repetitive movie watching

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I don't watch a lot of movies nowadays, but when I was younger I used to watch The back to the Future films over and over again. What drove my parents nuts was the fact that I watched the original Batman film from 1989 (the one by Tim Burton) over and over again, especially in the morning.

I always watch the same DVDs and video clips over and over. Since discovering why it was I do this, I don't feel quite so lame and boring.

I've watched things over and over since before I was out of diapers. I didn't watch much TV when I was real little and only things I ever watched was these two sing along tapes I had and as I got older I watched more stuff but they were mostly video tapes I had. Now I am not watching much TV again so to me cable seems to be a waste. But my husband has shows he likes to watch so we still need it.

I watched Machete´s trailer many times and even showed it to all my friends. Ok I don´t have many friends at the moment. Everytime I thought "Oh this movie is going to be awesome!"

benny and joon shee smears poop everywhere!! !

I do this a lot - it drives my family nuts. I wa sonce told by a child developmental psychologist when I worked in childcare that children developing cognitive abilities tend to watch the same things over and over, because they are learning something from the material. They watch it over and over until they have grasped that thing. Maybe the same with aspies? Maybe we're just learning.

I watch the same thing over and over again often, same with music. My mum thinks I'm mad for it

Oh yes! It's a bad, but comforting, habit of mine. I'll get stuck on a movie and watch it over and over and over, 20, 30, 40 times. Or listen to a song. It's like finding something you really like at a deli or an ice cream shop.... there are many choices, but what if I choose something I don't like? I know I'll enjoy that one thing, so I get it every time.

With movies, I like to notice the ridiculous details. For example, in the movie Emma there's a scene where she's seated on a cushioned bench in front of a window with sheer curtains, and on either side of her is an orange tree in full fruit... only they aren't orange trees at all, they're ficus benjaminas with oranges tied to the branches, sitting in pots that are so overfilled with soil that getting water to soak in rather than run off the soil must take an inordinate amount of time, and how on earth do they get enough light to bloom, let alone bear so much fruit, in England with sheer curtains blocking the sun?

Sleeping with the Enemy was particularly audacious in that food was pointed out and described, but never delivered. There was a scene where Julia Roberts was caught stealing apples to bake a pie, then invited to have dinner with the apple tree's owner. She brought over an apple pie, of course... at least, that's what she said it was. With all the apples she took, she could have made ten pies, but the pie she brought over was just an empty crust with no filling at all! Don't people notice these things? And the pot roast the neighbor cooked caught on fire (which roasts don't do without extraordinary circumstances), and when he pulled the pan out of the oven there was a substance lining the edges of the pan that had been set on fire to create the scene, but there wasn't any meat in sight. And the red potatoes hadn't been cooked at all, they were raw. Heh heh, some dinner.

And yes, I can recite the lines in many movies as well as the actors, which I'm sure is very annoying to those around me. But really, it does sometimes take seeing a movie several times before I know whether or not I like it. Seeing a movie just once doesn't allow me to absorb it all.