I could never understand people who like to watch movies several times. Even two times is too much for me, but 5, 10, 20, 50 times -- it's just mind-boggling to me.
Here's my reasoning when it comes to a movie: One of the main pleasures I get is NOT knowing what's going to happen next, and having it just unfold in the moment and being pleasantly surprised to one degree or another.
Of course this applies the most perhaps to the thriller genre or the murder mystery, but it also applies to pretty much any other genre, since there's always new developments around the corner in any genre that are part of the interesting things that unfold in the story.
There have been times when I wasn't sure if I had seen a movie before, it could have been 10 or 20 years in the past (or some season of a series I really like, like Dexter or Burn Notice or Bosch, or whatever) and so I pop in the video cassette or the DVD or click on the streaming service and sit back with my figurative popcorn and my literal glass of whiskey and start watching... Then it dawns on me as the time goes along, slowly I start noticing things that are familiar -- "Oh no, I've seen this before I saw this all this stuff before, I've already been through this!" As soon as that happens I abort mission and find something else to watch that I have not seen.
Here's my reasoning when it comes to a movie: One of the main pleasures I get is NOT knowing what's going to happen next, and having it just unfold in the moment and being pleasantly surprised to one degree or another.
Of course this applies the most perhaps to the thriller genre or the murder mystery, but it also applies to pretty much any other genre, since there's always new developments around the corner in any genre that are part of the interesting things that unfold in the story.
There have been times when I wasn't sure if I had seen a movie before, it could have been 10 or 20 years in the past (or some season of a series I really like, like Dexter or Burn Notice or Bosch, or whatever) and so I pop in the video cassette or the DVD or click on the streaming service and sit back with my figurative popcorn and my literal glass of whiskey and start watching... Then it dawns on me as the time goes along, slowly I start noticing things that are familiar -- "Oh no, I've seen this before I saw this all this stuff before, I've already been through this!" As soon as that happens I abort mission and find something else to watch that I have not seen.