Watching 'Home Alone' and 'Die Hard' again? Why revisiting our favorite shows and movies makes us fe
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Watching 'Home Alone' and 'Die Hard' again? Why revisiting our favorite shows and movies makes us feel good. P B P “Knowing you can be predictably amused or entertained may seem better than taking a risk that new anxieties will be piled on top of old ones,” Spiegel says. “The oldies can get boring and seem like a waste of time, but especially in stressful times, a predictable relief may seem better than a risk of being reminded of what is really troubling you.”
Did you grow up watching The Grinch or It’s a Wonderful Life with your family every Christmas? If so, switching it on again every holiday season as an adult can rekindle happy memories from a different time and place.
“Rewatching a movie can connect us to our younger self and make us feel connected to family and romantic partners who may no longer be with us,” says Rebecca Tukachinsky Forster, an associate professor of media psychology at Chapman University. “It connects us psychologically to other people who watched this content with us in the past and creates this sense of belongingness and continuity.”
Certain shows and movies seem tailor-made for rewatches, and Rutledge says that’s especially the case with holiday movies.