The Sixth Sense has to be seen at least twice. No matter how crappy his later movies have been, The Sixth Sense remains a work of genius. Every scene works on two levels - once when you don’t know, the second when you do. The scene of Bruce Willis’ wife having dinner in a restaurant, for instance, is totally different after you’ve seen it once. Exact same scene, totally different emotional reaction.
I don’t get this one. I’ve seen Gandhi a dozen times. Sure there are emotionally devastating scenes like the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, but the film has such a wonderful mixture different emotions that I can’t imagine missing out on them “My name is Walker - Ha!”, “I will not pay one Rupee”, Kasturba Gandhi describing their wedding to Margaret Bourke-White.
Seconded! I’ve watched this a dozen times or more. Read the reviews on IMDB and you’ll see that you are not alone. The film is about the perfectibility of the human spirit.
I re-watched this the other day, and it totally hold up for me.
For me, at this point it is any movie I have ever watched. There used to be a time when I could watch a movie 2 or more times, but no more. Once is my limit these days, regardless how good the movie is, which is why I stopped buying DVDs years ago.
For movies that I have watched more than once, it would have to be Blade Runner. I have watched it so many times I can practically recite the entire movie scene by scene, both versions. It is one of my favorite movies of all time, but I can never, ever watch it again.
Strangely enough, I have read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep a few times and am likely to read it again, so perhaps it is something about revisiting movies that makes them less enjoyable for me than books.
I can’t imagine ever wanting to see Gandhi, Schindler’s List or I’m Not There a second time, although they’re all wonderful movies. What’s more, I can think of lots of lesser 3-star movies (A League of Their Own, The American President, Kelley’s Heroes) I can watch over and over again.
Munich, as mentioned above. This movie should be considered among the greatest movies of all time, but it suffers from the problem that no one wants to relive it.
See my response above. I honestly don’t know what people find so un-re-watchable about this film. All I can think is that they haven’t re-watched it, and forgot that the vast bulk of the film is a wonderfully enjoyable biographical portrait of the great man and his country.
Yes, there are scenes that can raise goosebumps on my arms just recalling them - like the one with the man confessing that he killed a Muslim boy and Gandhi telling him “I know a way out of Hell.”
That movie has Eric Bana kicking fucking ass. Every movie with Jews, we’re the ones getting killed. Munich flips it on its ear. We’re capping. If any of us get laid tonight, it’s because of Eric Bana and Munich.
You have to watch “The High and Mighty” first to get the parody of it.
I’m not sure I can watch “the Spitfire Grill” again. It had the most emotional ending of any movie I’ve ever watched. Multiple, conflicting, powerful emotions in the space of a minute.
Although I disagree that The Hurt Locker is a good movie, since it did win an Oscar and thereby qualifies for the purposes of this thread, it will be my choice of movies I would never watch again.
John Carpenter’s The Thing. I thought it was a terrific horror movie. But I don’t watch much of anything in the way of horror movies, as they scare me too much. I sure picked a doozy to make an exception for, though.
Brokeback Mountain Life is Beautiful North Face ~ This is one of those movies where you know what’s going to happen but just keep hoping that somehow events will magically change. I tear up just thinking about it. A box of Kleenex was sacrificed for this film. Bullhead ~ great acting but damn … just damn.
I wish more people had seen The Hurt Locker as I did at AMC’s Mainstreet Theater. The first 4K projector I ever saw, and every single seat equipped with a bass shaker to supplement the sub-woofers. I wandered out of the theater feeling like I had been in a war zone, which was obviously the director’s intent.
I’d like to see the film again, but any home screening would be a major disappointment - like watching Lawrence of Arabia on an iPhone.