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I am talking about going to a movie house and paying to watch the SAME movie multiple times. I have three movies that I have done this for:
Star Wars
The Natural
Soul Man
I saw Star Wars in a normal packed cinema when it first came out. There were news stories of kids watching it 25 times or more. Well, I was one of those kids. No, I didn't watch it 25 times, but I did go back multiple times when it hit the budget theater ($1.00 admission). Why? Because the story and the visuals transported a young kid like I was into another Universe, in a battle of good vs evil.
The Natural combined a sports movie and fairy tale into a magical movie. Again, a battle of good vs evil. The soft lighting they used and the mesmerizing historical detail of long ago ball parks and uniforms was beautiful. The movie ending was Kirk Gibson-esque! Glenn Close was Redford's love interest in this movie and was likeable. Close's previous roles in The Natural and the Big Chill, made her portrayal as a psycho mistress in Fatal Attraction such a shocker. Anyway, I digress. I was alone and single while finishing up military advanced electronic training near San Francisco and I saw it multiple times with a Navy friend who also loved baseball.
Soul Man is such a politically incorrect comedy, which couldn't be made today. C. Thomas Howell's character expected to enter Harvard Law School after his college graduation, but his rich father decided to spend his college money on a time-share in Barbados. Instead of working his way to pay for Law School, he took some tanning pills that made him look black and then applied for and received a prestigious African American only scholarship. His love interest was the lovely Rae Dawn Chong (Tommy Chong's daughter) who he discovered was a single mother and working her ass off to pay for Harvard...only because she narrowly missed out on the scholarship that he had no right to receive. I watched this movie multiple times, wearing a Harvard sweatshirt at times, because I dreamed of going to college to become a lawyer. When I was young, I had no confidence in myself and dropped out of Jr College twice. In my 40's, with my wife's support, I went to college and achieved a BS in History. I continued and received an MA. My brother-in-law received a Law Degree from Washburn Law School and so I checked into the dream I had as a much younger man. Washburn is not Harvard Law, yet the cost of a single semester was staggering. From the inquiry, I received many recruiting calls from them, inviting me to tour the Law School. Hell no!not a rich kid like @AvengerRam or @jrry32 !!!
So name your multiple viewings of a single movie in the theater and why the hell you did that!
PS: I also can't resist watching A Few Good Men to watch Nicholon's performance as Col. Jessup!
Star Wars
The Natural
Soul Man
I saw Star Wars in a normal packed cinema when it first came out. There were news stories of kids watching it 25 times or more. Well, I was one of those kids. No, I didn't watch it 25 times, but I did go back multiple times when it hit the budget theater ($1.00 admission). Why? Because the story and the visuals transported a young kid like I was into another Universe, in a battle of good vs evil.
The Natural combined a sports movie and fairy tale into a magical movie. Again, a battle of good vs evil. The soft lighting they used and the mesmerizing historical detail of long ago ball parks and uniforms was beautiful. The movie ending was Kirk Gibson-esque! Glenn Close was Redford's love interest in this movie and was likeable. Close's previous roles in The Natural and the Big Chill, made her portrayal as a psycho mistress in Fatal Attraction such a shocker. Anyway, I digress. I was alone and single while finishing up military advanced electronic training near San Francisco and I saw it multiple times with a Navy friend who also loved baseball.
Soul Man is such a politically incorrect comedy, which couldn't be made today. C. Thomas Howell's character expected to enter Harvard Law School after his college graduation, but his rich father decided to spend his college money on a time-share in Barbados. Instead of working his way to pay for Law School, he took some tanning pills that made him look black and then applied for and received a prestigious African American only scholarship. His love interest was the lovely Rae Dawn Chong (Tommy Chong's daughter) who he discovered was a single mother and working her ass off to pay for Harvard...only because she narrowly missed out on the scholarship that he had no right to receive. I watched this movie multiple times, wearing a Harvard sweatshirt at times, because I dreamed of going to college to become a lawyer. When I was young, I had no confidence in myself and dropped out of Jr College twice. In my 40's, with my wife's support, I went to college and achieved a BS in History. I continued and received an MA. My brother-in-law received a Law Degree from Washburn Law School and so I checked into the dream I had as a much younger man. Washburn is not Harvard Law, yet the cost of a single semester was staggering. From the inquiry, I received many recruiting calls from them, inviting me to tour the Law School. Hell no!not a rich kid like @AvengerRam or @jrry32 !!!
So name your multiple viewings of a single movie in the theater and why the hell you did that!
PS: I also can't resist watching A Few Good Men to watch Nicholon's performance as Col. Jessup!
