How Many?

 There was a trending question posed recently: Name a movie you have seen more than six times. 

A movie?

I'm sorry, a shorter list might be movies that I have watched less than six times. The other list of note would probably be movies that I have not seen. There are quite a few of those.

But I worked in a video store for several years. I watched a lot of movies during that time. 

I was also right on the cusp of being a film major when I was in college. 

More movies. 

My mother gave me the gift of a home where movies were a way of life. The apocryphal tale of her getting me out of bed to come in and watch King Kong is only the tip of the cinematic iceberg of my life. Mom introduced me to MGM musicals, screwball comedies and more. She had her own romance with movies, having grown up reading movie magazines from cover to cover and taking every opportunity to sit in a darkened theater, long before cable TV and VCRs made home video a lifestyle. 

When I was a freshman in college, my friend Darren and I made a habit of walking down Nevada Avenue on any given evening to see what was playing at the local cinema. This was back in the days when theaters would hold on to movies for several weeks at a time, allowing us to see An American Werewolf in London a handful of times after we had our fill of Escape From New York. 

And once I had access to a VHS copy of both of those movies, I continued to wear those out. And started to collect movies on tape. Then eventually I moved on to Laserdisc, and finally collected a bookshelf full of DVDs to supplement my somewhat intense and rabid film-watching on TV aided by the addition of cable channels. 

How many times have I seen Caddyshack? Roadhouse? The Philadelphia Story? 

More than six. Silence of the Lambs? The Adventures Of Robin Hood? Fantasia? 

I think I need a new meme.