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I rarely watch movies twice...
However, when I was living in Japan, and if I missed the last train, my options often were either head to an all-night snack shop, where they keep bringing you food whether or not you eat or want it, as long as you stay there, or else all-night theaters.
Well, as fate would have it, I ducked into an all-night theater showing the Martin Scorcese classic "Taxi Driver", with Robert De Niro playing the starring role as "Travis Bickle", and Jody Foster playing a runaway teenage prostitute (which later served as the inspiration for Mark Hinckley's assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan - but I digress).
So anyway, I'm drunk off my ass with some Shinjuku bar girl, and I fall asleep as soon as the movie starts. Anyway, I wake up when the shooting starts at the end (around the time Harvey Kietel's thumb gets shot off).
I did this three more times during the night - it was like a bad dream.
Other movies which I fell asleep at the first time, but later enjoyed are:
2001: A Space Odyssey (stoned and I missed all but the psychedelic sequence my friends woke me up for)
Dune (that is one seriously slow, long ass, movie)
Paris, Texas (I kept waking up every 10 minutes, and it was like I had missed nothing)
Gone With the Wind (my wife finally made me stay awake through it, although I'm still not sure if I enjoyed the sleep the first time, or the movie, better)
ADG
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