I, like most people these days, watch a ton of TV because it is easy. I have Netflix and one of those black box things that has all the films that are on the other channels as well as a HUGE amount of series of all varieties. Today it is almost too easy but there was a time when this was no the case.
Let me take you back in time to the 80's where simply having the ability to watch what you wanted when you wanted involved either driving somewhere to rent it - if it was in stock - or having a massive library of purchased VHS tapes that you paid money for and hoping that they had some sort of rewatch value. I found that film when I was very young and the movie that I have seen more times than any other is Back to the Future
The thing is, my family was not wealthy, we didn't even have the original tape. We would buy these blank VHS cassettes and then put 3 films on each one by recording at a slower speed. I don't remember how the technology worked but this meant that the image quality was going to be absolute garbage. It didn't much matter because it's not like we had 4k televisions back then, my TV weighed as much as a Smart-Car and once you parked it in a particularly place in the living room that is where it stayed forever.
We had a ton of films but there was a couple that returned to time and time again. The main one was this one and I can still tell you why it was so much more appealing to me than a lot of the other ones.
There is just something about the combination of sci-fi, the awesome musical soundtrack, and the fantastic acting done by all involved in this project that in my mind anyway, simply makes it the perfect movie. It starts out in a fantastic but impractical way with the gigantic guitar speaker and it just gets better from there.
I don't know if they had episodes 2 and 3 in mind when they made the first one, but if you have seen the entire trilogy you are already aware of the fact that it all comes together so beautifully for the most part.
Even though it is quite obvious that Michael J. Fox isn't actually singing in the "Johnny B Goode" portion of the song, it is still a scene for the ages. I still get chills just thinking about the first time that I ever saw that part of the movie.
I saw it 3 times in cinemas and god knows how many times on that well and truly used VHS cassette that I am not really even sure how we got in the first place.
If they were to re-release this film into theaters for just the hell of it, I would gladly pay up to experience it with today's modern technology, maybe even in one of those horrible 4-D theaters. There is just so many things that are amazing about the Robert Zemeckis classic that put him on the map as a top-tier director.
It's not like I was keeping count of how many times I watched movies at the time and honestly, I don't need to because I know that for me Back to the Future would be so much further ahead than any other film that I have seen a bunch of times.
Do you have a film that you can just watch over and over and over again? If so, let me know in the comments!