Blog Post #3: Movies

My Third interview with Greg was over Movies. My father has a long history them. One of his favorite places to go see movies was at the Drive-in Theater on 66 Watson. He went there almost every week, whether that was alone, with friends, or on a date. The Drive-In was only open in the evenings so that you could see the screen. Most of the time he would park in the back to "see the screen better". When he was younger, he would go on the playgrounds during the intermission of the movies

                                          Image source: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/8620

                 This is the same theater that Greg went to when he was younger. unfortunately, it is demolished now 

I would always go and get a candy bar at the concession stand before the movie started. My parents would get popcorn, but I never liked how greasy it made my fingers, especially because there wasn't a good place to wash our hands.

Greg followed many movies growing up. Some of his favorite movies include Caddy Shack, Animal House, and anything with Tom Cruise (the Mission: Impossible movies specifically). He also liked to watch documentaries, just for trivia's sake. He never really went and watched adult movies, so his parents didn't really forbid him from seeing anything specific.

                                                       Image Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cruise

          in addition to Mission: Impossible, Greg really enjoys Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men

Since I would always go to the farm during the summer, movies didn't play that big of a part when I got together with my friends. We would spend our time outside when it was nice, sometimes till past dark.

More recently, Greg and his wife would rent a ton of movies from Red  ox, mostly ones that they could show to their children when they were growing up. There wasn't any movie that they rented multiple times.

If we really liked a movie we would just buy it. We go in cycles with some movies, from watching the same one every month to then not watching it for years. That stopped though when we got our first DVR machine.

                                image source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_video_recorder

the V+, an example of a DVR that my father had

Today, Greg doesn't use streaming services other than YouTube. When he uses it though, it is rarely for movies. He uses it for music videos.