# What was the movie that you obsessed with as a kid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-movie-that-you-obsessed-with-as-a-kid/690720 "2014-06-13T18:43:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-movie-that-you-obsessed-with-as-a-kid/690720/61 "2014-06-14T17:30:01Z")
I once watched \*Clue \*every day for about two months one summer when I was in my early teens. I even took notes so I know which ending is the correct one. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-movie-that-you-obsessed-with-as-a-kid/690720/62 "2014-06-14T17:36:20Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Heh. I teach high school–most of my students this year were **born** about the time \*Titanic \*came out. \*Titanic \*came out my senior year of high school. Our prom was \*Titanic \*themed. I don’t hate you, I hate James Cameron. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-movie-that-you-obsessed-with-as-a-kid/690720/63 "2014-06-14T17:53:01Z")
[James Cameron is a fish.](http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=876) 😃 Full story arc is from [829](http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=829) to [882](http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=882). ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-movie-that-you-obsessed-with-as-a-kid/690720/64 "2014-06-14T18:28:14Z")
After the first two PotA movies, the theater local to us would run the previous movies along with, or the maybe the day before, the newest release. They even did an all 5 PotA marathon (talked about in another thread) at least a couple of weekends. So, we got to see a lot of damn dirty apes. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-movie-that-you-obsessed-with-as-a-kid/690720/65 "2014-06-14T18:37:54Z")
: > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Little Nemo View Post > I wonder if this might be a generational thing. I’m 52 and being obsessed with a movie wasn’t really an option when I was a kid. You didn’t have any means of watching a movie on your own schedule - you watched a movie when it was being shown in a theatre or when it was broadcast on a local TV station. I’m also 52. I saw the usual number of movies in the 70s. But never got “obsessed” with one. Nor did I ever, then or since, see a movie more than once in the theater. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-movie-that-you-obsessed-with-as-a-kid/690720/66 "2014-06-14T20:08:01Z")
**The Poseidon Adventure**. Saw it 6-8 times in the theatre the first six months it was out. Still trying to find out why 20-30 seconds of Rev. Scott’s “suicide speech” were cut out after the initial run. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-movie-that-you-obsessed-with-as-a-kid/690720/67 "2014-06-14T22:33:38Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I’m also 52. I saw the usual number of movies in the 70s. But never got “obsessed” with one. Nor did I ever, then or since, see a movie more than once in the theater. The same. Really, the idea of paying to see a movie twice was just nuts, until I started dating and hit upon the old “we liked it so much we saw it again” and “oh, he hadn’t seen it” gambits. I remember really liking “Raiders of the Lost Ark” but never considered paying to see it twice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-movie-that-you-obsessed-with-as-a-kid/690720.md?page=3)