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Related: About this forumWhat Movies Do You Watch (Or Can Watch) Over and Over Again?
What are some of your favorite movies that you watch over and over again. Also if you are channel surfing and come to one of your favorites, you stop on that channel and watch it again. Here are some of mine:
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. The Firm
3. A Few Good Men
4. The Big Lebowski
5. Old School
Glamrock
(11,994 posts)1. Big Lebowski
2. Caddyshack
3. Cool Hand Luke
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. Blazing Saddles
P. S. No specific order....
On edit: I forgot 6. Oh Brother, Where Art Though?
Berlin Vet
(95 posts)Paul Newman made some great movies in the 1960's which many are some of my favorites such as:
1. The Hustler
2. Hud
3. Hombre
4. Cool Hand Luke
5. Butch Cassidy
Glamrock
(11,994 posts)He was so good. And he picked the best scripts. I forgot to add The Sting to my list also.
Great tune inspired by Cool Hand Luke
mimi85
(1,805 posts)when I had a "thing" for Paul Newman...and then found out he was the same age as my dad. My husband and his high school friends (over 50 years ago) loved "Harper" - he still can quote many lines from the movie.
jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)had some great lines.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(121,001 posts)A Man for All Seasons
Amadeus
This is Spinal Tap
Body Heat
applegrove
(123,207 posts)All The President's Men
The Princess Bride
Bridget Jones Diary
The Sound Of Music
no_hypocrisy
(48,858 posts)Auntie Mame
Terms of Endearment
Harold and Maude
dhill926
(16,953 posts)Blazing Saddles...
Sideways....
Das Boot....
Wizard of Oz....
Berlin Vet
(95 posts)Absolutely love "The Quiet Man" and want to get the Blu Ray which came out a few years ago.
askyagerz
(901 posts)BeyondGeography
(40,022 posts)Ground Hog Day
Casablanca
Pulp Fiction
North by Northwest
Lots, actually.
brush
(57,653 posts)Pulp Fiction
Casablanca
The Godfather
The Godfather ll
Good Fellas
Friday
Office Space
And a recent one,
Fences
pkdu
(3,977 posts)1. Boondock Saints
2. Kiss-Kiss, Bang-Bang
they are brilliant
FWIW - I just watched The hateful eight for the first time , I might have to rewatch it was so good.
Berlin Vet
(95 posts)Boondock Saints is also one of my favorites. The Sequel was ok but it good to see the characters again.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)DEADPOOL!
Berlin Vet
(95 posts)He was born to play Deadpool. He was ok in Green Lantern but Deadpool is his.
kysrsoze
(6,145 posts)It was brilliant, IMO.
SCLumbeelady
(37 posts)1.Forrest Gump
2.Shawshank
3.Titanic
4.Rocky Horror Picture Show
5.Saving Private Ryan
Berlin Vet
(95 posts)Back when I had DirecTV I would stop and watch Forrest if I was surfing.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,513 posts)Out of Africa
English Patient
Lost in Translation
Jaws
Koyaanisqatsi or Baraka or Samsara
Amelie
Babel
Bread and Tulips
Thin Red Line
The Sting
The Hours
The Singling Detective (Dennis Potter/UK version with Gambon)
Jewel in the Crown (BBC long series on end of the Raj in India)
North by Northwest
Rear Window
Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)mucifer
(24,848 posts)1. Hitchcock's "Notorious"
2. "The Conversation" Francis Ford Coppola's early film with Gene Hackman. So sad.
3. "The Fugitive" No excuses I just love that movie.
4. "The Blue's Brothers" Can you tell I'm from Chicago?
kysrsoze
(6,145 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)Young Frankenstein
Sofie's Choice
You've Got Mail
Now Voyager
The Producers
Rogers & Hammerstein/Rogers & Hart musicals
The Best Man
The Lion in Winter
All About Eve
Loved YGM. One of my favorites as well.
AJT
(5,240 posts)but I love it.
Lotusflower70
(3,093 posts)Bridget Jones Diary
Goodfellas
Pirates of the Caribbean
La Bamba
Star Wars
Titanic
Jurassic Park
Scarface
The Avengers
Captain America
He's Just Not That into You
The Godfather
Lord of the Rings
Pearl Harbor
Amadeus
Our Family Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Diary of a Mad black Woman
Why did I get married
Berlin Vet
(95 posts)Just got caught up with Captain America 2 and 3. The Captain America movie that came out in the early 90's wasn't that bad, just didn't have the budget to make it great. I believe there were 1 or 2 in the late 70's (I think) where Cap rode a dirt bike and motorcycle helmet with red/white/blue colors,
Lotusflower70
(3,093 posts)I love superhero movies. I collected comics as a kid still do. The budget and the acting are critical to the success of the movie. Marvel definitely knows how to make great movies. The DC series has been disappointing. Such great characters but the directors have ruined some of them.
Berlin Vet
(95 posts)I think that the only DC inspired movie that I like is Batman with Micheal Keaton. What got me was one of the early scenes when Batman was holding the robber on the roof of the building and then let him drop. The following Batman movies were hard to watch. Sometimes comics do a better job in dramatic roles like Keaton did in Batman.
Lotusflower70
(3,093 posts)I love Michael Keaton as Batman. I hated Man of Steel and Dawn of Justice Batman vs. Superman. I did like Christian Bale as Batman and Heath Ledger as Joker. I still haven't watched Suicide Squad yet.
Berlin Vet
(95 posts)I agree Bale took Batman back to his roots and I enjoyed his take on Batman although Keaton is still my favorite.
Lotusflower70
(3,093 posts)I really like the direction Bale went with it. It was meaty and gritty. Keaton set a pretty amazing bar for the role though.
TlalocW
(15,625 posts)Were the one from the 70s. He was technically the original Cap's son, which is why the super soldier serum worked on him. They're a guilty pleasure especially some of the special effects - my favorite being Cap escaping some bad guys by lifting his motorcycle and throwing it up into a parking lot that was 20 feet above where he was - the bike sailed up perfectly and landed on its tires and kickstand.
TlalocW
subterranean
(3,539 posts)(in no particular order)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Jaws
Caddyshack
Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
Wizard of Oz
Dirty Harry
Unforgiven
Fargo
Groundhog Day
Berlin Vet
(95 posts)I've wondered how many times did Bill Murray's character relive that day to be able to learn to play piano, speak French, and learn all about the people that lived in the town.
subterranean
(3,539 posts)I've read one analysis that estimated he re-lived the day about 12,400 times, or just under 34 years!
To live that day over and over again for 34 years is just mind blowing.
Nitram
(24,616 posts)Live every day over again trying to get it right.
Nitram
(24,616 posts)HoosierDebbie
(388 posts)1. Cabaret
2. Deliverance
3. Norma Rae
4. Rear Window
5. Tender Mercies
6. Victor Victoria
7. The Great Santini
NanceGreggs
(27,835 posts)"School of Rock" - Jack Black and Joan Cusack at their finest.
"Monsoon Wedding" - the scenes of the wedding-planner's own romance are worth the price of admission alone.
"Aliens" - Never get tired of Ripley kickin' other-worldly ass.
"This is Spinal Tap" - having worked in the music biz, it rings true on every level.
"Independence Day" - a truly guilty pleasure, complete with every movie cliche known to man.
Berlin Vet
(95 posts)Your post, like many others, made me realize that I have a boatload of favorites. I've never seen Monsoon Wedding but will check it out. Your others are all some of my favorites as well.
NanceGreggs
(27,835 posts)... I think "Monsoon Wedding" would have to be No. 1.
I've watched it countless times, and never fail to enjoy every minute of it. By all means, check it out - you won't be sorry.
Will look for it since you recommend it so highly. Thank you.
Basic LA
(2,047 posts)It never gets old.
Eugene
(62,674 posts)especially the Sean Connery and Roger Moore films.
2. Also the early Toho monster films (Godzilla, Monster Zero, etc.)
3. Star Wars Episodes 4 and 6
4. Many classic comedies
Berlin Vet
(95 posts)Would have to respectfully disagree about Roger Moore's take on Bond. Connery will always be the Bond but Daniel Craig is a close second. What are some of your classic comedies? Mine are:
1. Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers.
2. Spinal Tap and other movies by Christopher Guest
3. Woody Allen movies from the late 60-s to 70's
Eugene
(62,674 posts)1. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. Blazing Saddles
4. Stripes
5. Airplane!
The list goes on...
subterranean
(3,539 posts)my favorite is Mothra vs. Godzilla, the one with the miniature twin fairies (Shobijin).
I enjoyed it as a child and have re-watched it more than once as an adult! A guilty pleasure.
GP6971
(33,061 posts)Also John Wayne's cavalry trilogy
Fort Apacehe
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Rio Grande
Yes...I was a Cav officer in the army
Berlin Vet
(95 posts)Some of the best John Wayne did.
3catwoman3
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Chicago
Sound of Music
Crazy Stupid Love (just discovered this one after seeing La La Land)
Star Trek IV The Voyage Home
Vertigo
The Sting
TlalocW
(15,625 posts)1. Harper Valley PTA - not much in the way of action, but it's not overly distracting if I put it on while I'm working on something
2. The Three Amigos - absurdist humor (you shot the invisible swordsman!) and sending up of traditional Mexican bandito movie tropes
3. A Night at the Opera - "Let there be music in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor (to dignified musical conductor) Play, Don."
4. Jack Frost - Not the Michael Keaton movie or the horror movie, but a Russian-Finnish co-production from the 1960s about some of their folktales. It was riffed by Mystery Science Theater 3000, but the cinematography is first class, and the story so charming that I bought the DVD. I can watch either version.
5. Captain America: The Winter Soldier -I'm an avid Marvel movie fan so I could pop in anything after 2008's Iron Man and be happy with it, but the action and humor (Cap and Black Widow toss a baddie off a roof to intimidate him, knowing that he'll be caught by Falcon, and while waiting for them to appear, calmly discuss Widow's attempts to get Cap a date) was top-notch.
TlalocW
FuzzyRabbit
(2,085 posts)Local Hero
Animal House
Mean Girls
A League of Their Own
Dr. Strangelove
Hairspray (original 1988 movie)
Down Periscope
Sky High
captain_democratic
(10 posts)planet of the apes
gunfight at the ok corrala
the candidate
maltise falcon
the caien mutiney
True Dough
(20,364 posts)but I'm being honest:
Forrest Gump
Top Gun
Any of the first 4 Rocky movies
Eyes Wide Shut
Dances with Wolves
Shawshank Redemption
Breakfast Club
And two movies that I have caught in progress at various stages on multiple occasions but have not yet watched in full:
Heat
The English Patient
kysrsoze
(6,145 posts)Fight Club
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Jackie Brown
Lost in Translation
The Royal Tenenbaums
Caddyshack
Crazy Stupid Love
Seven Psychopaths
The Falcon and the Snowman
Alien
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Horrible Bosses 1 and 2
Interstellar
2001: A Space Odyssey
Gravity
Blade Runner
District 9
Solaris (American version)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (European version)
Batman series (Christopher Nolan)
Star Wars series
Fast and Furious series
Saving Private Ryan
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)Hot Tub Time Machine. Alice in Wonderland, the cartoon one. Pixar films. Kevin Hart movies. Glory. Hamburger hill.
Berlin Vet
(95 posts)Thanks for bringing that up. Love HTTM and Glory, which I can watch over and over again.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)kcdoug1
(222 posts)hurple
(1,324 posts)Princess Bride
Star Wars
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
And anything Chaplin or Laurel & Hardy
irisblue
(34,296 posts)Independence Day
The Searchers
Actually John Wayne movies b/c I remember watching them with my Dad
ekelly
(426 posts)1. Three Days of the Condor
2. ANY Gene Hackman movie
3. Murphy's Romance
(Don't judge me...I've had a massive crush on James Garner my whole life, and Sally Field is just plain fun to watch...they were paired perfectly for this movie).
4. Shawshank Redemption
5. Halloween (The first one only. I hated the rest of them).
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)And West Side Story because it changed my life when I was a little girl
Another massive favorite
In Search of Bobby Fischer
Berlin Vet
(95 posts)I read somewhere that Bob Uecker ad libbed all of his lines in Major League.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Frogg
(365 posts)Docreed2003
(17,817 posts)Shawshank
Big Lebowski
The Godfather
Blues Brothers
Old school
Anchorman
***swear I'm not copying your list or others***
Blazing Saddles
Seven Samurai
The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly
Tombstone
Kings Speech
Kill Bill vol 1
Pulp Fiction
Django Unchained
Inglorious Basterds
Walk the line
I know there's more, but that's off the top off my head. Honestly, if I'm flipping through channels late at night, I'll always stop on Tombstone, Pulp Fiction, The Godfather, or Kill Bill.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)Creator
Shawshank Redemption
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Lord Of The Rings
Harry Potter
Gran Torino
Taken
Better Off Dead
Airplane
Airplane the sequel
The Green Mile
Dreamcatcher
Ladyhawk
Con Air
Princess Bride
2012
The Day After Tomorrow
mahina
(18,948 posts)The Life Aquatic
Truly Madly a Deeply
The lives of Others (the only serious one but DAMN)
Starbuck (en Francaise)
gopiscrap
(24,172 posts)Chipper Chat
(10,037 posts)1. 2001 A Space Oddity
2. All the Presidents Men
3. Recount
4. All About Eve
5. Deception
6. The Sound of Music
7. Rear Window
8. The Firm
9. Some Came Running
10. Hoosiers
11. Eddie and the Cruisers
12. Midnight In Paris
SouthernIrish
(531 posts)Nitram
(24,616 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Bladerunner
Apocalypse Now
Lawrence of Arabia
any of three Lord of the Rings
Shawshank Redemption
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)1. Citizen Kane
2. King Kong
3. Duck Soup
4. The Bride of Frankenstein
5. Yankee Doodle Dandy
6. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
7. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
8. Jim Thorpe All American
9. Stalag 17
10.We're No Angels
8. The Sweet Smell of Success
9. Vertigo
10. North By Northwest
11. Bye Bye Birdie
12. Goldfinger (Trump role model)
13. After The Fox
14. Nevada Smith
15. The Producers
16. Theater of Blood
17. One Flew Overt The Cuckoo's Nest
18. Shawshank Redemption (mentioned most often)
19. Les Misérables
MFM008
(20,001 posts)Except silent.
Many from 60s
Only a few recent ones.
Siwsan
(27,300 posts)Now Voyager and All about Eve being my favorites
Also love
A Few Good Men
The Caine Mutiny
Mr. Roberts
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Green Mile
I admit that most of my favorites are older films. I love watching a film that relies on great acting, writing and directing, instead of overwhelming special effects.
AllaN01Bear
(23,076 posts)sound of music 1960s . not the remake
chitty chitty bang bang
police academy 1.
revenge of the nerds 1
day the earth stood still. legacy version . 1950s
close encounters of the third kind .
spaceballs.
dune 1 .
el dorado/ rio bravo
all the trek movies , esp voyage home (thats the one with the whales )
and others that i cant think off hand .
NBachers
(18,139 posts)Breakheart Pass
They Live
Thunder Road
Forbidden Planet
Sunset Boulevard
Them!
Goldfinger
Murder My Sweet
Out of the Past
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,778 posts)1. Star Wars movies
2. Pirates of the Caribbean movies
3. Transformers The Movie (1986)
4. Star Trek movies
5. Goodfellas
6. Office Space
7. Clue
8. Ferris Buellers Day Off
9. Princess Bride
10. Aliens
mimi85
(1,805 posts)1. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Brooklyn
4. Up In Smoke
5. Dances With Wolves
Berlin Vet
(95 posts)Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors. He is so talented playing very different roles. Thanks for your input. The Fisher King is one of Jeff's all time best role.
FakeNoose
(35,744 posts)helenmalone
(4 posts)Cast Away
The Shawshank Redemption
Fight Club
VOX
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Random order:
My Dinner With Andre
The Third Man
Mr. Hulot's Holiday
It's a Gift
The Year of Living Dangerously
The Night of the Hunter
The General
Citizen Kane
There Will Be Blood
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Casablanca
A Day at the Races
Sleeper
The Red Badge of Courage
Blade Runner
The Life Aquatic
Dr. Strangelove
Ugetsu
Rashomon
To Catch a Thief
The Lavender Hill Mob
Metropolis
Breaker Morant
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Time does not permit me to continue. And the list could change tomorrow!