How do “people” watch a movie or TV show more than once?

You already know what’s going to happen. Are you an NPC?

Bizarre behavior.

Unless I really like the movie I never rewatch. And I guess the same would apply to shows but rewatching a show takes way too long. I’d rather just look at clips on YouTube if I get that itch

you are a retard

Utterly inhuman question.

>You already know what's going to happen
so?

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>>212346501
it's autism. My autistic buddy told me the same thing before

>>212346399 (OP)
How can you have sex with the same women over and over again. You already know how its going to end.

Buddy YOU are the NPC if you live in a state where your opinions are set in stone and not susceptible to change no matter what

>>212346399 (OP)
You haven't really watched a movie if you haven't watched it at least 5 times
That's when you begin to notice new things, good or bad

>>212346399 (OP)
Zoomer retard
You must have seen very few movies

>>212346399 (OP)
I’m not an NPC. I’ve never had sex. These two things may or may not be related. 99.999% of people will say the latter. Be the 0.001%.

>>212346399 (OP)
> tfw you watch a movie that "you haven't watched before"
> then start feeling a weird familarity just to realize you have watched this movie 20+ years ago as a 6 year old child

but on the contrary I sometimes rewatch movies to realize that a lot of stuff goes down a lot different than I memebered
thought tbf that probably because all those pirated streaming sites usually have the extended editions with expanded or even alternate endings (like Terminator 2)

>>212346569
autistic people also rewatch things constantly so it sucks for the type of autismal retard that thinks they’re above anyone while being distinctly inhuman in a way that’s probably obvious to everyone but them

>>212346399 (OP)
NPC behavior would be watching something once and never having any reason or urge to revisit it. I can only speak for myself but I think it's also true for others - people go back and watch stuff again because they wanna experience the emotions again that they experienced on their first watch. There's a kind of nostalgia attached to that first watch, because they enjoyed that media that deeply. So if that doesn't happen for you and that's why you only watch things just once, then you would be much closer to being an NPC than those who go back for seconds.

>tfw I have rewatched iconic bad movies a lot more often than good movies

>>212346399 (OP)
There are movies I know I watched yet I remember nothing about. You may argue this means they were bad, but sometimes I'm willing to give them another chance, especially if enough time has passed and my disposition is different.
Also, there are movies I like but I've forgotten details about after a long enough time.

>>212346675
Are you jealous that the autists are able to squeeze more fun out of life than you?

You see, any film of substance, to be properly understood, must be viewed at least seven times. Let me explain: The first viewing is to be accomplished utilizing only the right hemisphere, the so-called intuitive brain center. Years of practice have allowed me to allow the film to wash over me. I remove my critic ‘hat’ and watch the film as a layperson might, that is without accessing the enormous library of film history within the very center of my brain center, without searching for the director’s filmic references or ‘echoes,’ as some might call them. That type of viewing will come later. For now I am Joe Everyman or Everywoman or Everython. This go-through I refer to as the Nameless Ape Experience, named thusly for an ape’s lack of intellectualism and ego and thon’s unrestrained savage passion. In the end, ‘feeling’ the movie must come first and is perhaps the most essential viewing

In this second viewing, I doff my Nameless Ape ‘hat’ and put on my psychologist’s ‘hat,’ which is not a literal hat—hence my air quotes—but rather an attitude or approach toward the film, although I do, for the sake of full separation of the viewings, imagine myself in various hats during this process. The psychologist ‘hat’ I see as a sort of modified trilby. This ‘why’ viewing requires me to dig deep into my own psyche and find my personal connections to the movie. How is this movie about me? I must ask. This is perhaps the most essential viewing.

Step Three is how. Here is where I tap into my vast filmic knowledge to explore how the filmmaker achieved his/her/thon’s results. What does that ‘pan’ signify? How is that ‘zoom’ essential? Why a ‘24mm lens’ here? I also examine ‘juxtaposition,’ ‘mise-en-scène,’ ‘blocking,’ and ‘dance numbers’ to determine how these and other cinematic techniques forced me to cry, laugh, or ponder uncontrollably in the aforementioned Nameless Ape viewing

>>212346399 (OP)
Might be the only one but sometimes only on the 3rd rewatch I set my feelings if that movie sucked oe not, first watching is usually hype blindness to me, like a movie needs to be really bad to not rewatch it. Only on the 3rd rewatch I decided the force awakens was trash

>>212346789
Step Four: backward viewing. Designed to look at the film as a ‘non-narrative avant-garde experiment in a foreign language.’ In other words, it allows me to see the film as a pattern of images unencumbered by meaning. This is my chance to see the film as a purely aesthetic construction. The human animal has it programmed into his/her/thon’s DNA to ask why. The assignment of causality is hardwired into our brains. But ‘why’ is undoubtedly only a human construct. It is my belief that why is not an independent feature of the universe. The universe does not have questions. The universe does not wonder how a microwave works. The universe simply is. So by removing narrative, the concept of causality, the why is removed, the assumed order is removed, and the film can be seen—at least it is my hope—as it is viewed by the universe itself

Step Five: upside down. We as Americans take gravity for granted, I think you’ll agree. Perhaps this is true in other cultures; I do not feel qualified to say. But here gravity is just whatever: Stuff falls, get used to it. By ignoring its effects on us and on the physical world, we ignore its effects on our psyches. Upside-down viewing allows me to focus on that aspect of a movie. Some filmmakers don’t consider gravity any more than the average American does, but in a precious few cases—Apatow!—we get to witness a filmmaker grappling with gravity in every frame Had I not watched This Is 40 upside down—by the way, it is no accident that upside down it is This Is 04. Children having children! Right?— I never would have caught the deeper meaning of Paul Rudd sitting on the toilet while talking to Leslie Mann. He is literally keeping his shit from flying all over the room. One can see he has been directed by Apatow to pretend to be sitting casually on the toilet

>>212346789
>>212346893
Step Six, I watch the film one more time in a conventional manner to cement my reaction and to establish the film’s ranking—if any—on my many lists: best films of the year, best films of the decade, best films of the century, best films of all time. Then all of the above in each genre: horror, comedy, western, thriller, action, drama, science fiction, war, foreign. Then by performance: actor, actress, thon, supporting actor, supporting actress, supporting thon, ensemble, thonsemble. Then by direction, cinematography, editing, score, writing, casting, best LGBTQIA films: best thon, best thon, best supporting thon, best supporting thon. It is a terribly time-intensive task, but necessary. Without these lists by truly educated critics, laypeople would find themselves at the mercy of Hollywood marketeers and celebrity sycophants.

The seventh step is to not watch the film.

>>212346786
the only way you could glean that from that post is if you’re a retard who can’t read

>>212346789
>>212346893
>>212346918
I read this book. I was just skimming through all of this, at first I thought it was a copypasta until I saw “thon”.

Here’s your response from someone who knows. Congrats.

>>212346968
I think the only retard here is you if you think your post implied anything different from how I interpreted it.

>>212346399 (OP)
>the purpose of watching a film or tv show is to find out what happens

>>212346586
>That's when you begin to notice new things

>>212346789
>>212346893
>>212346893
>>212346918
>>212347078
Lmao. What book is this?

>>212346639
this is honestly one of my favorite feels in the world but i've only ever really got it from books

Easily.

>>212348131
Antkind by Charlie Kaufman

I only ever listen to the same songs all the time
however when it comes to movies I very rarely re-watch them because I feel it's a waste of time to not watch a new movie or do anything else for that matter

>>212348131
>>212348476
It's worth a read. It's fairly long, like almost 800 pages but since Kaufman is a screenwriter and not a literary sperg it's not some overwritten tome that demands a lot of you. The main character is a complete woke faggot but that's the joke, he's pathetic and his thoughts and neuroses are mocked thoroughly.

>>212346399 (OP)
watching a movie more than once is totally understandable, especially if some time has passed since the last time.
watching a movie you particularly like up to 5-6 times over the course of a few decades is ok.
watching the same movie dozens of times is brainlet behavior.

>>212346569
>>212346675
ASD is a spectrum, some autistic people do rewatch films and shows, some don't. Don't make generalizations, please.

>>212346569
autists love going over the same thing over and over again you fucking retard.

>>212346639
Spare the faggot brackets reddit nigger

Most people are on their phones so they miss a lot. Rewatching helps