First, I want to appreciate how most of y’all’s parents seem to be approximately my age! I love being the oldest person in the room.
My dad loved Airplane, Murder by Death and Top Gun. And various car-related movies like Grand Prix, Le Mans, Ford vs Ferrari.
My loved Love Actually, When Harry Met Sally, Benny & Joon, Juno, various problematic feel-good movies about Black and white people learning lessons, and musicals.
I wish she could’ve seen Good Luck to You Leo Grande. She would’ve loved it.
She walked out of the movie Cleopatra crying because she hated it so much.
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My dad loved Airplane!
Oct 17, 2024
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My dad loves ferris bueller’s day off and oceans eleven. ive watched both upwards of a dozen times and can now quote them back and forth with him.
Meanwhile, my mom loves pride and prejudice (2006) and four weddings and a funeral.
I’m thankful for their interest in showing me movies when I was little and as Ive grown up.
Nov 28, 2024
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I personally don’t enjoy watching this movie or find it funny, but, because of my parents; it is my favorite comfort movie.
My mom is in general more of a pop/rom-com girlie so I understand why she likes watching this movie so much. Shes open to more experimental/classic movies, but this is a woman who has watched the soap opera General Hospital for 49 out of her 62 years of life.
My dad, on the other hand, is a deeply religious Eastern Orthodox slav who kept the Andrei Rublev DVD from Netflix for two years and kept us from renting more than two movies at a time. His favorite movie is still The Bicycle Thief and he can get into long conversations with my husband about arthouse cinema and french new wave. Nowadays as he’s gotten more involved with the church, he will watch youtube videos of monks singing or listen to religious podcasts/sermons with the occasional documentary thrown in there. but BOY does he love the proposal!!
If I go to my parents house after 8PM and they’re both in the living room, this movie will be on and my father will be CACKLING (he has a very infectious giggly laugh) and my mom will sometimes have tears in her eyes from laughing so hard or verge on hysteria from the poop humor in this movie. I love seeing them on such a same wavelength and losing it together at the same old jokes they’ve heard a million times, somehow it’s all still so fresh and funny to them.
I love my parents dearly and know someday there will be a time where I can’t visit them and see them watching the proposal. I don’t care about the story, the actors, the plot, the writing, but I do care about The Proposal.
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