How many of you like watching films you've seen many times before?

[bassybill]

When I've had a hard day at work and finally settle down to crash in front of the TV, there's nothing I enjoy more than flicking through the channels to watch a favourite movie, even if I almost know it off by heart. I'll often choose something I've seen 20 times before over something I've never seen, more or less out of laziness as I can't be bothered concentrating enough to follow something unfamiliar. I still watch new films and enjoy them a lot, but I have to be in a particular frame of mind to do so, whereas old stuff I can watch all the time and never get sick of it.

How about you?

[dave64o]

Obviously it depends heavily on the movie, but there are some I could watch again and again and again and ...

[Thor]

Yeah, cable here is a nest of reruns, so I will watch some stuff over and over and over and o- wait, not Groundhog Day
though.

The one's I will almost never pass up are Blade Runner, Outland, 007 in all its forms, Taxi Driver, Deliverance, Heat, Goodfellas, Dog Day Afternoon, A Bridge Too Far, Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, a few more like that that escape me.

[pacojas]

Chris Tucker in "The Fifth Element"!!!
i laugh as hard now as the first time out.

EDIT: i almost forgot,...
the crack-head that tries to rob Bruce Willis still makes me scream.

[Basshappi]

This discribes me completely, I constantly re-watch movies in my collection. I have watched some of them literally hundreds of times.

[Jim Nazium]

I will absolutely not watch the same movie twice. Repetition bores me. Now excuse me, I'm going to go read some threads about tone woods and cables.

[Joe Gress]

There are a select few movies that I love watching over and over again, and those are the only ones in my collection.

[Phalex]

Meh. Once I've seen a film, I usually have no interest in watching it over again. There are of course exceptions however. I can recite most of JAWS, the Blues Bros, Spinal Tap, Blazing Saddles......

For the most part though, no. This is the main reason my DVD collection is comprised of the Wizard of Oz, and Pulp Fiction.

[jugglingfreak]

I'm a re-watcher too. I have some movies that my wife affectionately termed "five minute movies" because if I watch more than five minutes of it, I'm watching the rest of it.

"Jaws" is my most notorious "5 min" movie. I know I have seen that movie over 200 times. I know it by heart and can (and usually do) change my voice to try and match whoever is speaking.

My wife used to like that movie, now she runs out of the room if it's on or steals the remote, changes the channel and hides it.

I have no idea why she does this

[Fishheadjoe]

most of the flics that I will watch over and over are comedies... such as Cat Ballou.
I don't think I can get enough of Lee Marvin in that character should I live to be 100.
Fishheadjoe

[MJ5150]

Originally Posted by bassybill

How about you?

Yep, same here. I watch the Bourne movies every time they are on TV.

-Mike

[Skitch it!]

Favourites around 7-10 times, some more, I like to analyse everything involved in making it and know the characters inside-out. Something like 'Unforgiven' I've probably viewed 20 times+.

[TOOL460002]

yes. i have seen terminator 2 probably a couple dozen times. every time i flip by the ex governator is mowing down cop cars with that mini gun; cant resist.

also, for some reason i need familiar outside noise to study or fall asleep. aphex- ambient vol 2 for study, and pretty much any tv ive seen to fall asleep (arrested development and stargate [anything] are the main two).

[EagleMoon]

I couldn't tell you how many times I've watched The Quiet Man on DVD. I love John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in most any movie, but that one in particular is a favorite. Some movies are just classics and I just love falling into the world over and over again.

Some of the ones I never get tired of are Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Aliens, the first three Star Wars, Lord of the Rings trilogy, any of the Harry Potter movies, most any of the Pixar movies, any Hayao Miyazaki directed movie, and for some reason, I love old Vincent Price movies. They're awesome. The Tingler kept me awake many a night as a kid.

[bassybill]

Of course, one of the other main reasons for doing this is based on sheer probability. With a movie that you've seen before and enjoyed, you at least know it's one you think of as a "good movie". With one that's new to you, you're gambling on a risky bet because at least 90% of movies suck really, really badly. I don't want to spend my evening taking the chance on watching something that I'm likely to detest.

[Darkstrike]

Oh, if it's a good movie, for sure. Just watched Beverly Hills Cop again last night, even though I've seen it untold times.

[TOOL460002]

Originally Posted by bassybill

Of course, one of the other main reasons for doing this is based on sheer probability. With a movie that you've seen before and enjoyed, you at least know it's one you think of as a "good movie". With one that's new to you, you're gambling on a risky bet because at least 90% of movies suck really, really badly. I don't want to spend my evening taking the chance on watching something that I'm likely to detest.

ah yes- and, not to derail ot into something music related, but i believe that is why pop music and 4/4 are so, well, popular.

[A.Diva]

Me! I can (and do) watch Dune over and over again. The original, not the remake. Classic film!

[stubborne]

Me and the Sis still text each other with one liners from our faves. Most of the time its from Breakfast Club because we grew up with that one and it has some of the absolute best one-liners.

Stu-

[MatticusMania]

I could probably watch American Psycho on an endless loop and not get tired of it.