College Lesson Learned #29

#29- Family Movie Nights are nights dedicated to watching movies that guys love, or would never admit they love.

The wonderful thing about college is no matter what, you will find someone who has the same taste in anything, but when it comes to movies, almost EVERYONE has the same tastes (after all, we all grew up with Hercules and Beauty and the Beast). Movies are awesome… fact. I love all genres of movies, with the exception of horror/scary movies, but we’ll talk about that a different time.

At school, my roommate and I love movies and we enjoy sharing that passion. And often times we would have family movie nights. This pretty much consisted of the two of us, two or three guys from down the hall, and “the girls.” We would invite them over and watch whatever movie we chose that week.

Girls, guys know that you love those sappy movies (I mean they are in fact called chick-flicks). Here’s a little secret (and I apologize to those guys who were really pushing to keep this one a secret)- Guys like them too.

Hard to believe I know. The reason why it remains such a big secret is that we live in a society in which watching cute/sad, love movies isn’t manly. So we like them incognito.  It’s strictly taboo, but we keep it on the down low.

So men have adapted. We watch that genre of film ONLY if females are present, and we present it as a hassle. For example, if another Nicolas Sparks movie comes out our girlfriends or some other female party drags us guys to see it with them, then it’s ok. The only other time it is acceptable is if there is a 51%/49% of girls to guys. More than half are female, it’s okay. Thus movie nights… and guys, girls do like to cuddle up 

and watch Dear John or Crazy Stupid Love. They can’t help it.

Moral: Movie nights are a guy’s excuse to watch a movie that both parties want to see (but not without a “hassle”).