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I never watched “Ferris Beuller’s Day Off.” Everyone was talking about it and I’ve never thought it was a good idea to go see a movie just because it was popular. I thought “Napoleon Dynamite” was one of the worst movies I had ever seen. Most of the billions of “Star Wars” spinoffs are so predictable you wonder if they just stopped trying.

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine named Jack bought a bunch of tee shirts for our social action group. We were downtown and a woman was trying to get his attention.

She started yelling, “Jack!”

So I started yelling, “Rose!”

Then it caught on and a woman and myself went back and forth with it until everyone who understood what we were doing was laughing uncontrollably.

You’d have to have seen the movie “Titanic” to get the joke. Most of us laughing were older folk, by the way.

My tendency to fall in love with obscure movies caused me to rewatch, “The Hours” until I could recite the dialog in my sleep. The train station scene between Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard is one of the best scenes in the history of film making. Nicole Kidman won an Oscar for the movie. I rarely meet anyone who liked it.

Because I’ve listened to far too many audio books, not to mention the ones I’ve read, on serial killers, horror in any shape, fashion or form, has no effect on me at all. I thought the book by Stephen King, “It” needed SH in front of it. The ending, after wading through the dreck that must have been a billion pages, pissed me off. The miniseries sucked. I didn’t bother with the recent movie.

I know people who loved the book.

This week’s audience participation is this: Name a movie everyone loved but you never saw. Name a movie you saw and hated, but everyone loved.

Or a book. Or both.

Take Care,

Mike