There are a couple of movies I have watched a dozen times or so. Mostly because of the music, like Footloose. I might watch a series if I really loved it, and have not seen it in 20 years or so. Hardly ever read a book more than once these days, but I did once upon a time when I was sitting in a car line to pick up my girls at school. It drives me nuts if it takes my husband forever to pick out a movie to watch, only to fall asleep in between. Then he wants to rewind.

I rewatch stuff all the time! I stream things mostly and I like seeing shows - series - from start to finish. And then there is a very good chance I will watch them again several months down the line :-)) I've seen The West Wing and Madam Secretary several times and countless British mysteries. Often when they are presenting a new season, I will go back and rewatch what came before just to get back in the groove. I also have a short list of movies I will watch over and over again whenever they show up.

I'm a big rewatcher, especially of movies. TCM is my favorite channel, and there are some films I've seen dozens of times. I also reread certain books on a regular basis, and find something new in them each time. I find rewatching/rereading very comforting.

My goodness, I re-watch things all the time. Sometimes I will latch on to a movie that just makes me feel good, or if I am doing a proj3ct I will practically put the same movie on a loop to keep ”that side of my brain” busy, and not distract me from my task at hand. And sometimes I pick up on some detail I missed before, or read something a out the movie or character or actor, and now want to see for myself.

DH never would see something twice, but now he will if it has been more than a couple of years.

I’ll read books more than once, but DH will read it once and if we own it, off it goes to the library book sale. He prefers to check out from the library, so then it goes back on THEIR shelves.

Absolutely. There are times when I need a low stress activity. I’ll pick a random episode of The West Wing to watch. It never gets old to me. I also re-read certain book series when I need a distraction, but don’t really want to be immersed, like when sitting with someone in the hospital. In both cases, it’s sort of like visiting an old friend, but needing less effort.

No, no, no, I am with Amy's husband. There are only about 3 movies that I will see again and no books that I want to read again. My motto is "so many books/movies, so little time".

i will rewatch "dances with wolves" every few months.

i'm a true crime addict so i have reread a few books.

I am constantly "re watching" shows and movies.

I LOVE rewatching "fun" movies. I have a collection. Flash Dance. Crazy Rich Asians. John Wick. Nobody. Avatar.

I am a rereader from way back. I have an annotated Sherlock Holmes with all the stories and will randomly open it when I want something to read and have nothing new. I can start anywhere.

What is it with men and falling asleep to TV? DH controls all the remotes that choose what ever thing he is streaming and I get stuck with some horrible movie or series about crime families killing each other in violently creative ways while he snores away. My ex was the same and my dad as well. I can turn the thing off but he will wake up and have a fit.

I dont mind rewatching old cooking shows-love the old Julia Childs and such but dont often rewatch movies. Probably because I dont choose the movies.

Some I definitely re-watch. I'm not a lover of sitcoms, but MOM is hilarious, so I've watched it more than once. The series A Million Little Things is one of the best I've seen, so I'll re-watch it.

The Notebook I love, a watch more than once.

We may be getting to the point of re-streaming, but only because the selections start to fall into two categories: Saw that; and Who'd Ever Watch *That*? We've depleted Brit Box and canceled it for now. We subscribed to Masterpiece again to watch four or five series on that. (Wrapped up "All Creatures Great and Small" this afternoon. Simple, sappy little tales like a soft-center bon-bon.) We may look at Netflix again someday -- it's been years since we dropped that.

How can you "deplete Brit Box"?? They add something new almost weekly - new season of Vera, Father Brown, The Bay, Shetland and Death in Paradise just starting. I've been a Brit Box subscriber for 3 or 4 years, watch it almost constantly and have yet to run out of things to watch.

Your tastes must be much more discerning than mine. 😊

I watch things repeatedly. First, because I love them. Second, because I catch things I never caught the first time, or the third time or the 10th time.... Which is odd to say because I'm very observant when it comes to things like movies or shows. I find it funny when I finally noticed that the youngest daughter in Despicable Me can't figure out how to cross her arms... Anyone going to tell me they saw that the first time!?

I rewatch admittedly out there and ridiculous sci-fi or is it fantasy stories like Limitless with Bradley Cooper because if I only had a brain.

Or sci-fi stories like the Edge of tomorrow with Tom Cruise because of time travel and saving the world.

Or even more ridiculously like The One with Jet Li because of the ability to travel through the multiverse and get extra special physical powers. What a price was paid for his powers in that movie though.

As you can see with movie watching I like totally unscientific practically anti-scientific sci-fi fantasy action and rather lowbrow types as well. Shrug I watch shows not to be educated obviously. :-).

I don't rewatch too many series though. I will rewatch the end of them if I forget the ending which I do sometimes.

I used to be like that with books--but now I don't recall the details enough it's all NEW again!! hahahahah

There are a few movies i will re-watch (the original M.A.S.H. for example, and some old Alfred Hitchcock movies), and we occasionally watch re-runs of the series MASH and Frasier (which has been showing lately). Other TV series re-runs and movies I never watch again but DH does all the time and I don’t get it. He has probably watched every James Bond movie a dozen times and i could go on but will spare you.

I have a few movies that I will rewatch - Yankee Doodle Dandy is an odd one, because I just love Cagney's performance in it. There have also been a few TV series, or mini-series, that I've watched more than once - the wonderful BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice from 1995 is one that I watched probably 3, maybe 4 times - but not for a long time.

At first when I started streaming I wasn't clicking into much interesting, but now I have found my "groove" and have so many new shows to like that I've not much desire to rewatch anything.

I have started buying DVDs of movies I love, so that when I don’t see anything streaming that I want to watch, I can pull out what suits my mood. Since so many people are getting rid of their DVDs, I find them for a pittance at estate, rummage, and thrift sales.

But I was thinking of this thread last night. Dh and I had watched the worst ”prince” movie ever, then he went to bed, and in surfing around the streaming services I came across The Bishop’s Wife (the Cary Grant one). I probably played it a couple dozen times over the winter, mainly as backdrop for cleaning the basement. But last night I just watched it. So sweet.

My favorite movie to rewatch is Juliet of the Spirits. The first time I saw it was before I had learned Italian, and now when I watch it, I can understand the dialog that did not make it into the subtitles. In certain scenes, there is way too much being said to be subtitled, and much of that is also hilarious. I find myself catching new "jokes" all the time - there is so much dialog that it is difficult to comprehend all of it in one viewing.

I also reread a lot of things, and when I was getting my first degree in German and English literature, I had to reread a lot of books while writing papers on them. This allowed me to analyze them more thoroughly and find new things in them that I missed in the first readings. There was a lot of symbolism in poems like The Faerie Queene that was somewhat obscure (to me) because of when it was written and the language. This is also true for Finnegan's Wake and The Canterbury Tales.

I don't like to watch Perry Mason episodes that I have seen recently, and the same goes for Dateline and Unsolved Mysteries. Once I know "who did it", it is less interesting for me.

I ”mystery” I do like watching again, but not too soon, is The Sixth Sense. Just to catch everything I missed the first go-round, and the second…