Which Films Have You Watched Most Times?

Moogtron III wrote: Right, my last bit of digital street credibility is lost (if I ever had any): I saw Sound Of Music about 15 times  . And Groundhog Day about the same amount of times. I don't think I saw another movie more than 10 times, or it must be one of the.. erm... Sissi films.  Well, it's kinda cool if you think about it. Hopefully... Um... Nice weather, isn't it?

smartpatrol wrote: Dean wrote: ^ I would imagine the age of the viewer has a lot to do with it Yeah, I'm like 12! That explains it!

Yikes! You have lived entirely in the 21st Century  

I used to have a halloween tradition to watch Canadian Bacon with some friends (don't ask), so that's another one I forgot.  Last few years we switched to UHF, though.

Edited by wilmon91 - April 24 2012 at 17:18

Loved Star Wars as a kid, but not since.

I don't repeat watch much now, but as a teen and into my early 20s I did.  I have watched Spirited Away many times with my kids.

I don't know how many times  I've seen Clockwork Orange, Brazil, O Lucky Man, The Meaning of Life, Midnight Express, The Hunger, Zardoz , Logan's Run, Cat People (the 80s re-make), The Mission, The Bounty, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, The Dark Crystal, Alien, and Blade Runner.  A lot (mostly while in my teens)

More arthouse oriented, I watched the early Zhang Yimou films with Gong Li many times, as well as Kieslowski's Three Colours Trilogy (chose to write a long essay in uni on the "Trilogy", which did wear me down and put me off the films, sadly, but I still enjoy his Dekalog).  Also Olivier Olivier many times.  Also have seen Shohei Imamura's Black Rain and Vengeance is Mine many times, as well as Lars von Trier's Element of Crime and Zentropa.

I don't watch a lot of films any longer, and it's been a  long time since a film affected me profoundly.

smartpatrol wrote: Dean wrote: smartpatrol wrote: Dean wrote: ^ I would imagine the age of the viewer has a lot to do with it Yeah, I'm like 12! That explains it! Yikes! You have lived entirely in the 21st Century   I actually find that to be amazing and wonderful (not that you had anything to do with it) - when I was 12 the 21st Century was a distant future where science fiction happened and here you are living it.   Actually I was born in 1999 so jokes on you! hahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh well it was only a 1 in 3 chance that you were, so your life isn't amazing after all. Nevermind.

Although I have seen Star Wars films, I am not that fussed about having seen them.  Some of the scenes are absolutely cringeworthy.  C-3PO is one the silliest characters ever too.  I hate the comic relief elements of the films.

That's because I've been reading about him on Wookiepedia and it was there I realised how even more stupid of a character he was.  I like The Old Republic lore more than anything else in the franchise.  So I'm not anti-Star Wars.  I'm just not keen on the films that much.

And before you say "but you wouldn't have had all the books, comics, cartoons and computer games if it wasn't for the original films"; I understand that.  That's where it all began.

I'm just not overly keen on much of what is in the films.

If they made a film about The Old Republic and made it dark and skipped on the annoying C-3PO and Jar Jar Binks types characters, I'd probably enjoy it.  I really dislike the comic relief.


Edited by VanderGraafKommandöh - April 26 2012 at 10:59

Having recently read a lot of the lore online, it has become clear that that the Dark Jedi and Sith have much better story lines than the Jedi.  The writers also have no qualms about destroying worlds or killing off characters either.  I much prefer that.

I don't like the nice fluffiness of the films.

One thing I really dislike about C-3PO's backstory is the fact he once belonged to Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader on Tatooine and had lots of amazingly silly adventures before somehow miraculously falling into the hands of Luke Skywalker back on Tatooine again.

I know people love story lines like that but I don't.

Then there was the stupid scene where his head got swapped with another droid (and thus onto its body) and vice-versa.  Urgh.

Oh indeed.  I don't have a problem with the concept of droids.  I just don't like the way they are used for comic relief in the films.  I can cope with R2-D2 mostly because he only has beep-beeps as way of communicating.