Ever get obsessed with a movie?

[XanaDUer2]

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.

[leftieNanner]

1. Bohemian rhapsody

[XanaDUer2]

2. Exactly!

I don't know why I do this. I'm also obsessed with All That Breathes

[kozar]

16. One of LilBits fave

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.

[leftieNanner]

18. This makes me smile

I'm glad that I share a favorite movie with her.

[Glamrock]

3. Absolutely nothing wrong with being obsessed with art....

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....

[XanaDUer2]

14. I love Zodiac nt

[ggma]

4. Mostly television series.

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

gg

[XanaDUer2]

5. I'm so weird, I have to work myself up

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]

13. I have not been able to re-watch The Color Purple

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

gg

[XanaDUer2]

19. That's a very emotional movie nt

[ggma]

22. Thank you, XanaDUer2 for this thread.

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

gg

[TlalocW]

6. I always look up imdb trivia on things I watch

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]

20. Me, too!

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

[House of Roberts]

7. Career Opportunities with Jennifer Connelly obsessed?

Earth Girls Are Easy with Geena Davis obsessed?

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

[twodogsbarking]

8. I look up movies, actors and movie quotes. New and old.

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

[BlackSkimmer]

9. Not so much with movies, but them as well lol!

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]

10. This is me

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]

11. Of course!

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]

12. I obsess about actual movie filming locations...Vancouver, Georgia, Los Angeles, etc

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]

15. Yep. And, don't get me started on 'Outer Banks'!

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.

[XanaDUer2]

21. I've seen mountains in the background of Miami

Dexter

[OldBaldy1701E]

23. I know right?!? (n/t)

[Ziggysmom]

24. I could never handle Dexter for some reason, it gives me flashbacks of a past assault as a teen.

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

[XanaDUer2]

25. Here's a documentary on Elsa and Born Free

It was really interesting. Yes, both Adamsons were murdered.

https://docur.co/documentary/elsa-the-lioness-that-changed-the-world

[kozar]

17. My "obessions"

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