# Movies you can watch over and over and never tire of them. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 13, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812 "2019-12-13T15:38:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/21 "2019-12-13T22:53:24Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > SciFiSam: > > All of Me is not animated, it’s a live-action film starring Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin, and it’s absolutely hilarious. That’s what I meant - the two other films you mentioned that I don’t rewatch are animated, and I know All of Me isn’t. I think I’ve seen it, but it was when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/22 "2019-12-13T23:51:06Z")
A christmas carol (1951 version as well as Jim Carrey version) National lampoons vacation Christmas vacation Ink Terminator 2 Casino Goodfellas Planes, trains and automobiles Groundhog day I wonder to what degree a movie has meaning either because its associated with a holiday that has good memories, or you saw it when you were a kid. Most of my movies fit into those categories (but then again I saw a ton of other movies as a kid that aren’t important to me and that I’m fine not watching again). ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/23 "2019-12-13T23:59:54Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > ‘The Dark Corner’ is positively shocking! Quite grim, surprisingly for Lucille Ball… I do love a much more lighthearted one, ‘The Long Long Trailer’ with her and Desi Arnez, just delightful! > > ‘White Heat’ with James Cagney, what a psycho - and his mother!!! It features early versions of a car phone and a car tracker, very suspenseful. > > ‘The King and I’ - Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr - just ‘something wonderful’. I only wish the Shall We Dance number went on for longer. > > ‘Bridge On the River Kwai’ and ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ - I watch both whenever they happen to be on. > > and finally, most of ‘Seven Faces of Dr. Lao’ with Tony Randall - both chilling and hilarious moments. I don’t know how I could have forgotten White Heat. Truly a magnificent film and a star of the genre. Thanks for pointing it out. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/24 "2019-12-14T00:05:12Z")
Raiders of the Lost Ark Cool Hand Luke ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/25 "2019-12-14T00:30:04Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > ‘Rear Window’ for me. I’ve only seen it (or parts of it) about 17 times. I’d watch Charley Varrick again. It’s one of Walter Matthau’s best roles. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/26 "2019-12-14T04:02:11Z")
Some additions that I forgot to post: 1952 5 Fingers (James Mason) 1975 Farewell My Lovely 7.1 (Robert Mitchum) 1955 T Big Combo (Edmund O’Brien) 1949 Impact 7.1 (Brian Donlevy & Ella Raines) 2000 Small Time Crooks 6.7 (Woody Allen) 1953 Stalag 17 8.1 (William Holden) Edmund O’Brien made some truly great films. Ella Raines was a real beauty and she always seemed to get me very excited. What a beautiful lady! I consider Farewell My Lovely to be the single best film in the private detective genre. I cannot recall any film that Edmund O’Brien made that I would consider to be bad. I sincerely hope you will enjoy these films I posted. ---
**Author:** ![steepone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@steepone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steepone)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/27 "2019-12-14T05:03:08Z")
For me it would be The Dambusters Battle of the River Plate (AKA Pursuit of the Graf Spee) Sink the Bismarck ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/28 "2019-12-14T05:29:57Z")
I’m well over 100 viewings of _Star Wars_ and The _Empire Strikes Back_. (I know, I know, you’re all shocked by this. 😃 ) Off the top of my head, some other films I’ve watched at least 20 times: - Real Genius - The Blues Brothers - The Princess Bride - Iron Man - Captain America: The First Avenger - Thor - The Avengers - All three Lord of the Rings movies - The Mummy - Airplane! - A Christmas Story ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/29 "2019-12-14T07:05:23Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > **Charlie Wayne** , as I live and breathe! Where you been the last three years? Hello Chefguy. I sent you a PM with a little explanation. P.S. Pls do not stop either living or breathing. Stopping either one may be hazardous to your health. However, if you are determined to stop either one or both … then you may choose to take up smoking because under those circumstances, smoking will not harm you very much at all. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/30 "2019-12-14T08:01:06Z")
Considering how much we like it, we do not have a copy of All of Me. I cannot say how often we’ve said, “Back in bowl” ([clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VdyXTIaaMI)). A few favorites: When Harry met Sally The Fifth Element Real Genius Some Kind of Wonderful Monsters, Inc. Hot Fuzz Shaun of the Dead Deadpool and Deadpool 2 ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/31 "2019-12-14T08:16:53Z")
90 percent of the movies mentioned on here except anything Jurassic park related and evolution…(my nephew made me watch it 3 times a day for years …) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/32 "2019-12-14T08:56:40Z")
Groundhog Day Ever After You’ve Got Mail The Lake House Enchanted Tangled Aladdin (in fact most of 90s Disney animation) The original Star Wars trilogy Back to the Future trilogy Dave Airplane Mr Bean’s Holiday ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/33 "2019-12-14T09:17:55Z")
Wes Anderson films, as a general matter, bear multiple re-watchings. Every single visual detail, every bit of dialog, is so carefully constructed, that there are rewards to be gained from viewing again. And again. And again. I don’t feel that way about _everything_ he’s done, but every time I watch “The Life Aquatic” I get something new out of it. (I probably feel that way about Moonrise Kingdom, but I’m not sure, as I’ve only seen it twice.) Wierdly, I feel the same way about a really terrible movie: Zardoz. That movie stinks, but it stinks with a certain earnestness that is endearing. I wouldn’t want to watch it too many times within a restricted timeframe, but re-watching it once every 3-5 years definitely works. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/34 "2019-12-14T09:19:10Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > The Life Of Brian > This Is Spinal Tap > 2001 > Some Like It Hot > The Apartment > One, Two, Three > (and almost everything else by Billy Wilder) > Almost everything by Hitchcock > Schtonk > I Hired A Contract Killer > Night On Earth I endorse this post. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/35 "2019-12-14T10:00:44Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > Considering how much we like it, we do not have a copy of All of Me. I cannot say how often we’ve said, “Back in bowl” ([clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VdyXTIaaMI)). The scenes where Steve Martin portrays someone who is being controlled by a lady on one side of his body and a man on the other side is one of the most incredible acting triumphs that I have ever seen. Next time that you see those scenes, I would recommend you try to consider just what would be involved in mastering such an incredible acting job. I have always been perplexed by Steve Martin because when I consider just how brilliant he must have been to pull that off and then think about his movie, “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”, my brain just kind of shifts into overdrive and then shuts down. I just don’t get it. One may well be the most genius thing I’ve ever seen and the other seems so completely stupid and ridiculous, my brain just cannot handle the clash. IMO, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid may well be one of the most stupid movies ever made. “Stupid” may not be a reasonable adjective. It may be more reasonable to call it a “waste of time and energy”. I often wonder how the same person could have been responsible for both the acting in “All of Me” as well as the creation of “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”. I just do not understand whatever prompted him to create “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”. I hope that I just do not understand what the appeal is to “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”. It seems so obvious to me that it is just way off the scale when it comes to the most ridiculous or stupid projects ever created. If anyone can ever explain to me the appeal behind that film, I would love to understand it because on the one hand, Steve Martin has displayed some terrific - even incredible - talent. But on the other hand … “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”? What in the world? ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/36 "2019-12-14T11:34:08Z")
I can’t explain Dead Me Don’t Wear Plaid, but speaking of Steve Martin reminds me of Pennies From Heaven, 1981, an odd depression era musical he , Christopher Walken, and Bernadette Peters were in. I seem to be the lone fan. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/37 "2019-12-14T12:20:29Z")
Marx Brothers (of course): The Cocoanuts Animal Crackers Monkey Business Horsefeathers Duck Soup 😃 A Night at the Opera Bogart: Casablanca The Maltese Falcon To Have and Have Not Mel Brooks: Blazing Saddles Young Frankenstein The Producers Star Wars: the original trilogy Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi Other Comedy: Monty Python and the Holy Grail Airplane! Groundhog Day Ghostbusters Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Shrek Other Drama: Bull Durham Jaws King of Hearts Rocky (screw the sequels, the original is still great) I’m sure I could think of a few more, but that’ll do for now. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/38 "2019-12-14T14:12:22Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > SciFiSam: > > All of Me is not animated, it’s a live-action film starring Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin, and it’s absolutely hilarious. That is a great movie- we used to rent it from our video store as kids (its not a kid movie but it hilarious) practically every time we were allowed to go. May have to go find it again. My list is: The Godfather Lonesome Dove (not sure it counts, its a miniseries) Trainspotting Star Wars & Empire Strikes Back Christmas Vacation Best In Show Shawshank Redemption (though due to constant presence on TV, probably am almost tired of it) Almost any decent Jane Austen flick but especially the Emma Thompson version of Sense & Sensibility & the Colin Firth version of P & P. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/39 "2019-12-14T14:20:24Z")
My top three are Casablanca, the Blues Brothers, and All of Me. The first time I saw the last one, I actually wondered for a moment “How did they get Lily Tomlin in Steve Martin’s body?” ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812/40 "2019-12-14T14:32:30Z")
The Big Lebowski. Even though I know what is going to be said and what will happen, I sill laugh at this movie. The Lord of the Rings trilogy. There is just something about these films that transports me into them. The Man Who Would Be King. Big blockbuster epic from a time before CGI starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. I love the slow pacing and epic nature of the story and scenery. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-can-watch-over-and-over-and-never-tire-of-them/844812.md?page=3)