WATCHING THE SIMPSONS 20 OR 30 TIMES. There is a generational difference in how I watch a movie or read a book and the way that Annalisa or Nick do. I think a lot of the difference was caused by technology. Back in the day, I might see a Disney movie a second time when it was rereleased every few years. Annalisa saw THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN over 100 times before she was five. I almost never reread a book. Annalisa and Nick read LORD OF THE RINGS multiple times when they were young. This capsule review by A.O. Scott is apparently by a member of the younger generation. He says: “But ‘The Simpsons Movie,’ in the end, is as good as an average episode of ‘The Simpsons.’ In other words, I’d be willing to watch it only — excuse me while I crunch some numbers here — 20 or 30 more times.â€
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I also have a pretty low tolerance for reading and watching things twice. This wasn’t always the case, as I watched Back To The Future, Ghostbusters, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? as much as Annalisa probably watched the Muppets. These days something has to be exceptionally good for me to visit it again, like Blackadder.
Reruns and DVDs have reminded me of how brilliant the jokes were on the Simpsons from about 1991-1995. Every episode was great and I wish they had made a movie at the height of the show’s popularity.
What great movies you and Annalisa watched over and over as young children! Some of the great movies of all time.
I must be a lot younger than you, Philip. I’ve also read Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter books multiple times. They are very relaxing when you don’t need to press ahead to find out what happens next!
The book I have read the most times is George Eliot’s Middlemarch. I’m sure some people don’t make it through even once. It’s so dense and full of authorial comment and philosophizing. I just get caught up in the feelings, the story, and the intelligent author’s mind–the density of sheer intelligence brought to bear on the most important issues of human life. I also love Vanity Fair, but, somehow, I don’t keep reading THAT over and over again.