what does the film you repeatedly watch say about you, and what do you guys get out of it ??? Like I wrote on a Shawshank thread I caught the film during a rough time in my life, have watched it many times cos to me it really felt like it was giving me emotional support etc..............
Wow! some people really are excessive with their re-watching of films, not being judgemental or owt but I'd probably grow to hate my favourite films if I watched them over 100 times!
My most-watched are probably:
Terminator 2
Stars Wars
Alien
Each of them 20+ viewings, Star Wars possibly up to 40.
I'd probably grow to hate my favourite films if I watched them over 100 times!
That's kinda what happened to me. My most watched film is the original Star Wars - over 100 viewings, I'm sure. When I was younger, I used to watch it almost every day. I don't hate it now but I've seen it so many times it's not nearly so much fun to watch any more.
Grease, Dirty Dancing, Grease 2 or Ghostbusters probably from childhood watching them over and over and over and over.. all summer, after school, weekends...
I caught DD the other night and still knew all the words.
A few films I've watched well into 3 figure times, in order:
Predator (no idea how many times but wore out 3 VHS tapes)
Aliens (in excess of 200 times again wore out a VHS tapes)
The Dam Busters (again in excess of 200 times on TV, Video and DVD)
Total Recall (easily over 100 times)
Star Wars (again over 100 times)
I'm not sure I could just pick one.. I've seen all of these a lot of times because of phases of watching them over and over.
Back to the Future
Titanic
A Fish Called Wanda (I watched it about 40 times when I was going through a bit of a bad phase, it seemed to make me feel better)
Kill Bill 1+2
Saw series
Sweeney Todd (2007)
The Lion King
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
The Sound of Music - Completely innocent and the music is highly addictive
Matilda - This must have a few plays as the tape is no longer in any state to be played!
A little Princess - Another kids film that I seem to remember word for word and the ending never fails to make me cry.
I seem to notice that Terminator is a film people seem to watch over and over - Psychological hold over the owners of the film perrhaps?
Star Wars - A New Hope - LOTS!
Alien/Aliens - Lots
Blade Runner - Lots
Ghostbusters - A fair few.
The Thing - John Carpenter - Tons
The Burbs - Many Times
GoodFellas - Lots
what does the film you repeatedly watch say about you, and what do you guys get out of it ???
For me it tends to be films with either visual flair or a good soundtrack or both. The experience is a bit like playing music or having a picture on the wall. It's comforting rather than new and surprising.
Examples for me include:
Hero
Silent Hill
Moulin Rouge
I do, however, get bored of them eventually. There are a few films I loved when I was young, and watched a lot, but don't even own now because they are all watched-out. Blade Runner is an example.
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Probably LOTR, I've seen that about 4 or 5 times. Or Back to the Future, 5 times I think.
Aliens - 100 +
Grease - 100+
My most-watched are probably:
Terminator 2
Stars Wars
Alien
Each of them 20+ viewings, Star Wars possibly up to 40.
That's kinda what happened to me. My most watched film is the original Star Wars - over 100 viewings, I'm sure. When I was younger, I used to watch it almost every day. I don't hate it now but I've seen it so many times it's not nearly so much fun to watch any more.
Dawn Of the Dead (1978)
saw em both when VHS was a luxury, two films EVERYONE at school had seen.
Still love em (possibly even more*!) nearly 30 years later:)
*as i now undersatnd the consumerist, social, satire of "Dawn"-
and the genius of Belushi-after reading "Wired" over 20 years ago.
Terminator 2
E.T
Indiana Jones (trilogy only, the fourth can go to hell. lol)
Gremlins
Ghostbusters
Finding Nemo
Predator 1
Robocop 1
Willow
ALien quite a few
I caught DD the other night and still knew all the words.
Return of the living dead part 2,easily over 150 times
Thats about my biggest 2.
Predator (no idea how many times but wore out 3 VHS tapes)
Aliens (in excess of 200 times again wore out a VHS tapes)
The Dam Busters (again in excess of 200 times on TV, Video and DVD)
Total Recall (easily over 100 times)
Star Wars (again over 100 times)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Back to the Future
Titanic
A Fish Called Wanda (I watched it about 40 times when I was going through a bit of a bad phase, it seemed to make me feel better)
Kill Bill 1+2
Saw series
Sweeney Todd (2007)
The Lion King
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Transformers the movie (the cartoon one)
Back to the future
Matilda - This must have a few plays as the tape is no longer in any state to be played!
A little Princess - Another kids film that I seem to remember word for word and the ending never fails to make me cry.
I seem to notice that Terminator is a film people seem to watch over and over - Psychological hold over the owners of the film perrhaps?
Alien/Aliens - Lots
Blade Runner - Lots
Ghostbusters - A fair few.
The Thing - John Carpenter - Tons
The Burbs - Many Times
GoodFellas - Lots
and so on and so on
Examples for me include:
Hero
Silent Hill
Moulin Rouge
I do, however, get bored of them eventually. There are a few films I loved when I was young, and watched a lot, but don't even own now because they are all watched-out. Blade Runner is an example.