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XanaDUer2

(13,881 posts)
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 06:48 PM Mar 2023

Ever get obsessed with a movie?

Or artist, etc? I don't know if this is evidence of mental illness, but I'll see a movie that draws me in, and I'll become obsessed with it. Today its Born Free. It doesn't matter if it's a new movie, or older movie. I'll Google and learn everything I can about the movie, the cast, etc. Does anyone else do this?

I've been doing it my whole life.

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Ever get obsessed with a movie? (Original Post) XanaDUer2 Mar 2023 OP
Bohemian rhapsody leftieNanner Mar 2023 #1
Exactly! XanaDUer2 Mar 2023 #2
One of LilBits fave kozar Mar 2023 #16
This makes me smile leftieNanner Mar 2023 #18
Absolutely nothing wrong with being obsessed with art.... Glamrock Mar 2023 #3
I love Zodiac nt XanaDUer2 Mar 2023 #14
Mostly television series. ggma Mar 2023 #4
I'm so weird, I have to work myself up XanaDUer2 Mar 2023 #5
I have not been able to re-watch The Color Purple ggma Mar 2023 #13
That's a very emotional movie nt XanaDUer2 Mar 2023 #19
Thank you, XanaDUer2 for this thread. ggma Mar 2023 #22
I always look up imdb trivia on things I watch TlalocW Mar 2023 #6
Me, too! XanaDUer2 Mar 2023 #20
Career Opportunities with Jennifer Connelly obsessed? House of Roberts Mar 2023 #7
I look up movies, actors and movie quotes. New and old. twodogsbarking Mar 2023 #8
Not so much with movies, but them as well lol! BlackSkimmer Mar 2023 #9
This is me XanaDUer2 Mar 2023 #10
Of course! BigmanPigman Mar 2023 #11
I obsess about actual movie filming locations...Vancouver, Georgia, Los Angeles, etc hunter Mar 2023 #12
Yep. And, don't get me started on 'Outer Banks'! OldBaldy1701E Mar 2023 #15
I've seen mountains in the background of Miami XanaDUer2 Mar 2023 #21
I know right?!? (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Mar 2023 #23
I could never handle Dexter for some reason, it gives me flashbacks of a past assault as a teen. Ziggysmom Mar 2023 #24
Here's a documentary on Elsa and Born Free XanaDUer2 Mar 2023 #25
My "obessions" kozar Mar 2023 #17

kozar

(2,853 posts)
16. One of LilBits fave
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 05:46 AM
Mar 2023

When she is wound up and kinda getting on Dads final nerve, it’s Bohemian Rhapsody or Secretariat into the DVD. She calms and I find my self humming or singing during movie.

Glamrock

(11,994 posts)
3. Absolutely nothing wrong with being obsessed with art....
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 06:56 PM
Mar 2023

I can watch The Big Lebowski and recite the lines front to back. Same with Exile On Main Street, Amorica, most of Smokin' from Humble Pie. Embrace the art that moves you man....

ggma

(711 posts)
4. Mostly television series.
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 07:52 PM
Mar 2023

Especially anime and adult cartoons. The familiar voices and plots sooth me when I'm dealing with depression.

gg

XanaDUer2

(13,881 posts)
5. I'm so weird, I have to work myself up
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 07:54 PM
Mar 2023

To the emotional experience of watching. I was blown away yesterday by Born Free. I'll try to watch it tomorrow. But I didn't emotionally up to seeing it today. That's how much it moved me

ggma

(711 posts)
13. I have not been able to re-watch The Color Purple
Fri Mar 17, 2023, 01:46 AM
Mar 2023

since seeing it in the theater. More emotion than I can bear...

gg

ggma

(711 posts)
22. Thank you, XanaDUer2 for this thread.
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 01:38 PM
Mar 2023

I'm enjoying it and found a couple of good movies to put on my watch list!

gg

TlalocW

(15,625 posts)
6. I always look up imdb trivia on things I watch
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 07:58 PM
Mar 2023

I recently went to visit a friend in another city. We went to see Ant-Man 3, and she wanted to see the first two movies so we went back to her apartment and watched them. It drives her crazy that I look stuff up like that, and when Scott (who has stolen the Ant-Man shirt) is trying it on for the first time, I say, "Can I tell you one thing?" NO! So I waited until the next day and said, "Hey, do you remember when he fell on that older Black man's car after jumping out the window?" Yeah. "That was Garrett Morris from Saturday Night Live. He was the first person to dress like Ant-Man on TV, which is why they had in the movie." Oh, that's cool.

She introduced me to the UK series, "Derry Girls," and during one episode they mentioned, "The Walls," and so I started searching to see what the Walls were (defensive walls/gates built around the Londonderry in the 1600s). She got upset with me. I said, "Do you know what the Walls are?" No. "Well, I want to know."

XanaDUer2

(13,881 posts)
20. Me, too!
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 01:08 PM
Mar 2023

and Wikipedia. I just found a great documentary online about Born Free and the real Adamsons. It was great

House of Roberts

(5,687 posts)
7. Career Opportunities with Jennifer Connelly obsessed?
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 08:04 PM
Mar 2023

Earth Girls Are Easy with Geena Davis obsessed?

Yeah I guess I've been obsessed a few times with certain movies.

twodogsbarking

(12,228 posts)
8. I look up movies, actors and movie quotes. New and old.
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 08:05 PM
Mar 2023

The term "mentally ill" covers a wide spectrum. If you enjoy it go for it.

 

BlackSkimmer

(51,308 posts)
9. Not so much with movies, but them as well lol!
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 08:12 PM
Mar 2023

As I read your post, I was busy googling one of the characters on Mad Men, which I'm rewatching for no good reason.

First I had to google why he and the other character broke up, and then that led me down the rabbit hole of this guy's career. He was just a small character, and I don't think I'm any better for learning who he is, but there ya go. I just had to know!

I'm really bad about that with old sit-coms too. I'll recognize someone (who was much younger at the time), and if I can't guess who it is...there I go to google lol. I don't think it's mental illness, just insatiable curiosity.

I can't say I've been doing it my whole life because there was no google for the greater portion of my life (so far), but yeah, you are not alone!

XanaDUer2

(13,881 posts)
10. This is me
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 08:15 PM
Mar 2023

I was reading up on Jared Harris bcbof Mad Men! Like others here, I sit and just explore all sorts of stuff on the internet. I just ordered the book Born Free from the library.

And the grave of Elsa the Lion. It's amazing what the internet can find you. Lots of crap, but good stuff, too

BigmanPigman

(52,262 posts)
11. Of course!
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 09:20 PM
Mar 2023

That means it was a good film to you. I always start to watch a film and then I Google it for all the info about it and the cast, etc. Films that I first saw years and years ago and rewatch then Google for info I find new things that were important but I missed. An example is Midnight Cowboy. I had no understanding of the flashback scenes but after Googling the film it finally made sense only a hear ago.

I prefer spoilers. I need to be able to follow the film. This is why I like Columbo. He told you who was guilty from the start so you could follow the crime better.

hunter

(38,936 posts)
12. I obsess about actual movie filming locations...Vancouver, Georgia, Los Angeles, etc
Thu Mar 16, 2023, 10:41 PM
Mar 2023

It makes my wife crazy when I notice the flora or geology doesn't match the presumed setting, or that mountains, jungles, palm trees, all sorts of things, are 'shopped in.

When a movie is over I'll go to the internet and often find my speculations about actual locations were correct.

Nope that wasn't New Hampshire as claimed. It was Utah.

And that's certainly not Los Angeles or New York.

I'm absolutely delighted when Paris is Paris, or Rio de Janeiro is Rio de Janeiro.

One of the most disappointing movies I ever saw was Gravity. Everything was broken about that. I could not suspend my disbelief.

OldBaldy1701E

(6,359 posts)
15. Yep. And, don't get me started on 'Outer Banks'!
Fri Mar 17, 2023, 06:24 PM
Mar 2023

THERE ARE NO BOULDERS OR CLIFFS ON THE OUTER BANKS!!!

(I apologize but that one is especially insulting to those of us who grew up there. I can't say I obsess over movie trivia in general, but I do when they could be filming on the actual Outer Banks... but noooooooo.

Ziggysmom

(3,574 posts)
24. I could never handle Dexter for some reason, it gives me flashbacks of a past assault as a teen.
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 09:33 PM
Mar 2023

I love Born Free, but the way the Adamsons ended up after Elsa passes is sad. The Born Free Foundation continues their legacy.

"Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever." ~ Joy Adamson

kozar

(2,853 posts)
17. My "obessions"
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 05:49 AM
Mar 2023

Any Neil Diamond song, and if scrolling through tv channels, and Hunt for Red October is on. Well , I’m not moving until it ends. I don’t know why.

KozandLilBit

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