The concept of rewatching a movie is almost foreign to me now given that I have access to a library of tens of thousands of movies. It would have to be very good and something that whoever I’m with hasn’t seen it.
Of course I used to watch the same movie about month or so back when I was growing up in the 90s.
That’s curious because I find I rewatch more movies than ever before, since it’s so easy to find them, and I already know whether I like them or not.
The first thing I do when Return of the King ends is put on Fellowship of the Ring.
That does prevent you from finding new movies you like though.
Movies/shows I can still see many times today:
- Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind - it’s just so nicely structured, you always notice something new
- Glengarry Glen Ross - I finished watching it for the first time and I thought go myself “fuck, I could watch it again” and I did, watch the whole movie again straight away. I can still just go back and watch it. The acting is so amazing it never gets boring
- Veep - best show ever, I’ve seen every episode probably over 10 times and I still watch it all the time, like when I’m cooking or something. It’s just soooo fucking perfect
I actually listen to Futurama to help me sleep. I’ve added some other shows I know just as well. They are in that genre of extraordinary media that I can watch/listen to/etc. over and over again.
Same. And Demolition Man holds the distinction of being the only movie I rewatched on the same day.
We’d rent The Princess Bride and Flight of the Navigator a few times a year.
I used to watch the same movie about every month or so back when I was growing up
I don’t think this is a technical limitation, I think young children really like repetition because their brains are still learning how to predict things
To the chagrin of parents who endure Cocomelon or Caillou rerun marathons.
I have a daughter I enjoy showing movies I’ve already watched to. So I’ve been doing mostly rewatching, but with someone who has never seen, for example, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off before.
The best was her reaction to Repo Man. We got to the end and she said, “all of that for a flying car?”
This is so sweet. Getting to show cool stuff you like to your kids must be one of the best things about being a parent. If I ever end up becoming one I’ll show my kids all the great Pixar movies and also the Emperor’s New Groove cause that one is a classic.
I once had the flu so badly I couldn’t get out of bed or yell for help. My parents put on “Flushed Away” (movie about some fuckin rats) on dvd and it looped at least 4 times before anyone came back to turn it off. One of my core traumas
i suspect its been replaced with stumbling upon tentacle porn or ‘whats this goatse’ when youre 10.
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That’s a sweet assortment of movies.
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That’s all good shit tho
We had to watch garbage like “the Hippie Princess” Spanish version. Crispin. All these public domain golden era cartoon compilations on VHS. And whatever other bootleg VHS tapes we got.
Totally normal childhood movies 😬
Back in the day, me and my siblings recorded movies on VHS by sitting next to the TV and starting/stopping the recording for commercial breaks. The best movies were those with only small snippets of commercials, and my most treasured movie was a nearly “clean” copy of Die Hard that I’ve watched probably somewhere between 50-100 times.
I lived overseas when I was a kid and my grandma used to tape Saturday morning cartoons and mail them to me
She’s a real one.
We had a “kids tape” that had countless things recorded over each other. The second half was just a collage of the tail end of various cartoons and shows. When it got to the Abba-soundtracked documentary about a carnival it meant you were at the end of the tape.
How about building a core memory around a weird French movie you only saw because it was in the wrong case when you rented it from Blockbuster?
Goooooooood morning Vietnammmmmm
Bringing in the deep cuts:
- The Peanut Butter Solution
- DARYL
- Ewoks; The Battle for Endor
- Enemy Mine
- Police Academy and The Blues Brothers (edited for broadcast TV)
Enemy Mine is a sentimental favorite of mine
“I still don’t understand…what’s a hooker?” “Ok,its him.” Im glad somebody mentioned D.A.R.Y.L. That and Police Academy 2 were my go tos as a kid,since we lived in bfe.
Ah yes, bootleg Harry and the Hendersons.
Today’s childhoods will be defined by watching some semi-obscure streamer or meme video on YouTube that only your friends understand.
There is more obscure media than ever, it just connects less people you’re likely to ever meet in person.
Mine was some weird fairy tale cartoon where a mom goat fills a wolf with rocks and they drown in a well.
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In communist Poland you couldn’t simply buy movies on VHS so the only ones we had were Iron Angels I and II: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094146/
No idea where they came from and I’ve seen both way too many times.
