Why type of person do you imagine saying that? (Lots of girls seem to be into it)
shareThey're probably a more interesting person than someone who prefers superhero movies.
shareI'm going to go with Try Hard/Fake Goth again.
shareBoth of those 90s Addams Family movies were superb.
shareIf they'd said Addams Family Values, I'd imagine they'd be an absolutely awesome person. If they're referring to the first film, they'd probably be pretty cool too.
shareI prefer Fight Club.
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Both 90s Addams Family films are good. But assuming it's an adult human being who is telling me their favourite film is The Addams Family, then I have to say that they're the type of person who should really watch some films aimed at proper grown-ups.
The humour is pretty wry and sophisticated in those movies, to the extent that I think they go over the heads of most younger kids. I didn't initially appreciate the first Addams Family film when I saw it, because I hadn't fully-developed my dark sense of humour, but two years later, I absolutely loved Addams Family Values, because by 13/14, I was better able to appreciate its subversive tone. One of my favourite jokes in the first film is when Gomez crashes his 'toy' trainset. Just before he does so, we see a glimpse of a miniature passenger, played by director Barry Sonnenfeld in a cameo, who peers out curiously at the giant man outside his carriage. It's a wonderful moment, because it's never explained (where does this miniature man come from?), and it implies that the subsequent toy train crash has genuinely fatal consequences.
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Yes. They're very good family entertainment films. I liked them then. I like them now.
But if your favourite film as an adult is a family entertainment film, however good, you need to watch more films aimed at actual grown-ups.
There is a lot of this perpetual adolescence about though.
Perhaps.
My personal favourite films (i.e. Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Dr. Strangelove, Apocalypse Now, The King of Comedy, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Magnolia, to name a few), I would say tend to be aimed at older audiences, however, I still get a big buzz out of watching films that are huge parts of my youth (e.g. Labyrinth, Return to Oz, the Addams Family films, the Burton Batman films, and so on), and so I can't really begrudge anyone who holds such films in such high regard.
Oh yes. All these 40-60 somethings going on about the 'MCU Universe'. Its a bit pathetic.
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To be clear, I don't have a problem in and of itself with adults liking stuff that's essentially for kids. I do it too. I like Doctor Who. I'm in no position to throw stones there.
But it's all about keeping it in proportion, isn't it? And remembering that it is for kids. I think contemporary pop culture tends to lose sight of that.
An adult can't sustain themselves on marshmallows and alphabetti spaghetti. You've gotta mostly eat real food.
Folks like what they like. There’s no shame in favoring a family film.
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No, there's no shame in 'favouring' a family film. At no point have I suggested that there is or should be.
But in much the same way you'd (hopefully) find it a bit odd should a grown adult tell you their favourite kind of food was a 'Happy Meal', or their favourite book was one of the Harry Potters, I would find it a bit odd if the same fully-grown adult told me their favourite film of all time was, I dunno... Iron Man.
Adults do need to be adults. Part of being an adult may well be the old CS Lewis thing of 'openly enjoying fairytales'. But there's a substantive difference between that approach and revelling in an arrested adolescence. To me, naming a family entertainment film as your all-time favourite would suggest the latter.
People are, however, at liberty to do whatever pleases them. I can't and wouldn't want to stop them.