yesterday I watched Sense and Sensibility for the upteenth time. Really a perfect movie.
School of Rock
The first Pirates of the Caribbean
Pulp Fiction
The Big Lebowski
Some really good suggestions here! I love movies and am easily entertained but most of all I love WW2 docs and dramas. And also Tim Burton for his wacky style.
Lately Ive been watching BBC’s Planet Earth and Blue Planet (series of docs, not technically a “movie” but I have them on DVD).
A full length ep:
Apollo 13
Moonstruck
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove
Duck Soup
Hellzapoppin’
And Star Wars before the sequels came out.
Someone should start a thread:
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Are there any* TV episodes* you can watch over and over and never tire of them? **
I’d start with “Rockford Files” and “Barney Miller”.
The Breakfast Club
The Harry Potter series
The Fast and the Furious series
The Dark Knight Trilogy
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The James Bond series
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
There are dozens of movies I could list. I love movies, and many of those I love to rewatch are already mentioned. (Here’s a shout out to The Thirteenth Warrior!)
But the first move that popped into my head, when I saw the title of the thread and had not read any posts yet, is a movie that hasn’t been mentioned yet.
The African Queen, with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn. It’s hard to beat a movie that has the line:
I now pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution.
I tend not to watch movies multiple times, but there a few films I’ve watched over and over again due to other circumstances:
LadyHawke: for some reason, this movie was played constantly in my area when HBO first came around.
The Matrix: first DVD I ever bought, so I had one and wore it out in my Mac G3.
Groundhog Day: my wife watches this every time it comes on, so I do a lot too.
After watching a live performance of it last night (Saturday night) by an in-house cabaret troupe, I might add Moulin Rouge, the 2001 Baz Luhrmann musical. That made me want to see it again. We do have it on DVD and will have to dig it out again. I know the wife went and watched it twice went it first came out.
I’ll try not to duplicate any of the wonderful films listed above; if mine are there, I missed them in my cursory scan.
A partial list, off the top of my head:
***It Happened One Night
Manhattan Melodrama
Topper
The Philadelphia Story
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Sea Hawk
This Is the Army
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
The Purple Heart
Destination: Tokyo
Objective: Burma
Run Silent, Run Deep
49th Parallel
Perilous Journey
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
The Dam Busters
Twelve O’Clock High
Gentleman’s Agreement
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Third Man
The Heiress
Lifeboat
Rear Window
Psycho
Frenzy
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Caine Mutiny
Town without Pity
Anatomy of a Murder
Experiment in Terror
Wait until Dark
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Great Race
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
True Grit***
This.
Also, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Persuaison (Amanda Root)
Rebecca
Jaws
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
Breaker Morant - Very powerful Australian court-martial drama.
Limitless - What if a pill could make you smart and successful? Clever and unpredictable technothriller.
Notorious - Still my favorite Hitchcock.
Casablanca - Deservedly a classic.
The Incredibles - Far and away my favorite Pixar movie.
Trading Places - Great cast and very funny.
True Lies - Ditto.
Pride & Prejudice - Heartwarming romance. Keira Knightley is just luminous.
Master and Commander
Ladyhawke
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Star Trek Into Darkness
The Bounty
Psycho
The Way Way Back
Little Miss Sunshine
Meatballs
Caddyshack
Sideways
Many more.
No. There are some I can watch once every few years, but not too often.
suprised no one has mentioned:
Glenngarry Glenn Ross
I don’t think there are any that I could watch more than, at a guess, a dozen times. There are a lot of great movies in this thread that I have seen multiple times. There are several that I haven’t seen for ages and if any of those were on TV I may well watch them. However recently both* A Few Good Men* and The Shawshank Redemption were on TV and , despite never having passed them up before, I let both go unwatched and did something else.
North by Northwest
Charade
The Big Country
Sahara
The Best Years of Our Lives
Dead Reckoning
To Kill A Mockingbird
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
It Happened One Night
Blade Runner
Raising Arizona
Bonnie and Clyde
Ghostbusters
Bullitt
Jaws
Highnoon
Roman Holiday
Raiders of The Lost Ark
Dances With Wolves
Unforgiven
Sharky’s Machine (Blatantly stolen from Zeldar, but I Love that movie!)
Magnum Force
The Package
3 Days of the Condor
Forbidden Planet
Halloween
2010
PS- Almost Any Bond movie; there are only maybe 2 bad ones and I won’t say which.
A Christmas Story
Rashomon
Polyester
Is it too late to add a blatant plug for “Hustle”, a Burt Reynolds film from 1975? I always liked it and its music when they ever showed it on TV (which was almost Never).
(Also, if the name shows up here, maybe someone on a network will crack open a CD and play it on TV someday…)