Rewatching films...

johnny_ultimate

Inspired by krudlers post in this weeks fotw thread:

i've seen it at least 300 times

300 times! Arghh! I think the most I've ever seen any film is around 7 or 8 times (discounting childhood films the 'rents used to put on to keep me amused every other day). But 300? I know some people love particular films, but watching a film anymore than 10 times fascinates me.

There are only a handful of films I've seen more than two times, with very very few indeed I have seen five or more times (Serenity, Garden State & Donnie Darko are the only three I can really think of, and those because they were just personal favourites at particular times, and at this point I have seen each of them enough to only warrant quite irregular viewings).

Whats the most you have ever seen a single film? Do you think rewatching is a waste of time, or are there any you have quite happily watched hundreds of times? Do you seriously get anything new out of your 300th watch of a film, other than overwhelming familiarity?

Tusky

I would have to really really like a film to watch it more than twice. There is the odd film that I have seen countless times. Usually the classic 80s movies. Terminator, Predator, The Goonies, The Monster Squad, Labrynth, Gremlins, Star Wars, Indianna Jones...etc

ztoical

I've a couple of films I've lost count of the number of times I've watched....Singing in the Rain is a my fav film and have def watched that at least 300 times.

The Lion King as it was one of the films that made me want to be an animator, I saw it in the cinema over 15 times and I like to rewatch it at least once a year if not more often.

Die hard 3 is my "I want to watch something but I'm not in the mood for anything" film so have watched that a couple of hundred as well. Passion of Joan of Arc, Gross pointe blank, Agruie the wraith of god, The holy mountain, all the alien films, etc etc theres a whole bunch I watch alot.

I don't think its a waste of time as they are films I enjoy and I esp like watching them with people who've never seen them and getting their reaction to seeing it for the first time. Sometimes it is that familiarity of the film that I'm looking for when I watch it.

It sounds like overkill watching it that many times but some films people really connect with and they like to watch them over and over [isn't that how star wars made money - not on everyone seeing the first three films but on a few people seeing it a hundred times].

I seriously cannot count the number of times I've watched The Big Lebowski. I never get tired of it.

Jello

I'd say Aliens, Fight Club, Trainspotting, Donnie Darko, Terminator & T2, Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange and Twelve Monkeys are the only films I've seen more than 5 times. Otherwise I'd say I've never watched a film more than two or three times, I see no point and it's quite a waste of time.

Watching anything 300 times is just frightening. :eek:

Creature

Well 300 times is a bit much, I can't see myself reaching that number of viewings for a film(lol I don't think I'll live that long!) but there are a few I've seen a lot. Tremors, the Indiana Jones Trilogy and The Thing, I'd say I've seen each of those at least 20-30 times.

ztoical

Jello wrote: »

Watching anything 300 times is just frightening. :eek:

it can be but think about that over a number of years - if its a film you really like you'll see it the cinema maybe more the once, you rent it cus its not out to buy yet, then of course buy it on VHS and watch it a couple of times, its on tv at xmas or someother time you end up watching it [come on you've all done, watched a movie on tv you have sitting in front of you on dvd] then the new shinny DVD comes along get that watch it a couple of times, get a new girlfriend/boyfriend whose never seen it have to watch it with them, then the super delux remasterd double disc box set is out get that watch it a couple of times, then the new blur-ray/HD version etc and so on

Singing in the rain came out in the 1950's I first saw it when I was 3, I'm 27 now [dear god I'm getting old] so 300 times in 24 years would be around 12 odd times a year? Thats the most extreme case as thats a film I really really love.

ztoical

alot of the films people watch alot are cult films - like I've two friends who go see the rocky horror picture show in a cinema in new york every firday and saturday - thats on average 100 times a year! but then you get to sing along and act out the film so its a great laugh bit different to watching it at home on your own every weekend.

Jello

ztoical wrote: »

it can be but think about that over a number of years - if its a film you really like you'll see it the cinema maybe more the once, you rent it cus its not out to buy yet, then of course buy it on VHS and watch it a couple of times, its on tv at xmas or someother time you end up watching it [come on you've all done, watched a movie on tv you have sitting in front of you on dvd] then the new shinny DVD comes along get that watch it a couple of times, get a new girlfriend/boyfriend whose never seen it have to watch it with them, then the super delux remasterd double disc box set is out get that watch it a couple of times, then the new blur-ray/HD version etc and so on

Singing in the rain came out in the 1950's I first saw it when I was 3, I'm 27 now [dear god I'm getting old] so 300 times in 24 years would be around 12 odd times a year? Thats the most extreme case as thats a film I really really love.

I see your point, though i guess I'm just not old enough to have watched films that many times (I'm 16...).

Creamy Goodness

i've watched baseketball at least 200 times, it never gets old.

Drag00n79

Lebowski is the one Ive seen most I suppose. Not sure how many times, but not 300 that's for sure!

phasers

I've actually worn out a Zoolander DVD from watching it, I've seen it at least 600 times

Tusky

I think the people who claim to have watched anything 300 times are probably exaggerating or miscalculating how many times they have seen said film. Even if you watched it once a month it would take 25 years to reach 300 viewings. If you have seen a film 20 times, Im sure it feels like you have seen it 100s because you know it so well.

phasers wrote: »

I've actually worn out a Zoolander DVD from watching it, I've seen it at least 600 times

Zoolander dvd came out in 2002, 6 years ago. That would be 100 times a year for 6 years. Thats about once every 3 days, consistently, for six years. Are you sure you aint exaggerating ?

Jello

Yeah, unless you're bed-ridden phasers that's just scary!

BostonB

I will rewatch my favorite films no problem. In fact even when I have the DVD if its on TV, I can often rewatch it on TV! Which makes no sense. Some people won't watch a movie twice ever. I'm sure I've watched some films that I original saw as a kid, probably 10+ times. Its a bit like rereading books isn't it.

ztoical

Tusky wrote: »

I think the people who claim to have watched anything 300 times are probably exaggerating or miscalculating how many times they have seen said film. Even if you watched it once a month it would take 25 years to reach 300 viewings. If you have seen a film 20 times, Im sure it feels like you have seen it 100s because you know it so well.

I don't keep count but if you check my post above I stated that I first watched singing in the rain when I was 3, I'm 27 now and I do watch the film 10 + times a year between the xmas overkill viewings and making all my friends watch it and chucking it on while working so I can sing along to all the songs

IanCurtis

I've seen High Fidelity about 8 times and that's me favourite of all time, but 300 times????

No chance

That would ruin a film no?

Tusky

ztoical wrote: »

I don't keep count but if you check my post above I stated that I first watched singing in the rain when I was 3, I'm 27 now and I do watch the film 10 + times a year between the xmas overkill viewings and making all my friends watch it and chucking it on while working so I can sing along to all the songs

10 times every year for the last 12 years ? Fair enough. I find it hard to believe. In fact, I don't believe it...but it doesn't matter what I think!

grames_bond

my favourite film of all time is pulp fiction and i have seen it a good few times, no were near 300 tho! but im only 20 now so you never kno........whens it out on blu ray?

johnny_ultimate

phasers wrote: »

I've actually worn out a Zoolander DVD from watching it, I've seen it at least 600 times

At least 600? Oh my. And Zoolander of all films

I am reminded of that great Alec Guinness story in which a Star Wars fankid came up to him and his mother started boasting how the child had watched SW hundreds of time. Alec Guinness asked the child to do him a favour and never watch SW again. The kid broke down in tears and the mother asked "How could you say such a thing?". Also Titanic: what did people see in that unremarkable love story that brought them back again and again?

I dunno, I really don't think I could watch a film every month consistently. Even the ones I have seen alot have lost alot of their power now due to overwhelming familiarity. If I watched something like fifteen times a year I'd say I'd despise the film by June or so of year 1.

ztoical

Tusky wrote: »

10 times every year for the last 12 years ? Fair enough. I find it hard to believe. In fact, I don't believe it...but it doesn't matter what I think!

3 from 27 would be 24 not 12 [there I got making myself feel old again] And its an average of 10 times - some years I know I've watched it more some years less, always twice at xmas as its become tradition with two different sets of friends - only watched it once so far in 2008 but the year is young. My work allows me to watch dvds while I'm drawing and I tend to stick ones I've seen on as I don't have to pay attention and musicals are always good cus you can just sing along and singing in the rain is the best musical or at least it is to me. Believe or don't like you said it doesn't really matter in the end

Makaveli

I've watched Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II an awful lot of times, probably both somewhere between mid-teens to mid-twenties.

Indiana Jones trilogy and the original Star Wars trilogy I'd have watched more times than I can possibly remember. Was somewhat obsessed with both of them as a child.

I also remember one Summer where I spent most of it in my Granny's and there was Mighty Ducks on video there. I probably watched it everyday for about 2 weeks straight. Wasn't all that much else to do back then. Rewatching it now is a bit cringeworthy. Hackers is another film I never tire of watching. It's so lame it's great. I was at a stage where I pretty much knew the film line for line.

Generally it's lighthearted, not particularly serious films that I watch multiple times. Friday, Harold and Kumar and The Goonies are ones I'll throw on if I fancy watching a film before bed but can't think of anything that strikes my fancy.

I do enjoy rewatching films. I don't see the point in buying a film on dvd if you're only ever going to watch it once.

Nunu

I've definitely seen Big Trouble in Little China close to 100 times.
As a kid I rented it incessantly on VHS and it's one of the few movies from my childhood I'd still class as one of my faves, so would always watch it if it's on TV..despite having it on DVD:o

There's a fair few films I've seen around a dozen times or more - Rocky, The Terminator, Commando, Halloween, Jaws, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, King Pin, Die Hard, American Psycho, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Edward Scissorhands, Superman - there all just off the top of my head...

User45701

Ive seen a few movies countless times... But one that stands out Fear and Loathing in las vags because i know ive seen that over a hundred times, but it is one of those movies that goes on at the end of a night when there is only a few straglers left allive and chill out to a movie.

I can't count the number of times I've seen Stargate the film. I know that I rented it over 50 times and watched it repeatedly on TV and on video after, not counting at least another two dozen viewings since it was released on DVD and every week or so on Sci Fi channel.

Serenity, The Boondock Saints, Grosse Point Blank, Old Boy, Terminator 1 and 2, Predator, Total Recall, The Running Man are a few of the dozens of other films that I have seen at least 20 times with Transformers soon to be included with them.

Tusky

Deleted User wrote: »

I can't count the number of times I've seen Stargate the film. I know that I rented it over 50 times and watched it repeatedly on TV and on video after, not counting at least another two dozen viewings since it was released on DVD and every week or so on Sci Fi channel.

Serenity, The Boondock Saints, Grosse Point Blank, Old Boy, Terminator 1 and 2, Predator, Total Recall, The Running Man are a few of the dozens of other films that I have seen at least 20 times with Transformers soon to be included with them.

You spent 250 euro renting Stargate ? :eek:

flangeman

There is something pure about 'Dodgeball' that allows me to watch it again and again without issue. Once I watched it (probably for the 10th time) and then started it again and watched it with commentary. Oddly the bit that always makes me laugh is the sound of a wrench against the head of one of the players that Patches throws at. Priceless.

Oddly I've seen MI-3 about 4 times now, not because I enjoy it (its not awful but..) but because I want to enjoy Philip Seymour Hoffman in it. I remember being all excited in the cinema when his scenes came up and they just weren't all that. I rewatch it so maybe something will happen and it will finally click with me.

I have a girlfriend, so I should probably be riding her instead of above useless endevours.

Tusky

Tusky wrote: »

You spent 250 euro renting Stargate ? :eek:

I don't think it was that much. I think my parents are still thankful that they did'nt have to keep buying it on VHS as I wore out every tape I was bought. I can still recall the first time I saw it. I was 9 and sitting in the kitchen doing homework. My dad came in from work and told me that we were going to the cinema and to leave my homework.

I remember being absolutly amazed and entralled by the film and falling in love with it. I used to get an awful lot of abuse about it from other kids, all the way through school and still do. I even got badly beaten in first year over it, some older kid noticed that I had wrote SG1 on my bag and decided I deserved to have him and three friends kick the **** out of me for it.

Tusky

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't think it was that much. I think my parents are still thankful that they did'nt have to keep buying it on VHS as I wore out every tape I was bought. I can still recall the first time I saw it. I was 9 and sitting in the kitchen doing homework. My dad came in from work and told me that we were going to the cinema and to leave my homework.

I remember being absolutly amazed and entralled by the film and falling in love with it. I used to get an awful lot of abuse about it from other kids, all the way through school and still do. I even got badly beaten in first year over it, some older kid noticed that I had wrote SG1 on my bag and decided I deserved to have him and three friends kick the **** out of me for it.

That would make you..18 ? I got that same feeling when I went to see Jurassic Park for the first time. 15 years ago, wow! That makes me feel really old. I cant believe its been 15 years since Jurassic park was released...

Anyway, the feeling of wonderment wasn't topped until The Matrix and then Lord of the Rings.

kraggy

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Inspired by krudlers post in this weeks fotw thread:



300 times! Arghh! I think the most I've ever seen any film is around 7 or 8 times (discounting childhood films the 'rents used to put on to keep me amused every other day). But 300? I know some people love particular films, but watching a film anymore than 10 times fascinates me.

There are only a handful of films I've seen more than two times, with very very few indeed I have seen five or more times (Serenity, Garden State & Donnie Darko are the only three I can really think of, and those because they were just personal favourites at particular times, and at this point I have seen each of them enough to only warrant quite irregular viewings).

Whats the most you have ever seen a single film? Do you think rewatching is a waste of time, or are there any you have quite happily watched hundreds of times? Do you seriously get anything new out of your 300th watch of a film, other than overwhelming familiarity?

Have watched True Romance at least 11/12 times but my most is Naked (Mike Leigh).

Approx 17 and counting.

Favourite film (and I don't use that term lightly).

monkeyfudge

We had a video machine pretty early in my house... so as a kid I would have watched the original Star Wars movie repeatedly, week in and week out... I was also obsessed with the movie Clue... I loved Tim Curry's performance in it.

As as teenager I was hooked on Akira... and would watch it repeatedly.

These days the DVDs that I will stick in time and again are Rushmore, Napoleon Dynamite and Josie and the Pussycats. They certainly wouldn't necessarily my favourite films, but they are extremely rewatchable.

Koyaanisqatsi is always worth a spin too.

Karl Hungus

I couldn't possibly say which films I've watched the most, or how many times that would be, but I do know that I've watched a vast amount of films dozens of times. I've always watched lots of movies, ever since I was young. I rented out Transformers The Movie once a week for about a year, back when a kids movie cost 50p a night, and I'd get my money's worth by watching it that night, then during the day before it had to go back.

Over the years, I had quite a collection of films I taped off the TV (Rarely bought a video. Christmas or a birthday is really the only time I'd get one.) and the old classics like Indiana Jones, The Goonies, and god knows how many other films all got repeated viewings. Into my teen years, I'd move onto films like The Terminator, Conan The Barbarian, pretty much anything with Arnie in it got watched 20-30 times, the likes of Aliens and such gave way to horror films, and I've got a copy of The Evil Dead 2 here that's so worn out, it's hard to see what's going on any more. I have of course got it on DVD now. Oh yes, I was also a huge fan of James Bond, having taped them all off the TV as well, and probably watched them dozens of times, with a few favourites probably getting 20-30 views.

The likes of the Star Trek films, mostly 2, 6 and First Contant, quite a few of the Coen Brothers films (I do probably watch The Big Lebowski once or twice a year, sometimes more), anything that was based on a Stephen King novel, It especially. Leon is probably one of my most consistantly watched films, I never tire of it, it's just cinematic perfection to me. Coming to more recently, I couldn't estimate how many times I've seen Princess Mononoke, or a few other Ghibli films, lots of films by Akira Kurosawa such as Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood and the like. Fight Club, Memento, Twelve Monkeys, they've all been watched repeatedly. I've probably seen Hellboy a good 7 or 8 times now, Serenity maybe 5 or 6, and I think I've seen Casino Royale 3 times. God knows how many times I've seen Silence Of The Lambs...

Anyway, I could probably go on for an age trying to think of films I've watched repeatedly over the years. I doubt I could say I've ever watched anything 300 times, or anything close to that number, but I've grown to have a fairly substantial DVD collection, and I'd say a good portion, maybe half of them, have all been watched 3 or more times. I guess I see that buying a DVD is a bit of an investment, and if you're going to buy a film, it should be something you'll watch a few times. If I buy a DVD and think to myself, well, I'll never watch that again, then that'll be a waste of money.

Tusky

Tusky wrote: »

That would make you..18 ? I got that same feeling when I went to see Jurassic Park for the first time. 15 years ago, wow! That makes me feel really old. I cant believe its been 15 years since Jurassic park was released...

Anyway, the feeling of wonderment wasn't topped until The Matrix and then Lord of the Rings.

Actually I'm 22, fu*k I'm getting old Stargate came out in 94, though the TV show began broadcasting in 97. Jurassic Park is another film I can recall seeing in the cinema. My earliest memory is of going to se Batman in the Winter of 89 with my dad. I was nearly 4 and remember getting all the toys toys including the awesome Bat Mobile that Christmas.

krudler

i dont think theres anything wrong with watching a favourite film countless times, its the comfort factor, i have friends who wont watch a movie twice let alone more than that, their argument being "well I've already seen it" well thats just nonsense, if you heard a great song once does that mean you have no need to ever hear it again?

Otis Driftwood

300 viewings,wow,that is unbelieveable.

There are a few movies that Ive repeatadly viewed particularyl since getting them on DVD.The ones tha most stick out are

Once were Warriors
Texas Chainsaw Massacre(original)
Murder Set Pieces
Devils Rejects
Halloween(original)
Original Star Wars Trilogy
Bad Taste
Pulp Fiction
Story of Ricky
Ichi The Killer

Theres loads more Ive watched quite a bit but the above are all definitly 10 + viewings and counting.

Jay P

I watch something once, then again a few months later. But when my brothers get a DVD, they watch it about twenty times in the first week, they then begin to wind it down slowly but surely, or if they get a new dvd, they stop altogether and never watch it again

faceman

I tend to watch some movies again and again too for different reasons.

I find some good comedies can be rewatched as you dont always pick up on all the jokes first time round.

Any film that has a twist i always watch twice to see if it really does get away with it!

as someone who loves film as an art, there are many films that i give a second viewing too anyway. First viewing to follow the story and plot, and second viewing to appreciate the cinematography, editing etc.

monkeyfudge wrote:

I was also obsessed with the movie Clue... I loved Tim Curry's performance in it.

I had the same obsession! Ive never been able to pick it up on VHS/dvd in ireland though, i had to buy it online. I used to be able to recite it word for word!

TerrorFirmer

I watch movies again once they cease to be very familiar to me, and at that, mostly visual blockbusters. So I'd watch a movie maybe once every few years. Certain films I'd only watch once in a lifetime, but I've seen the first two Terminator movies, Starship Troopers, Saving Private Ryan etc more times then I care to remember.

MoominPapa

Really surprised no one has brought up Withnail & I as a most watched film, defiantly mine, impossible to say how many times I've seen it but certainly over 50. Not far behind would be Bladerunner, theres a bunch of Woody Allen films I can watch over and over and have done (Annie Hall, Manhattan, Broadway Danny Rose, Hanna and her sisters, Radio Days, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Deconstructing Harry, Everyone know I love you). Same with the Coen Brothers (Millers Crossing, Fargo, The Big Lebowski), Mel Brooks (The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein). The Third Man, 2001, Aguirre The Wrath of God, Betty Blue, Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, Cross of Iron, The Thing all stand up to repeated viewing. Almost certain I seen all these films over ten times, some over 20 and one or two over 30. Some recent films I think I will watch repeatedly are Pans Labyrinth and A Cock and Bull Story. If you don't like watching movies over and over maybe you're watching the wrong movies;)

L31mr0d

I rarely watch movies more than once, the only exceptions being:

1. Its been over a decade since the last time I seen the movie and i've forgotten parts of the story

2. I want another person to experience this movie so I watch it alongside them

3. Its a directors cut, has been released with unseen footage or has been released in HD

But i'd never sit down and watch the same movie over and over again, maybe my memory is too good or something but it bores me watching something (even if I found it amazingly enjoyable the first time through) that I already know the story to.

I usually find movies that are emotive for me usually aren't on a second viewing, so I also don't want to ruin my first impressions of a movie by watching it again and being bored.

ztoical

MoominPapa wrote: »

Really surprised no one has brought up Withnail & I as a most watched film

Whithnail & I is currently in my no pile as an ex boyfriend LOVED it and when we moved in together I ended up watching it about 50 times in the space of 4 months [usually post pub at 3am with a bunch of his mates]. Now I liked the film before I meet BF and I still like but it was a bad break up so I don't think I'll be in the mood to watch it for another while.

BlitzKrieg

Tremors and Aliens were the ones as a kid I would watch again and again

I know the first time I watched aliens was with my sister and I put it on again the next morning.

And then rented the special edition the following weekend and watched it twice.

Then watched many times since in its various incarnations (VHS, TV, Sky, DVD, DVD box set) etc.

Alien 3 would be the next most watched of the alien films for me (I am one of those few who actually like both cuts.)


Tremors was almost a family tradition in my house.

Outside them two the most watched film would be South Park bigger longer and uncut.

Not by choice though.

I went to boarding school and in our fifth year we were given access to the sixth years common room and allowed watch videos and stuff while they studied for leaving cert. I bought a load of videos one sunday (Starship troopers, south park, indiana jones etc) and south park got put on oh every break time, every night after homework...every weekend. It wasnt that I wanted to watch it everytime...its just someone always puts it on and it just played there as a constant background for pretty much the entire last two years of my school life.

ztoical

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

Tremors was almost a family tradition in my house.

Termors, totally forgot about that one - We did watch it alot along with adventures in babysitting, which our dad had a strange obsession with, and M*A*S*H* [movie and series]. Our Mum's prob watched the original three Star Wars films at least 100 times each at this stage.



Do you know I haven't watched Termors in ages......*runs off to watch it*

Tusky

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

Tremors was almost a family tradition in my house.

How could I forget about Tremors! I think I watched that as much as any other film. Definitely at least 20 times. I used to almost know it off word for word, would love to see it again as its been years. The scene when they are poll vaulting across the rocks, classic.

BlitzKrieg

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

Tremors and Aliens were the ones as a kid I would watch again and again.

Tremors is another one I used to watch every other week Masters iof the Universe, Back to the Future Trilogy and Starchaser Legend of Orion are some more films I saw far too many times as a child.

Ghost Train

There are a good few movies that are easy to watch when they're on tv or theres nothing else to watch and the dvd is there, die hard, the rock, con air, superman, city slickers, shawshank redemption (although thats never as good than the first time), donnie darko, back to the future, the firm, the fugitive, rat race, US marshals, top gun, bourne identity, forrest gump, ground hog day, etc

there are a few dvd's i can watch often (once or twice a year), cast away, solaris (makes me fall a sleep though), pride and predudice (keira knightley), killing fields, gladiator, life of brian, snow falling on ceders, probably a few more but thats all i can think of

I've watched Memento 5 times. Only because any other time I would watch it was when it would be on tv, and I would always miss half somehow. So when I managed to watch the beginning was when everything actually made sense.

Fightclub, Children of Men, Serenity, O Brother Where Art Thou are films I'd watch multiple times for the pleasure.

MoominPapa

L31mr0d wrote: »

But i'd never sit down and watch the same movie over and over again, maybe my memory is too good or something but it bores me watching something (even if I found it amazingly enjoyable the first time through) that I already know the story to.

I usually find movies that are emotive for me usually aren't on a second viewing, so I also don't want to ruin my first impressions of a movie by watching it again and being bored.

I don't get bored listening to the same piece of music over and over or looking at paintings I really enjoy over and over and I re-read books I love, so I don't get why people regard movies any different. Its all art, either good, therefore worth going back to time and time again, or bad and not worth even one visit.

Galvasean

Jurassic Park is probably the forerunner for me, with perhaps 40 or 50 views? But then again whose counting? Honestly, why the hell would you count!?!

L31mr0d

MoominPapa wrote: »

I don't get bored listening to the same piece of music over and over or looking at paintings I really enjoy over and over and I re-read books I love, so I don't get why people regard movies any different. Its all art, either good, therefore worth going back to time and time again, or bad and not worth even one visit.

your reasoning is moot. I know few people who will just sit and listen to music while doing nothing else. Also, I know few people who will frequent the same Art Museum over and over again to see the same paintings. Most of the time they will only go back if there is a new exibition being opened. Most people who hang prints or paintings in their house or play music usually have it as an accompaniment while they are doing something else. Like a person will hang a painting in the hallway not as a reason to go into the hallway but as something to look at as they pass through the hallway going somewhere else. Also music is usually used in the background or as a distraction when traveling or when dancing.

The key to music and paintings is that they can be experienced whilst doing something else thats different. With movies you are always sitting and watching in silence, nothing changes. The only time I think, imo, a movie can be enjoyed again is after you've forgotten parts of it and rediscover it again by watching it. Which brings me back to my point about memory, I think the better someones memory the less frequent they will watch a movie.

Other to this there is the emotive side of it. I guess some people are more empathetic than others and therefore are more emotionally affected by a movie. Whether it be happiness, sadness... etc. Usually having an emotional reaction to a movie, like music, will endear you to watch it again to feel those same emotions.

Karl Hungus

L31mr0d wrote: »

I usually find movies that are emotive for me usually aren't on a second viewing, so I also don't want to ruin my first impressions of a movie by watching it again and being bored.

Odd, I would find the exact opposite. A great movie can seem ever better on repeat viewings. Lord knows, I never really thought The Big Lebowski was that great the first time I saw it, I only grew to love it after seeing it a 2nd or 3rd time.