This is the Film That Never Ends

Scott Hardie | April 4, 2020
If you got paid a worthwhile amount of money to watch a single movie on repeat for 24 hours straight, what movie would you choose and why?

Samir Mehta | April 4, 2020
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Steve West | April 4, 2020
Probably The African Queen. It has my favorite scene in all films. Humphrey Bogart is in the water pulling the African Queen along the shallow river. He comes aboard for a break and Katherine Hepburn sees he's covered in leaches. After removing them with salt, they try to sail again and the boat soon becomes stuck. Bogart looks so forlorn knowing that he has to, dutifully and bravely, go back in the water and Hepburn looks at him with a face full of sadness and misery for him that he must do it. That or The Wizard of Oz - a near tie for first place.

Lori Lancaster | April 5, 2020
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Scott Hardie | April 17, 2020
Good choices!

The parameters can be whatever you'd like. If it's relevant to your choice, mention it. The word "watch" implies a certain minimum of attentiveness, I suppose.

I saw this question phrased online as something like, "If you could get paid a million dollars to watch any one movie on repeat for 24 hours, could you do it and what would you choose?" That seems ridiculous to me. For a million dollars, shit, I'd watch Happy Tears on repeat. You name the movie and write me the check, I'll watch whatever you want for that kind of money. That's why I changed the amount.

Me, I'm tempted to go with something very long and very entertaining to keep the repetitions few and enjoyable, something like The Fellowship of the Ring or Titanic or Avengers: Endgame. I suppose I could try to game the rules by picking a very long movie, but the longest single film that I can think of is the 9-hour Shoah, and that sounds way too unbearably depressing to watch nearly three times back to back.

The movie that I've seen more times than any other is probably Terminator 2, and I'm sure I could tolerate 12 more viewings of that without getting sick of it. That would do for me.

Samir Mehta | April 17, 2020
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