Ok so i got an addiction! so what :)

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I am slightly......ok really addicted to a film.

Its a gothic opera and its called
Repo! the Genetic Opera.

It is really good and the songs are so catchy. I dont have the film any more as it was my bf's so i just sit on net most of the day listening to you tube then spend the rest of my time singing them. I also got one fo the songs as my messsage tone on my phone.! !

You are right .... so what?

I am hehe

I know about film addiction! I was addicted for maybe 5 years to "Amedeus" and then the school I went to put on a production of the play! I slaved for 9 months to bring it to the stage, such was my complete immersion into the addiction.

then about a decade or so later I got all wound up with "Master and Commander: On the Far Side of the World" and, even though I can barely stand Russel Crowe, I was addicted again. I can just chant the words and music to the film, making it very tedious for anyone watching with me.

Wondering when it will strike again,

Merle

I know exactly how you feel. Films are my obsession, I know probably too much about them and spend hours and hours reading about different films.

Had obsessions about
Titanic (led to massive obsessions about the actual ship) seen too many times
Gladiator (led to massive obsession about the Colosseum while my parents went to Rome) seen 5 times
Wizard of Oz (watched nothing else for 2 weeks after buying it)
Cars (massive obsession with Mater the tow truck that lasted for 2 years until...see next film) seen 14 times
Wall-E seen 4 times
Monty Python films seen God knows how many times. Huge Python collection. 5 copies of Life of Brian alone.
Basically any upcoming Pixar film gets an obsession beforehand and if I really like it it will last. When I see Cars or Wall_E merchandise I often 'squeak' shout the title in a high pitched voice, jump around or even 'flap' my hands.
Midnight Express (obsession started when my sixth form trip to Istanbul approached, that was in February, so mid-January. I still cannot bear to be without my video of it and have to leave the room to calm down if someone touches it without asking and it is far worse if they actually open it and touch the tape box. I went to the jail-turned-Four-Seasons-hotel in Istanbul where the true story of the film was set and almost cried with happiness and was speechless. Screw the Blue Mosque, this was where I had my sights on all week. I also got incredibly upset when I didn't have my camera when I saw a scene that I was pretty sure was in the film) seen 9 times

I'm sure there are others too! These are just some of my favourites. And with many of them I can quote large passages and spend hours listening over and over to their music without getting bored.

And Amadeus is brilliant and Master and Commander is quite good so you must have taste
Haven't seen Repo yet.

I so have to see the places pictured in films, too! I think, now that I know I am AS, it was to gain the connection between the film, the people in the film and me. I shriek and get all little girl excited (hand flapping, sometimes even rolling in it like a puppy). I remember being totally obsessed with Bob Dylan's first album in 1962 and carried it around with my junior high school schoolbooks (it was wider than they were and dug a permanent crease in my forearm!) I became extremely jealous of anyone else liking Bob Dylan, something I didn't do when I was besotted by the Beatles at 13 and the president (and only member) of the George Harrison fan club. Screaming and twitching was the mode of the day and being a girl I was not noticed as being especially ditzy sitting in the Orpheum movie theatre screaming and stimming my lungs out with the other girls watching 'Help' or "Hard Day's Night".

This was long before any videos were for the general public, so watching movies were regulated by if they were showing, or if I had saved any money from my skimpy allowance. So I read books and fixated on them, instead. I have collected all the books (and have them near to hand) that I can now see shaped my life because I suppose I adapted their values and mores within my self. Wow. I would have chosen other books, perhaps, had I known, but then I have had a pretty amazing existence.

How has the movies you obsess with shape your lives? your morals, your expectations in life?
or is it all just entertainment?

Merle

I'm also quite addicted to Repo, I made a thread about it a while ago. I don't even know how many times I've watched it now, it's just so good! You should buy the movie again, it's only $20 I think and if enough people buy it then they'll make the prequel and sequel!

Yeah, I get regular film attachments. Sometimes the only thing that keeps me from watching a movie every night is that I don't want to hear, "You're watching that again?" I generally get them pretty much memorized by the time I wear them out. I did have "The Last Starfighter" memorized when I was 12. I've passed through more than I can count since then. Sadly, once I wear them out, I try to show them to others to freshen the experience by watching them with someone who hasn't before. But they usually aren't interested. Big shock.