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The Movie I’ve Seen the Most?
Firstly I think it is fair to discount kids movies your family owned that got thrashed in the VCR player, i.e. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or that movie about some dinosaurs that don’t die. I know I saw Return of the Jedi far too many times.
Then there were a number of films I watched many, many times as part of my film studies paper’s at university which would have been difficult not to watch and try to write essays about.
I’ll get the ironic one out of the way, I have seen Most – The Bridge about 5 or 6 times. The last time I was privileged to play it to an audience of about 40 people. And that was like watching it all over again, observing the way others responded. Most is a fantastic film.
I’ve seen The Shawshank Redemption again about 5 or 6 times. These were more spread out though because I think the first time I saw this was in the middle of high school. Those English classes were awesome, I’d get lost in 50 minutes chunks of the movie before the period ended. “Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free”
I’ve seen Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Garden State and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind a few times each. I thought Eternal Sunshine was a terrific film before I read an alternate draft of the script and went “Whoah, they could have gone to these places in the movie as well?” and well impressed, I had to watch it again.
As far as movies go, I’m happy to watch a good movie again but I can’t match 30 or 40 times for movie I’ve seen the most. For the most part I think of good movies like good books, it’s nice for some time to pass between viewings so you forget the details a little bit and the movie has some magic next time you see it.
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