relationship with my wife is that we very rarely like the same films, but we watch them almost constantly. She doesn’t do sci/fi. Fantasy is acceptable as long as it’s a romance story (Ladyhawke, The Princess Bride) We had a choice to see Sweet Home Alabama or The Ring and she chose the former. I sat bored out of my mind. She went out and bought the DVD the day it came out. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-your-so-doesnt-get/210337/22 "2003-10-30T13:26:00Z")
I’m lucky because my wife doen’t care for chick-flicks and we agree on just about everything. The only problem we ever run into is she isn’t good at saying she doesn’t like something. We could see an utterly shitty film and she’ll say she liked it until a year or so later. One that does stand out in my mind is _The Red Violin_\*, which she loves. I found it interesting and feel it might have been good had it been maybe an hour or less long, but at full length it was incredibly boring. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-your-so-doesnt-get/210337/23 "2003-10-30T14:19:24Z")
**Movies my SO loves and I just don’t get:** _Lord of the Rings_ - Good movie, no doubt, but it was so boring I couldn’t finish watching it. The second one I watched, and liked, but I don’t need to see it again. _Matrix Reloaded_ - Again, so boring I couldn’t finish watching it. _Star Wars Prequels_ - I sat through _Phantom Menace_. The only watchable part for me was the pod race. The rest of the movie bored me to tears. I won’t even give _Attack of the Clones_ a chance. _Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back_ **Movies I love my SO doesn’t get:** _Death to Smoochy_ _Chasing Amy_ - he likes Kevin Smith but doesn’t see it in this one. He also doesn’t care about various old black and white movies I’ll watch on TCM. There are too many to mention. Other than that, we both loathe romantic comedies but liked movies such as _About a Boy_ (he liked it more than I did) and _High Fidelity_. I refuse to call them romantic comedies, though. We both loved _Rushmore_ and _The Royal Tenenbaums_. I’m still working on him to watch _Slackers_. We’re Coen brothers fans and Tarentino fans as well. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-your-so-doesnt-get/210337/24 "2003-10-30T14:36:56Z")
Movies I love but Hubby doesn’t get: Blade Runner Princess Bride general Chick Flicks Movies Hubby loves but I just don’t get: John Wayne Movies War Movies BAD Sci-Fi (Just because it’s on the Sci-Fi channel, doesn’t mean it’s worth watching!) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-your-so-doesnt-get/210337/25 "2003-10-31T01:51:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by skeptic\_ev \* > \*\ ***Khadaji** - You are dating the wrong women. 😃 \*\* Clearly! 😃 Know any good ones? ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-your-so-doesnt-get/210337/26 "2003-10-31T02:04:20Z")
I love musicals. _My Fair Lady_, _Oklahoma_, all the classics. One of my favorites is _The Pirates of Penzance_ with Kevin Kline as the Pirate King. My husband just does not dig them–although he did enjoy _Chicago_. He also loathes what he calls “rich Brit” flicks, i.e., anything based on Austen, Henry James, or E.M. Forster. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-your-so-doesnt-get/210337/27 "2003-10-31T02:21:47Z")
The **ladybug** and I love a lot of the same movies, usually drama and action films, like _Heat_ and _Pulp Fiction_. We also like thoughtful, artsy films, like _Brazil_, _Punch Drunk Love_ and _Far From Heaven_. And thankfully, like me, she also dislikes most chick flicks, like romantic comedies and tear-jerking romances. She accepts that I like SF and fantasy stuff, just doesn’t care one way or the other. She went and saw _The Two Towers_ with me, and gave a pretty astute review of it, but it didn’t excite her, either. Comedies and wacky films, however, she just doesn’t get: _Office Space, Back To School, Better Off Dead, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Weird Science, Real Genius, The Princess Bride, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, South Park: Bigger, Larger, and Uncut, Army of Darkness_, and, as seems quite common, Anything by Monty Python ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-your-so-doesnt-get/210337/28 "2003-10-31T02:26:48Z")
As you probably suspect, **burundi** , your husband enjoys _Chicago_ because Catherine Zeta Jones, Renee Zellweger, and entire cast of lithe, limber female dancers spend most of the film wearing very little at all. I must say, the **ladybug** and I both enjoyed _Chicago_ very much. 😉 What was bizzare, though, was that when we saw it in the cinema, in Alhambra - a predominantly Asian community here in LA - a lot of the Asian audience members got up and walked out, as if they didn’t understand it, and didn’t enjoy it at all. Whazzup wit dat? ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-your-so-doesnt-get/210337/29 "2003-10-31T03:50:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bughunter \* > \*\* > Comedies and wacky films, however, she just doesn’t get: > > _Office Space, > Back To School, > Better Off Dead, > Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, > Weird Science, > Real Genius, > The Princess Bride, > The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, > South Park: Bigger, Larger, and Uncut, > Army of Darkness_, > and, as seems quite common, > Anything by Monty Python \*\* It’s just a big ol’ love triangle around here, isn’t it? I forgot about Brazil. He HATES it. And the Big Lebowski. Sigh. Oh well. He also hates British accents. Hates them in a 'I want to tear your throat out" kind of way. Aussie and New Zealander accents, even though similar to Brits, make him super happy. So, most Brit comedies (the only one I can think of is Waking Ned Devine… not the best, but a good example) are out for him. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-your-so-doesnt-get/210337/30 "2003-10-31T03:53:18Z")
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