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To wonder how kids can watch the same film so many times

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KellyElly · 15/08/2012 15:00

It's raining and my DD is watching Madagascar for about the 100th time. This is closely followed by Mickeys Christmas which we have watched about 99 times!

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Whirliwig72 · 15/08/2012 15:04

Ditto we are on our umpteenth showing of WALLE! All together now... 'Out there! - is a town outside of Yonkers!'

JarethTheGoblinKing · 15/08/2012 15:08

Same reason you have to tell them approximately 728 times before something before they learn it. Wink

controlpantsandgladrags · 15/08/2012 15:10

We have watched Madagascar pretty much every day for the last couple of months. I feel your pain.

SavageGarden · 15/08/2012 15:10

I never quite grew out of that...

DozyDuck · 15/08/2012 15:11

Haha have you tried autism yet? Not even the same film but the same clip from the film rewound and replayed over and over and over and over. It's driving me batty.

WelshMaenad · 15/08/2012 15:12

I don't knooooow! But I might have accidentallyonpurpose stood on our copy of Coraline and snapped it after the 36438853rd viewing...

Yama · 15/08/2012 15:13

I would watch Bolt or Inkheart every day. Dd won't watch Bolt with me again, says she hates it - bah! Loads of film I would watch over and over.

lovebunny · 15/08/2012 15:14

remember 'sherlock'? i watched every episode daily on iplayer until they were taken off - sometimes twice. i now have the dvd...
i don't actually have a diagnosis for asperger's...

biddysmama · 15/08/2012 15:16

yanbu im sick of poca friggin hontas

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KellyElly · 15/08/2012 15:21

Actually thinking back I think I watched Dirty Dancing about 50 times when I was about nine. Its just I liked Madagascar the first ten times now its just painful! My DD won't even let me go and do something else she wants me to watch it with her. At least kids films aren't too long :)

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freddiefrog · 15/08/2012 15:22

I hid the Snowbuddies DVD after DD2 had watched it several million times.

She found it yesterday when we were having a sort out and she's watched twice already.

I don't know whether to shoot her or me!

CoteDAzur · 15/08/2012 15:22

I can watch good films over and over again.

Not Madagascar, though. Read a book while your DC are watching it.

BrianCoxIsUpTheDuff · 15/08/2012 15:23

One summer hols, my brother and I watched Robin Hood Prince of Thieves at least twice a day, every day, for many days.

I loved it every single time.

mainly because of Christian Slater

JarethTheGoblinKing · 15/08/2012 15:28

Crap. DS has just found the copy of Lion King that I thought I'd got rid of

Damn it.

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KellyElly · 15/08/2012 15:29

BrianCoxIsUpTheDuff oh yes I was in love with Christian Slater in that film! I also used to play the Bryan Adams song on loop :)

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KellyElly · 15/08/2012 15:31

JarethTheGoblinKing does your name refer to Labarynth? I just bought that as I LOVED that when I was younger but not sure whether it would scare my DD as she's only 3.

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BrianCoxIsUpTheDuff · 15/08/2012 15:31

Yep, I now detest that bloody song!!! Grin

BustleInYourHedgerow · 15/08/2012 15:39

My siste and I still know Pocahontas off by heart. We amused the family with it a few Christmases ago while we were drunk and there was a blackout. We thought it was funny, they didn't.

JarethTheGoblinKing · 15/08/2012 15:42

Kelly - YY, that's me Grin

I wanted to watch it this mornig but DS insisted on POTC. Grr.

He watched it at 3 - didn't scare him much, was more bored by it. Try it at 4yo and should be fine Grin

peeriebear · 15/08/2012 15:43

When I was a kid we only had a handful of videos so my poor parents were stuck with endless reshowings of Alice in Wonderland (taped off the telly complete with DFS, Ariston and Scotch adverts!), Mickey's Christmas carol and Dumbo!

OHforDUCKScake · 15/08/2012 15:48

When I was a child I watched the cartoon version of Robin Hood 6trillion times. Also Bed Knobs and Broomsticks. And The Little Mermaid but the latter only 4 trillion times.

Squitch · 15/08/2012 15:49

I have watched Monsters Inc about a million times with dd (and I still cry at the end)

We are having a 'sleepover' in my bed tonight as the weather has been so bad today and she has entertained herself. We are going to watch Labyrinth (which comes a close second to number of times watched to Monsters Inc) and then (if she's still awake) The Princess Bride (which we haven't seen for a while)

I must admit though that there are some films that I have watched probably as many times (though admitedly not every day as dd manages to) I always thought it was because we didn't have a video when I was growing up (mum didn't get a colour TV till I left home at 20 - b&w was cheaper to rent, I found the bill when I was going through mums things and she paid £1.25 a month in 1992)

MrsPear · 15/08/2012 15:50

For us, at the moment, it is bedknobs and broomsticks! At least twice a day. He doesn't actually sit and watch it all it just has to be in the background. My said i was a bad mum the other day for saying no!

Zalen · 15/08/2012 16:18

When we were kids I remember my younger brother watching Star Wars so many times that one night when I couldn't sleep I kept myself amused by reciting the entire script from memory, Arghhh!!!

iseenodust · 15/08/2012 16:22

Rudolph and the island of misfit toys... why oh why an Xmas one?

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