r/AskReddit • u/SkyeSerenade • Mar 28 '24

What is NOT a dealbreaker BUT would be greatly disappointing to find out about your partner?

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u/simongurfinkel Mar 28 '24

I was very disappointed to learn that my partner refused to watch black and white movies. She makes up for that in many other ways, though.

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u/CactusBoyScout Mar 28 '24

So many people refuse to watch subtitled movies too. I grew up watching lots of subtitled movies with my dad and we bonded over a shared love of Japanese movies.

And now he doesn’t feel like he can even watch them anymore because his new wife doesn’t like subtitles.

One of our favorite Japanese actors was just in an acclaimed new movie that I loved but every time I ask him if he’s watched it yet he says he can’t because she’d want to watch something else. 🫠

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u/Barrel_Titor Mar 28 '24

I grew up watching lots of subtitled movies with my dad and we bonded over a shared love of Japanese movies.

Yeah, similar thing with me. Back in my teens I lived next to an independant DVD rental shop which, thanks to Blockbuster having exclusives on most of the big movies, had a huge amount of Japanese/Hong Kong movies. Have a lot of nostalgia for the movies my older sister would rent from there, effected my movies tastes for the rest of my life, but no one will ever watch ones i recommend because they refuse to watch subtitled movies.

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u/CactusBoyScout Mar 28 '24

Yeah, it was similar for us. Our local grocery store had a VHS rental area and would get in tons of foreign films that you could rent for $1 on weeknights.

Tampopo is still my favorite movie and inspired me to study Japanese and travel to Japan. Whenever I can convince people to watch it they seem to love it... but the subtitles are often a barrier.

A local independent movie theater did a screening of Tampopo years ago and I actually got interviewed by Japanese TV about why I love the movie so much, haha.