Welcome to another blog hop. Today’s topic is:
Which TV show, film or book do you binge/return to re-watch the most?
I’m not what you’d call a binge-watcher of TV shows or films. If I had a choice I’d prefer to watch documentaries, but there are a few films that I know almost word for word because I’ve watched them so many times over many years. Funnily enough some of them have Robert Redford in a starring role, probably because when he was younger he was the sexiest man on the planet! Those films I’ve learned the script of over time and feature Mr Redford are Out of Africa (my favourite), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Horse Whisperer, and The Great Gatsby. I have also watched The Go-Between and The Godfather (part 1) just as many times.
There are two comedy films that I’ll watch over and over again too, and will laugh every time…’The Full Monty’, and ‘Blades of Glory’. There’s a part of the latter (the 2 men skating) where I have to look away or I’ll choke with laughter.
As for books, I don’t often re-read novels, but one Indie book that I have read a few times because it’s so enjoyable is ‘The East End Butcher Boy’ by Joe Lawrence. I can relate to the area and its people back in that particular time. Another more modern book that I’ve read a couple of times is ‘This is Going to Hurt’ by Dr Adam Kay. As a teenager I loved to re-read A.J Cronin’s ‘The Keys of the Kingdom’, which for me became a kind of literary comfort blanket.
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Stevie Turner 
I do binge on weekends on Netflix, lol. But so with you on Redford. ❤
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Interesting topic! I seldom watch television shows or movies a second time. One movie I’ve watched more than once is The Shawshank Redemption. I don’t know if you’ve seen the American sitcom Seinfeld, but I’ve probably seen every one of those episodes twice.
I like your choices, though I don’t think I’ve watched any of those twice.
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I like The Shawshank Redemption too. Great film.
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Have documentaries become dumbed down these days, or I am seeing the wrong ones?
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There’s a great article in the NYT about how the acceptance of the hoax voice has turned all documentaries, the film version of “memoir” and “historical fiction”, into just that. Opinion, agenda, corrupted “appropriation” and targeting have dumped “Docs” into the same bin as hoaxes, outright lies, and politicization infomercials. A classic fave of mine for example would be “Ancient Aliens”. They reach so far in some of them to make the physical or literary reality fit their shtick I’m surprised they don’t fall off the cliff. The trouble is there are some amazing discoveries out there, but all the docs don’t offer a straight ahead here it is approach, it’s all about “a point.”
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I prefer fact-based TV programmes and also prefer reading non-fiction in the form of autobiographies. Whether or not all the facts are true I don’t know, but hopefully some of them are.
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I figure if you’re important enough your biography matters it’s like history and written by the winners. Until their mistress, lover, child , business partner, manager, secretary or lawyer writes a tell all🤣 which might be bunk, too…
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What I particularly hate is the ‘whoosh’ machine every five minutes to accompany anything dramatic. It drives me crazy.
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“Keping Up Appearances” a handful of Noirs, most but not all with Bogart, Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scott’s, “The Vicar of Dibley”, a couple of Elmore Leonard (to me) Classics (The Switch, Touch, Tishomingo Blues), and “Winnie the Pooh” which is refreshing, poignant, insightful and new every time I pick it up. There are so many anthologies around here I’ve read many short stories many times. Like Stevie, most of the Redford catalog not because of Redford but because his movies are gorgeous, “Cold Comfort Farm” is always a winner, as is “Adventures in Babysitting” and every Disney princess movie including “Ralph Breaks the Internet” so many times I know them by heart.
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Redford was gorgeous too, though a little grizzled now.
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Like I tell my friends who fail to update their SM avatars and instead use pictures with hair they no longer have. “We all looked good in our forties.” But age has a way of thumping us regardless of how good the genes once were.
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Indeed. I like Clint Eastwood’s outlook on life – he’s 91 and making another film. He says he gets up in the morning, goes to work, and doesn’t let the old man in.
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When I was working night shifts, I used to watch a lot more than I do now. Hence all my favourites are from those days.
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Yes, none of mine are new either.
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Since the advent of bing-watching, I have never done that. I like to wait for the next episode the following week.
I have watched some TV series twice. ‘Happy Valley’, with the wonderful Sarah Lancashire, and ‘Luther’, for its great dark plots. As for films, I have seen the epics ‘Zulu’, ‘Spartacus’, ‘Waterloo’ and ‘Cromwell’ several times, along with gangster films like ‘Goodfellas’, the Godfather trilogy, and ‘Once Upon A Time In America’. There are also foreign language films I have watched more than twice, but too many to list here.
Best wishes, Pete.
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*binge* Typo.
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The Godfather trilogy seems to be a favourite with many of us – certainly with me too.
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I like Godfather 2 the best, but have watched them all many times.
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Me too. I do like the first one, but they’re all good.
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