I
get it; we all have our favorite movies. But isn't there a point
(possibly somewhere between the sixth and seventh rewatch in a year)
when we just get sick of the same movie over and over? I mean, hell
yes, I love Blood Diamond, but if I watched it more than once
or twice a year I think I would just get sick of it. Seeing Elf
even once a year is bordering on too much. My mom seems to
have some immunity to this, though.
I
interviewed her to try to find out what was up.
As
it turns out, I'm an awful interviewer. Not only was I unprepared to
the point where I kept repeating the same question over and over in
different ways, hoping something new would come up, but I also didn't
figure anything new out.
Pretty
much the reason my mom watches The Mummy
and The Mask of Zorro so often is because, “They're
exciting...I like Antonio Banderas”. (Ummm, who doesn't?)
I
asked her why she bought each movie in the first place. “I bought
[The Mask of Zorro] because it was cheap. It's
got...historical fiction and it's funny and there's romance it in and
action and adventure.”
When
asked what her favorite thing about The Mummy was, she said
“the mummies”. (How fascinating!)
My
mom claimed that she actually doesn't watch Zorro
that often, which I totally don't believe. I've only watched it with
her half of the times she has and I can recognize the soundtrack from
a different room. (Okay, maybe I've seen the movie a few too many
times.) She said her favorite movie was more along the lines of Ever
After. (All right, that's a
pretty good one she watches a lot, but it's way too far into this
post to add it in.)
So
whether it's just an immunity to getting tired of the same movie over
and over or maybe just my mom getting too old to remember what the
movies are about, I didn't figure a lot out. As she said, “You suck
at this for sure.”
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