ScoJo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:14 pm
Interesting plan, @Bez. I feel there are a few different reasons for/ways to approach serial rewatching. To find more aspects/pure joy/comfort food/to try and unlock complexity. Or just because there is one aspect that you particularly enjoy (story, an actor, a style or setting, music etc) Which of those covers your own rewatch approach?
I have an endless carousel of favourites that I will go to regularly, for pure hedonistic indulgence. Just yesterday I was raving to a friend who has never seen Tough Guys Don't Dance, but even as I was hard-selling it, I realised I'm likely in a veeery small minority on that one!! (What can I say... it has just always tickled me ;)
As @inksb also mentioned I do have limited time and so many movies I still need or want to see for a first time but I might try this as sort of an experiment.
And as @Hatter says an annual rewatch of some movies makes more sense. Although 30 I do find a lot :-)
My top sentiment about an approach tends to be with the unlocking of complexity. But I also remember especially loving movies with long and interesting dialogues such as Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. But a movie like Eraserhead or most of David Lynch's work might be an interesting option because there is a lot to discover.
A long movie might make for an easier rewatch because it is harder for me to remember everything. Or I should go for a movie like the new Dune because of the elaborate story. It has to be a movie that is more than a simple action movie.
At the moment I am thinking of picking a giallo because I love the genre/style/music and although I have seen more than 130 of those my memory is pretty bad even for the ones I remember loving. I don't really know anymore why I remember loving some of them more than others.
I also watch movies without paying too much attention about how they are made. I am very easily pleased with a story. Rewatching a movie many times in a relative short time period might help me understand or learn more about how it's made. So I might choose one that has a commentary track added to it. That would make one rewatch at least very interesting and different.
And maybe after three times I decide it is enough. Why punish myself :-)
