751: Audience of One
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I know so many people who have films that they have watched over and over. And I have never really gotten that. I always feel like there are so many films that I haven't seen. Like, why would I watch one again? But we get into these conversations and there always comes a moment where I'm asked, well, what is the film that you've seen the most? And then I have to admit, it's the Poseidon adventure, which I know is not a good film. It's this 70s movie about an ocean liner that gets hit by a tsunami, flips upside down and the passengers try to make their way to safety. It's part of an entire genre of films, disaster films that have never gotten any respect. Like, nobody thinks of these films as art. But I loved it at the time when I saw it. It felt big and it felt important and serious. And I remember it was very emotional. And the reason that I saw it so many times that this is the film that I saw more than any other was not because I love the film. It's because of where I saw it. There was one vacation, we didn't take many vacations when I was a kid. But on one of them, we stayed at this hotel in Florida where the rooms had this thing where they offered a couple movies all day long and this was so long ago. In the 1970s, like, my sisters and I, we had never seen anything like that. Like, even cable TV was rare back then. The Poseidon adventure was the film that they offered. And my sister, Karen and I, we ate it up. That was the movie we watched over and over again. Yeah. Oh, so this was like a very important movie that Karen and her son, Zach, my nephew, who we tried to explain this to you recently. So we ended up watching it on TV like at night if our parents went out to dinner or if it was a rainy day, so yeah, we loved it. The way that I remember it is that is that the hotel just had this movie on a loop. And it would just as soon as it would finish, it would start again. And the way I remember it is that every time we would come into the hotel room, you could turn on the TV and you'd be somewhere in the beside an adventure. That sounds vaguely familiar to me. I don't totally remember that, but that might be right. Yeah. And I remember it having a lot of feeling. Do you remember it having a lot of feeling? What does that mean having a lot of feeling? Like, like, I remember feeling a lot of emotions. Yeah, well, it's scary and, you know, you really invested in their journey to, you know, escape alive. I don't think I'm giving anything away by saying that. Sort of are here at the radio show these last few weeks. We've been talking about the random films that people have strong attachments to thinking that might be a good episode of the show. And I started to think about the beside an adventure. And I wondered what it would be like to see it again. Like, would it have any feeling?
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