{"id":51163,"date":"2017-11-05T19:55:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T00:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=51163"},"modified":"2017-11-05T19:55:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T00:55:23","slug":"on-sleepless-in-seattle-and-being-a-movie-watching-creature-of-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=51163","title":{"rendered":"On &#8220;Sleepless in Seattle&#8221; and Being a Movie Watching Creature of Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Lj2U-cmyek\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s guest post, Bill Dunphy discusses his love for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Tom%20Hanks%7C774935&#038;mod=AP\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Hanks<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Meg%20Ryan%7C316009&#038;mod=AP\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Meg Ryan<\/a> romcom favorite <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/sleepless-in-seattle\/043396016323\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sleepless in Seattle<\/a><\/em>, and shares some musings on films that he can&#8217;t turn off once they&#8217;re on.<\/p>\n<p>I got home tonight after meeting friends for drinks, turned on the TV, and started watching <em>Sleepless in Seattle<\/em>. Once again I was hooked! Why is that, certain movies, regardless of how many times you have seen them, hook you, and you have to watch them then and there?<br \/>\nI have many films that are on my favorites list, and I watch them annually at the appropriate time of the year, every year. Then there are other films &#8212; the ones you don&#8217;t consciously think of &#8212; that, if they\u2019re on and you see them, you&#8217;re hooked! This is one of those movies I don&#8217;t readily think of, yet, if it&#8217;s on when I turn the TV on, I watch.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?q=the+quiet+man&#038;mod=AP\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Quiet Man<\/a><\/em> is my number one favorite movie. But if it&#8217;s on, I can, and often do, change the channel, because I feel its not the right time to watch it. Or, it&#8217;s in the middle of the film, and I have my own copy that I can watch whenever. But there are movies I apparently love, but on a more subconscious level than my longtime  go-to favorites. Maybe it&#8217;s a feel good thing for me, but I cannot think of any horror films that this would apply to, save maybe the 1933 version <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/king-kong-the-son-of-kong\/883929238767\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">King Kong<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/KING-KONG-1933-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48578\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am a creature of habit. I watch certain films at certain times annually. Not only that, but my Christmas films have a pecking order in which I watch them, culminating with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/scrooge\/097363806349\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Scrooge<\/a><\/em> (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Albert%20Finney%7C448562&#038;mod=AP\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Albert Finney<\/a> version) on Christmas day while I cook my turkey. Now, I love that movie, yet if it was on any other time than Christmas day, I wouldn&#8217;t watch it. I could easily change the channel. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s because <em>Sleepless<\/em> doesn&#8217;t fit into one of &#8220;my&#8221; seasonal or holiday genres that I can watch it whenever its on. Another movie that if it&#8217;s on I am hooked is <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?q=the+caine+mutiny&#038;mod=AP\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Caine Mutiny<\/a><\/em>. I love that film, but it obviously doesn&#8217;t fall into one of my genres, so I watch it when I come across it. <em>Mr. Roberts<\/em> is another, as is <em>12 Angry Men<\/em> (the Fonda version), <em>Nobody&#8217;s Fool<\/em>, <em>Silverado<\/em>, <em>Somebody Up There Likes Me<\/em>, and dozens more that don&#8217;t generate thoughts of a time of the year, or a specific holiday. Now, I have copies of all the movies I just mentioned, yet I don&#8217;t think to watch them at any given specific time. I think, from now on, I will randomly reach into a shelf of my DVDs and watch that movie at that time. I know I must like whatever I pick, or I wouldn&#8217;t have a copy of it!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I will be talking movies with friends and they might mention a movie that I haven\u2019t seen in a long time, which I will then go home and watch. Many times friends will ask if I have a copy of a film they want to borrow, which I will watch prior to loaning it. Many times I will turn the TV on, just for the sound since I live alone, and a movie will be on that I don&#8217;t have time to watch then. I will then get my copy out, and put it on top of my DVD player to watch the next time I am free.<\/p>\n<p>    I guess what it boils down to is, &#8220;so many films, so little time&#8221;, or, perhaps, and more aptly in my case, don&#8217;t be so rigid, such a creature of habit &#8212; watch a movie that doesn&#8217;t fit into one of my seasonal\/holiday niches, and shake my world up!<\/p>\n<p><em>Bill Dunphy enjoys photography, cooking, reading, and, of course, movies\u2013of which he has about 350 in his library.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s guest post, Bill Dunphy discusses his love for the Tom Hanks\/Meg Ryan romcom favorite Sleepless in Seattle, and shares some musings on films that he can&#8217;t turn off once they&#8217;re on. 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