"I can't watch that movie. I've already seen it."

[radhead]

WHAT!? Sorry, but I have a personal gripe with anyone who says things like this. They have no appreciation of art, or something.

How many movies could you not watch more than once? Okay, maybe some low-budget television mystery, where the plotline is the only real element. But most good movies are meant to be watched multiple times.

Imagine hearing someone say this:

"I can't listen to that [song; symphony; etc]. I've already listened to it."

"I can't eat a steak. I already had a steak a few years ago."

"I can't have sex, honey. We already did that."

 

[SonicBOOM]

"I can't have sex, honey. We already did that."

this usaully seems to happen in marreges

"honey you gotta be kidding me...... you wanna have sex? Now? Ughhhhhhh why? Grrrrrr...... ok...... if it makes you shut up, I'll tolerate it"


don't mean to derail your thread btw

 

[Keri]

I hate when people don't want to watch movies a multiple time. My best friend Chris and I do enjoy going to see movies multiple times. I've seen Juno twice in the theater, he's seen in 3 times.

I try to surround myself with people who appreciate art.

 

[Tinkerbell33]

Guilty.

 

[GuacaMolly]

I love watching good movies over and over. Sometimes the first thing I say after a really heavy, involved movie is, "Wow.....I need to see that again!"

That said, there are movies I have seen that you couldn't pay me to watch again.

 

[mina]

i love watching movies i like over and over

 

[Laurie919]

Well, if you can't watch a movie more than once you haven't had kids. There are certain movies we have seen so many times I can quote them line for line.

 

[CoachR64]

I can watch movies multiple times. However, if I have recently seen a movie, I would prefer to watch something different. If there is another movie out that I would like to see, I would much prefer to see the other movie than to watch the same movie again.

Coach

 

[Keri]

Well, if you can't watch a movie more than once you haven't had kids. There are certain movies we have seen so many times I can quote them line for line.

True that.

I know The Little Mermaid and Cars by heart.

 

[Alphawolf]

Personally, I love watching good movies multiple times, but there has to be like atleast a 6-month space between the last time i saw it. Or, I have to REALLY like the person asking me to go haha.

 

[Manda_24]

There are only two or three movies that I can think of that I don't need to see again, it's more they were that bad I don't think I can sit for 2 hours watching it again more than anything. You pick up on so much more when you watch a movie more than once, like a good mystery, little things you notice really hint toward the ending that you didn't notice before.

 

[Silver-winged Flyer]

It depends on the situation.
I hardly ever go to the cinema so if for some strange reason I went a couple of times in a short space of time than I wouldn't want to watch the same movie the second time.
If we were hiring movies and it was a movie I'd seen sometime in the past and somebody else hadn't seen it and I enjoyed it the first time then I'd be happy watching it again.

 

[ulu]

Most movies I only want to see once. A few that I really love,like scarface or deerhunter, I can watch many times.
To refer to most movies as art, or most pop music as art, to me is a stretch.

 

[Margim]

Movies only deserve to be called Art in some circumstances... usually highlighted by a strong acting or directing performance.

The rest falls into the bracket of entertainment... sometimes cheap entertainment. That doesn't make it any less worth viewing more than once sometimes, but to call anything involving Arnie, Bruce Willis or Stalone Art is insulting to all those with actual creativity.

 

[latteda]

WHAT!? Sorry, but I have a personal gripe with anyone who says things like this. They have no appreciation of art, or something.

How many movies could you not watch more than once? Okay, maybe some low-budget television mystery, where the plotline is the only real element. But most good movies are meant to be watched multiple times.

Imagine hearing someone say this:

"I can't listen to that [song; symphony; etc]. I've already listened to it."

"I can't eat a steak. I already had a steak a few years ago."

"I can't have sex, honey. We already did that."

If I'm alone, I'll usually choose to watch something I haven't seen before. But if I'm with friends, watching things we've already seen is the best. Then we can quote it together and get excited about the good parts coming up.

 

[latteda]

Movies only deserve to be called Art in some circumstances... usually highlighted by a strong acting or directing performance.

The rest falls into the bracket of entertainment... sometimes cheap entertainment. That doesn't make it any less worth viewing more than once sometimes, but to call anything involving Arnie, Bruce Willis or Stalone Art is insulting to all those with actual creativity.

Very true. Although actually it is the truly artistic movies that I don't usually want to watch over and over again. Pans Labyrinth, for example.

 

[Spicy McHaggis]

I could understand it if they said "I can't sit through Tommy Boy, I already saw Black Sheep..."

 

[acropolis]

It's hard enough for me to sit through a movie I haven't seen before, let alone watch one I already have.

Unless it's Forest Gump or the Fifth Element. Those never get old.

 

[Wren]

Guilty.

Me too.

 

[Blackguard_]

Movies only deserve to be called Art in some circumstances... usually highlighted by a strong acting or directing performance.

The rest falls into the bracket of entertainment... sometimes cheap entertainment. That doesn't make it any less worth viewing more than once sometimes, but to call anything involving Arnie, Bruce Willis or Stalone Art is insulting to all those with actual creativity.

I disagree, those are art, although not necessarily good art.

Novelty and quality do not make something art. Quality makes something good art, and so can novelty, if used well and not just as novelty for the sake of novelty. Novelty for the sake of novelty is an idea that unfortunately dominates the contemporary art world.