Reply To: FSM # 18: What is the film you’ve seen the most times?

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Tall Guy
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Probably the Bond films. The first I was old enough to see on release was You Only Live Twice (although I was so excited I spent the whole pre-credit sequence in the toilet, and to this day, his “assassination” in Hong Kong seems like a new sequence, so impressionable was the young TG.)

Taking this into account, the older the film, the more I’ll have seen it. Until the mid-70s they were only watchable in the cinema, but I used to go to the pictures inveterately during the school holidays, and Bond double bills were common. I’ll have watched them all scores of times up to the Brosnan ones, where it reduces to dozens of times.

I’m still a huge fan, although I’m well aware of their shortcomings (some uncomfortable moments when judged through a modern prism relating to race or sex, plot holes, some silliness, the occasional slide-whistle) and still watch them all every so often.

Other than that, we watch Scrooged, It’s a Wonderful Life and The Muppet’s Christmas Carol every Yuletide.

My most watched giallo would be “Eyeball” (aka Red Cats in a Glass Labyrinth), which is a comfort watch for reasons it’s hard to explain.