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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nakia" data-source="post: 2315953" data-attributes="member: 25747">For me, the bulk of repeat movie watching ocurred in a four year span known as "college."  Certian movies would get "discovered" in my group of friends and then we would collectively watch them, ad nauseum.  These included: Dumb and Dumber, Happy Gilmore, The Usual Suspects, Dazed and Confused (there was about an eight day span where my friend Daniel and I watched this every day), Mallrats, Clerks, Empire Records, and the various movies which were childhood touchstones like Star Wars and Indiana Jones.College was lots of free time and little sleep.  Given the choice between watching a movie we liked and doing something, anything else (studying, cleaning the apartment, sleeping) we usually opted for the movie.  I cannot count how many times I walked into a friend's apartment to see if they wanted to go get something to eat or go study, only to find them watching some movie I had already seen 12 times, and then sitting down and watching the movie with them.And I don't even consider all of those movies I watched over and over good movies.  Empire Records is not a good movie.  But it was entertaining and fun and seemed a better way to spend two hours than, say, reading psychology.In fact, I would distinguish between a good movie and a rewatchable movie.  Traffic, for example, is a really good film, but it's not one I'd watch over and over.  There are some movies I think are really good that I purposely do not watch repeatedly, lest they become routine.  Before Sunrise is the best example of this, for me.Sorry this turned into an essay. . .</blockquote>

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