Second Time...

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Is there anything wrong with seeing a movie more then once in theatre? I mean, unless you are outrageously rich and own a home theater, then you can see the movie again.

There's just something...magical about seeing a movie in the theater...other then the douches who won't shut up. They aren't really magical...just douches.

So today, since our AC is

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I saw The Dark Knight something like five or six times in theatres. I made a deal with myself to only watch it with new people each time I saw it so that I wouldn't end up spending all of my money seeing it again and again alone. It worked out really well because in addition to basically getting an opportunity to really digest everything in the movie, I also got so many different perspectives to talk and discuss the film with, and to date it is one of those few movies I feel works as a recognizable bridge amongst many people I know for what I call "a shared text", the type of reference everybody in a room is supposed to get that, back before the post-modern era, was built out of classic books and well-known mythology, and these days at best often is just pop-culture in-jokes (for instance, hatred or love for Twilight, people know what the hell you're talking about when you mention it, is the thing).

Anyway, I set certain budgetary rules for myself with cinema because, unlike books, movies aren't as widely available at public libraries (though there's some good stuff there if you search), and they're so quickly consumable (I'm done with most of them within two hours!) that it's easy to just keep buying and buying and buying again. So I never spend more than $20 on a DVD, and if I'm going to the movie theatre multiple times to see a movie, I always ensure that it's just not me alone or someone who I've already gone with. That helps limit the consumption and thus shortens the budget. Meanwhile, as always, Netflix and borrowing from friends are good things!

I only saw Sweeney Todd twice. I wanted to go often but it didn't work out to be the type of cinema experience that I wanted (which is to say, Rocky Horror Picture Show-esque). Too many people took it too seriously or weren't familiar enough with the audience engagement camp style of Rocky Horror to understand what my friends and I were trying to do, and in deference to them and their $10 ticket price we shut up and acted polite. However, there was a real missed opportunity there. "Hooray the spray!"

I don't know if you know, but Let Me In is a remake* of the Swedish horror film Let the Right One In. Now THAT'S good cinema. (*The director claims he was putting the movie together and finding financing for it long before Let the Right One In came out. So it's not a remake, it's another adaptation.) A sort of flat pastiche of frozen wastelands with characters going slowly postal via frostbitten cabin fever. It's good. The new adaptation was shot in my hometown, which is temperate desert climate, so it probably looks and feels a lot different. I think I'm going to have a hard time seeing past the Swedish version, regardless. It's just too good to not be held against others as an example of what can be done.

Oh, by the way, I friended you. I hope that's alright.

--PolarisDiB

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Noooo problem. I'm actually glad.
The more friends the more I feel loved.

It took me a while, but I learned that about "Let Me In"
My parents saw it and enjoyed it. It took away from the excitement (knowing that it's a remake) but I hope it lives up to the actual one if possible.

And I understand budgetary. I was only able to see movies more then once when with my family...I'm a mooch. But now that I'm at college, I'm on my own and probably won't be seeing many movies at once.
But I never have thought about doing that (seeing a movie more then once with different people). I always just do it with my parents and we end up having a discussion about the different things we noticed the second time around.

I also added you. :)