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Movies You Know By Heart

Date: Jul 21 2010

Themes: Family, Hobbies

Grammar: Used to Do vs Be Used to

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Certain movies are so comforting and familiar, watching them again is like curling up with your favorite childhood blanket. These are the films you’ve seen so many times, you can recite entire scenes from them off the top of your head. Often they’re the movies you loved as a kid, when you could watch the same Disney cartoon over and over without ever getting bored. Or they might be movies you discovered when you were a little bit older, movies that stuck with you forever because they were unlike anything you’d ever seen before. These are the movies you just never get sick of watching. These are the movies you know by heart.

Find out what movies Jeff and Mason know by heart.

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Mason

Jeff

Mason: So Jeff, you’re kind of a movie guy, right?

Jeff: I am, I am.

Mason: So what are some of your…I’m a big movie guy, but I was gonna like have the top 5 discussion with you, you know?

Jeff: Top 5?

Mason: Yeah, like what are some of those movies you know by heart, ‘cause you’ve just watched them so many times?

Jeff: Well, I have a lot of favorite movies that would make the top 5, possibly top 10, top 20. But there are a few that I do know by heart. Ghostbusters would be one. Both one and two.

Mason: Yeah, sure.

Jeff: I used to study to that in school. Donnie Darko is another one.

Mason: That’s interesting. That one doesn’t get old? I mean that doesn’t seem like a movie with a lot of repeat viewing ability for me.

Jeff: I don’t know. For some reason I think it does for me. I don’t know, what about yours?

Mason: I don’t know, I think a lot of the movies I know by heart are kind of movies that I’ve had since childhood, you know, like the Disney movies like Little Mermaid or Aladdin. I mean I can pretty much recite that whole thing for you off the top of my head right now.

Jeff: I think I know both of those because of my little sister.

Mason: For sure. Yeah, that’s the thing, is also if you ever babysat or if you have siblings, then just that kid mentality where you can’t get sick of watching something. I had a family I was staying with in Spain once, and the kid just got Dumbo and literally we watched Dumbo like three times a day. So there was a chunk of time that I could recite most of Dumbo to you in Spanish.

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Discussion

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Jeff loves movies. Some of the movies he knows by heart are Ghostbusters and Donnie Darko. Mason is surprised that Jeff has watched Donnie Darko so many times, because it is a dark, unusual movie. It isn’t the kind of movie Mason would want to watch over and over again.

But most of the movies Mason knows by heart are Disney cartoons he watched as a kid. For some reason, most kids love watching the same movies again and again. They don’t seem to get bored as easily as adults.

What movies do you know by heart? Is there a movie you can remember watching over and over again when you were a kid?

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Miss Fabulous

Germany

I normally dont like to watch a movie for a second time but this behaviour changed when I watched Twilight for the first time. Since I hadnt read the book before, I didnt quiet understand it on the first run, then i watched it again and had to watch it again. I think that is one of the movies that i know by heart next to the movies of the well-known turkish actor Kemal Sunal who is also known by his nickname "Saban". His movies are unique and are not limited by time; they reflect the truth of life in a humorous way.

psycycu43

Taiwan

Possision! it's the movie that I know by heart.

andee1

China

certainly.there were lots of cartoon that i knew by heart.like "mickey mouse and donald duck" "transformers" and so on.i very liked seeing them over and over again never got old but don't now.i also can recite scene from them off the top of my head.

anglorths

Viet Nam

My chilhood was deprived of movies. Way back there in the deep rural in the Mekong Delta, the cines were what only big-town people could enjoy. Just imagine the baboo-surrounded hamlet, without power, without motorvehicle road. All people had to negotiate barefoot or row or pole-push their little wooden boats.

nanci guide

Egypt

for me i think that the movie i could know by heart was the mask it's afunny movie

Whitney S

Colombia

I also liked the beauty and the beast. I remember that when my father went to the USA he brought that fairy tale for me hehe!!

BUT MY FAVORITE ONE EVER WAS ALICE IN WONDERLAND!!! I LOVED IT SO MUCH AND I STILL DO!! SO I COULDNT AVOID WATCHING IT ON 3D SOME MONTHS AGO LOL!

luu.-21

Argentina

I could watch ''the beauty and the beast'' 100 times and I never got sick of watching, When I watch it now, I can say that I'm living my childhood again…