Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 23, 2017

I’m not sure he got this right. Theuses ship was rebuilt with new parts. Frazz saw different parts of a movie. From this strip, I guessed that Theuses ship was about someone that saw parts of a ship at different times, so did they see the whole ship? Well, in that case, I would say yes (as I would to Frazz’s question because the entirety is known) but Theuses ship isn’t about that, rather it’s about the provenance of the ship.

But now I know something new. :)

Back in the 60s when I was young, the local TV stations would show movies in the afternoon. One station showed “To Have and Have Not” several times, always cut for commercial breaks and to fit the time slot. But they never cut it the same way twice. So I saw the whole movie, but only in several installments.

I doubt he saw the whole movie in clips. And since they would be out of sequence they lose their power to be affecting since they were out of context.

Frazz

7 hrs ·

This is me, for sure. I’ve never seen “It’s a Wonderful Life,” not all at once, but I’m pretty sure I’ve experienced every scene at least once, via being in a room with a running television, clips in the context of feature stories, friends and family and perfect strangers retelling or even re-enacting their favorite parts. So while I don’t need to watch it, now I have to wonder if I would want to watch it.

When I finally saw “Animal House,” I was in the same boat, pretty sure I’d been through it all a bit at a time, mostly through people — okay, probably mostly the same couple of people — reciting lines. But it seemed like it would be a pretty good movie. I won’t say it was a bad movie, and I won’t say that those recitations were all that good, but they did set up certain expectations that the film didn’t really live up to.

But “It’s a Wonderful Life” is not “Animal House.” I’ve decided maybe I should watch it. But I’m going to take the same approach I took to “everybody should see Las Vegas at least once,” and that is: Do it, just don’t go out of your way to. Sooner or later, everybody gets sent to Vegas for a conference or brought as a guest. Sooner or later I’ll end up watching “Wonderful Life.”

Can’t say the same thing about “Game of Thrones.” I’m sure it’s good, but that would be just too big a chunk of my life at this point.

Jeff Mallet 12/23/2017

Used to be that one could only watch movies 10 minutes at a time on You Tube.

If the Fox network shows 11 of the 14 episodes of a TV series, but not in the proper order, not at the same time each week, and with large gaps between episodes, but you eventually catch everything you missed on DVD, have you truly seen it in its entirety? For extra credit, identify whether you still carry a grudge against Fox.

Honestly, I think you just take a couple of hours, relax, and watch the movie!

If I miss the opening of a movie, watch to the end, and later get to see the part I missed, I consider myself to have seen it all.

This is me with every Star Wars movie except the first one

IMO seeing a film in bits and pieces is not the same as “seeing” it in the sense of experiencing it. The emotional impact can’t possibly be the same. If what one cares about is being able to SAY you’ve seen it, that seems to be missing the point of the film and the filmmakers’ intentions. Why bother watching it at all.

What ducks? I can’t see the ducks.