How often do you rewatch new movies?

[The Curmudgeon]

When you think of your favourite ever movies, the films you watched growing up, you know you've watched them again and again and again. Even movies that don't hold much weight you've seen countless times. I've seen Police Academy 6 more times than I've seen Cloverfield, for example.

Has that changed? When I see a movie now I'll enjoy it, talk about it.. but then probably never see it again. "Kick Ass", for example. Loved it when I went to the cinema and never seen it since and almost forgot everything about it.

Is this a sign of getting older or is just because we're swamped with so much stuff now? If I think to how many times I've watched and re-watched, say, the first three Indiana Jones movies (countless) to the fourth one (once), and that's not a comment on how bad the fourth one was (I thought it was OK), it's just... shit, who has the time nowadays?

Are you the same?

[trashcanman]

I almost never rewatch movies anymore and I hate that fact. Netflix and Hulu and the like have jut flat out killed that for me. As a general rule, I'm always looking for something new, but I could never afford to be buying tons of DVDs at once so I watched the ones I had lots as my library grew over the years. Before DVR and Netflix this was just what I did. But now I have too much spread out in front of me, an endless ocean of potentially amazing entertainment at an unthinkable affordable price, and I want to see it all. That leaves just no time for really familiarizing yourself with the subtleties of each individual film and admiring the director's visual and artistic techniques by rewatching them and absorbing them into your consciousness like the old days. Just one more thing we seem to have lost as technology spoils us and consumes our lives.