Should I call a divorce lawyer?

[Sluggo]

My wife rented a couple of movies the other night, one being The Last Castle we got around to watching it tonight. About half-way through the movie my wife says "You know, this is as good as The Shawshank Redemption"

Complete and utter shock could not even begin to describe my feelings after she said that, I feel I can no longer live with someone that shows such a complete lack of taste. When she agreed to marry me, I knew she somewhat lacked in taste, but I never knew that it ran this deep.

I am at a loss, any thoughts?

 

[RossMAN]

I totally agree with you. Make her cook you dinner, freeze it, make her give you some, then kick her ass out the door.

j/k

The Last Castle was ok but no where as good as Shawshank was, no comparison.

 

[Moonbeam]

She obviously has no taste. She married you.

 

[rutchtkim]

man, last castle suxed

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
She obviously has no taste. She married you.

Yeah, I saw this joke coming a mile away and covered it in the thread.

 

[EvilYoda]

I dunno, if I'm going for a "light" lunch, I usually go with PB&J.

But as for the movies, The Last Castle was entertaining, I guess (a little slow), but certainly nowhere near Shawshank caliber.

 

[Moonbeam]

hehe, I read right over it. I was just kidding, seeing if you saw the irony, so I guess I can get serious. First question would be, are you serious. I don't know either of those movies, at least by name. I'm sorta content focused, names don't mean jack to me. Anyway if you are serious I would suspect that there may be deeper issues here than taste, and that taste is what's getting focused on. One problem is embarasment. You may be confusing your identity with your wife's. You may carry a committee on your shoulder who are jabbing you in the ribs about having such a tasteless wife. You could be worried, that is, that somebody will laugh at her and wonder what's with you. A second point is that taste is a rather subjective thing. We like different things. That's what makes a ball game. The urge to have others conform to our ideas of taste isn't too good for independent thinking. You may also have made your wife nervous about expressing an opinion and out of that nervousness she may not be able to reach her deeper faculties. She may be telling you what she thinks you want to hear. Anyway, one thing seems pretty sure. We don't solve relationship problems by changing the other person, we have a chance to solve them by changing ourselves. This might even be true enough to suggest that it shows a lack of taste to criticize other people's taste.

I read something one time that struck a nerve. It was said by one of those wierdo teachers of wisdon that appear from time to time. He made this statement. "Who should not criticize? You."

 

[jemcam]

Okay man. LIsten up. You want to divorce your wife because she has bad taste in movies? Let me put it this way: You are as shallow as she is boorish.

I've been divorced man, you don't want to go there. Doesn't matter if you have kids or not. Pretty soon she'll be having someone else's babies or raising them as here own, then are you going to think she's so bad? Think about this, what does matter in the scheme of your marriage & life?

Think about it dude!!!

 

[rahvin]

Originally posted by: jemcam
Okay man. LIsten up. You want to divorce your wife because she has bad taste in movies? Let me put it this way: You are as shallow as she is boorish.

I've been divorced man, you don't want to go there. Doesn't matter if you have kids or not. Pretty soon she'll be having someone else's babies or raising them as here own, then are you going to think she's so bad? Think about this, what does matter in the scheme of your marriage & life?

Think about it dude!!!

Whoa there buckaroo, turn that sarcasm sensor back on if you have it.

 

[Squisher]

The Last Casle as good as Shawshank Redemption? No way.

Divorce? No, but you might wanna take away the checkbook and credit cards. Could be the first signs of Alzheimer's.

You might also want to look into what meds she's on. Might be under/over-medicated.

 

[XMan]

Dude, it's Robert Redford. That, for a woman, negates anything bad about the movie. Robert Redford could do a movie where he was sitting in a recliner reading the newspaper and women would love it. It'd win a stinkin' Oscar.

 

[Legendary]

I'm sorry but there are so few movies that compare with Shawshank that to mention the Last Castle might get by a few judges as grounds for a divorce.

 

[Soulflare]

My god man, that may even justify murder! I hope that at the very least you
had several people shake her violently back to her senses, Airplane-style.

 

[poopaskoopa]

Tuna. Uncooked, of course .

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: Xerox Man
Dude, it's Robert Redford. That, for a woman, negates anything bad about the movie. Robert Redford could do a movie where he was sitting in a recliner reading the newspaper and women would love it. It'd win a stinkin' Oscar.

Well I think Xerox Man sees that actual issues at play here. While Robert Redford may be old enough (using new math of course) to be my wife's grandfather, she still finds him to be the epitamy of sexiness in the male species. She dreams back in fond retrospect of seeing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as the ultimate movie of all time, regardless of the fact that it was made less than 1 year after her birth.

50 votes and 13 replies, why does that not surprise me?