{"id":1339,"date":"2008-09-25T23:38:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T23:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2024-09-25T19:32:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T23:32:58","slug":"repeat-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2008\/09\/25\/repeat-plays\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeat Plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another great list from the Onion AV Club. Naturally, it begs the question, what movies are on my list?<\/p>\n<p>In no particular order:<\/p>\n<p>1) Star Wars. I probably watched this 50 times between 1977 and 1984. I&#8217;ve seen it once all the way through since then.<\/p>\n<p>2) Chevy&#8217;s Classics. I&#8217;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.*<\/p>\n<p>3) Christmas Vacation. Separate from Chevy&#8217;s other work because I still watch it.<\/p>\n<p>4) A Christmas Story. I&#8217;ll guess I&#8217;ve watched it at least twice a year for the past 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>5) 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 &#8211; and my generation &#8211; was going through, and of course to try to absorb some of Vince Vaughn&#8217;s coolness. And we used to pop a Digiorno&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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&#8217;t done anything remotely interesting since <em>Christmas Vacation<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great list from the Onion AV Club. Naturally, it begs the question, what movies are on my list? In no particular order: 1) Star Wars. I probably watched this 50 times between 1977 and 1984. I&#8217;ve seen it once all the way through since then. 2) Chevy&#8217;s Classics. I&#8217;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.* 3) Christmas Vacation. Separate from Chevy&#8217;s other work because I still watch it. 4) A Christmas Story. I&#8217;ll guess I&#8217;ve watched it at least twice a year for the past 20 years. 5) 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 &#8211; and my generation &#8211; was going through, and of course to try to absorb some of Vince Vaughn&#8217;s coolness. And we used to pop a Digiorno&#8217;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&#8217;t done anything remotely interesting since Christmas Vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,29,127],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lists","tag-movies","tag-nostalgia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15127,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/15127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}