Ohmygod so you are the "other guy:?!?! She speaks highly of you.
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Reluctant, due to her skepticism..."I don't want to invest time or attention in this because I don't think I'll actually like it."
To her credit, she is currently trying to give more things a chance...she recently watched 'Big' and 'Coming to America' for the first time (yes, seriously) and enjoyed both. I'm trying to broaden her horizons.
The only movies you have to talk me into watching are movies with a lot of gory stuff, so, horror movies and war pictures. I've still never watched the first 15 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan" and I had to fast forward through some of "Hacksaw Ridge". (I will never watch "Saw", don't even ask.) If it's not gory though, I'll watch anything. When a movie is really bad, I start getting all analytical as to why. (It's usually the script. You gotta tell a story. All the bells and whistles can be cool and fun, but watching stuff get blowed up good is not enough to sustain a movie. Tell a story. And if you have to blow stuff up to tell the story, go ahead and work your technical magic, but tell the story!)
I've never watched the first 15 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan" because my younger brother told me I couldn't handle it. I've never known him to be wrong about what I can handle in movies. "Saving Private Ryan" without the first 15 minutes is a well acted movie with a merely average story to tell. "Shakespeare in Love" is a much better movie and deserved the Oscar. (I think I've voiced that particular opinion before around here.)
"Shakespeare in Love" is actually a backstage comedy pretending to be a love story. All the theater people I know love that movie. And it gets so much right about backstage life. And how inspiration works. It's brilliant.
Every tech week someone will panic, and someone else will say, "All will be well" and then someone cries, "How?" and then pretty much everybody says "It's a mystery!" in unison.