You Wanna See a Movie?
- John Coc...tos...ten
One of the running jokes among us asshats who run this site is that I don't watch movies. Which is true, at least partially. I don't go to the local uberplex to see movies much, probably five times a year. When slouching on the couch with the remote in my hand, I generally pick baseball, Seinfeld, or game show reruns vs. a movie. We rarely fire up the DVD player, either, evidenced by several unopened movies that we received as wedding gifts three years ago.
But I'll let you in on a secret. I've probably watched movies as many times as Al and wadE. The difference is that while they go for variety of titles, I stick with a small subset of movies that I like and watch them. Over and over. And over.
I'm not sure why. Maybe it's a comfort thing, watching a movie I've seen forty, fifty, sixty times. Maybe it's economical, not wanting to blow $20 at the theater. Maybe it's a taste thing, the previews for the majority of new movies don't really make me want to run out to see them. Or maybe I'm just lazy.
Whatever the reason, here are the movies I watch. Repeatedly.
- Fletch
- The Three Amigos
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- Major League (edited for TV)
- Weekend At Bernie's
There's your list. I can quote you any line from any of those movies. My addiction started in college, when I would play these movies (in sequence) while studying for finals. I studied best with noise as a distraction but not noise that I needed to pay attention to; since I'd seen Fletch approximately 1,900,345 times in my life, I didn't have to pay attention.
The drawback: 95% of what I say that isn't original dialogue comes from that list of movies. Listen to me sometime. You'll discover I'm not nearly as original and entertaining as you once thought. :)
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