Younger Hexbears, if the spirit of boomerdom visited your household, boomer is more a state of mind than a specific birth year, so feel free to share your stories too.

There are some obviously better-known movies like Wall Street, but I remember an obscure one called "Let It Ride" that was played on tape over and over and over again so many times that it was like the theme song of the household for a while. It was a Richard Dreyfuss film about a gambling addicted asshole who seeks to triumph over his gambling problems by... gambling. Until he gets vibes about winning and then wins at gambling. galaxy-brain

As a boomer bonus it portrays The Wife as a bad person because she's... upset at the protagonist's gambling addition. Oh yeah and she suspects he's eager to commit some adultery. How dare she... the way to show her is to have a much younger love interest that is totally into the protagonist because he starts to win at gambling! morshupls

For anyone that has had gambling-addicted boomer parents, the kind that thought a fun outing for the kids was going to the racetrack, or to Vegas, you may have similar stories of poverty perpetuated because your grillman also liked to "Let It Ride."

  • pooh [she/her, any]
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    11 months ago

    So my dad’s all time favorite movie was The Sting with Newman and Redford. To be honest it’s actually a pretty great movie, so I can’t really criticize that. “Chariots of Fire” was another one my parents liked and I never saw it so I’m not sure how terrible it is. Plan 9 from Outer Space was another one they loved, and I can’t criticize that either for obvious reasons, but maybe watching that kinda stuff is a small part of why I’m so weird.

    I guess I should mention my parents were also in an evangelical borderline cult and didn’t watch too much popular media since they considered it “worldly”. They would ironically sometimes let us watch very adult films like Predator or Robocop, and I dunno if it’s because they were clueless or just cared way more about sex than graphic violence.

    I also remember watching some weird religious shit like “The God Makers” which talks all about how Mormons believe Jesus and Satan were brothers and other stuff that makes them look bad, which there’s plenty of.

    EDIT: Also forgot to mention UHF, and now that I think about it they actually had not bad taste in films overall.