Repeat Plays
Another great list from the Onion AV Club. Naturally, it begs the question, what movies are on my list?
In no particular order:
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Star Wars. I probably watched this 50 times between 1977 and 1984. I’ve seen it once all the way through since then.
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Chevy’s Classics. I’ll bundle the classic work of Chevy Chase together, since watching one often meant watching another immediately after. Includes Caddyshack, Vacation, Fletch, Fletch Lives, Spies Like Us, and Three Amigos.*
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Christmas Vacation. Separate from Chevy’s other work because I still watch it.
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A Christmas Story. I’ll guess I’ve watched it at least twice a year for the past 20 years.
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Swingers. The only movie not from my pre-college days that makes the list. I watched it over-and-over for the humor, how it spoke to what I - and my generation - was going through, and of course to try to absorb some of Vince Vaughn’s coolness. And we used to pop a Digiorno’s in the oven, crack open another beer, and pop this in at 2:30 after the bars closed on weekend nights when we were all still single.
- Did Chevy have the biggest drop-off in Hollywood history? We think of his work between 1980 and 1989 as brilliant, and everything since as being putrid. Check his filmography, though. There were a number of shitty movies sprinkled in with the classics. It does confirm, however, that he hasn't done anything remotely interesting since Christmas Vacation.