My Comfort Views

I have posted at Christmas with reviews of the films and TV shows I love from the festive season. Of those, Love Actually, which I have watched every year since 2004, is my most viewed film and The Good Life episode It’s Silly but It’s Fun is my most watched comedy episode. In terms of cartoons I have seen both The Snowman and the 1971 version of A Christmas Carol over a dozen times. Other Christmas films I have seen over and over again include at least 4 films of A Christmas Carol with the George C Scott version being the best and the 1970 Scrooge The Musical being the most fun.

What about outside the festive season? Well, I am a big Richard Curtis fan and have definitely seen Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill more than five times each. They hit the spot every time and I love the soundtrack of both films. I have almost certainly seen The Sound of Music five times but not for a long time. I am not really a James Bond fan, but I have seen The Spy Who Loved Me a number of times because it has always been my favourite. For me it has the best theme song ever and it’s just great fun. I saw it three times at the cinema watching it twice back to back, back in the days when you bought a ticket and could stay in the screen for as long as you liked. The only film I watched more than 5 times in the cinema was the original Star Wars in 1977, which I sat down to watch on the big screen 6 times. Surprisingly, however, I have only watched it once since then, when my youngest son rented it from a video store back in 2004 when we were in Australia, but I have it on DVD so perhaps I should sit down and give it another go.

Full TV series don’t get numerous rewatches because I just don’t have the time or the inclination. That being said, I am currently watching some children’s TV classics and I will definitely have seen the episodes of Bagpuss and Camberwick Green more than 5 times each. So, it’s not unknown for me to watch TV shows more than once, but at the moment I can’t imagine sitting through a whole run of a programme more than twice. I will be rewatching some TV shows and blogging about them very soon so watch this space!