chris_bates1974 said:
lindsayt said:
For blurays & DVD's we hire intead of buying. Watching a film twice is like reading a novel twice.
We have a Lovefilm (now owned by Amazon) subscription. On the rare occasion that a disk doesn't turn up or doesn't play properly after cleaning we report it and get sent another disk. If you have a better broadband connection than us, streaming would be an option.
Not to start an argument, but are you seriously saying you've never re-watched or re-read and found more than the first time? There are some movies I've watched dozens of times. Again, not trying to be argumentative, just genuinely surprised....
The only novels I've read more than once in their entirety have been Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. The only reason I read the Hobbit again was because I read it to my children when they were younger at bed-time. I've read sections of To Kill a Mockingbird twice because that was the novel for my English Lit O-level.
With films, you can always rent them twice. I have never done so because there has always been a sufficient number of new releases to get through. The only films I've watched twice or more have been ones shown on TV and even then, these days repeat viewing would take a very low priotity - eg watch a film again on xmas day with the family. Or watch a film that I last saw 30 years ago - usually ones that I think the rest of the family would enjoy watching for the first time.
When my children were three to four years old they watched Home Alone 1 and 2 on DVD forty times. They've long grown out of that comfort, repeat viewing phase now.
Life's too short to spend it watching films or reading novels where you know what's going to happen.
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