What movie(s) do you like that you cannot convince your significant other to watch? [Archive]

Ed Helicopter Jones

12-12-2005, 07:20 PM

Ok, I'm not talking porn here fellas (and ladies)! :lol

In Manny's Office Space thread #2, I noted that I love that movie but couldn't convince the Mrs. to watch it until just a few months ago.

The other movie I've tried to get her to watch to no avail is Bull Durham.

I have to admit that I am guilty of being unwilling to watch more movies than Mrs. Chopper. Usually I'll give in at some point and end up liking whatever it is (grudgingly of course :lol).

The one movie I refuse to ever see is Bridges Over Madison County. It would ruin my lifelong admiration of Clint Eastwood and since I have modeled my entire life after him I, myself, would be forever ruined. The testosterone would cease to flow through my veins and I would transform into an old ugly woman.

SpursWoman

12-12-2005, 07:26 PM

Hmmmm.....he'll watch anything I want to watch, he might fall asleep in the middle of it, but he'll at least be laying there.... :lol

I've kind of gotten more into what he does, though. :)

Ed Helicopter Jones

12-12-2005, 07:28 PM

Hmmmm.....he'll watch anything I want to watch, he might fall asleep in the middle of it, but he'll at least be laying there.... :lol

I've kind of gotten more into what he does, though. :)

Something tells me User gets molested a lot during movie night! :lol

Kori Ellis

12-12-2005, 07:31 PM

I'd actually watch Office Space if LJ rented it and put it on in front of me. But I'd never go seek it out.

I'm not sure what movie that he'd want me to watch that I would refuse. Maybe E.T.?

Shelly

12-12-2005, 07:46 PM

Why, oh why, won't my husband watch Lifetime movies with me? Doesn't he understand the need for my need for teen angst and/or murder with a crappy happy ending fix? *sob*

Where's SaraPet when I need her?

timvp

12-12-2005, 07:51 PM

Hmmm ... Kori will pretty much watch anything if I ask her to. Although I can't get her watch Cops :lol

I couldn't get Kori to even attempt to play video games so I retired.

:depressed

CharlieMac

12-12-2005, 07:55 PM

Any Die Hard or Lethal Weapon flick.

timvp

12-12-2005, 08:12 PM

To flip this, Kori makes me watch some show called Starting Over sometimes.

Man that is such a horrible show.

Kori Ellis

12-12-2005, 08:14 PM

To flip this, Kori makes me watch some show called Starting Over sometimes.

Man that is such a horrible show.

True.

It's absolutely the worst show that they have ever put on the air in the history of television. You guys have to watch it so you can see for yourselves. It's on at 4am on channel 7 (or 11?) weeknights.

It's the worst show EVER!

CharlieMac

12-12-2005, 08:19 PM

To flip this, Kori makes me watch some show called Starting Over sometimes.

Man that is such a horrible show.

I can tolerate Bridezilla, that show with that hot model and the guy from the Brady Bunch, and numerous home make-over shows now. Actually, I think I lik ethem now.

But Cops and Maximum Exposure are two shows she can barely, and I mean barely tolerate now.

TheAdmiral#50

12-12-2005, 08:20 PM

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Kori Ellis

12-12-2005, 08:23 PM

Worst show:

http://www.startingovertv.com/

Shelly

12-12-2005, 08:24 PM

True.

It's absolutely the worst show that they have ever put on the air in the history of television. You guys have to watch it so you can see for yourselves. It's on at 4am on channel 7 (or 11?) weeknights.

It's the worst show EVER!

I didn't know there was anything else on besides infomercials at 4am!

CharlieMac

12-12-2005, 08:25 PM

Man, I can't watch those Faces of Death videos. Getting bummed out intentionally makes no sense. Like listening to the Cure.

timvp

12-12-2005, 08:25 PM

But Cops and Maximum Exposure are two shows she can barely, and I mean barely tolerate now.

:lol

Those are the two shows I can't make Kori watch. She'll watch anything else but if I turn on Cops or Max Ex, she'll get up and leave.

SpursWoman

12-12-2005, 08:27 PM

I couldn't get Kori to even attempt to play video games so I retired.

:depressed

God, if I didn't suck so bad at video games I know we could have a lot stronger bond (:rolleyes :lol )....but he's a sorry winner so I refuse to play. :lmao

Shelly

12-12-2005, 08:27 PM

Try watching car shows all the time. I only watch if I'm interested in the car, but the motorcycle builds = :sleep

SpursWoman

12-12-2005, 08:28 PM

I love Maximum Exposure, though. :lol

timvp

12-12-2005, 08:29 PM

http://www.maximumexp.com/images/max-ex.jpg

Top notch show.

:smokin

Shelly

12-12-2005, 08:30 PM

http://www.maximumexp.com/images/max-ex.jpg

Top notch show.

:smokin

Lifetime movies are better.

CharlieMac

12-12-2005, 08:31 PM

God, if I didn't suck so bad at video games I know we could have a lot stronger bond (:rolleyes :lol )....but he's a sorry winner so I refuse to play. :lmao

I can get Jess to watch me play Metal Gear or something. But no sports games. I've seen her stare at the walls instead of watch me play. Even when I plead, "But I can beat the Hawks by 75 points, watch!" she doesn't.

CharlieMac

12-12-2005, 08:33 PM

Lifetime movies are better.

Did I mention I saw a show on Lifetime about a teenager addicted to internet porn? A teenager addicted to porn, who knew?

timvp

12-12-2005, 08:33 PM

Lifetime movies are better.

My mom watches Lifetime movies all day. They are funny to watch. How many movies can they make where the killer ends up being the husband?

Shelly

12-12-2005, 08:38 PM

I couldn't get Kori to even attempt to play video games so I retired.

:depressed

That's not why you retired, you liar! :lol

My mom watches Lifetime movies all day. They are funny to watch. How many movies can they make where the killer ends up being the husband?

:lol This is true.

mikejones99

12-12-2005, 08:41 PM

Southpark is too funny, Harlan county war with Holly hunter talking crazy and Changing Lanes with Sam jackson. detroit9000 is funny with that ex KC chief Dback

Shelly

12-12-2005, 08:42 PM

Did I mention I saw a show on Lifetime about a teenager addicted to internet porn? A teenager addicted to porn, who knew?

I have not seen this one, dammit!

2Blonde

12-12-2005, 09:49 PM

I haven't seen it yet, but I would do just about anything if my husband would watch Brokeback Mountain with me. But I know there isn't a chance in hell he'll watch a gay cowboy movie.
:lmao

Cant_Be_Faded

12-12-2005, 09:56 PM

No BJ in the world will ever warrant me watching a Harry Potter film.

Zombie

12-12-2005, 10:06 PM

Pink Floyd "The Wall"

1Parker1

12-12-2005, 10:14 PM

Shelly, I LOVE lifetime movies! I mean, how can you not love a channel that shows tv movies with titles such, "Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?" :lol

Samr

12-12-2005, 10:23 PM

I can no longer watch Max X. It's the same damn clips, over and over, but in a different order.

Yes, I know the skiier is going to hit his head on a rock, only to be slowed enough by his continuous tumbling to be caught in the avalanche and yet by some miracle make it out alive. Yes I know the car will pull away as soon as the cop turns his back only to be lead on a high-speed chase, endangering as many innocent bystandars as possible. Yes I know that guy will pull the landing gear down on the plane and YES I know that firefighter is about to barely make it out alive.

Same story over and over and over and over again.

timvp

12-12-2005, 10:27 PM

King

12-12-2005, 10:27 PM

I refuse to watch Grease and Rocky Horror. She's pretty open to anything, though.

Shelly

12-12-2005, 11:10 PM

Shelly, I LOVE lifetime movies! I mean, how can you not love a channel that shows tv movies with titles such, "Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?" :lol

:lol

Did you see Hush this weekend? Another Tori Spelling great. I only caught the last part of it. Psycho, pregnant, ex-girlfriend kills everyone to get Tori's husband. Unfortunately, she didn't succeed in killing Tori.

1369

12-12-2005, 11:25 PM

The wife can't seem to grasp the goodness that is Red Dawn or the hidden humor in Madagascar.

But to her credit, she turned me onto Hamburger Hill and really likes Tombstone.

Guru of Nothing

12-12-2005, 11:28 PM

What movie(s) do you like that you cannot convince your significant other to watch?

My ex hated "old" movies - anything created before 1983. .... that's why I divorced her.

Shelly

12-12-2005, 11:29 PM

I cannot begin to begin to count how many times my husband has watched Willie Wonka and the Choclate Factory (the original one). Not only do we have the DVD (burned, of course) but every time that stupid movie is on HBO, he has to watch it, even if there's only 5 minutes left.

I hated the book and I HATE THAT MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1369

12-12-2005, 11:36 PM

Shelly

12-12-2005, 11:41 PM

Veruca Salt!

They were pretty good, too.

Jekka

12-13-2005, 12:01 AM

Veruca Salt!

They were pretty good, too.

Nina Gordon's solo release wasn't too bad.

1369

12-13-2005, 12:30 AM

Veruca Salt!

They were pretty good, too.

Shelly, nicely played, I didn't know that moms who aren't "cool" would know that. You get 10 points.

I never read the book, any redeeming qualities?

Jekka, Nina post's follow up album was OK, but to me it lacked the Veruca Salt edge.

Nbadan

12-13-2005, 03:57 AM

Murderball. I loved it. Wifey hated it. Go figure.

Mixability

12-13-2005, 10:28 AM

I can get Jess to watch me play Metal Gear or something. But no sports games. I've seen her stare at the walls instead of watch me play. Even when I plead, "But I can beat the Hawks by 75 points, watch!" she doesn't.

:lol I know your pain! My girl is ok with watching me play Halo or Ghost Recon, but once I pop in NBA2K6, she's uninterested. Lately, she's starting to hijack the 360 to play all the online puzzle games, while now I'm left to be the spectator and to take care of the little one.

Spurminator

12-13-2005, 11:05 AM

It's not so much that my wife refuses to watch certain movies... It's that she falls asleep 15 minutes in if she's not interested. She has yet to see a single Star Wars movie, which offends me deeply.

That said, she did step up to the plate and offer to watch The Godfather with me... I told her she wouldn't make it, but like the trooper she is, she made it through a solid hour before dozing off for good.

samikeyp

12-13-2005, 11:06 AM

War movies.

easjer

12-13-2005, 11:15 AM

He won't watch Pride and Prejudice. Well, he watched it once. But he will never, ever watch it again. Or musicals. Never, ever, never.

He's pretty easy going about a lot of other stuff though.

I've never watched The Usual Suspects (clearly one of his favorites).

As for TV shows - I'm a reality show whore (though I don't generally scrape the bottom of the barrel, ANTM and My Fair Brady excluded), but outside of Amazing Race can't get him to watch. He had me watching wrestling for awhile, but he can't get me to watch stupid shows like MXC on Spike (the only show I watched on Spike was . . . you guessed it! Joe Schmoe).

spurs_fan_in_exile

12-13-2005, 11:24 AM

Titanic. Granted she hasn't really tried to get to watch it. I actually watched the last 20 minutes or so once when it was on TV, and it just holds no appeal. Evita is the other one.

I can't convince mine to watch any Will Farrell movies like Anchorman or Old School, which is kind of funny because she likes the American Pie trilogy, which I find far more sophmoric and gross.

easjer

12-13-2005, 11:32 AM

Titanic? Huh? I HATE that movie. The stupid love story ruined an otherwise great movie.

Slomo

12-13-2005, 11:42 AM

Any Sci-Fi movie.

But her mother (my dearest MIL) would actually do anything to get abducted by aliens :lol she's the only person I know that tapes every Stargate episode.

valluco

12-13-2005, 12:40 PM

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a185/valluco/fc.jpg She hates this movie and it happens to be one of my favorites. The book is damn good too.

SpursWoman

12-13-2005, 12:56 PM

she's the only person I know that tapes every Stargate episode.

Then you couldn't have known my dad ... heaven help anyone that disturbed him during Stargate. :lol

Ed Helicopter Jones

12-13-2005, 01:15 PM

Any horror flick is basically scratched from Mrs. Chopper's "must-see" list.

She does like action films though, which is great for me. And she loves all three Godfather movies, which I love too. In fact, when we were on our honeymoon there was a day that we were both a little under the weather so we stayed in our hotel room and watched all three Godfather's back-to-back-to-back.

Timvp mentioned "Cops". Mrs. Chopper won't watch that either. I like it because they used to do the show from Albuquerque it seemed almost every other week and I'd see a lot of police officers, and a few convicts, that I know. Our mayor quit letting them film from here though as he said it was painting a bad image of our city. :lol

midgetonadonkey

12-13-2005, 01:22 PM

My girlfriend refuses to watch Adaptation. She hated Being John Malcovich so much, she will never watch another movie made by Charlie Kaufman.

JoeChalupa

12-13-2005, 01:25 PM

katyon6th

12-13-2005, 01:34 PM

My girlfriend refuses to watch Adaptation. She hated Being John Malcovich so much, she will never watch another movie made by Charlie Kaufman.

I bought that movie and still haven't watched it. I remember trying to, though.

Shelly

12-13-2005, 01:46 PM

The wife won't watch LOR or the Star Wars movies with me.
It is not fair since I sit through hours of LifeTime and OXY movies with her.
I never knew the 90210 and Saved By the Bell babes have made so many freakin' made for TV movies.

I won't watch those either. I hate those kind of movies. I've yet to see a Harry Potter movie.

You're right about them ending up on Lifetime! :lol Before them, it was Nancy McKeon (from Facts of LIfe) and Valerie Bertinelli.

SpursWoman

12-13-2005, 01:51 PM

Actually, the Harry Potter movies are pretty good .... there was one that I saw that was actually kind of scary... :wow :oops :lol

Kdfelicity

12-13-2005, 02:41 PM

The Notebook....

I absolutely love it and have watched it about upteenmillion times...

I'm gonna work on him slowly...he will watch it... :p

Kdfelicity

12-13-2005, 02:43 PM

I cannot begin to begin to count how many times my husband has watched Willie Wonka and the Choclate Factory (the original one). Not only do we have the DVD (burned, of course) but every time that stupid movie is on HBO, he has to watch it, even if there's only 5 minutes left.

:lol

It was on last night on Fox Family or somethin and I made my guy watch it!

valluco

12-13-2005, 02:57 PM

The Notebook....

I absolutely love it and have watched it about upteenmillion times...

I'm gonna work on him slowly...he will watch it... :p
I got in trouble for falling asleep at the theater when she took me to watch that movie. I wake up right at the end to two old dead people looking so peaceful on a bed together up on the screen and a theater full of sobbing and crying women.

Kdfelicity

12-13-2005, 03:13 PM

I got in trouble for falling asleep at the theater when she took me to watch that movie. I wake up right at the end to two old dead people looking so peaceful on a bed together up on the screen and a theater full of sobbing and crying women.

:lol

That sounds about right...

That movie is some powerful stuff if only you and your counterparts would stay awake long enough to find that out!!

Ed Helicopter Jones

12-13-2005, 04:12 PM

Ummm. . .I liked The Notebook. That was one that I needed some arm-twisting to see. Two others that I have to admit that I liked after fighting against watching them was Crash and Five People You'll Meet in Heaven. I quit growing facial hair for a while after watching those but have since recovered.

I probably need some therapy. . .

Shelly

12-13-2005, 04:15 PM

The Notebook was okay, but I doubt I'd watch it again. And I wasn't to fond of Sideways, either.

JoeChalupa

12-13-2005, 05:17 PM

The Notebook was great! I loved it.

Rockford files really touched my heart and yes....I shed a tear or two.

And Rachel McAdams is HOT!!!! :smokin

Kdfelicity

12-13-2005, 07:58 PM

The Notebook was great! I loved it.

And Rachel McAdams is HOT!!!! :smokin

I agree but Ryan Gosling takes my vote.

Kudos to the casting director on that one! :tu

Patrick Bateman

12-13-2005, 08:32 PM

I cannot get my significant other to watch Platoon and other movies of the "War" Genre. I am flexible in watching whatever my significant other wants.

hussker

12-13-2005, 09:04 PM

Though not yet released Nationwide, my wife says NO to "Memoirs of a Geisha".

Carie

12-14-2005, 01:21 AM

I used to get up and go play on the computer when John would watch American Chopper, I couldn't stand the stupid fighting between Senior and Pauly. But damn it all to hell if I didn't watch one all the way through and love it.

2Blonde

12-14-2005, 11:59 AM

I saw The Notebook with some girlfriends knowing my husband would not go see that one. Then on Valentine's Day my husband agreed to watch it on DVD with me. He loved it and even went out and bought it so that we could watch it every Valentine's Day.

Oh.... And Chopper Boy, he still has his facial hair and all the other stuff too. :lol

But one show I leave to him alone is all the Alien movies. He has them on DVD. I saw them once and that was enough for me. He could watch AVP every weekend if I would let him. Sitting through those movies is like getting teeth pulled without anesthesia over and over again. :shootme