No, I Haven't Seen It. Don't Judge Me

I love movies.  I can throw movie lines into random conversations.  I don't get to theaters as much as I'd like, but I have my DVR and movie channels and Netflix.  The movies I love I'll watch over and over.  I love old movies (An Affair To Remember is one of my all time favorites) and cheesy ones (Grease 2, anyone?) and everything in between.  I also grew up with my nose in a book, where so many movies started from.  But there are movies that I when I say haven't seen that cause people to go into some kind of a pop culture shock.

1. The Godfather (any of them)

There are lines from the movie I can throw into conversation but I have never seen any of the Godfather movies.  Please don't judge me.  If it helps I have all 3 on my DVR. 

2. Citizen Kane

For years it topped every list of the greatest movies of all time.  But I haven't seen it.  I've meant to.  I even know who Rosebud is (see what I did there).  But I've never seen it.

3. The Lord of the Rings (any of them)

 

 

Another series I have never watched.  Never read the books, never wanted to.  Sorry.

 

4. The Shawshank Redemption

 

 

This is one I've tried to watch a few times.  But I always seem to find it edited when it's on.  If I'm going to see it then I'm going to see the original uncut version.

 

5. Harry Potter and the... (yes, all of them too)

 

 

I know so little about the movies (and books) that I wasn't even sure which poster was for the first one.  People tell me all the time that I'd love the books if I gave them a chance, and that I'd want to see the movies, but they do nothing for me. 

 

6. To Kill A Mockingbird

 

 



I know, I know.  And I haven't read the book.  What the hell is wrong with me?

7.  Twilight (any and all of them)

I am not Team Edward, not Team Jacob, nothing.  I have no desire to read the books and really couldn't stomach the movies.  Another one people tell me I HAVE to read. 

8. Apocalypse Now

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"...but another movie I haven't seen.

I found the "100 Greatest Films of All Time" from The Hollywood Reporter, and there are a bunch I have seen.  Of the top 20 I love The Wizard of Oz, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump and ET, Casablanca and Gone With the Wind are two classics I've seen over and over.  I've seen all of the Back To The Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars films (except the new Star Wars, they're just not the same).  I sat at the end of Schindler's List and just couldn't move.  I've seen Annie Hall, just don't get the hype.  And I really don't like It's A Wonderful Life.  Yes, I can hear the groans from here.

There are lots of others I could list but I won't bore you with them.  Are there any movies people think you're crazy because you haven't seen them?

Invisible Me

Today we have something new for you...a friend of mine has asked to write a little something.  I know you'll be nice.  She really is awesome, even with her love of the Detroit Tigers.  I bring you  

I'm invisible.....

Some times I get stepped on by people who don't see me.  It doesn't hurt anything but my pride.  I'm small but not so small that a grown man could over look me. People say things I'm not supposed to hear.  They don't tell me these secrets willingly, they just forget I'm there or didn't see me in the first place. Do you want chicken or fish for dinner?  I say fish, and yet bake chicken because no one saw me when I shook my head no indicating I didn't want poultry. There's a book in my lap.  I just want to sit quietly and read it.

Suddenly I am visible... 

I am dragged into arguments I can't win.  Ridiculed because I won't change my opinion to agree with bigoted outdated views.  I wish I could be invisible when it comes to dealing with this mental illness that is not my own.   I wish it's rage was blind to my existence. Instead it seems to be the only eye I catch.  And serenity and peace become invisible to me.

-- Beer Bitch

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***And because I'm me I always have to add my 2 cents.  I know these feelings.  I live with these feelings.  Beer Bitch, I see you.  Now and always :)