Be Excellent To Each Other

Okay, I think, though I may be wrong, that this deserves its own thread.

Citizen Kane - Could not get through it the first couple of times I tried. Incredibly dull, plodding stuff. Third time I tried I loved it. Utterly engrossing portrait of a man.

American Beauty - First watch: incredibly funny biting satire. Second watch: Incredibly smug, deeply annoying.

Napoleon Dynamite - A couple of chuckles first time around, but just becomes exquisitely mesmerising on repeated viewings.

I didn't like that the first time around, cf. Withnail

There's lots of films I like more each time. I can't think of any that I've disliked initially and then grown to like, mostly because if I hate something I just don't bother to watch it again even if other people keep saying how great it is.

I must have watched the VHS of Airplane fully fifteen times as a kid and I still thoroughly enjoy it now.

To contradict myself slightly I thought Avatar was rather poor at the pictures despite the super-zomgo 3D. At home on a normal telly it was properly fucking awful.

Pulp Fiction. Hated it first time I saw it. Gave it another go because a girl I fancied (I was at school at the time) liked it, and it just clicked. I love the film now... although I still think Jackie Brown is Tarantino's best movie.

I can't think of any movies I liked less the second time around. I took my missus to the cinema to see North By Northwest recently and alarmed myself when I fell asleep during it. To be fair on myself though, I was reaching the end of a shitty week at work, was fucking knackered, and I've seen the movie approximately eleven billionty times.

Revenge of the Sith - Spent the majority of the time at the cinema trying to find more interesting parts of the auditorium's wall than what was flickering in front of my face. On trying to watch it at home I casually projectile vomited blood.

I liked RotS more on a second watch, and find it to be a quite decent fillum (particularly compared to the previous two), and simultaneously a wonderful monument to the Be-Jowled One's hubris.

I've just remembered the George Lucas walking away bit from the IT Crowd.

Carry on.

That was hilarious!

Anyway, I have a thing with certain happy-go-lucky movies where I kind of enjoy them, but also find myself weirdly holding back just in case there's some horrible twist where someone I like dies horribly and ruins it for me.

Case in point would be 'Swingers'. The first time through I just had a bad feeling that something awful would happen, and it stopped me enjoying it. On second (and many subsequent) viewing(s), knowing that everything goes okay, I enjoyed it immeasurably more.

And now I can't believe I left it out of my Top Ten films in the other thread. DOH!

Smokin’ Aces.. I watched it the first time and thought it was a brilliant shooty shooty affair which was over the top whilst being a slight bit glamorous.

On second viewing.. I realised the story made no sense at all. Didn’t have a clue what was going on and if someone asked me what the plot was, I wouldn't know where to start.

Independence Day. Brain out glorious fun first time around, absolute rubbish carried by SFX on subsequent viewings.

Not strictly a rewatch, but it took me about 3 goes at the first 15 minutes to "get" Anchorman. Once I was in the right mood to watch it, I really loved it.

Dodgeball is kind of amusing first time around, bloody awful after.

This is true. It's got Ben Stiller in it. Otherwise known as the "comedy" Nicholas Cage.

I bought Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on a recommendation of a friend and started trying to watch it three or four times but each time I had to switch it off through boredom or i fell asleep. I have no idea why I kept trying, maybe said friend was encouraging me but when I finally watched it right through I adored it and it's now one of my all time faves.

The first time I watched that I think I only laughed once, and that was when he slapped his brother. TBH most of the time I was saying "What the fuck is this?"

The second time I watched it however I was rolling on the ground pissing myself, as all of a sudden I 'got' it. It's a very subtle movie that one

True dat. How that man is considered one of Hollywoods top funny guys I have no idea.

It doesn't help Dodgeball that the Vacuum that is Vince Vaughan is in it and he is an utterly unlikeable character that the audience is supposed to be rooting for.

Dodgeball was a funny film.*








(*waits for internet to explode like last time we had this discussion)

Hae you radically redefined "funny" in the same way you redefined all of physics?

Ho. But... ho ho... it has a man in it... ha ho ho.. who talks like a pirate. ha ho.



ha.

Yes I liked that. I preferred Zoolander though, that was fantastic.

Perhaps it gets funnier the more you watch it, like an electric car charging its own batteries as it drives along.

Zing!

Dodgeball was funny.

I'm aware that somehow having this opinion made me a 'snooty little cunt' last time around though, so I'll tread lightly.

I also liked Dodgeball and laughed out loud. I have only seen it once, though, I think.

Zoolander is amazingly good.

Hehe, yes - that's what I was referring to.

I thought the pacing and editing were awful the first time I watched it, but loved it on second and subsequent watches. One of my favourite films - which is something, given the quality of the acting and dialogue.

Terrible quality photo, but it seems to be the only one I can find of our trip to the film's locations.

Zoolander is fantastic.

Dodgeball was largely meh.

Realz? Who said that to my Andy Bear?!

The Usual Suspects is quite unusual, to me, in that repeated viewings don't make the film better.

OK, the twist at the end effectively ruins the ending of any repeated viewings, but in films like that there's often subtle clues and hints that you miss first time around, and pick up on the next time you watch it.

Not so with The Usual Suspects, unless I missed them

If you must...

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Oh right.

How the fuck did I miss/forget that?

Out Of Sight. First time I watched it I thought it was a bit flat, but I was watching it in LA on one of those ridiculous large rear projection screens that had a picture so shit it looked like it was lit by candle.

Subsequent viewings turned it into one of my favourite films - the script, acting, cinematography and composition are all stunning. The soundtrack's pretty good as well.

Unforgiven and Reservoir Dogs are two more that got much better with later viewings.

Spinal Tap was the reverse. Laughed very hard when I first watched it, felt like it was a totally different film the next time I watched it.

Well that's a surprise.

I'm normally so sedate, but there was something about his belming idiocy, persecution complex, overwhelming arrogance, persecution complex and belming idiocy that made me respond.

*sigh*

I also liked Dodgeball.

Snooty little cunt

*runs*

I enjoyed that thread more after the rewatch.

Very hammy in parts, but the comedic moments are just hilariously goofy.

I've a feeling someone should tell us to stop being dicks.

I dunno, I think I should start another forum and complain about being called a cunt by calling people cunts.

It's not within your power to stop being a dick.

Wow! That thread was quite a re-read. There were some angry people here, wasn't there?

Dodgeball is awesome.

I've just thought of a film that did get worse on subsequent viewings: The Sixth Sense!

I ruddy loved that film when it came out, but I recently stuck it on for the missus as she hadn't previously seen it and, whilst I'm not saying I thought it was shit, it definitely seemed much less good than I remembered it being.

In the cinema I thought Reservoir Dogs was fucking terrible. Have loved my many viewings since.

A Fish Called Wanda lost all its funny over repeated watches. Been a while, though, so I wonder if I'd like it again now?

Fight Club also is not the same after the first watch.

I found Spinal Tap to be infinitely funnier 2nd time around.

I found the Spinal Tap deleted scenes extra on the DVD to be funnier than the film.

I've never found Spinal Tap to be funny. And am perplexed by the adoration showered upon it.