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Movie night suggestions?
Sep. 10th, 2014 01:08 pmSo, I don't get out much. I mean, I have 3 kids plus a job and a house to keep, so that's not really all that surprising. Also, I'm an introvert; social outings tend to leave me close to a panic attack and so it's never as much fun as my friends swear it will be. My husband works incredibly odd shifts (he's a doctor) and so there are times when we are but ships passing in the night for occasionally months in a row. But, whenever we can, we like to spend an evening together, watching movies and getting very drunk (because we're secretly still 16 years old), while our oldest rolls her eyes at us and looks after the kids upstairs, and then laughs at our collective hangovers the next morning. At least until I tell her to shut up and make me bacon, anyway.
But the problem is, we're having trouble coming up with movies to watch. A lot of people don't really understand how we work as a couple, because our likes and dislikes are so wildly different, in every aspect. He likes Indian food, I prefer Chinese; he likes easy listening music, I listen to hard rock at deafening levels; he has a man-crush on George Clooney, I can't stand the dude. It's really hard for us to come up with a way to spend time together doing something we both enjoy. However, during our last evening in on the couch, we gave up trying to agree and just shoved on Independence Day - and it was bloody fantastic! We had an amazing evening, one of our best, and we've finally realised a movie genre that we can both agree on: light hearted action movies.
So my question is, does anyone have any ideas for movies in a similar vein? I'm not really much of a movie buff myself, having always preferred books and serialised stories to films, and I've tried IMDB but their lists are weird, and basically, if anyone here knows a lot of movies and can suggest some that we might like, I would really appreciate it!
On another note, the weather here is GORGEOUS today, and I'm currently sitting out in my back garden with a cold can of diet coke and my short shorts on watching my baby do cartwheels on the trampoline while I pretend to do some work but am in actual fact surfing Tumblr. I want to bottle how I'm feeling right now and keep it with me forever. What a beautiful day!
But the problem is, we're having trouble coming up with movies to watch. A lot of people don't really understand how we work as a couple, because our likes and dislikes are so wildly different, in every aspect. He likes Indian food, I prefer Chinese; he likes easy listening music, I listen to hard rock at deafening levels; he has a man-crush on George Clooney, I can't stand the dude. It's really hard for us to come up with a way to spend time together doing something we both enjoy. However, during our last evening in on the couch, we gave up trying to agree and just shoved on Independence Day - and it was bloody fantastic! We had an amazing evening, one of our best, and we've finally realised a movie genre that we can both agree on: light hearted action movies.
So my question is, does anyone have any ideas for movies in a similar vein? I'm not really much of a movie buff myself, having always preferred books and serialised stories to films, and I've tried IMDB but their lists are weird, and basically, if anyone here knows a lot of movies and can suggest some that we might like, I would really appreciate it!
On another note, the weather here is GORGEOUS today, and I'm currently sitting out in my back garden with a cold can of diet coke and my short shorts on watching my baby do cartwheels on the trampoline while I pretend to do some work but am in actual fact surfing Tumblr. I want to bottle how I'm feeling right now and keep it with me forever. What a beautiful day!
