What Movies or TV Series Have You Watched More Than 5 Times?

Daily writing prompt
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times?

The real Star Wars movies, but only 4,5 and 6. The prequels and the sequels were horrible. I saw The Empire Strikes back 8 times in the theater at $2.00 a ticket.

All of the Captain America movies, especially The Winter Soldier. On your left.

The Final Countdown was my go-to movie when I called in sick to work, while in reality, I was taking a day off.

Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan, and all of Star Trek, The Original Series TV episodes. Heck, I saw them when they aired the first time in the 60’s.

I’ve seen all of the Looney Tunes and all of the Tex Avery Tom and Jerry cartoons.

I must have seen the Original Jonny Quest well more than 5 times, every episode. I used to get high as a kite in college and watch a bunch of stuff.

9 thoughts on “What Movies or TV Series Have You Watched More Than 5 Times?

  1. None, really, in the for-entertainment value although I’m close on Godfather trilogy, which I’ll watch any time it comes up. Also, SOAP, but I have that on box set and review it every coupla years . . . up to 4 times now, I think.

    I’ve also become quite hooked on Downton Abbey, which I also have the entire series for in a box set. Can’t get enuf of those rounded vowels, those softened as, those half-pronounced rs, those aspirated ts, those profound understatements, and of course Maggie’s rapier-like snarks delivered with such magnificent old-timey down-the-nose what-the-hell’s-wrong-with-you elitism and absolutely perfect facial non-verbs.

    Now, having taught literature at the university level for 16 years, I’ve gone thru Hamlet and Oedipus dozens of times with classes, and Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle at least 10 times. But I’m not sure I can count those ‘cuz it was all part of the job, not for personal enlightenment.

    OTOH I have watched many different film adaptations of Hamlet, including Russian, German, and French versions for a total of perhaps 10, even a silent version with subtitles, which sucked. Couldn’t have a student knowing more about that guy than I did.

    If someone would sneak into my garage and leave a trunk full of Grants and Franklins, I b’lieve I’d go sit in college classrooms and listen to people discuss classic lit, famous flicks, Shakespeare, and good books ’til they rolled me away on a guerney.

    Can’t remember how many times I read Catch 22 and certain other paperbacks when I was punching holes in various oceans back in the 60s and 70s.

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    1. I never could figure out whether the 13th Warrior is actually really good, or if my expectations were so low that a mediocre movie comes off as fantastic.

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  2. Multiple times for these: Last of the Mohicans, Blackhawk Down, The Man who knew too little, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Chronicles of Riddick, the Bond movies with Sean Connery, Highlander, 12 O’Clock High, Run Silent Run Deep, Ben Hur, others that excape me at the moment.

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  3. The Patriot with Mel Gibson.

    Disney’s Dr. Syn Alias the Scarecrow.

    The Count of Monte Cristo with Richard Chamberlain.

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  4. If we’re counting books, “Inside the Aquarium: The Making of a Top Soviet Spy” by Viktor Suvorov. Autobiography of a Soviet GRU agent from just before joining the GRU until he defected to the UK. Every 5 to 10 years I buy a copy, read it, and then loan it out until someone doesn’t return it.

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