pensieve wrote:
I was into Titanic too but more about the history than the movie. My mum bought me books about it. I wasn't really a talker back then but I drew pictures of it and one person gave me $1.50 for a drawing.
The Lion King was pretty popular and so were a few other Disney films. When I was a teenager my sisters friend got me into Lord of the Rings and I got really obsessed about that. My sister said that I was too serious about it.
I think we tend to get really intense into our interests, learn factual information rather than just talking about what we love most about it, and tend to focus on just one part of it. I'm into sci-fi but with other sci-fi TV fans I still feel like I don't get them. Even the way they talk is just so different. Basically, I can't tell their nerds through their speech. I always thought they'd be more pedantic like me.
I remember when the movie first came out, my parents told me how teens were seeing the movie again in theaters because they thought the boy in the movie was cute so they were seeing it again just to see him. They even thought I saw it for that reason and I blurted out that I saw the movie because it was about the ship and I thought it was interesting. I did keep seeing the movie in theaters when I could and my parents found that acceptable but yet they wouldn't let me see 101 Dalmatians again when it was in theaters. My dad probably would have let me but not my mom. I think it was dad that took us every time to see the movie. I also read books about it too. My ex aspie mate was into it too and when he was at my home, we watched the movie about three times.
I do admit I did cry when Jack died. It sucks to lose someone you love.