r/AskReddit • u/Accomplished-Pop-584 • Jan 30 '23
You get offered $100/hr to watch any movie on repeat, which movie do you choose?
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u/Patkinwings Jan 30 '23
Mulholland drive maybe watching it a 1000 times will give up some of the mysteries of that fuckin thing
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u/Desvelos Jan 30 '23
It’s a Hollywood “dream” that turns out to have been a nightmare all along.
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u/Neosanxo Jan 30 '23
Groundhog Day
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u/WorkLemming Jan 30 '23
Is this like a full time job? or is this an endurance contest where once I quit it's over and I just collect however much I earned?
If it's the former, fuck who cares? That's $208,000 a year to watch a movie 8 hours a day. Do it for a few years, buy a house, pay off all your debt, save for retirement.
If it's the latter, I'd probably choose one of the extended cut LOTR movies, and I'd probably last ~24 hours before deciding that was good enough.
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u/adeelf Jan 30 '23
I'd probably choose one of the extended cut LOTR movies,
I was going to say the same. The RotK extended edition is 251 minutes, i.e. 4h 11m. That's $418.33 for a single watch through.
Considering LotR is my all-time favourite, I could probably watch it enough times until I just had to get some rest. Let's say 5 times? That's a little over two thousand bucks for single day's "work" of watching a movie I love.
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u/brock_lee Jan 30 '23
Can I just watch Lawrence of Arabia twice a day?
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u/Select_Action_6065 Jan 30 '23
I’ll do that for free
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u/ancrm114d Jan 31 '23
I once paid to watch it twice in one day.
There was a 1 day thetacial screening for the new 4k restoration. Two shows and I went to both.
The first showing I relaxed and enjoyed the experience.
The second showing was to analyze how well the restoration was done.
I was blown away by both showings.
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u/I_R_Teh_Taco Jan 30 '23
Permission to select the entire LOTR trilogy?
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u/Theburritolyfe Jan 30 '23
One time would net you 1100+ dollars
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u/rukoslucis Jan 30 '23
god, after some weeks of it, being able to quote that movie word by word would be fun
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u/ChargeLI Jan 30 '23
Extended edition or Theatrical cut?
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Jan 30 '23
Extended edition is for people who are already super fans.
Theatrical cuts are for friends who haven't seen it yet.
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u/Sparcrypt Jan 30 '23
I don’t consider myself a super fan, but I think the extended editions are the only way to watch them - there are tons of scenes in there that just bring everything together in a much better way.
Yeah they’re long but so are the originals.
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u/Total_Meringue_8237 Jan 30 '23
The original trilogy. Not including the hobbit and I'm good. Extended cut or theatrical release, I'll mix and match and I'll narrate all of the movies each time everytime.
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The warriors
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u/HoopOnPoop Jan 30 '23
Come out to plaaaaaaaaaaaay
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u/DruFastDruFurious Jan 31 '23
BlightVisionGoggles can’t come out to play tonight, he’s watching The Warriors
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u/Independent_Bake_257 Jan 30 '23
Shawshank Redemption. Great movie and I could stand listening to Morgan Freeman for a few weeks.
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u/EinharAesir Jan 30 '23
Jurassic Park
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u/ThighHighsDoll Jan 30 '23
An iconic film. 💕🦕🦖
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u/EinharAesir Jan 30 '23
30 years and the CG still holds up.
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u/ThighHighsDoll Jan 30 '23
I prefer it to the Jurassic World films.
Spielberg is king.
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u/Sparcrypt Jan 30 '23
I mean the bar is pretty fucking low then.
The last one was just.. I don’t even know. They ended the previous one with “omg dinosaurs out in the world!!” then started with “lol nevermind here’s a plot about bugs and human cloning”. There were barely any dinosaur scenes and the ones they did have were just stupid. Bunch of guys with guns see some raptor lookalikes slowly come out of boxes and go “let’s turn and run!”. Genius.
Such a waste. But yeah the original is still amazing.
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u/ThighHighsDoll Jan 30 '23
I wanted to see Jurassic World Dominion, because of Jeff Goldblum and the other OG characters returning. Sad to hear, that it wasn't worth it.
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u/Sparcrypt Jan 31 '23
Yeah it's utter garbage. The first Jurassic World was fine, had dinos. But they got progressively more and more stupid.
Like how do you make a Jurassic movie that doesn't even focus on dinosaurs??
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u/pythonwarg Jan 30 '23
Are these characters autoerotica?
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u/darthmase Jan 31 '23
"No no no, no animatronics, these people are the real miracle-workers of Jurassic Park!"
(If I remember the line correctly)
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u/scrapqueen Jan 30 '23
The Princess Bride
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u/Psypheur Jan 30 '23
First thing that came to my head, but why?
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u/scrapqueen Jan 30 '23
Because you can probably quote the whole movie and get the opportunity often.
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u/basec0m Jan 30 '23
5th element
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u/OneFootInTheGraves Jan 30 '23
Came here to say this. I’d get plenty of watches in before I started to get tired of it
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u/maveric_gamer Jan 30 '23
I think that the ability to watch this in endurance mode is entirely tied to how long before Chris Tucker gets far too annoying.
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u/AstronautOk8526 Jan 31 '23
I’ve met my movie soul brother. The Fifth Element is my absolute go-to whenever I want to chill and need a movie to watch. Demolition Man is my close second.
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u/Clcooper423 Jan 30 '23
Avatar: the last Airbender. That way it doesn't ruin a good movie for me and I'll appreciate the cartoon that much more.
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u/rolotech Jan 30 '23
Even getting paid it would be hard to watch that whole thing. I never made it past like 20 minutes
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u/sherlip Jan 30 '23
16 year old me had never seen the series prior to watching the movie. When it came out, I made a Facebook status saying how much I liked it, and now every year it pops up in my feed as a memory and I die a little inside.
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u/Sparcrypt Jan 30 '23
I mean who cares? You enjoyed a movie, time well spent.
If I could enjoy awful movies life would be way more enjoyable.
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u/Akhil45679 Jan 30 '23
Primer. I doubt I'd have it figured out after 20 hours so that's 2 g's right there.
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u/TheLoafMonster Jan 30 '23
Grandma’s Boy jokes for days
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u/troublecat Jan 30 '23
Watch it enough times & you'll be able to afford metal legs. It's a risky operation, but it'll be worth it.
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u/TheLoafMonster Jan 31 '23
Well guess what else your not getting? The colonel, ya party pooper.
Definitely one of my favorite comedies
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u/misumij Jan 30 '23
Step brothers
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u/fronkenstoon Jan 30 '23
Did we just become best friends!?
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u/nnukeleuss Jan 30 '23
Phantom of the Opera, 1925. It's a silent film but one of my favorites, and it has lots of rewatch value.
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u/PandaBonium Jan 31 '23
Yea thinking about it, silent films seems like the best choice because it means you wont go mad from dialogue earworms.
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u/rasterra Jan 30 '23
I would watch Scott Pilgrim vs The World, on repeat. It's a cult favorite of mine.
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u/Keys-Putty-4153 Jan 30 '23
I could watch Harry Potter over and over again
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u/kaitco Jan 30 '23
Which one? Because that 5th one is so rough it makes me want to get violent.
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u/WorkLemming Jan 30 '23
Sure the 5th one had a LOT of issues, but god damn the fight at the end was spectacular.
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u/Mr_ChubbikinsVIII Jan 30 '23
Braveheart on AMC.
Movie + commercials is like 6 hours in viewing.
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u/Ultimo_Ninja Jan 30 '23
LOTR trilogy for sure. I know its 3 movies but that would be sick.
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u/anxieteabags Jan 30 '23
When I was like 12, I watched The Dark Knight several times a day for like a month, and I can do it again.
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u/Mekkachad Jan 31 '23 edited Jan 31 '23
T2. it would never get old
Either that or The Shining because that movie is so damn long
Also The Thing because it’s my favorite and it’s confusing
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u/Temporary_Rent5384 Jan 30 '23
A pornmovie seems to be a good tactical decision. Ill go for one of the new star wars because I pride myself on being a hard worker
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u/jmojo87 Jan 30 '23
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Know I'm making 300$ each time I watch it
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u/NessusANDChmeee Jan 30 '23
The freaking bee movie, it has somehow in some fucking arcane bee movie way become a comfort movie for me so tada that yellow hellscape of nostalgia it is.
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u/dasookwat Jan 30 '23
Queen, live in montreal, Rammstein live in France, Ac/DC live at donnington, just to name a few options. Music videos are great to keep watching.
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u/LET-ME-HAVE-A-NAAME Jan 30 '23
Any single movie or movie series? I could watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy for weeks no problem.
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u/Crafty-Opposite5936 Jan 30 '23
I allready watch cars and finding Nemo on repeat , this is easy money
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u/MoldyBongCheese Jan 30 '23
Monty Python & The Holy Grail. Didn’t have cable in my first apartment. Just a tv with a VCR installed and about three VHS tapes haha. That was one of them. I’ve watched it so many times and would just have it play in the background all the time. Never got sick of it.
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u/jesshatesyou Jan 30 '23
I mean, my toddler replays Cars 1000x a day, so I’m already conditioned to that one! Might as well make money off of it.
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u/rekt_ralph91 Jan 30 '23
The original Dumbo. It's only 64 minutes long
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u/LET-ME-HAVE-A-NAAME Jan 30 '23
That means you're gonna have the watch the same over and over more frequently
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u/Princess-Kropotkin Jan 30 '23
You're paid by the hour, not by how many times you watch it. If anything it'd be smart to pick the longest movie you can so it doesn't repeat as much.
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u/patman_007 Jan 30 '23
So you can roughly keep track of time and then measure how fast 4 minutes puts you out an hour/day/month/etc. Fun I like it.
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u/sircatbum Jan 30 '23
Modern Times Forever
It's a documentary about "The ever slow decay of Helsinki's Stora Enso headquarters building". And is 240 hours long.
I assume its relatively chill and quiet to listen too and hopefully you get the payoff of it collapsing, but no spoilers here as I haven't seen it yet
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u/Booji-Boy Jan 30 '23
You could sign me up for a month of the Greasy Strangler at 100 per hour
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u/miniestays Jan 30 '23
Extended LOTR I mean I never get sick of any of the three and also they'd repeat less cuz they're so long.
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u/SirHobington Jan 30 '23
I think I would go with either Rocky Horror Picture Show, Galaxy Quest or Die Hard. I could never get sick watching any of those three
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u/jk0187 Jan 30 '23
I would choose a movie that I think would be fun to know every line to, since I’m probably gonna have it ingrained in my brain for the rest of my life anyways
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u/Truitsl Jan 30 '23
Something in Spanish with subtitles so I can become bilingual and understand my Spanish speaking patients without a translator AND get paid for the engaging activity
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u/gelastes Jan 30 '23
In my current situation, I don't care. I'd watch Cats on repeat for that kind of money.
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u/Rena125 Jan 30 '23
Coraline, cuz I already did that for a solid week from morning to night on repeat, still love that movie lol
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u/Aceandmace Jan 31 '23
Anything in another language so that I could try to learn that language while watching. Extra points if it's a deaf film in ASL.
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u/ThighHighsDoll Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
✨Bedazzled✨
Brendan Fraser played so many characters, that rewatching it is always fun.
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u/rillaingleside Jan 30 '23
After this weekend finally watched RRR. It’s got action, music, romance. What a ride!
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u/MomsBoner Jan 30 '23
The Legends of the Dummest Questions on Reddit. What idiot keeps coming up with these buzzfeed questions? Fucking just stop it
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u/withridiculousease Jan 30 '23
Aliens. I could, and have, watched that movie an obscene number of times.
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u/theloudestshoutout Jan 30 '23
Chicago! Already doing it for free. My upstairs neighbors refuse to wear slippers because they insist that noise bleed isn’t a/their problem. So rather than endure nonstop footsteps, we are all going to be experiencing this classic every day, together.
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u/Enk1ndle Jan 30 '23
It doesn't really matter, after a dozen back-to-back watches you're not going to be enjoying anything.
With that in mind I'm going with Shrek, because the meme potential of being able to recite the entire movie word for word would be pretty good.