I, like most people these days, watch a ton of TV because it is easy. I have Netflix and one of those black box things that has all the films that are on the other channels as well as a HUGE amount of series of all varieties. Today it is almost too easy but there was a time when this was no the case.
Let me take you back in time to the 80's where simply having the ability to watch what you wanted when you wanted involved either driving somewhere to rent it - if it was in stock - or having a massive library of purchased VHS tapes that you paid money for and hoping that they had some sort of rewatch value. I found that film when I was very young and the movie that I have seen more times than any other is Back to the Future
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The thing is, my family was not wealthy, we didn't even have the original tape. We would buy these blank VHS cassettes and then put 3 films on each one by recording at a slower speed. I don't remember how the technology worked but this meant that the image quality was going to be absolute garbage. It didn't much matter because it's not like we had 4k televisions back then, my TV weighed as much as a Smart-Car and once you parked it in a particularly place in the living room that is where it stayed forever.
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We had a ton of films but there was a couple that returned to time and time again. The main one was this one and I can still tell you why it was so much more appealing to me than a lot of the other ones.
There is just something about the combination of sci-fi, the awesome musical soundtrack, and the fantastic acting done by all involved in this project that in my mind anyway, simply makes it the perfect movie. It starts out in a fantastic but impractical way with the gigantic guitar speaker and it just gets better from there.
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I don't know if they had episodes 2 and 3 in mind when they made the first one, but if you have seen the entire trilogy you are already aware of the fact that it all comes together so beautifully for the most part.
Even though it is quite obvious that Michael J. Fox isn't actually singing in the "Johnny B Goode" portion of the song, it is still a scene for the ages. I still get chills just thinking about the first time that I ever saw that part of the movie.
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I saw it 3 times in cinemas and god knows how many times on that well and truly used VHS cassette that I am not really even sure how we got in the first place.
If they were to re-release this film into theaters for just the hell of it, I would gladly pay up to experience it with today's modern technology, maybe even in one of those horrible 4-D theaters. There is just so many things that are amazing about the Robert Zemeckis classic that put him on the map as a top-tier director.
It's not like I was keeping count of how many times I watched movies at the time and honestly, I don't need to because I know that for me Back to the Future would be so much further ahead than any other film that I have seen a bunch of times.
Do you have a film that you can just watch over and over and over again? If so, let me know in the comments!
I didn't see Back to the Future until I was an adult.
My most-watched movies are probably Old School, Eurotrip, and Dude Where's My Car. I'm not big on rewatching movies, but those I watched many times in my youth. I haven't seen Eurotrip as an adult yet, the other two I watched again in the last couple of years.
Dude Where's My Car? Well that was unexpected. I have to say I kind of enjoyed that movie as well especially the fight over the back tattoos.
Were you alive when BTTF was released? That could be a good reason why you didn't see it until you were an adult if that is the case.
That type of humor shaped me a lot as a young boy. It was just too laugh-out-loud funny and it still holds up to this day. I love Sean William Scott and Ashton Kutcher both.
Dude... Sweeeeet!
I wasn't born until 1992, so no I wasn't alive when BTTF came out.
I could watch Harry Potter forever!
I know this is cliché to say but I really enjoyed the books... The movies, not so much.
Mine was probably "All Might Bruce" but a long time ago. I used to watch it sometimes several times a day. I was around 12 years old 😅 !PIZZA
I've never even heard of that. Maybe you mean Bruce Almighty and it just had a different name in your country?
Aha, I thought I wrote almighty Bruce in the wrong way :') But I misspelled it :")
But is has a different name in my country, juste in french "Bruce Tout Puissant" !PIZZA
Amazing film, amazing effects, amazing music, my father loved it and got me into the trilogy at a young age, what do you think about the sequels? I really like the second one
I quite enjoyed all three of them and loved how they kind of interacted with one another. The first is by far my favorite but if i had a list of top 50 films of all time all three of them would be on that list.
I think Back to the future is one of the movies I've seen the most times, I really don't know which movie I've seen the most, but it could be this one or Titanic, The Aviator, Catch Me If You Can, Top Gun or some of the first three of mission impossible. Probably one of those.
Surprised to see someone else comment about Titanic being in their most viewed. I'm not afraid to admit that it is one of my favs as well. I had high hopes that Billy Zane would move on to great things after his amazing role in it, but he just kind of faded away to obscurity.
Titanic is one of the only films I saw in cinemas as an adult multiple times.
Yes, I don't understand why people criticize the movie, I think Titanic is one of the best films ever made, it works every time I watch it.
I totally agree.
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