- Month Python and the Holy Grail
- Young Frankenstein
- Seven Samurai
- LOTR Trilogy
I see a lot of LOTR fans here. Good crowd.
I see a lot of LOTR fans here. Good crowd.
In steam of consciousness order:
Probably a number of others
Every kid had that movie on tape or dvd that watched over and over. Mine was Young Frankenstein on beta.
The Fifth Element is the quintessential sci-fi movie. Literally, the word quintessence means "fifth element".
I second most of these, especially The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
I would add most Kubrick films including Dr. Strangelove and 2001.
Also, Being John Malkovich, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Dawn of the Dead remake 2004
The most recent film I can't stop watching is Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Theives.
First time I've seen 'Harvey' mentioned here.
I wish I could give more upvotes.
When I was a kid, I got into watching old movies, and that one became my favorite. I loved that movie.
I haven't seen it listed here in a quick scan, so:
Office Space
I revisit Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind every few years when I wanna get my guts all twisted into knots.
I think when Kaufman is left on his own he's too much of a bummer and Gondry on his own is just too far out. But somehow they come together in a perfect balance with Jim Carey in perhaps his best serious role, IMHO. The soundtrack really takes it the extra mile.
I appreciate it because Joel and Clementine come off as just two kinda fucked up people having a kinda fucked up relationship; very relatable. Neither is perfect or completely at fault and the film very much leaves it up to your interpretation if they can or should work together. I don't think it has a happy ending, do you? Compare that to something like 500 Days of Summer where you're really supposed to sympathize with Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character but mostly I end up wanting to push him into the mud. Hard.
The subplot between the doctor and his secretary is maybe a little unnecessary? But Kirsten Dunst is amazing so whatever.
That movie is my white whale. I have tried to watch it a dozen times and Iβve never finished it. Not for lack of interest or trying. Just canβt do itΒ
The indie movie theater near my college did a "soundtrack comes alive" showing with live music. It was phenomenal!
Probably several others, but those are the first to come to mind.
Repo Man has one of my all time favorite lines.
Harry Dean Stanton.
"I hate regular people. Regular people spend their entire lives running away from tense situations. Repo man spends his whole life getting into tense situations."
I can't believe I had to read so many comments before getting to one that mentioned The Big Lebowski. So rewatchable.
Having scanned through the list of movie titles in this thread the one I most want to watch again is The Third Man.
I think of all the movies everyone has mentioned only the Rocky Horror Picture Show is the one Iβve seen more then three times in cinemas. Sure Iβve seen a lot of movies three or more times but only Rocky had Saturday night Midnight showings that I went to for a couple of years.
On second thought the local rep house also played Stop Making Sense for a few months for Friday night midnight dance parties and Iβm pretty sure I went to 10 or 12 of those too.
I don't re-watch movies very often, and more than three times is rare as hens' teeth. Sometimes it's because it's an absolute classic, or sometimes it's because I'm weirdly fascinated by it. Let's see if I can remember those rare exceptions.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. I know it's popular to hate on them and point out flaws, but most of them are perfect "junk food" comfort food flicks. And some of them are really good!
Back in the day I was a supervisor in a call center.
We had large screen TVs up in all the rooms. We had access to a cable station with movies on demand.
There was one guy who begged us to put on 'The Avengers' every day.
Do you do the chronologically ordered βomnibusβ cut? Including the shows explodes the runtime, but itβs a fun concept
Iβve probably seen Hot Fuzz more times than any other movie. It was a comfort movie for a while.
Pretty much any studio Ghibli movie. Have watched spirited away, Totoro, howls moving castle, valley of the wind, and many more more than 3x. Don't often rewatch stuff but have a soft spot for ghibli!
Jurassic Park. (1,2 and 3)
Tremors (1 and 2)
Lake Placid (RIP Betty)
And Then There Were None
The Thing
Robin Hood (Disney animated version)
Star Wars (Original trilogy + Episode 1)
Addams Family Values
Django Unchained
Inglorious Basterds
Pulp Fiction (not a Tarantino stan, I swear)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Aliens
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ironman (first one)
Pacific Rim
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Big Short
Probably more than that TBH. I rewatch a lot.
Django Unchained
Inglorious Basterds
Pulp Fiction (not a Tarantino stan, I swear)
I laughed at this. Can't deny he's made some great films!
Off the top of my head / all-time popular:
To satisfy my inner little boy:
Animation:
Yeah I'm a basic bitch
The 3rd dark knight is so weird. Not as bad as other problematic outliers but one and two is enough for me
These are just movies I've probably seen more than 3 times in no particular order, they aren't all necessarily masterpieces (though some are):
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Princess Bride
Blade Runner / Bladerunner 2049
Idiocracy
Interstellar
Spaceballs
Clue
The Other Guys
Dr Strangelove
Airplane! / Airplane 2!
Terminator 2
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Home Alone
12 Monkeys
Inception
The Iron Giant
Trading Places
Star War: Backstroke of the West, The Third Gathering
A ton, but the one I'm most inclined to talk about is The Thing (1982). We rewatch it almost weekly since I introduced my spouse to it which is amazing because each time we spend about an hour afterwards dissecting the things motives, the order of replacements, different theories, etc. It's truely one of the best movies ever made. The practical effects get a ton of praise, but for me it's just gotta efficiently the movie is at what it does. You know every character within minutes of their appearance, you feel the alienation and paranoia, and the thing itself is so inexplicable that even after hundreds of watches in my life time I genuinely can't rationalize why it does what it does.
The 2011 one would have been better if they left in the pilot alien and had better set and custome guys. It doesn't feel like a pequal, it feels like a remake set in 2011.
Probably a bunch more
The Fifth Element comes to my mind immediately. It was my happy place.
The Lord of the Rings, It's what I watch when I felt lost.
Also, Nostalgia, another film I rewatch when I felt not belonging and nowhere to go back to.
My no-doubt incomplete list (I enjoy watching old favourites over):
A subset ...
Unusual or less known movies I've watched a quite a few times:
Leaves of Grass
A Scanner Darkly
Red Lights
Where the Buffalo Roam
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
-2010: The Year We Make Contract
My mind is blanking on the others
When the young cosmonaut races to Roy Scheider's cabin and hugs him because she is terrified of dying alone.
Lithgow having a nervous breakdown on his first space walk, then helping the cosmonaut when he freaks out.
2010
A lot of good moments in that movie. My fave is when that scientist has to tell Hal to stay behind, and Hal's like hol up, what'll happen to me? Then for a couple seconds the movie just pauses while Hal decides whether to go along with it or not.
So, when they were preparing for the first movie, the monolith was supposed to be a shiny diamond. Nothing the effects people could come up with looked right, so in the story boards they replaced the diamond with a black box. Then someone said that the black box looked cool, so they went with the monolith.
For years, fans speculated about what the monolith meant. Clarke and Kubrick kept mum. Finally, Clarke was at an event and some kid said he had the anwer.
The ratio of the monolith was 1 : 4 : 9, the squares of the first three numbers.
Clarke liked it so much he put it in the sequel.
And yes, that actor is very underrated.
I think 2010 is underrated bc to really get into that movie you had to: 1) have watched 2001, 2) have liked 2001, 3) be open to a sequel that was very different in tone.
I also really liked the way that scientist was having a dialogue with his computer back on Earth. AI seemed so open, so full of possibility, not so limited and corporate like it turned out to be.
I'd say that the difference in tone is the biggest hurdle.
If you get a chance, watch 'The French Connection II.' It was also poorly received. The best part is Gene Hackman's performance. I won't give away any spoilers, but it's more about his struggles than solving a crime.
I lost count:




Lots.
The OG Star Wars (4, 5, 6)
Shawshank Redemption
Edge Of Tomorrow
Top Gun
Princess Bride (top 5 sword fight!)
Most all of Pixarβs stuff, and Dreamworkβs kids movies. My kids grew up with them.
Sleepy Hollow (Depp/Ricci version)
The Departed
Rob Roy (another top 5 sword fight)
Dune (original β80s version)
Alien/Aliens/Alien 3
Tron
Goonies
Rat Race
Lost Boys
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Deadpool
The LOTR trilogy
Blade Runner - both films
Heist (a lesson in writing a script consisting of one-liners)
Oceanβs 11
The Name Of The Rose
The Last Mohican
Master And Commander
5th Element
Any of the Monty Python films, but especially Quest for the Holy Grail
Thatβs a start.
If I had to whittle it down to absolute favorites: Princess Bride, Monty Python, and OG Star Wars.
How do you manage to watch the OG star wars more than twice? I saw New Hope in the theatre. I saw the next one in the theatre and almost walked out. I saw the third one and thought OK I can deal with this, but not great.
Then I re-watched a New Hope again and realized, this is a boring movie.
10 seconds thought would have stopped you from making this comment.
These are some of my favorites Iβm sharing, not yours. Ainβt nobody making you watch any of them.
No, I was serious. What do you find interesting enough to watch more than three times? New Hope was entertaining when I was 8, I must have seen that movie in the theater at least 10 times.
But as time went by I came to realize its pretty shallow, acting isn't so great and the wow effects of 1977 aren't much compared to the last 20 years. I actually get disappointed that I can't enjoy re-watching it as much as so many other movies. Maybe I saw it too much.
I will change the question: Which version do you prefer? I can say I like the original as released best, all the changes later just don't feel right to me.
Young Frankenstein
Pulp Fiction
Big Lebowski
Airplane! with Zero Hour! (1957) immediately after
Fifth Element
The Death of Stalin
There are plenty (nearing my 60s, I've had plenty time to watch movies ;). So allow me to name just a few I always enjoy watching. They are in no order save the two first ones:
There are so, so many more! Ozu is one of the directors I can endlessly watch and have a blast, I'm also a fan of Kurosawa. I have not even considered Italian (like, they were among the best) or the Russian cinema! Or even my own French movies: back in the days, French used to make a lot of great movies but that was before we too, like Hollywood, became so afraid of our own shadow that we started self-censoring... Sad times we're living in, bu that will pass.
'Judge Roy Bean'
First time I've heard it mentioned in a long, long time.
Wonderful choice.
A History of Violence was pretty underrated. Barry Lyndon bored the hell out of me, but the lighting was very impressive from a technical perspective (they actually used candles and a super low aperture lens for some scenes, no additional lighting).
Watch 'The 3 Musketeers' with Oliver Reed.
Fun movie, and it looks like a painting.
A History of Violence was pretty underrated.
Quite so.
Barry Lyndon bored the hell out of me,
Not the most fast paced movie that ever was, I will agree on that. Still, I first watched it as a teen (already into history) and was in awe. This was first time I could walk into painting of those long gone times ;)
In a similar way, Peter Greenaway, the English director did a few great movies too: The Draughtsman's Contract, 'The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover', Prospero's Books,...
Big Trouble in Little China
Princess Bride
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Tank Girl
Romancing the Stone
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Where the Buffalo Roam
Everything by Monty Python
Edit: everything by Mel Brooks
Yay for Tank Girl!
Where The Buffalo Roam has 2 of my favorite scenes from any movie. When he just starts shooting the dirt bank on the side of the road while driving, and when the lawyer climbs the fucking hospital to get in the window lol. It may be a hot take, but I like that movie way more than Fear and Loathing (I love both though).
Had to wait to see 'Big Trouble'
It's my very favorite of all time.
Idiocracy, numerous times.
As time passes, it gets worse (aka reality does. The movie is perfect)
The Lord of the Rings - watched these many times now, and a couple of those have been back to back marathons. And yes, extended editions every time.
The Little Mermaid - The original Disney animated version. Itβs possibly my favourite of what is known as the renaissance era.
The Muppet Christmas Carol - I watch this every year on Christmas Eve. I think Iβm up to about 15 or more years now. Itβs without a doubt the best version of A Christmas Carol ever.
Top three off the top of my head. Iβm sure thereβs more but the wonβt match the number of times Iβve watched these.
Princess Bride
Strictly Ballroom
Paul
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Wars 4,5,6
LOTR all of them
Operation Petticoat
Dr Strangelove
The Great Race
Pacific Rim
The Abyss
True Lies
Alien
Aliens
Clue
The Cutting Edge
Forbidden Planet
Harry Potter series
Kelly's Heroes
The Last Starfighter
Young Frankenstein
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Star Trek movies: Wrath of Khan, First Contact
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
Gumball Rally
I probably watched The Man from Earth (2007) over ten times.
I think in general comedies are just way easier to rewatch for what ever reason.
Also I think just because I rewatch a movie a lot does not mean it is the best movie. I think some movies just give a certain vibe that is enjoyable.
I probably also watched some Christmas movies a ton of times just because they played on TV a lot when I was a kid like Home Alone.
Hundreds of Beavers! It's an absolute delight showing it to someone who has never seen it before.
YES. I only saw it once and I want to show it to someone else with no explanation! That movie had us rolling.
I have one for you too:
"Marcel the Shell With Shoes On"
I just grabbed it off the shelf from my library because it looked interesting. Never heard of it before.
I went in completely blind and fell in love. Just hit play and settle in. Absolutely lovely.
i don't even have an answer for that. but i grew up pre-internet and owned lots of video tapes.
i'm marveling at the notion that there may be people who haven't rewatched movies a lot?
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