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re: On Repeat: Why People Watch Movies and Shows Over and Over
Posted on 9/10/14 at 3:22 pm to Cole Beer
Posted on 9/10/14 at 3:22 pm to Cole Beer
I think it ultimately boils down to this:
We rewatch things because, for lack of a better word, it's easy. It's easy to have a movie on that you know by heart and don't have to pay attention to. I find myself looking for something to put on the TV even when I know I'm gonna up and around the house doing shite...I still like to have something going in the background, and often times I like for that something to be familiar.
My old roommate used to do this a lot. No matter what we were doing, we'd always have one of several movies on the TV. It was almost always one of the following:
Friday
Billy Madison
Happy Gilmore
Dumb and Dumber
Dazed and Confused
Saving Silverman
Half-Baked
And maybe one or two more that I am forgetting. And noticeably so, they were all comedies ("stupid comedies" at that). And I can just about quote them all backwards and forwards. That's because unless we were specifically watching something as it aired, we almost always had one of them on, whether we were chilling and shooting the shite, playing our lifelong Rummy game, whatever.
Other movies fall into this with me as well...and not just comedies. Some movies, if I see them on TV, I will always watch at least a little bit of them, and sometimes the whole thing, even though I've seen if a hundred times and own it on DVD (i.e. can watch it whenever I want).
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Watching something again and again seems like it would make entertainment lose its initial appeal. But psychologists have found that repetition breeds affection. Familiar fare requires less mental energy to process, and when something is easy to think about, we tend to consider it good. A movie we've seen seven times before is blissfully easy to process.
We rewatch things because, for lack of a better word, it's easy. It's easy to have a movie on that you know by heart and don't have to pay attention to. I find myself looking for something to put on the TV even when I know I'm gonna up and around the house doing shite...I still like to have something going in the background, and often times I like for that something to be familiar.
My old roommate used to do this a lot. No matter what we were doing, we'd always have one of several movies on the TV. It was almost always one of the following:
Friday
Billy Madison
Happy Gilmore
Dumb and Dumber
Dazed and Confused
Saving Silverman
Half-Baked
And maybe one or two more that I am forgetting. And noticeably so, they were all comedies ("stupid comedies" at that). And I can just about quote them all backwards and forwards. That's because unless we were specifically watching something as it aired, we almost always had one of them on, whether we were chilling and shooting the shite, playing our lifelong Rummy game, whatever.
Other movies fall into this with me as well...and not just comedies. Some movies, if I see them on TV, I will always watch at least a little bit of them, and sometimes the whole thing, even though I've seen if a hundred times and own it on DVD (i.e. can watch it whenever I want).
Posted on 9/10/14 at 3:38 pm to CocomoLSU
I will watch these movies whenever they are on (which is all the time), regardless of how much time is left:
Predator
Cool Hand Luke
The Dirty Dozen
Dumb and Dumber
The Sands of Iwo Jima
Shane
Predator
Cool Hand Luke
The Dirty Dozen
Dumb and Dumber
The Sands of Iwo Jima
Shane
Posted on 9/10/14 at 3:55 pm to CocomoLSU
I could watch the end of Shawshank Redemption every day.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 8:04 am to CocomoLSU
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Watching something again and again seems like it would make entertainment lose its initial appeal. But psychologists have found that repetition breeds affection. Familiar fare requires less mental energy to process, and when something is easy to think about, we tend to consider it good. A movie we've seen seven times before is blissfully easy to process.
We rewatch things because, for lack of a better word, it's easy. It's easy to have a movie on that you know by heart and don't have to pay attention to. I find myself looking for something to put on the TV even when I know I'm gonna up and around the house doing shite...I still like to have something going in the background, and often times I like for that something to be familiar.
Good point and I agree. Cleaning the house, sometimes even sleeping, just put something on that I've seen Usually I"m aware enough for the really good parts and I know when and if I can just relax and watch a longer part of the film.
It sounds bad, that maybe peace and quiet is underrated now, but I enjoy having something on even if it's for the 20th time.
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