#21

same here.

Gone re-watch Atlanta in advance of Season 2. Watched The Wire 5 times. Currently on my third time through The West Wing (watching alongside The West Wing Weekly). Currently planning a full GOT re-watch (along with listening to binge mode GOT podcast) before 2019.

#22

Seen hackers, silence of the lambs and fargo probably 50 times each. Seen all of seinfeld probably 5 times through. Re-reading wind up bird chronicle for the third time.

#23

A good friend of mine reckons that he has watched Three Ninjas over 500 times, and says that’s a conservative estimate because he was obsessed with it as a child and would sometimes watch it three times in a row.

Is this sort of thing common behaviour in children? It seems a bit odd, but I didn’t have a VCR growing up so maybe I would have watched Jumanji 632 times if I did, I just don’t know.

#24

Yeah this is very common behaviour with kids. I’ve seen Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest close to a hundred times I reckon because my little brother watched it incessantly when he was 7.

#25

My sister and I used to watch Home Alone every weekend out of boredom and a lack of VHS tapes. (30 years old I was etc etc)

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#26

I’ve got boxes of 90s/00s magazines, too. Every NME I ever bought, about three years each of The Face, JockeySlut and Select, the first year of Edge, plus a couple of dozen others, a few dozen 90 Minutes, a bunch of design mags, a dozen or so Sleazenation, various others…

Not really touched since they were bought, so, after one too many times moving them from home to home, I’ve finally come to the admission that these are ever getting re-read. Can’t bring myself to chuck 'em out, though. Impractical/worthless as joblots. A slow drip-drip of selling them individually on eBay is probably how it’ll play out. Have already sold a few that I was less attached to. Took three boxes of books to the chazzer at the weekend. Have got as much again waiting to be sure from stuff I genuinely wanna keep.

#swampedincontent

#27

:wave:

#28

Mostly with @TheWza on this one, too much new stuff to explore in genres I haven’t tried yet, or directors I haven’t got into yet, for me to watch the same things over and over.

Haven’t done it with any books in years, but read High Fidelity and the Molesworth books loads when I was younger.

TV is easy with comedies, especially British ones (must have done IT Crowd and Black Books 6 times each by now) but dramas just take so much time. Love the concept of a total Mad Men or Sopranos rewatch but can’t imagine I’ll make it happen. Different when it’s a group activity though, ended up watching most of GOT and Breaking Bad multiple times with different groups of people over the years - always feels fresh that way with new things to discuss and their individual takes on it all. No motivation to do so when alone though.

Films I’ve obviously got my favs that get brought out when I’m ill or low or right time of the year. And they’re especially good for showing to new friends, as it only takes a couple hours unlike a show or book which is much more of an investment for them. Seen Home Alone, Bugsy Malone, Blazing Saddles etc about 15-20 each now. But I’ve been pushing myself to watch new things the last couple of years, so a rewatch feels like a wasted opportunity to finally see Blood Simple or American Beauty or Repulsion or McCabe and Mrs Miller or Nashville or …

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#29

Basically in a Groundhog Day scenario, I would enjoy going back through all my fav shows to re-appreciate them and catch all the subtle details first time round. But in the real world, ain’t got the time.

#30

Films: yes.
TV: yes.

Books??

Yes.

Yes I do all of these things.

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#31

quite rarely tbh. there’s so much other stuff out there

#32

I’ve watched Sex and the City about 6 or 7 times over. Same but less so with It’s Always Sunny, Broad City, Seinfeld, Curb. I regularly watch comedy series many, many times. Never watched a serious program more than once.

Films: I have a handful I watch a few times.
High Fidelity, Bridesmaids, several Coen Bros films.

Books: Never.

#33

*Sex in the City

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#34

Oh yeah, The Simpons :grinning:

#35

I do this a lot with films and tv series. Very occasionally I’ll listen to a song more than once.

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#38

:open_mouth:

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#40

I usually enjoy a film more when I re-watch it.

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#41

Similarly, I’ve probably seen I’m Alan Partidge… I dunno, dozens of times. can basically recite both series. same with The Thick Of It.

I rewatch films quite a lot - often when it’s been just long enough since I saw them that I can remember bits but not all of it, and I get a bit of a buzz out of the feeling I know I’m going to get seeing it all again (i.e. I recently re-watched All The President’s Men and Spotlight really close together cos one lead me to the other and absolutely loved the experience). I did however watch Hunt For The Wilderpeople 3 times (with different people) last year just cos I enjoyed it so much, so time isn’t always a factor. Currently really excited about watching The Thin Red Line and There Will Be Blood again for the first time in years though.

Books… only re-read a few things I guess, mostly fun stuff like Catch-22.

#43

First time through for me currently!

#44

:+1:

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