Second Helpings. How Often Do You Have Them?
Monday, June 30, 2014 at 10:02PM Ten years ago today Spider-Man 2 (2004) was released. I loved it so much that I went back the next day for seconds. This is not in my nature. This is so infrequent for me, in fact, that I can remember every single time it's happened. The othertimes being Queen Margot (1994) and Ladyhawke (1985) and, once on DVD if you want to count that, with Trouble in Paradise (1932). Because those four movies are so similar, what.
So I guess my next-day-rewatches are on the same timetable as Cher's #1 singles and Diane Keaton's Oscar nods arriving once per decade; We're due for another.
This still from Sam Raimi's awesome movie (still my choice for best superhero film) neatly sums up how I feel about the hateful reboot franchise which is just wasting so much money and talent (Andrew Garfield, who was supposed to be one of our great new actors, has literally been in nothing else since Social Network and it's been FOUR YEARS). In case you need help interpreting the photo the reboot is James Franco and he's trying to kill the best superhero. Greed ruins everything.
Anyway...
How often have you seen the same movie on consecutive days? I doubt I'll ever start doing this but I will probably end up seeing movies a second time more frequenty than I used to since MoviePass makes the money much less of an obstacle. I saw Snowpiercer today and may actually need to see it a second time to clarify my feelings.
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Certified Copy at the Cannes Film Festival. I'm pretty sure that's my only one.
Guy -- and that's such a huge telling choice at a film festival when one has so many movies to see. Such a shapeshifter, that one.
Movies I have seen twice in the theater:
Mr and Mrs Smith
Avatar
X-Men: Days of Future Past
As a history buff, I looked forward to seeing "300," but I didn't think any of my friends would be interested in seeing such a violent movie. I ended up asking a work colleague to join me, and years later we are still a couple with that as our first date. I mentioned the movie to my friends (who I thought weren't interested), and it turned out they wanted to see it too. I ended up watching it twice opening weekend and a third time the next week.