Rewatchable and overwatched

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Fellow Indietalkers!

Name a movie that you've seen so many times the thought of watching it again is, unpleasant.

ALSO

Name a movie that you're pretty sure you've watched a thousand times and could totally sit down and watch again right now.

One of my over watched movies would be The Simpsons Movie- I used to put it on all the time when I worked at Blockbuster, and I'm pretty sure I've had no desire to watch it since.

A movie I in fact watched earlier today and would be happy to watch again right now- True Lies. One of my all time favourites. I love everything about that film. Everything.

How 'bout you, ladies and gents?
 
In the mid-90s I had seen both the Princess Bride and Monty Python and the Holy Grail enough times to last. I have, however, in recent years been fine re-watching Princess Bride. Very minimal desire to re-watch Holy Grail.

I can, and have rewatched Legend more times than anyone should admit to. Ditto Troll 2, but definitely for different reasons!
 
I can't think of any movies that I hate because I've seen them too many times.

Movies I watch all of the time;
Star Wars 3-6
Fast & Furious (all)
Grosse Pointe Blank
Better Off Dead (& anything else by "Savage" Steve Holland)
Most of Kevin Smith's movies
Independence Day
MIB (1&2)
Heavy Metal
Easy A
 
Nothing comes to mind for overmatched but for rewatchable:

Whatever Works
Scoop
The Big Lebowski
Three Idiots
 
I pulled out my copy of “Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring” the other day, intending to watch the entire trilogy over the following few days. After I thought about it, I changed my mind. I’ve seen the whole trilogy 3 times (I think???), so I guess I just couldn’t bring myself to invest another 10 hours of my life into these movies. I’m sure I will one day, but, for now, I can pass. I know 3 times probably doesn’t count as ‘overwatched’, but for a film that essentially lasts more than 10 hours (and lets face it, there’s no point in just watching one part of the trilogy), I think it’s more than enough.


As for ‘rewatchable’, I’m really not sure. There’s too many. I think “Scream” is probably the film I’ve watched the most times in my life, if that counts for anything…
 
Overwatched:

The Austin Powers movies, mostly because my husband loves them and has watched them too many times for me to count. I can watch them, but they're definitely not among my favorites.


Rewatchable:
I can watch romantic comedies over and over and over again: Hope Floats, Sweet Home Alabama, Bridget Jones' Diary, etc. Same with Jane Austen adaptations: I once watched Pride and Prejudice (the Keira Knightley version) three times in one day...and Dirty Dancing is right up there, too. In fact, that might be the movie that made me want to make films now that I think about.

There are actually a ton of movies I can watch over and over again: Labyrinth and Willow (both childhood favorites), Cold Mountain, anything with Johnny Depp, anything by or including Kevin Smith, Dazed and Confused, and tons of others I can't remember at the moment...

There are other movies I wish I could rewatch over and over again, but they're too intense to comfortably do that: Pan's Labyrinth and Devil's Rejects both come to mind. I've seen each a couple of times, but can't watch them very often.
 
I've never seen a movie more then once that I didn't want to. I've never grown tired of my favorites. Here's some of the movies I've seen dozens of times, and still love seeing them.

Natural Born Killers
Freeway
Casablanca
City For Conquest
The Roaring Twenties
Maltese Falcon
May
10 Items Or Less
Camille (Sienna Miller)
The Last Seduction
Caine Mutiny
 
Over watched:

CAPTAIN AMERICA movies

HELLBOY 1 & 2

Rewatcable:

The Silence Of The Lambs

Manhunter

The Matrix

Resident Evil 1, 2, & 3

The Day The Earth Stood Still

Forbidden Planet

Blade Runner

Superman The Movie

The Stepford Wives (The Original)

Gargoyles (1974 TV Movie) TV does not make TV movies that good anymore.

Starman by John Carpenter

Wavelength

The Planet Of The Apes (Original movies series)

Alien Resurection
 
Watched-to-death:

Dogma

Could watch infinity times:

To Be or Not To Be (1983)
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Harry Potters
84 Charring Cross Road
 
Overwatched:

Cloverfield -- it's so good and so short that I think, "hey, I can't sit down for LOTR, but this is under 1.5 hours" So now I'm sick of it.


On the flip-side, The Prestige and Bourne 2 & 3 cannot be over-watched.
 
My favorite re-watchable movies of ALL TIME!

1.) Cabin Fever
2.) Back to the Future (I & II)
3.) Dazed and Confused
4.) Fast Times at Ridgemont High
5.) Ferris Bueller's Day off
6.) Gladiator


Movies that I've overwatched and now don't really care to see...

I can't think of any :)
 
Rewatchable
Sooo many, just some examples...
The big Lebowski
The naked gun & Police squad TV series
Planet terror
From dusk till dawn
...

Overwatched
I can only think of The Hangover right now. It was funny the first time, but with every time watching it again, it got less funny.
 
Overwatched:
Besides anything I thought was only okay or decent recently, October Sky. They made us watch it so many times in high school that the thought of watching it again makes me queasy. It's not that it's a bad movie or anything, it was just the go to movie when a teacher didn't feel like teaching or showing us anything of substantive value.

Rewatchable:
The Royal Tenenbaums
Back to the Future
Jaws
Ghostbusters
Jurassic Park
Die Hard
Aliens
Terminator 2
WALL-E
Office Space
Slingblade
Happiness
The Fountain
 
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Wombat said:
Overwatched:
Besides anything I thought was only okay or decent recently, October Sky. They made us watch it so many times in high school that the thought of watching it again makes me queasy. It's not that it's a bad movie or anything, it was just the go to movie when a teacher didn't feel like teaching or showing us anything of substantive value.
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Now that you mention it, I do remember seeing that film more than once in high school. haha


I thought of another one I can't watch for at least a few years due to overexposure. Star Trek: First Contact. It's a strange paradox because I love the movie and could almost always want to watch it, but I just can't. I'll hate it, I've seen it way too much. It's kind of aggravating in a way :lol:
 
I have two categories and sometimes they crossover...

1) Movies that come on and I always get caught up in them for repeat viewing:

BOURNE trilogy
SHAWSHANK
BEHIND ENEMY LINES
THE FUGITIVE
STAR TREK
CASINO ROYALE
ROBOCOP
TERMINATOR
NEAR DARK
THE HITCHER (1985 version)
ALIENS
PREDATOR


2) Movies that I like, but make other people watch, because I enjoy their reaction:

BAD TASTE
DEAD ALIVE
CRIMINALLY INSANE
RECTUMA
EVIL DEAD 2
THE THING
THE HIDDEN
KICK-ASS

I still keep VHS tapes, because many of them are cued up to specific scenes, like the "proposal in the bathroom" scene from HENRY FOOL. I don't care much for the movie, but I love that scene.
 
Modern Day Myth Prod. LLC said:
Rewatcable:

The Silence Of The Lambs

Manhunter
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YES YES YES! Manhunter is the only decent version of that story and the only movie worthy of sharing space with SotL. The only legitimate reason to remake Red Dragon had to be greed. I can picture the meeting:

"Who can we get to remake Michael Mann? Who'd be that stupid?"
"Well, we asked everybody in town, but the only one who said yes was Brett Ratner."
"Wait...Jonathan Demme won us a Best Picture Oscar, Ridley Scott did the sequel, now we're gonna bring Brett Ratner into this?"
"Who gives a shit? We've got Hopkins on board. Two hundred mil, easy. My granny could direct this."

Sorry. Tangent. As you were.
 
I really like MANHUNTER. I saw it when it first came to theaters and was wondering why few others were supporting it. It's fairly low budget, but very stylish and well acted by William L. Petersen (C.S.I.) and the killer, played by big Tom Noonan (6'6" tall), who is much more imposing compared to Ralph Fiennes, who played the same part in RED DRAGON. And I really dig the synthy score.

Can you believe that reporter for The Tattler, Freddy Lounds (played by Stephen Lang) went on to play the Colonel in AVATAR? I couldn't believe it was the same guy!

Stephen Lang in MANHUNTER:

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Stephen Lang in AVATAR:

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rewatch
Star Wars
clockwork orange
Lawerance of arabia (1962)
any godzilla movie except for Igunazilla
creature from the black lagoon
Sin City
Return of the living dead! lol
city of the living dead
The beyond
friday the 13th (1980)
The big lebowski
and the list can go on
Children of dune..not really a movie ..mini serise but still awsome at that!

over watched
batman any verision
xmen...any of them
Harry Potter any of them
LOTR any of them
star wars prequels
 
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