Tradition!

Aha! You thought I was going to talk about Fiddler on the Roof - but, no. This week’s topic is, however, all about movie-watching traditions.  I know every family has them. 

When my children were younger, we would watch certain movies for holidays as well as our regular Christmas fare.  Easter was always Ben-Hur; Thanksgiving weekend was The Great Race, and summer? Well, summertime continues to be franchise-fests (and the kids are not even at home anymore)!  We certainly have our favorites.  And as I read posts on Facebook these days, I see many posts from summer movie marathoners.

Right now, we’re enjoying some Bond films that we don’t know the plots by memory – so this includes Sean Connery’s and Pierce Brosnan’s turns as 007 (since we know ALL of Roger Moore’s takes!

Later this summer, we’ll join in on those infamous adventures with Indiana Jones, followed by journeying into the “long time ago to a galaxy far, far away”.  

By then, it’s autumn, and we return to our "Sunday Movie Night.”  We take three weeks to visit the Shire and the far lands of Middle Earth, which then catapult us into “Space, the final frontier” and the films of both Captains J.T. Kirk & J-L Picard. 

Somewhere in there, the Christmas season arrives and those holiday films get sprinkled in during those few days.  Then, as late winter and early spring arrive, it’s time to venture into recent theatre releases that are no longer new, but new for us.  Late spring?  Add a few classics (which I watch on a regular basis regardless), and voila!

Add a comment and let me know what your traditions are when watching movies - I know you have them!

I will be taking a couple of weeks off and will return August 9th.