Movie Night Has Fallen
Unless you get Rekd — in which case, Movie Night is Resurrected
My father is one of the most intelligent people I know. As an engineer, he has a deeply analytical mind, accustomed to finding solutions to problems. As a kid, I used to ask him for help with math problems that I couldn’t solve on my own — problems that he always knew the answer to (I came to accept the fact that asking for help usually entailed sitting through an hour-long lecture on how to find the answer). I soon learned, though, that my dad wasn’t just a “math and physics guy.” He has an incredible grasp on politics and will engage anyone on any topic. He has a great and varied love of music, ranging from old, traditional Arabic songs to 70s rock classics. My love of reading is matched only by his, evidenced by bookcases filled with his old books.
And yet, his taste in movies… leaves something to be desired.
Let me give you a glimpse of what movie night the past few months with my father has been like: White House Down. Olympus Has Fallen. London Has Fallen. Can we watch London Has Fallen again? The two worst decisions I have made during movie night recently include suggesting we watch Cloud Atlas and, another time, that we watch Moonlight. My father didn’t appreciate either movie and is convinced that my taste in movies is “weird” and unreliable.
Movie night, once coveted as valuable family-bonding time, has become a dreaded ordeal, punctuated by never-ending disagreement about what to watch as I spend 45 minutes googling “movie recommendations” and searching through countless random, disorganized lists. It feels impossible to satisfy anybody, as my dad wants a mindless action movie, I want a thought-provoking thriller (think Shutter Island), and my mom wants a feel-good sob-fest (although her sweet nature means that she’ll always tell whoever picked the movie that it was a good choice).
On my most recent visits home, I’ve stopped suggesting we watch movies altogether.
But that’s where Rekd comes in to salvage my family’s movie nights and the movie nights of families everywhere (as you long as you download the app, that is). Rekd allows you to make the freshest cliques with your friends and family, and uses an algorithm to give you movie recommendations tailored to everyone’s tastes, from the action-movie-lover to the mind-bending-Christopher-Nolan-addict to that one person who can’t stop crying at The Blind Side (if that sounds like your clique, think Interstellar — even my entire family loved this one — or perhaps give Dunkirk a go).
Trust me on this one — after all, we built Rekd with this very challenge in mind, inspired by the rapidly falling standard of once-sacred movie nights. If Rekd can return movie night to the cliché, good time that it once was for my family, only imagine what it can do for you and yours.
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