My mom + dark movies = pain in my ass

[thedudeman69]

Let me tell you a story about my mom.

She doesn't like movies that don't have happy endings. The one where the prince comes for Snow White and whisks her off to kingdom come. The one where the girl gets the guy. The one where it's all cooked up hollywood bullshit.

I took my mom to one of the darkest movies I have seen lately, No Country For Old Men, where I found flaws with it, but I overall liked it, she hated it because it didn't have..a wait for it, happy ending. I can understand that she doesn't want something to be lighter moodish, but when the movie has no way to fucking end with a happy ending, she bitches and moans that it needed one or she won't like it. I hate that. I want a sad ending or a depressing ending. like with the movie The Assassination of Richard Nixon. You knew what was going to happen to Sean Penn in the end. I keep telling her that dark endings are perfect for some movies. She doesn't get it. The Shining doesn't have a happy ending. Now that I think about it, my mom likes disney movies and chick flicks, while I like movies by Fincher, Croenberg, and numerous other directors that promote dark endings in most of their films. I keep telling her it's reality, that we either are 50/50 likely to end life happy or sad.

She needs a severe reality check.

[X-Nightcrawler]

Nah, she just needs to see movies with happy endings.

Remember not everyone has to see every movie. Some people just want to enjoy themselves.

[Natty]

My mum is kinda similar except I took her to see NCFOM and she really liked it and found it fascinating.

Nevertheless, there are some films that she hates simply because of the dark themes or endings. She cannot stand Reservoir Dogs, her least favourite movie, as this convo shows:

MUM: You haven't seen that movie have you? Its terrible
ME: Yes I have and I think its great, well written, acted and directed it keeps the tension going really well.
MUM: I thought it was just awful when I saw it in theatres, isn't there some bullshit ending where they all stand in a circle and shoot each other
ME: Not really but yeah, something similar
MUM: Exactly, that wouldn't have happened in real life.
ME: You need to see the movie again I think, the climax did look realistic and one could explain how that could happen easily
MUM: Nah, I thought it was terrible, then again its a very male movie I suppose
ME: I know some girls that like that movie
MUM: (pause), those girls don't wear knickers.

:D that last line had me in stitches at the time.:D

[Homyrrh]

1. Funny. I despise every entirely "happy" ending EVER...
2. Don't ever start another thread with "My mom...", unless it ends in ILF...:rolleyes::D

[jackson13]

A lady I work with cant handle depressing movies either.

I recently told her to watch The Mist.

She did. I'm pretty sure she hates me now.

But what gets me is, she'll go up to someone looking at it or checking it out or whatever and say 'Oh! This was so good! BUT THE END, OH MAN! You'll be depressed for days, it is sooooo bad!" or something to that effect. So now the people renting it, or thinking about renting it, have second thoughts because they know something happens at the end.

We're trying to get people to rent these movies! Who cares about the ending? I'll fucking tell people 'Blonde and Blonder' was hilarious just so it rents! Dont scare people away from watching things!

[The Postmaster General]

Let me tell you a story about my mom.

She doesn't like movies that don't have happy endings. The one where the prince comes for Snow White and whisks her off to kingdom come. The one where the girl gets the guy. The one where it's all cooked up hollywood bullshit.

She needs a severe reality check.


You should tell her you're having sex with older men to support a heroin habit, then just keep repeating, "I'm sorry mom."

[Homyrrh]

A lady I work with cant handle depressing movies either.

I recently told her to watch The Mist.

She did. I'm pretty sure she hates me now.

But what gets me is, she'll go up to someone looking at it or checking it out or whatever and say 'Oh! This was so good! BUT THE END, OH MAN! You'll be depressed for days, it is sooooo bad!" or something to that effect. So now the people renting it, or thinking about renting it, have second thoughts because they know something happens at the end.

We're trying to get people to rent these movies! Who cares about the ending? I'll fucking tell people 'Blonde and Blonder' was hilarious just so it rents! Dont scare people away from watching things!
1. The reference to 'The Mist' had me heehawing at work, here, you bastard.
2. Ignorant or not, I believe that's the first 'Blonde and Blonder' reference I've seen on the boards...
You should tell her you're having sex with older men to support a heroin habit, then just keep repeating, "I'm sorry mom."
A resounding "Ah...".

[jackson13]

2. Ignorant or not, I believe that's the first 'Blonde and Blonder' reference I've seen on the boards....

Well, I havent seen it. And wont. But if someone says 'what is this' or whatever I just say 'oh its hilarious, rent it.'

I sold my soul a long time ago, I'll hawk anything now.

[echo_bravo]

My mom is like that too. I watched Walk the Line with her and she nearly walked out when Cash is going thru his drug binge. I had to promise her that the film did in fact have a happy ending.

She cant handle dreary, sad endings. Thats okay cause a lot of people I know are like that.

I on the otherhand love all kinds of endings. I usually like uplifting films but most of my favorite films do have the unconvential endings (Requiem for a Dream, Seven, Fight Club, The Shining etc).

Some people just have a hard time seperating films from reality like my mom (she even admits it too).

I would never ever show her a Tarantino film esp R.Dogs. Waaaaay too gruesome for her.;)

[Psychocandy]

I'll fucking tell people 'Blonde and Blonder' was hilarious just so it rents! Dont scare people away from watching things!

My friend...you lack principles. I work for Blockbuster and if someone asks me if a movie is good and I know 100% that it's about as palatable as a shit smeared wafer that's been dipped in piss then i'll be 100% honest with them. Then when I do recommend a movie wholeheartedly and they enjoy it they'll trust me to recommend more. Anyone I can steer away from I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry in the direction of something with at least a moderate amount of worth is a victory.

As for people not enjoying movies with unhappy/dark endings. Well I actually find such movies a bit refreshing because it really pains me when a movie has a forced happy ending. I don't mind movies with a happy ending that has been earned and that feels right. But I really hate it when an ending has been changed due to bad feedback from preview audiences.

[Digifruitella]

....like with the movie The Assassination of Richard Nixon. You knew what was going to happen to Sean Penn in the end.

LIKE I TOTALLY DIDN"T SPOILERS PLEASE

[X-Nightcrawler]

Sean Penn kills Richard Nixon??

[thedudeman69]

LIKE I TOTALLY DIDN"T SPOILERS PLEASE

are you serious or is that a really lame attempt at a funny joke.

[jdparker]

She doesn't like movies that don't have happy endings. The one where the prince comes for Snow White and whisks her off to kingdom come. The one where the girl gets the guy. The one where it's all cooked up hollywood bullshit.

Me Ma is the same way. I've given up on her entirely when it comes to movies. It drives me crazy but I mean, she's my mom so can't really call her a fucking idiot.

[jackson13]

My friend...you lack principles. I work for Blockbuster and if someone asks me if a movie is good and I know 100% that it's about as palatable as a shit smeared wafer that's been dipped in piss then i'll be 100% honest with them. Then when I do recommend a movie wholeheartedly and they enjoy it they'll trust me to recommend more. Anyone I can steer away from I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry in the direction of something with at least a moderate amount of worth is a victory.


Oh, I have principles. Its called 'I love my job and want to keep it'. We're a public library, and our money comes from government funding. In our A/V department, we get a certain amount of money each year to buy things with. If our numbers drop, that amount of money gets cut back. If our numbers are up, we get more money, so that we can buy more things and expand. The past couple years, after being way down, we've had the biggest numbers out of the entire library, so we get the most money. So, while it does pain me to tell people to essentially rent shit, I'm doing it so that our department doesnt have to suffer come the next year. With Blockbuster, thats a corporate job, and you can be honest with people like that because other stores all across the country are still making money, so you dont have to worry about losing money if they rent from somewhere else, because no matter what your store is getting money from corporate.

It may hurt mentally to tell someone to rent Dolph Lundgrens 'The Russian Specialist', but hey, it keeps us going financially. Every little thing counts.

[Tweek]

We're a public library, and our money comes from government funding. In our A/V department, we get a certain amount of money each year to buy things with.

I'm all for keeping local libraries functioning. :cool:

[The Postmaster General]

A resounding "Ah...".


I just meant in terms of making the endings to all of these movies not seems so bad to good ole mom. None of it makes sense to me, so my responses probably just seems like jibberish.

thedudeman69's mom should probably watch Dancer In The Dark. It's a musical!

[Sixgun]

My mom is pretty cool with darker movies. She in fact LOVED Reservoir Dogs, and also stuff like Se7en and The Departed. :cool: She'll watch anything with me if it interests her. Including Basic Instinct...

This is interesting, though: She thought that There Will be Blood was going to be a nice, uplifting film about a man overcoming the odds. :confused: Particularly puzzling since she saw the trailer. How she got that notion, beats the hell out of me.

[Gordon]

I'm confused. Why the fuck are you taking your mom to No Country for Old Men and why are you expecting her to like it?

[eljefe15]

My mom is pretty cool about what movies she likes. She'll watch pretty much anything unless there's a lot of gratuitous sex in it. Otherwise, she's pretty adventurous with the type of movies she watches.

[Saruman]

My mom just likes to talk through the whole movie going "that's that guy... you know... he was in that movie". Yes mom, actors do more than one film in their career.

[Tweek]

Why I will never watch a movie in the theater with my mother again:

When we went to see The Passion of the Christ she covered my eyes during all the bloody and violent scenes. I was 19. So what the hell happened in that movie? :p

[LordSimen]

Why I will never watch a movie in the theater with my mother again:

When we went to see The Passion of the Christ she covered my eyes during all the bloody and violent scenes. I was 19. So what the hell happened in that movie? :p

My grandma still does the "I don't think you should be seeing this" speech whenever we watch an R movie and a sex scene or something hinting at a sex scene (they don't even have to show anything) happens in a movie we're watching. And I'm 20. It's silly.

[The Postmaster General]

Ha.

Man, you guys should have it from the other angle. My grandmother was a mad horror fan, and - can't remember the movie, but I just remember her saying, "Oh you have to see it. He slices these women right down the middle of their chests!"

She was awesome!

Miss her. :(

[LordSimen]

That sounds awesome. Your grandma must have been really fun to be around. :cool:

[FLAME_ON]

My mom has kind of switched up on me... Recently, she's been complaining about violence in movies and it's ridiculous because this is my same mother who told me she enjoyed and loved Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Fargo in the 90's; and actually encouraged me to see Reservoir Dogs and Fargo when I was like 14. But then I asked her how she liked No Country for Old Men and the woman tells me "Ew... it's was way too violent."
WHAT?! WHO IS THIS CONSERVATIVE OLD LADY AND WHERE IS MY MOTHER?!
I really don't get it; she's in her early 40's, pretty hip to the times, and enjoys movies. But now I'm hearing "too violent" pop out of her mouth too often and it's pissing me off. :mad:

[Dragula]

Ha.

Man, you guys should have it from the other angle. My grandmother was a mad horror fan, and - can't remember the movie, but I just remember her saying, "Oh you have to see it. He slices these women right down the middle of their chests!"

She was awesome!

Miss her. :(

She's in a better place now watching more horror movies

[jdparker]

My mom on There Will Be Blood: "Ohhhh - it was good" She gets a horrified look on her face and says, " - until the end"

[Brendan M.]

My parents don't really watch that many movies and I certainly don't watch any with them these days. Especially since I will probably never in my life find anything they would like.

Now people who don't like movies because they didn't have a happy ending. I've heard that one before.

Now if only I had a grandmother like BubbaStrangelove's.

[Venus Venusia]

My mom on There Will Be Blood: "Ohhhh - it was good" She gets a horrified look on her face and says, " - until the end"

Haha, that reminds me of my mom. My mom can be a bit strange when it comes to film. She LOVES horror films, but there are certain movies she just can't get into. She thought No Country For Old Men was highly overrated. And what is really humorous about that is a lot of people I talked to who have seen it tell me that they don't understand the ending, but when I ask my mom she gives me her 5-minute interpretation of it.

She bought Death Sentence but refuses to watch it because she heard "it was so sad." (lol)

Her taste is so varied. She watched The Crying Game and said it was one of the best movies she's ever seen, but then when I'm watching Ghost World she remarks, "Oh that's one of your 'weird' movies. I don't know, she makes me laugh. I'm always calling her up and asking her what her opinion is of certain movies. It's entertaining.

And by the way, one of her favorite movies is Lake Placid, because none of the main characters were harmed, haha. :p

[xseanymacx]

My mom loves happy endings but is pretty open to less "standard" endings. But she's a very nice woman, no big deal if she doesn't like every movie I do.

My grandmother on the other hand; her favorite movies of 2007: Into the Wild, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men.

[therealjohng]

My mom appreciates movies that have endings that compliment the way the story should be told.

[RustyRazor]

Let me tell you a story about my mom.

She doesn't like movies that don't have happy endings. The one where the prince comes for Snow White and whisks her off to kingdom come. The one where the girl gets the guy. The one where it's all cooked up hollywood bullshit.

I took my mom to one of the darkest movies I have seen lately, No Country For Old Men, where I found flaws with it, but I overall liked it, she hated it because it didn't have..a wait for it, happy ending. I can understand that she doesn't want something to be lighter moodish, but when the movie has no way to fucking end with a happy ending, she bitches and moans that it needed one or she won't like it. I hate that. I want a sad ending or a depressing ending. like with the movie The Assassination of Richard Nixon. You knew what was going to happen to Sean Penn in the end. I keep telling her that dark endings are perfect for some movies. She doesn't get it. The Shining doesn't have a happy ending. Now that I think about it, my mom likes disney movies and chick flicks, while I like movies by Fincher, Croenberg, and numerous other directors that promote dark endings in most of their films. I keep telling her it's reality, that we either are 50/50 likely to end life happy or sad.

She needs a severe reality check.


THat's the wonderful thing about moms.
Seeing the bright side and always looking for the light at the end of the tunnel.
They've got their own union and they're REALLY strict.

But seriously, my mom was actually pretty close to that.
She loved a happy ending, but was fascinated by the dark endings.
Unless one of her favorite actors / actresses was in it and they died.
THEN she would lose it and complain the whole way home.
She was the coolest.

[crodger]

My Dad's fave movie is Carousel. 'Nuff said.

[g1ng3rsnap9ed]

1. Funny. I despise every entirely "happy" ending EVER...
2. Don't ever start another thread with "My mom...", unless it ends in ILF...:rolleyes::D

Somebody should take note of #2 and start a thread that ends in ILF!

My mom is the same way,she absolutely hated the ending of The Mist.

[mutesaint]

My mom has kind of switched up on me... Recently, she's been complaining about violence in movies and it's ridiculous because this is my same mother who told me she enjoyed and loved Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Fargo in the 90's; and actually encouraged me to see Reservoir Dogs and Fargo when I was like 14. But then I asked her how she liked No Country for Old Men and the woman tells me "Ew... it's was way too violent."
WHAT?! WHO IS THIS CONSERVATIVE OLD LADY AND WHERE IS MY MOTHER?!
I really don't get it; she's in her early 40's, pretty hip to the times, and enjoys movies. But now I'm hearing "too violent" pop out of her mouth too often and it's pissing me off. :mad:

It happens. My parents use to watch all kinds of violent movies. They convinced me to see Terminator 2, Predator, and a dozen other action/horror movies. My dad and I used to rent the most vile nasty movies ever. Last time I was visiting I woke up early and couldn't go back to bed, so I put on 28 days later. My dad woke up too and joined me. After the attack in his parents house my dad left, proclaiming that it was "one of your violent movies that I hate." I don't know when the change happened. Sometime around when I went away to college.

[a7xfan]

My mom has kind of switched up on me... Recently, she's been complaining about violence in movies and it's ridiculous because this is my same mother who told me she enjoyed and loved Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Fargo in the 90's; and actually encouraged me to see Reservoir Dogs and Fargo when I was like 14. But then I asked her how she liked No Country for Old Men and the woman tells me "Ew... it's was way too violent."
WHAT?! WHO IS THIS CONSERVATIVE OLD LADY AND WHERE IS MY MOTHER?!
I really don't get it; she's in her early 40's, pretty hip to the times, and enjoys movies. But now I'm hearing "too violent" pop out of her mouth too often and it's pissing me off. :mad:


yeah my mum is the same, she told me to watch robocop when i was 11, and i had seen terminator 2 at the same age, now she hates me watching horror movies, she say they are stupid, all she does is sits and watches any old shit on the UK channel 'true movies' yeah just a load of mushy mushy shit.

my dad on the otherhand, is a bigger kid than me, all he is interested in movie-wise is comic book movies, he is a comic book geek at heart.
although he does like sherlock holmes and a touch of frost (imo epic tv)

[g1ng3rsnap9ed]

My dad & step-mom don't mind violence,in fact I'll get an occasional Whoop or holler from them.My grandfather laughed his way thru Freddy VS Jason,and my great grandma used to love Jaws,Friday The 13,and all that jazz so most of my family can take the darkness in film.

[max314]

Most audiences are like this.

Just look at some of the trash that's out there making money right now. You think Transformers made money because it was exemplary filmmaking?

[FilmKing2000]

While my mother is all for happy endings, no matter how cliché and generic they are (her favorite movie is Love Actually for crying out loud), she's pretty open-minded when it comes to watching much deeper and unconventional movies. And albeit we can engage in super long discussions about films like 21 Grams and Amores perros, there are still times when I find myself bursting into laughter to certain reactions she has to the more unique fare.

For example, this is what she said right after viewing There Will Be Blood for the first time: "So, did he get prosecuted?" :D

[electriclite]

My mom asked me to take her to see Wanted, and liked it.

This is also the same woman who introduced me to Aliens.

I'm sure there's some shit that'll make her go "Blech!" , but ummm, she's well within reason.

Heheheh, the last thing she ever objected to was when I was visiting from college, and was watching Tigerland at home with her, and a VERY graphic sex scene came up.

She loudly said "DON'T LOOK!"

And I almost turned my head around till I realized how old I was.

Then I replied "I'm 22 years old!"

Her response?


"SOOOO?!"

[FLAME_ON]

My mom asked me to take her to see Wanted, and liked it.

This is also the same woman who introduced me to Aliens.

I'm sure there's some shit that'll make her go "Blech!" , but ummm, she's well within reason.

Heheheh, the last thing she ever objected to was when I was visiting from college, and was watching Tigerland at home with her, and a VERY graphic sex scene came up.

She loudly said "DON'T LOOK!"

And I almost turned my head around till I realized how old I was.

Then I replied "I'm 22 years old!"

Her response?


"SOOOO?!"

Haha that's great... my mom has done that as a joke and I actually closed my eyes! Haha that's too funny that after we grow up, hearing our parents voice say that will still trigger that impulse.