By skyforbes For me, most recently, I did a double feature of Heat and Bullitt. I loved the latter, and I've seen the former a bunch of times, and while I like it stylistically and appreciate it's craft, I'm not a fan.
I love a lot of Mann's work, but the praise behind Heat is something I've never understood, BUT I still watch it every 3-4 years to see if I like it more this time.
The same recently too with Promising Young Woman and David Fincher's The Killer. Neither gelled with me on first viewing, but I've added them back to the rotation to see if there's something there I missed the first time around. Both have interesting points, but they just didn't have that spark for me.
Sometimes it takes me two viewings, or even more, to appreciate something fully. If mind my is too busy, if it's noisy while I'm watching something or just not in the right setting, I feel like it's unfair to the film to judge it the first time around.