{"id":1589,"date":"2010-06-30T08:53:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T20:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:38:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:38:15","slug":"double-hit-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1589","title":{"rendered":"Double-Hit Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1583>My grumpy post<\/a> about how I&#8217;m not excited by film at the moment has sparked lots of great comments about good movies (and good television).<\/p>\n<p>Svend asked, &#8220;Are you disenchanted with the act of communal cinema-going, the film format, or the sorts of stories that tend to be told in film?&#8221; To which my answer is, &#8220;yes&#8221;. Which isn&#8217;t helpful. I haven&#8217;t self-analysed very much, and suspect that I&#8217;m just going through a DIFFICULT PERSONAL TIME in my relationship to movies. But it&#8217;s still the case that I think I want sitting down in a cinema to feel like a significant jolt away from the ordinary run of things, and I&#8217;ve half-convinced myself I&#8217;m not going to get that. If I was to click back through this very blog I would probably find evidence to the contrary in the recent past, but enthusiasm is low regardless.<\/p>\n<p>So I got to thinking about times when I got that jolt enough that I went back a second time. Movies that I went to see twice on their first run, while they were fresh in the cinema and in my memory. How many? And what does that say about me?<\/p>\n<p>I can think of five:<\/p>\n<p><img src=http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/3\/34\/CameaHotFriday.jpg><br \/>\n<img src=http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/7\/78\/Scream_movie_poster.jpg\/200px-Scream_movie_poster.jpg><br \/>\n<img src=http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/9\/91\/Swingers_ver2.jpg\/200px-Swingers_ver2.jpg><br \/>\n<img src=http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/2\/22\/Titanic_poster.jpg\/200px-Titanic_poster.jpg><br \/>\n<img src=http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/7\/70\/Alien_Resurrection_poster.jpg\/200px-Alien_Resurrection_poster.jpg><\/p>\n<p>Diagnoses welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grumpy post about how I&#8217;m not excited by film at the moment has sparked lots of great comments about good movies (and good television). Svend asked, &#8220;Are you disenchanted with the act of communal cinema-going, the film format, or the sorts of stories that tend to be told in film?&#8221; To which my answer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1589\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Double-Hit Films<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-ish","category-things-ive-seen","tag-film"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-pD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}