# Films with repeating scenes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2007, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-with-repeating-scenes/412520 "2007-07-20T10:31:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-with-repeating-scenes/412520/21 "2007-07-20T16:19:03Z")
In “Back to the Future” we see Marty come back to 1985 again in hopes of preventing the terrorists from shooting Dr. Brown after having seen it happen the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-with-repeating-scenes/412520/22 "2007-07-20T16:24:35Z")
No one’s mentioned **Ground Hog Day** yet? It’s all repeating scenes! ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-with-repeating-scenes/412520/23 "2007-07-20T16:58:07Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] No one’s mentioned **Ground Hog Day** yet? It’s all repeating scenes! [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] No one’s mentioned **Ground Hog Day** yet? It’s all repeating scenes! [/QUOTE] So, why has no one mentioned **Ground Hog Day** yet? Too many repeating scenes in it? ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-with-repeating-scenes/412520/24 "2007-07-20T17:24:14Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] No one’s mentioned **Ground Hog Day** yet? It’s all repeating scenes! [/QUOTE] _ ~~~They say our love~~~ won’t pay the rent~~~ Before it’s earned, our money’s all been spent ~~~~~~~~~ _ ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-with-repeating-scenes/412520/25 "2007-07-20T22:57:16Z")
[QUOTE=dwc1970] In “Back to the Future” we see Marty come back to 1985 again in hopes of preventing the terrorists from shooting Dr. Brown after having seen it happen the first time. [/QUOTE] And the widely loathed Back to the Future II had a number of repeated scenes from the first movie, seen from different points of view. I kinda liked the second one but I know no one else in North America did. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-with-repeating-scenes/412520/26 "2007-07-20T23:14:46Z")
[QUOTE=Laughing Lagomorph] And the widely loathed Back to the Future II had a number of repeated scenes from the first movie, seen from different points of view. I kinda liked the second one but I know no one else in North America did. [/QUOTE] I liked it too (but don’t tell anybody else about it). ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-with-repeating-scenes/412520/27 "2007-07-21T02:13:53Z")
The somewhat obscure (but entertaining) movie **11:14** has a single event shown from four or five different points of view. ---
**Author:** ![pilot141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-with-repeating-scenes/412520/28 "2007-07-21T04:40:30Z")
There was a movie that had Kris Kristofferson from a long time ago… IMDB to the rescue. \*Millenium. \* What a waste of film and time. He was an investigator for the NTSB, and Cheryl Ladd was a flight attendant on a flight that crashed and killed everyone on board. Except she was really from THE FUTURE and they were stealing the people on the plane right before it crashed and replacing them with dead people. Or something like that. She had a special zappo gun (McGuffin) that she mistakenly left on the airplane and Kris found it, and thus begins the infinite plot loop… They used the time travel trick to the max - so much so that they pretty much replayed about 20 minutes of the movie. Not even different points of view - just the same damn camera shot that you saw an hour ago and then transition to the next camera shot that you saw an hour ago. Because, you know, she went back in time and is trying to do things over, so YOU get to see everything over again. EXACTLY the same way you saw them the first time. The first time I saw the movie I was yelling “I’ve already SEEN THIS!” at the TV. Good stuff! ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-with-repeating-scenes/412520/29 "2007-07-21T05:11:00Z")
The movie _Elephant_ about a school shooting does this. The story is told through different characters and they all come together toward the end (well, in a way, but it shows the same scenes from different angles, with different emphasis). Also, if I remember correctly, the movie _Go_ does this, starting with the characters in a grocery store or whatever setting before they head out for their adventures, then ending with all stories told. Brendon Small [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-with-repeating-scenes/412520.md?page=1)