Does a films ability to be repeatedly viewed make it great?
Discussion
My brother and I usually watch Gregory's Girl (who can't identify with an awkward dork going for the pretty girl?), Beverly Hills Cop and Pulp Fiction at least once a year. So many great lines and smooth acting.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood really didn't impress me the first time, but on the second and subsequent viewings I love it.
Inglorious Basterds, Scott Pilgrim, Accident Man, Debt Collector and the fight scenes from Universal Soldier Day of Reckoning are all easy to watch again and again.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood really didn't impress me the first time, but on the second and subsequent viewings I love it.
Inglorious Basterds, Scott Pilgrim, Accident Man, Debt Collector and the fight scenes from Universal Soldier Day of Reckoning are all easy to watch again and again.
MYOB said:
I must be a freak. I can’t read a book twice, nor watch a film or TV show multiple times.
If inadvertently begin to watch or read something I’ve previously done, I’ll stop immediately once I’ve realised.
When upbraided for repeating old jokes, Spike Milligan asked if you would say, "thank you Mr Beethoven, we've heard that symphony before".If inadvertently begin to watch or read something I’ve previously done, I’ll stop immediately once I’ve realised.
Lotusgone said:
MYOB said:
I must be a freak. I can’t read a book twice, nor watch a film or TV show multiple times.
If inadvertently begin to watch or read something I’ve previously done, I’ll stop immediately once I’ve realised.
When upbraided for repeating old jokes, Spike Milligan asked if you would say, "thank you Mr Beethoven, we've heard that symphony before".If inadvertently begin to watch or read something I’ve previously done, I’ll stop immediately once I’ve realised.
Edited by MYOB on Tuesday 21st March 13:23
phazed said:
Leon
Seen many times. Just a great film, so rewatchable, it has everything.
I haven't rewatched it after learning about the director, it takes on a whole new level of creepiness after that.Seen many times. Just a great film, so rewatchable, it has everything.
When it's a film with a very heavy subject matter, like Schindler's List or The Road, I usually find they're one and done. Yes they're very well made, but I feel a single viewing is sufficient. Then there's also genuinely great films like Terminator 1&2, Die Hard, Jurassic Park etc which I could never get tired of even though I could probably recite the script in my sleep. I would say it's because they're so good you want to see it again, but there's also plenty of others like Independence Day, Mortal Kombat or the Friday the 13th series which are objectively not very good, but I keep coming back to. So in answer to the question, no, but I can't explain why.
J4CKO said:
Even Carry on films on a bank holiday afternoon if its raining, they are generally utter dogs
t but cant help getting nostalgic.
I think all of them are on ITVXt but cant help getting nostalgic.https://www.itv.com/watch/collections/films/6D2ZDI...
J4CKO said:
am currently watching Auf Weidersehen Pet which I revisit every few years, also, embarrassingly Benidorm, the early series anyway as it went a bit downhill.
If we are talking series then:Miami Vice
long Way Round
Blue Planet 1 & 2
Planet Earth 1 & 2
Street Hawk
Star Trek - TNG, DS9, VOY & ENT
boxedin said:
Mr Squarekins said:
Isn't this Pistonheads?
Where Eagles Dare
The Great Escape
I'll swap you TGE for the Heroes of Telemark.Where Eagles Dare
The Great Escape
Die Another Day
The Crooked House
Sahara (the Matthew McConaughey movie)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Criminal
Rush
Mosquito Squadron
Detective Pikachu
Overlord
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
...are just some of them. Many of the locations used I've either worked at or walked/mountain biked through. It's fun to rewatch films on that list because the locations often look very different in reality to how they look when a movie company have built sets, installed props, and used effects to alter them. There aren't many films on that list I'd say are great", but it doesn't stop me going back to them.
It's the same with locations further away. The Eagle Has Landed is an example. I've cycled to/through the village of Mapledurham (on the Thames near Reading) and stayed at the hotel in Charlestown, Cornwall, where scenes in that movie were filmed. It's probably not a "great movie" but it's a great movie to watch again precisely because I can visualise how those locations fit into the wider landscape and because I have my own memories of those places.
Remembering the filming of Sahara also makes me chuckle. The scene filmed at the army training lake there required the location crew to set up within the perimeter fence of Hawley Hard, part of the Royal Engineers' combat engineer training depot. Whispers spread, and of course it came to the attention of many within the unit that Matthew McConaughey and Penélope Cruz were starring in the movie. There was, for a time, a clamour among some young soldiers to volunteer for guard duty at the Hawley hard site, in the hope of meeting the delightful Ms Cruz. Come filming time, though, there was a great deal of crashing disappointment from those who had (rather unusually for young soldiers) been previously so keen to volunteer. The scene filmed on "our" lake was only the pre-credits sequence where the Confederate gold was loaded onto an ironclad steamship, which then sailed away under Union canon fire. It was set at the end of the American Civil War, and Ms Cruz's character was most definitely a character who hadn't been born then. Almost all of the actors involved were men, none as far as I could tell were particularly famous, all dressed as American Civil War soldiers, and the filming mostly took place at night.
CT05 Nose Cone said:
phazed said:
Leon
Seen many times. Just a great film, so rewatchable, it has everything.
I haven't rewatched it after learning about the director, it takes on a whole new level of creepiness after that.Seen many times. Just a great film, so rewatchable, it has everything.
Still, I have Leon, directors cut saved for a viewing.
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