# Movies worthy of repeat viewing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890 "2013-11-27T03:49:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/21 "2013-11-27T14:26:03Z")
Goodfellas The Karate Kid (1984) The Incredibles Son In Law (yes, the Pauly Shore movie; I’m certain I can’t articulate why I like it) Tommy Boy Happy Gilmore Clue Galaxy Quest The 40-Year-Old Virgin Die Hard Back to the Future 1 & 2, but not 3 Scarface (1983) Full Metal Jacket Shaun of the Dead The Hammer A Fish Called Wanda Fargo Office Space Predator O Brother, Where Art Thou? National Lampoon’s Vacation A Christmas Story The Big Lebowski ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/22 "2013-11-27T14:32:50Z")
**Goodfellas**. Which is a goddamned trap because that movie is about three days long and I’ll flip past the whole “walking into the club” segment and think “I gotta watch this” and then, before you know it, it’s Thursday night. **Zombieland** is another that’ll always suck me in but, thankfully, that’s a short movie. Bunches of others but those are two I seem to come across on TV fairly regularly which use their black hole powers on me. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/23 "2013-11-27T14:33:55Z")
Tombstone. I’ve no idea how many times I’ve watched it, enough to know the script almost off by heart. Almost every line is genius, and Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday is the best piece of acting I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/24 "2013-11-27T15:09:56Z")
[Fido](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457572/) from whence came “ZomCon”. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/25 "2013-11-27T15:19:25Z")
The Shawshank Redemption Parenthood My Blue Heaven Boogie Nights From Dusk Till Dawn Ghostbusters Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels This Is Spinal Tap Tremors ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/26 "2013-11-27T15:27:44Z")
Groundhog Day Groundhog Day Groundhog Day Groundhog Day Groundhog Day ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/27 "2013-11-27T15:28:11Z")
Oh, I forgot my bad movies worth repeating… _Independence Day_ – watching it is my only fairly frequent masochistic behavior. I’m not really sure why. _The Wicker Man_ (remake) – so hilariously awful I find new awfulness to laugh at every time. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/28 "2013-11-27T15:31:13Z")
All the Universal Monster classics–mostly for nostalgia’s sake, but at times you find some little gem therein that you never saw before. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/29 "2013-11-27T15:40:44Z")
Stripes Smokey and the Bandit Blues Brothers ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/30 "2013-11-27T17:03:39Z")
Just a few ones I’ve watched recently: _Quiz Show The Piano Out of Africa Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Year of Living Dangerously_ And what would a list like this be without: _Tremors_, the best “worst” movie of all times. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/31 "2013-11-28T05:03:37Z")
_Little Miss Sunshine, Life of Pi, Master and Commander: The far Side of the World, What About Bob?, Sideways, Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan_, and more, but those spring to mind first. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/32 "2013-11-28T05:26:43Z")
I can watch **Commando** infinity times. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/33 "2013-11-28T05:34:54Z")
Off the top of my head: **2001: A Space Odyssey The Godfather I and II Goodfellas 12 Monkeys Brazil The Usual Suspects Lawrence of Arabia North by Northwest Vertigo This Is Spinal Tap Raiders of the Lost Ark Howard’s End Fight Club Glengarry Glen Ross Dr. Strangelove Goldfinger The Producers Young Frankenstein Monty Python and the Holy Grail** I’m sure I’ll think of some others later. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/34 "2013-11-28T06:12:51Z")
Jaws The Right Stuff It’s A Wonderful Life The Matrix ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/35 "2013-11-28T09:05:45Z")
Hot Fuzz; the more you watch it the more you appreciate the editing, soundtrack (music and effects), and of course that classic Wright/Pegg foreshadowing. Mmm, delicious foreshadowing. Shaun of the Dead is good for that too, but it doesn’t hit me the way Hot Fuzz does. We’ll find out at Christmas time if The World’s End works for repeat viewings too- I only saw it once in theaters, and I enjoyed it immensely, so I hope it does. I also watch Love Actually far more than I should, but I don’t know how much repeat value it has artistically, beyond just being a great piece of emotional manipulation. It’s the only holiday movie I have to watch every year. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/36 "2013-11-28T15:23:26Z")
I’m going to add **Dances With Wolves**. Costner gets a lot of hate nowadays, but that was one fine movie, and it still grabs me if I chance upon it. As does **Little Big Man**. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/37 "2013-11-28T15:35:44Z")
Some silents are worth rewatching. The Kid with Chaplin. Who knew Uncle Fester was once a cute little kid? Our Hospitality with Buster Keaton, featuring the world’s greatest movie train. The Kid Brother with Harold Lloyd, where he gets the best of his bullying brothers. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/38 "2013-11-28T16:47:45Z")
**The Rocketeer Rocketship X-M Flight to Mars The Core** ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/39 "2013-11-28T18:20:11Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Groundhog Day > > Groundhog Day > > Groundhog Day > > Groundhog Day > > Groundhog Day Plus: Zulu The Magnificent Seven ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890/40 "2013-11-28T20:37:32Z")
Films with solid twists are definately worth viewing multiple times. As soon as I finished watching The Prestige, I immediately watched it again (who needs sleep?） [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-worthy-of-repeat-viewing/674890.md?page=3)