The top 25 films (that people have seen more than 5 times)
I may have seen Groundhog Day more than five times, but I doubt it. That's the only one on the list that would match my answers.
If I have watched a film five or more times, it's because of a family tradition, excepting only Casablanca and Blade Runner. My kids like to watch certain films on our holidays together: The Mask, Ace Ventura Pet Detective, There's Something About Mary, Ирония судьбы (The Irony of Fate). The latter is a Russian film which is a cultural touchstone for my Russian-speaking relatives. There may be a few others I've forgotten.
Confession time: although I love to praise and mock Roadhouse, most of that is kidding around. I've actually watched it only two or three times.
I can't believe some of the dreck on that list, especially if you click through to the top 100. Someone has actually watched that recent awful remake of "Ghostbusters" over five times? I can't believe that even the editor did that, or it would have been an hour shorter. And I barely made it through "Carol" once without falling asleep. Maybe people are using it as a non-prescription tranquilizer. Or did they count every time they watched only the lesbian sex scene?
ReplyDeleteI'm a lifelong movie buff, but of everything on that top 100 list, the only ones I might have seen five times are the original "Ghostbusters," "Groundhog Day," "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" and "A Christmas Story." I notice, as usual, the prejudice for more recent movies. I have to assume this means there are people in the world who have actually watched "Star Trek: Into Darkness," "The Hobbit," the 2014 "Godzilla" and "Love, Actually" five times or more and probably have never seen any of the movies I would have named, like "Duck Soup," "Citizen Kane," "Casablanca," "The Wizard of Oz," "Gone With The Wind" or more recently, "My Favorite Year." I have to assume they are young enough not to have yet realized that the number of hours we are allotted on Earth in one lifetime is not unlimited.