re: 5 movies you could watch a million times

Can I just watch id4 5 million times?

Coming to America
Godfather Pt 1 and 2
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Rocky 4
Step Brothers

Swingers
Friday
Talladega Nights
Office Space
Step Brothers

Rudy
Rudy
Rudy
Rudy
Rudy

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That's 6 movies.

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NUH UH! I listed GF 1 & 2 on the same line. That makes it one entry.

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Take off Step Brothers...there's no way a human being could watch that movie a million times.

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Joke's on you, I'm already halfway there....




...You Jagaloon!

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Wall Street

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Great choice. That movie is like a drug.

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Law abiding citizen

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I can watch about 3/4 of it, then I turn it off. Their damnable use of "Chester " as the Deus ex Machina ruins the moral ambiguity that makes the movie great

1. The Departed
2. A Christmas Story
3. Patton
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Terminator

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5 movies you could watch a million times

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We've had this thread every other week for the last 2 months it seems.

I could easily copy and paste my list. But there's something different about this thread, and it's your use of "a million".

Let's say the average movie is 1.5 hours long. There's 24 hours in a day, 365 days in a year, and you live to about...85 years. How many watchings can you get in?

(1.5 X 1 000 000)/(24 x 365) = 171.23 years that's almost 2x your life span. Oops! What about basic necessities, like...umm...I don't know...sleeping? That's already 1/3 of your life span at 8 hours a day. Ok, we can make it 6.

171.23 + (171.23 * (6/24)) = 214.03 years

So that's how long it will take to watch 1 move 1 million times. You say 5 movies. Well the easy solution to this is have all 5 running simultaneously, but the problem there is it will still take you 214.03 years. What if you set up a 5x5 display system either with 25 monitors or 25 PiPs on a large screen to give you 5 rows of your 5 movies where each individual title will be showing 5 times.

That drops your years by a factor of 5, driving your million movie watch down to (214.03/5) = 42 years. Now that is reasonable! A little cheap, but very reasonable.


One last little detail. Because none of these movies have the same running time, you will have to factor in discontinuities of overlap. This can grow to be a big number over 1 million viewings. Let's just say that one movie is 2 minutes longer than the next. Over 1 million viewings that time difference equates to 2 x 1 000 000 = 2 000 000 minutes or (2 000 000 / 60) = 33 333.33 hours or (33 333.3 / (24 x 365)) = 3.81 years of time difference between the films. Do you see how big 1 000 000 is? So let's put that 3.81 years in our 5x5 watching setup (3.81 / 5) = 0.762 years or (0.762 x 365) = 278.13 days past your 42 year mark to finish up a film with a deviation of only 2 extra minutes of run-time on the 5x5 setup.

Still quite a bit of time. Quite a bit indeed.



My list:

Fifth Element
Jurassic Park
Twister
Armageddon
Independence Day

Honorable mentions:
Forrest Gump
The Rock
Stargate