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Is there such a thing as overwatching?
welliwont:
Yes, I think there is such a thing as overwatching, and sadly I am guilty of this. I have watched it all t he way through probably 20+ times, and I have looped the best parts (FNIT, SNIT, stauching Ennis' bloody nose, reunion kiss, to name a few) to play over and over and over... that I think I have desensitized myself, and I am not happy about it.
At my first viewing it was the reunion kiss that really clutched me, the scene that I liked best. Mhmmmmm yummy! :D At my second viewing I loved the reunion kiss again. :-* :-* Now that I have watched that scene at least 200 times, it has lost its thrilling magic, and so I have decided to go cold turkey. :-\ So far it has only been 20 hours! :'( No more watching for me until it comes back to a cinema, at which time I will see it for only the second time on the big screen.
And that includes all the tender videos on Youtube. :'(
J
--- Quote from: meryl on June 22, 2006, 10:01:31 pm ---
that wonderful heart-rush will return and I will have a grand old cry again. :)
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dly64:
--- Quote from: JakeTwist on June 23, 2006, 04:02:18 pm ---Yes, I think there is such a thing as overwatching, and sadly I am guilty of this. I have watched it all t he way through probably 20+ times, and I have looped the best parts (FNIT, SNIT, stauching Ennis' bloody nose, reunion kiss, to name a few) to play over and over and over... that I think I have desensitized myself, and I am not happy about it.
At my first viewing it was the reunion kiss that really clutched me, the scene that I liked best. Mhmmmmm yummy! :D At my second viewing I loved the reunion kiss again. :-* :-* Now that I have watched that scene at least 200 times, it has lost its thrilling magic, and so I have decided to go cold turkey. :-\ So far it has only been 20 hours! :'( No more watching for me until it comes back to a cinema, at which time I will see it for only the second time on the big screen.
And that includes all the tender videos on Youtube.
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OMG!! I can't do that. I have watched it around the 100 times mark (may be more, may be less ... but not much less). The scenes you have mentioned still clutch me. I can't get them out of my mind. When Jack says to Ennis, "I wish I knew how to quit you ...." I think the same way about this film. I am compelled to watch it day after day after day. I feel like my day isn't complete unless if I watch it. My family wonders how I have time for anythng else! So, to wait until it comes back out on the big screen again .... I can't do it. I would go into major withdrawls.
stevenedel:
Personally, I think I can overwatch it. I missed it in the cinema (actually, it's still running over here, but I hate subtitling, and also, I'm afraid to make a fool of myself blubbering away in public...). Got the DVD, and saw that 7 times in the first 3 weeks. Then I watched seperate scenes while working on my own edition of the screenplay (yes, I found other ways to deal with my obsession...). Eventually, three weeks on, I rewatched the entire film an 8th time, and while I was still very moved, noticed that it didn't quite hit me like a ton of bricks the way it did before. So I have now decided not to watch it for several months, at the least.
... But I do reread the story, as well as the rest of "Close Range", peruse Avedon's "In the American West", listen to the soundtrack (and to Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny's "Beyond the Missouri Sky"), got the DVD of "The last Picture Show", ordered a book of Wyoming landscape photography, not to mention the fact I'm hanging around boards like these on a daily basis... you get the picture. I suppose I can hardly pretend to have quit BBM.
dly64:
--- Quote from: stevenedel on June 26, 2006, 01:39:25 pm ---Personally, I think I can overwatch it. I missed it in the cinema (actually, it's still running over here, but I hate subtitling, and also, I'm afraid to make a fool of myself blubbering away in public...). Got the DVD, and saw that 7 times in the first 3 weeks. Then I watched seperate scenes while working on my own edition of the screenplay (yes, I found other ways to deal with my obsession...). Eventually, three weeks on, I rewatched the entire film an 8th time, and while I was still very moved, noticed that it didn't quite hit me like a ton of bricks the way it did before. So I have now decided not to watch it for several months, at the least.
... But I do reread the story, as well as the rest of "Close Range", peruse Avedon's "In the American West", listen to the soundtrack (and to Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny's "Beyond the Missouri Sky"), got the DVD of "The last Picture Show", ordered a book of Wyoming landscape photography, not to mention the fact I'm hanging around boards like these on a daily basis... you get the picture. I suppose I can hardly pretend to have quit BBM.
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Where are you from? I was just curious since you said that you didn't like subtitles. Have you watched the DVD with dubbing or with subtitles or neither? I personally hate dubbing. Nothing substitutes for the actor's own voices.
Rayn:
I have the DVD and have watched it 5 times in 6 months and saw the movie in a theater too and that was enough for me. I know other people who watched it more than I did. The impact of the movie never weakened for me. I admit the first time I watched it was the most intense and difficult, but I still feel the same joys and sorrows when I watched it the 6th time. After that, I just said, "Enough is enough." and stopped. I know I'll watch it again sometime. Maybe next year. It's one of my very favorite movies, but there is such a thing as too much of a good thing too, you know.
Rayn
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