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Post by twothousandonemark on Dec 14, 2021 22:11:31 GMT
I can't dive in mid-stream. It's an OCD thing. If it's on AMC or Silver Screen, I'll look to record a future airing.
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Post by damngumby on Dec 14, 2021 22:13:46 GMT
One of the criteria to make this list is the movie should be televised semi-frequently where you live. Some other movies that are often shown in the Boston area, and I just gotta stop channel surfing when I come upon them …
Caddy Shack The Blind Side The Replacements Goodfellas Tombstone The Martian
I think these movies all have a quality where one can easily drop in at any point, and enjoy watching it to the end, for the umpteenth time.
Other movies require more of a commitment, I need to be able to watch them from beginning to end. For me some of those are …
The Shawshank Redemption The Godfather I & II Saving Private Ryan
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Post by Doghouse6 on Dec 14, 2021 23:22:29 GMT
Every year abc shows the Ten Commandments. It’s an all evening event! I have the 4k but it’s still fun to remember the days when almost everyone was watching the same thing. Easy to do with 3 networks, pbs, and a handful of uhf stations. The Ten Commandments is nowhere near being among my favorites, but I think you're onto something here in a more general sense. I have many dozens of my most-beloved films on DVD or Blu-ray, but rarely pull any from the shelf to watch. And yet, when one like Sunset Blvd, All About Eve, Laura, Double Indemnity or any one of many others of those films turn up on one of the stations, I'll join it and stay with it if it's three minutes from the start or three minutes to the finish. I sometimes wondered if it was sort of a holdover from the excitement of the days we both remember when we had to wait for our favorites to show up on broadcast or at a local revival house. Or perhaps it was a perverse side effect of now having just about anything you wanted to watch at your fingertips, first on physical media and then online; an example of what Spock said on one Star Trek episode, "Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting."But when you come across something on TCM or wherever, you're aware - if only subliminally - that thousands of others are having the same viewing experience you are at that moment, almost as though you're in a theater, even if they're not physically there with you. A virtual communal experience, you might call it. I often watch films late into the night when my mate is asleep, but it adds an extra dimension when you realize all those other people you've never met are laughing or gasping or having all manner of other reactions to the same things you are at precisely the same time, and you're not really alone.
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