Thirty-seven Movies I Have Seen in Their Entirety More Than Once
Why thirty-seven? Because that’s how many there are. There are undoubtedly at least a couple more I haven’t thought of, but I’ve been working on this list for two or three weeks now, so I figure it’s complete enough to be worth posting.
Needless to say, I am not a movie person. I don’t go out to the movies often, and if I see one I like, I usually just think, “Huh. That was a good movie,” and then go on about my daily life. I’ve rarely been motivated to spend time watching a movie I’ve already seen, much less pay good money for the privilege. The exceptions comprise the list below.
[I should note that some of these, particularly the children’s movies, I didn’t *chose* to watch more than once. I just happened to be around when they were playing, usually at school or at a friend’s house.]
- The Little Mermaid
- Apollo 13
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Homeward Bound
- Homeward Bound II
- Death to Smoochy
- Dead Poets Society
- The Man Who Knew Too Little
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- The Wizard of Oz
- Forrest Gump
- Peter Pan
- Back to the Future I
- BTTF II
- BTTF III
- E.T.
- The Lion King
- Home Alone
- Home Alone 2
- Austin Powers
- Austin Powers 2
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
- Ocean’s Eleven
- Grease
- The Parent Trap (the original one)
- The Sound of Music
- Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Bambi
- Mary Poppins
- The Music Man
- Fantasia
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Wet Hot American Summer
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Billy Madison
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
- Cool Runnings
I’m planning to make this a regular feature. I like lists, but I usually think of interesting things one or two at a time, and by the time I think of something else that fits into that category, I’ve already forgotten the first couple. I want to pick all these formerly-unconnected tidbits out of the dark corners of my brain and scrape them into orderly little piles, mostly for my own entertainment…and now for yours as well.
To this end, for the last six months or so I’ve been maintaining a huge-ass text file of lists. This is the first of them I’ve deemed complete enough to share. From now on, whenever another of the lists hits the big 3-7, I’ll publish it. It’s the perfect filler for those uninspired days when I have class early the next morning and need to get to bed. Like this one.
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