What is it about some movies that they just make you completely lose track of common sense?
I just spent the last two hours watching, back to back, the last hour of Dirty Dancing and the last hour of The Karate Kid. Now, I have probably seen Dirty Dancing - and this is just a rough estimate – four hundred million times. And we own a DVD copy of The Karate Kid, so I could watch it commercial-free any time I wanted.
But there I sat, mesmerized, as the minutes rolled by and midnight came and went. The laundry didn’t get done, and I didn’t finish the book that’s due back to the library tomorrow, and I vaguely remember Byron telling me at some point he was going to bed. None of it mattered, when compared to “Nobody puts Baby in a corner,” and “Get ‘im a body bag!”
Tomorrow, I’ll be dragging myself out of bed, when I’ve pushed the snooze button twice more than I really should have. I’ll be harried and exhausted and I’ll be mentally kicking myself, wondering what in the hell I was thinking staying up this late to watch old eighties movies that I’ve seen so many times.
But some movies have the power to make you forget everything but that really good scene that’s coming up after the next commercial break.
Now I’m off to bed, although maybe first I’ll flip through the channels and make sure nobody is showing The Princess Bride.
How funny; I just rented Karate Kid the other night for the boys to watch. They’ve been going around the house saying, “wax on, wax off” all week.
I’m with you on Princess Bride, even though we own it. For some reason Pretty Woman always gets me. I can watch the shopping scene non-stop. I would also add Breakfast Club and Steel Magnolias to the list of movies that send me into the vortex. “My colors are blush and bashful.” “Your colors are PINK and PINK.”
Ditto The Cutting Edge. Own it. Seen it a million times. Still can’t resist, “Toe pick.”
Love this post – so true! I suspect that a good 10 percent of my daily conversation – and perhaps 25 percent of my conversations with my husband – consists of quotes from the movies listed here. “Legal, no legal — is gray area”.