Watching the same movie many times - Strange?

[Hunter of the Glade]

Originally Posted by Vauktu

Before seeing Avatar, I had never watched a movie twice

Rarely will I watch movies more than once, unless they're classics. Avatar in my opinion has the most re-watch value any movie can have. I've seen it 11 times so far and hell, I plan to see it again in August with the six extra minutes!

[Na'vi_supporter]

I never watched any movie more than once in the cinema. This changed when Avatar came to my life. I think my signature picture explains it very well .

[Davy Jones]

Originally Posted by rasomaso

You can't really compare this to music. There are songs that take many listening to fully admire, movies are not the same!

I feel there is a small similarity at best between listening to music and watching Avatar, since I found it puts less emphasis on a surprise factor. In fact I started a topic on this a while ago on avatar-forums, the strenght of this movie is it's emotional power and the message it tells. It's a dream we all want to live.
It's like a legend that an old man tells kids around the campfire, the legend of pure heart, love and courage that takes place on the most fantastic place one could ever dream of. Who didn't want as a kid to fly a beastly beast towards the sunset, with a valkyrie behind your back and lead a whole clan into the last final battle that is going to change the course of history?

The small similarity is imho the way you can watch it and get immediately immersed and entertained, while other movies rely on you watching it from the first minute so you just watch how it unfolds, but there is mostly nothing that special about the scenes alone, just the common reality setting or perhaps some urban sci-fi enviroment. Well Avatar puts emphasis not only on the story, but is trying to present a beauty in every possible form in every Na'vi scene. (notice there is no soundtrack in the "human scenes" for the most part and they are all very cold-colored)

Now music is 1542 % more immediate as Avatar is, and it grows on you (at least good music does), while movies in general are strongest the first time you watch them. The music is really more about expression of a given artist. I will give rare jam recordings of Jimi Hendrix as an example, if you first hear it, there is immediate "now that's some mean groove" feeling, but you don't know the notes ahead, so while you're really into the drum/bass groove, you let the guitar guide you blindly. But more and more you listen to it, you'll find yourself "humming along" in spirit, knowing where the next turn is, where it's gonna take you. At that point, you will truly start hearing the artist, rather than listening to him. At this point I can hear every emotion that Jimi felt, every nuance of his playing is registered and has a solid meaning, ranging from ultimate sadness to "new hope" or "going someplace different". That's more or less "space" as he called it, the solid base is in the blues which is "earth". You can listen to it, but you won't hear it first time.



Eheh, on topic:

I watched it 19 times and I really enjoyed it today lol. I think it's kinda weird, but hell I'm crazy so it's ok.

Good point, but in one way, Avatar is kind of like that to me, too. It's.. hard to explain