I haven’t known what movies to watch lately. Does everyone have their own treasure movies that they’ve seen many times? 😀
the lotr trilogy is a good one, especially if you have the extended versions.
One movie to rule them all
Primer. Twice before and once after reading an explanation
- Month Python and the Holy Grail
- Young Frankenstein
- Seven Samurai
- LOTR Trilogy
I see a lot of LOTR fans here. Good crowd.
I had a holy grail vhs which i watched more or less every day after school. I used to be able to recite it from start to finish.
Also had both terminator movies on a double vhs so I’ve seen my fair share of them as well.
In steam of consciousness order:
- Young Frankenstein
- Princess Bride
- Double Indemnity
- Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Breakfast Club
- The Fifth Element
- 12 Monkeys
- The Terminator
- Star Wars (first trilogy)
- Harvey
- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- Men In Black
- The Incredibles
- Inception
- E.T.
- The Sting
- Grease
- Ghostbusters
- West Side Story
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.
Tron and various Star Treks
Mine was Ghostbusters. Watched it until the tape broke rewinding it one day.
It’s so great. Like Princess Bride, very quotable, too.
The Fifth Element is the quintessential sci-fi movie. Literally, the word quintessence means “fifth element”.
It’s so completely enjoyable.
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.
Dr Strange love, 2001, and Being John Malkovich are all movies I’ve seen more than three times.
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.
As he got older, Stewart did it on Broadway and a couple of times for television.
“If I ever go broke, I can always take ‘Harvey’ on tour and get back on my feet.”
I haven’t seen it listed here in a quick scan, so:
Office Space
You don’t need a million dollars to do nothing. Look at my cousin. He’s broke as hell, don’t do shit.
Watch your cornhole, bud.
A classic comfort film.
I love that Swingline only introduced the red stapler after Milton made it famous
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 I’ve never finished it. Not for lack of interest or trying. Just can’t do it
The indie movie theater near my college did a “soundtrack comes alive” showing with live music. It was phenomenal!
- Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
- Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
- The Third Man (1949)
- The Ladykillers (1955)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- Repo Man (1984)
- Stalker (1979)
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.”
Lite entering the office: "Someone piss on the floor again?
Great username.
I still have it on VHS. No machine, just the tape.
I can’t believe I had to read so many comments before getting to one that mentioned The Big Lebowski. So rewatchable.
Seriously! It’s the first movie I thought of. I went to a couple of Lebowski Fests back in the day. So much fun.
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 I’ve seen more then three times in cinemas. Sure I’ve 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 I’m 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.
- Starship Troopers (good movie, and something about it charmed my socks off)
- Les Triplettes de Belleville (absolutely must-see, smashing masterpiece, no need to know French) (free to watch here!)
- Big Lebowski (words cannot describe)
- The Life of Brian (Monty Python’s finest movie IMO, and a fascinating commentary on religion)
- Fire and Ice (good movie, and I found the rotoscoping utterly entrancing) (free to watch here and here!)
I lost count:
‘The Warriors’ and ‘The Blues Brothers’ would be one of the best grindhouse double features of all times.
Every time Blues Brothers comes on tv, I’m hooked.
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.
Every day is (of course) excessive. Also, similar to how you shouldn’t listen to your favorite song every day, even most die-hard fans would get sick of it with that much exposure…
Do you do the chronologically ordered “omnibus” cut? Including the shows explodes the runtime, but it’s a fun concept
I’ve probably seen Hot Fuzz more times than any other movie. It was a comfort movie for a while.
Mornin’ angle
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!
Princess Bride
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.
