29 April, 2017

Movies

Due to a minor miscalculation, tomorrow will be the skipped posting day, not today. Our trip is not today and tomorrow, but tomorrow and Monday. Monday might be missed as well, depending on our return time. That said, here are my thoughts on movies I watch repeatedly without tiring.

I could re-watch any of the Star Wars movies over and over and never tire of them.
I mean, obviously. Check out my avi.

Very few new movies strike me that way. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one that I can re-watch, not because I love it or think it's a great film, but because I know it, love the book it's based on, and can leave it on in the background while I do other things. But for the most part, if I watch a movie repeatedly, it's an old classic.

Older than Star Wars. Well, except The Princess Bride. I don't know when that came out, but I'm sure it was more recent than 1977. I can quote that one top to bottom.

I've seen Bridge on the River Kwai enough times I can almost recite it. Same with Doctor Zhivago (both directed by David Lean, incidentally). Breakfast at Tiffany's and Casablanca are two more movies I know extremely well.

Of newer movies? Red. The A-Team. Those we have for "everyday". They're at least since the turn of the century, right? 

I guess this was kind of a blah writing prompt for me. I can give you a list as long as my arm of movies I watch over and over without getting tired of them, because when I like a movie, that's what I do! Why not go with a sure thing instead of try to watch some new thing that's horrible? Do you agree?

7 comments:

  1. To be honest, I'm not big on rewatching movies. Sure, I do it. Kind of like you said as above as background but as far as actually wanting to sit down and watch a movie that I've seen before, I don't do it. I don't think it's a can't stand watching something again so much as I'd rather watch something I haven't seen before.

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    1. I wonder if that's a guy thing? Brett's the same way.

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  2. Yeah, like Jeff, I have movies that I absolutely love, but I'm just not a big fan of rewatching them. I'd rather have the fond memory of the movie, rather than watching it until I just find it 'meh'.

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    1. I love seeing the nuance of details on subsequent watchings. Finding a spark of sympathy of Colonel Saito's distress in Bridge Over the River Kwai... recognizing the complicated feelings Ilsa still has for Rick in Casablanca, whether I agree or not.

      Yeah. Probably a chick thing.

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  3. It is hard for me to watch movies the first time around. I can't imagine watching them over and over. I am much more of a book person!

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    1. Ah! I love books too. I re-read favorite books over and over, too. I guess these are my "comfort books" or "comfort movies" that I re-watch.

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    2. LOL! I don't read books over either!!

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