{"id":18599,"date":"2014-04-11T11:53:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T18:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18599"},"modified":"2014-04-11T11:53:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T18:53:55","slug":"ten-movies-or-more-ive-seen-ten-or-more-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18599","title":{"rendered":"Ten movies (or more) I’ve seen ten (or more) times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Neiwert created this meme on Facebook, and it seemed like a good way to waste time to me. :-)<\/p>\n

1. City Of Lost Children\ufeff (1995)
\n2. Duck Soup\ufeff (1933)
\n3. Passion Fish (1992, an obscure gem)
\n4. Mulan (1998)
\n5. Sweeney Todd (the Angela Landsbury version, not the it-never-happened Depp version). (1982)
\n6. Arthur (It was rerun on HBO at least twice a day when I was 15. The entire cast is great, but Gielgud steals the movie.) (1981)
\n7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
\n8. Ran (1985)
\n9. Midnight Run (Blistering hot NYC summer, nearby theater had this movie and air conditioning. Sarah and I saw it over and over, and enjoyed it every time.) (1988)
\n10. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 version with Depardieu.)
\n11. The Purple Rose of Cairo. (1985) Actually, there are several Woody Allen films I’ve seen over a dozen times – Bullets Over Broadway, Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Hannah and Her Sisters – but I think I’ve seen PROC the most. (It wouldn’t surprise me if Allison Deutsch Andersen\ufeff could do an entire list of ten films she’s seen ten times or more just from Woody Allen’s catalog.)
\n12. Supercop. (1992) Jackie Chan climbs everything in sight, and Michelle Yeoh jumps a motorcycle onto a moving train. What more could I want?
\n13. Much Ado About Nothing, the Kenneth Branagh version. (1993)
\n14. Groundhog Day (1993)<\/p>\n

Comments:<\/p>\n

1) It makes me kind of sad to realize that I haven’t seen most of these films in at least ten years. I don’t watch films as intensely anymore, and certainly don’t rewatch films as much as I used to. To some degree this is because I’m more likely to watch TV nowadays (nearly done with “True Detective”), but it’s mainly because I have so much less spare time than I used to.<\/p>\n

1.5) Half the 14 came out in the 1990s. Another five came out in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

2) Of the 14, 3 (Passion Fish, Mulan, Purple Rose) have female protagonists. 6 have male protagonists, and 5 have female and male co-protagonists. Only 5 – City of Lost Children, Passion Fish, Mulan, Sweeney Todd, and Crouching Tiger – pass the Bechdel test.<\/p>\n

Five of the movies have non-white protagonists or co-protagonists, but that includes some movies that were made in Asian countries.<\/p>\n

So what movies have you seen over ten times?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Neiwert created this meme on Facebook, and it seemed like a good way to waste time to me. :-) 1. City Of Lost Children\ufeff (1995) 2. Duck Soup\ufeff (1933) 3. Passion Fish (1992, an obscure gem) 4. Mulan (1998) … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-and-unpopular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18601,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18599\/revisions\/18601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}