Films/DVD Asylum

Seen it 50 times?

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mkuller

In Reply to: RE: " or am I reading way too much into "a beautiful friendship"??" posted by Wendell Narrod on November 23, 2009 at 11:00:13

...sounds like you have way too much time on your hands.

I can't imagine seeing any film that much.

I may have CDs I've listened to that many times...

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If you can't watch a film at least... - Harmonia 12:56:31 11/24/09 (1)
....20 times without getting bored, then I don't think it qualifies as a "great" film. If a movie doesn't hold up under repeated viewings, then it probably doesn't deserve the moniker "great".

There are plenty of commercial films that are enjoyable but don't hold up under repeated viewings, and they weren't meant to. That's OK, and that's the level where most people enjoy cinema.

But a "great" film, one with personal vision and artistic intent, should only reveal more of its magic the more you watch it. There are scores of movies where I find more in them every time I watch them. (I could provide a list but it'd be pretty long! I will if pressed, but you have been warned.)

The same is true of great music, great books...I never tire of Huckleberry Finn, Pride & Prejudice, Great Expectations, Sayer's Peter Wimsey novels or the historical novels of Patrick O'Brien...and I never tire of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Monteverdi, Vaughn-Williams, Bartok, The Beatles, Steely Dan or The Clash.
- Sorry I disagree... - mkuller 13:06:57 11/24/09 (0)
  ...I love films but there are few I want to see more than a couple of times.
  
  I never have understood people who collect DVDs.
  
  There are always new films coming out to keep up with.
  
  And I read voraciously, but never the same book twice because there is so much I haven't read yet and always something new.
  
  I will agree with you on music. I never tire of classic rock in particular, but I would include blues, surf, oldies, some disco and jazz - even some new stuff.
RE: Seen it 50 times? - Wendell Narrod 11:51:21 11/23/09 (0)
I saw it first when I was 8 and I'm now 58. I watch it, at least, once a year. I never tire of it.

-Wendell

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