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The original was posted on /r/bestofredditorupdates by /u/Choice_Evidence1983 on 2025-01-01 05:04:04+00:00.
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Originally posted to r/NoStupidQuestions
What should I do if my brother in law makes my family watch all 6 Rocky movies on Christmas and I can’t take it anymore?
Trigger Warnings: possible obsessive behavior
Original Post: December 25, 2024
My brother in law is a great guy. He’s got a successful small business, has two awesome kids, and treats my sister (his wife) really well.
However, we we all gather at my parents house for Christmas every year, he INSISTS on putting on the Rocky movies allllllll day. Not only do they have to be on the tv, but he wants to be sure that we’re watching the movies and paying attention to them. They can’t just be on in the background.
He starts right when we wake and and we have to open presents while the first movie plays. Then he puts on Rocky II, then III, and so on. They play throughout the entire day. And the volume of the tv is always SO loud. Anytime we leave to go into another room to try and do something else, he gives us a guilt trip that we’re not participating in the family tradition.
I can’t take it anymore. I don’t find the movies to be bad, but I feel this tradition doesn’t have much to do with Christmas and I don’t like the movies enough to have to have them on every single year.
I’m also not the only one on my family who wants this tradition to end. What can we do?
Top Comments
Commenter 1: lmao this is hilarious.
Get up and go do something else. You don’t have to sit and watch movies just because someone asked you to.
Commenter 2: Then your family needs to put on their big boy and girl pants and communicate with him that you do not want to watch the movies.
Edit: I am really curious what is going to be the conclusion to OP’s update. My guess is BIL is just going to stop coming over on Christmas Day he has a tradition he likes doing on Christmas while everyone else doesn’t. Seems pretty simple fix is BIL just doesn’t come to Christmas Day anymore it also seems like he has no problem with your sister and their children staying so that is a good thing.
Commenter 3: Why is BIL king of Christmas? Just say you don’t want to watch the movies or put something else on. Maybe communicate that you hate this “tradition” and would rather gouge out your own eyes than see one more pixel of Sylvester Stallone
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Update: December 25, 2024 (same day, few hours later)
Edit: This morning between Rocky II and III, myself, my two brothers, and my parents decided we were going to play a game in another room. My BiL came in and said we needed to be in the living room where the movie was playing. We told him no, not this year. We want to do something else. He left and we don’t know where he drove off to. His wife and kids are still here. Will give an update if anything else happens.
Edit 2: For those asking for an update. BiL texted his wife (my sister) and said he’s at home by himself watching the Rocky movies and won’t be coming back. One of my brothers is going to drop my sister and her kids off at their house when we’re done our festivities here. We have Christmas music playing, games going on, and a bunch of us are putting dinner together. It’s been a great day so far without the BiL.
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I can understand putting on Die Hard, and only the first one. I mean, it really isn’t Christmas until Hans Gruber falls off of Nakatomi Plaza. But have that kind of stuff in the background, for anyone to either watch or ignore.
Especially if you have it on while everyone is getting supper ready, and Hans’ fall is the call to come to the table. The movie ends pretty much right after that, anyhow.