@RickiTarr my mother likes Leo DiCaprio. She said she wanted to watch the Wolf of Wal Street. I said I don't think you do. She said why not. I said because in the first 15 minutes of the movie he's snorting cocaine off a hooker's ass. She did not watch the Wolf of Wall Street.
@RickiTarr Anything historical, period dramas, films based on literature. When I was a kid and teen, she introduced me (as they became age-appropriate) to Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo & Juliet (1968), The Blue & The Gray, Anno Domini, Roots, The Ten Commandments, Anna Karenina, Age of Innocence, Casablanca, Vertigo, The Birds, Ben-Hur, Citizen Kane....
@RickiTarr Good movie to watch with your Mom? Depends on Mom's age, really, but... How about "Bell, Book and Candle"? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051406/ and if your Mom is anything like my espresso chugging Mom, you could go for a double feature and couple that with (the original star-studded version of) "Hairspray" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075936/
@RickiTarr With my mom? Heheh... She likes action flicks. Especially the Marvel movies. Except Thor. She doesn't like Thor, for some reason. But she does like Loki!
She particularly likes the Mission Impossible movies.
@RickiTarr my son (a middle-schooler at the time) wanted to see Bullet Train one weekend that my husband was away for work. I mentioned to my mother we were going to the movies later, and that the movie starred Brad Pitt (and Sandra Bullock) "I'd love to come with!" It wasn't what she was expecting, but my son loved it and she and I were in giggle-fits as the campy violence got more and more extreme. She did like it but said "I don't think I'll tell my friends about this one"
@RickiTarr She hasn't been around for decades but when I was 5-7 years old she took me to see Invaders From Mars and Creature From The Black Lagoon (3D) so anything sci-fi.
Much to my wife's chagrin, the sci-fi has stuck with me.
@RickiTarr though, I should clarify that the reasoning of not knowing is more related to the fact that movie watching was never a widespread group activity in my home. That most of us now wear some form of noise cancelling headphones/earbuds says a lot about how we mostly keep our media consumption to personal devices
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