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How do you decide which movies you’re going to see? Do you like indie films, art films, epics, romances, or war movies? Or some combination thereof?
When our son was small, we had to want to see a movie a lot for it to be worth finding a sitter, paying the sitter, and feeding both boy and sitter. And that movie had better be good once we went through all that! We gravitated toward movies with engaging stories. If we were interested in the story but not sure, we might go anyway if the lead roles were played by actors we particularly liked.
Now we base our decisions more a what else we have to do and how soon it has to be done. The movie has to interest us, of course. Romantic comedy is always a possibility. We also like quirky character pieces, though they don’t tend to stay in the theater long. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is just such a film. We intended to see it in the theater but didn’t act quickly enough, so we recently rented it. I’ll review it in the next newsletter.
I’m always a sucker for super-heroes. Unless I think they’re going to be badly done. If you’ve seen the newsletter, you know I regarded Hancock with great anxiety, which the first third of the movie fully justified, but ended up loving it. Iron Man was just plain fabulous. James Bond is a draw for us, but Quantum of Solace went away before we got there.
So what kinds of movies do you like?
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Nancy 
we love the Westerns, James Bond, comedy ones like Robin Williams ones(Patch Adams and Good Will Hunting). Because we live too far to go to the theatre very often we buy movies. At one time we could rent them in our small town but now there is no place for that. The local Flea Market sold movies but it has since closed also. Dh likes SciFi which I don’t but will sometimes sit through just to be with him.