# Movies You Have Seen 10 Times (And Would Gladly See Again) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 7, 2000, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828 "2000-05-07T14:34:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/21 "2000-05-07T18:55:57Z")
Almost any Airplane, Airplane 2, Top Secret, The Naked Gun, etc…And don’t call me Shirley! ---
**Author:** ![Jo3sh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@Jo3sh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jo3sh)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/22 "2000-05-07T19:02:22Z")
Why hasn’t anybody mentioned The Big Lebowski yet? All the rest of my faves have already been covered. ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/23 "2000-05-07T19:16:35Z")
Motorgirl, Silverado was a pretty decent western, no reason not to like/love it. (After all, it is one of the few times Costner actually managed to act in a film. 🙂 ) And I forgot Holy Grail as well. Erg, not good…Ni! ---
**Author:** ![concrete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@concrete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/concrete)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/24 "2000-05-07T19:19:00Z")
Josey Wales… simply awesome movie …Clint rocked in that one. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/25 "2000-05-07T19:22:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Motorgirl, Silverado was a pretty decent western, no reason not to like/love it. (After all, it is one of the few times Costner actually managed to act in a film. 🙂 ) > \*\* I guess it’s because westerns are not very well respected in my group of friends. I’m used to defending Tombstone and Unforgiven to them but haven’t gotten around to sticking up for Silverado. I’ll start next weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/26 "2000-05-07T20:43:34Z")
[ul] [li]Grease[/li][li]Fiddler on the Roof[/li][li]Aladdin[/li][li] **The Rocky Horror Picture Show** [/li][/ul] what would my list be without RHPS? ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/27 "2000-05-07T20:57:37Z")
Animal House Young Frankenstein Lonesome Dove, ok it’s a movie and a half Liar Liar (Didn’t you? Didn’t you? LIAR!!!) Ghost The Wizard of Oz ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/28 "2000-05-07T21:22:00Z")
About half of mine are chick flicks, for a change. \*The Graduate Clerks Pulp Fiction Boogie Nights Star Wars\* and _The Empire Strikes Back_ (but absolutely NOT _Return of the Jedi_ … my brother and I owned the video as kids, and frankly, thirty times is a few too many.) \*The Shawshank Redemption Shadowlands Much Ado About Nothing\* (the Kenneth Branagh version) _Pride and Prejudice_ (the A&E version w/Colin Firth … yum.) _Into the West_ (GREAT, highly underrated kids’ movie from Ireland) ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/29 "2000-05-07T21:44:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Force 10 from Navarone Coooool! Someone else who loves this movie! Here’s a few other picks: [list] [li]_Babe[/li][li]The Princess Bride[/li][li]The Neverending Story[/li][li]The Wizard of Oz[/li][li]Citizen Kane[/li][li]It’s a Wonderful Life[/li][li]Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade[/li][li]Raiders of the Lost Ark[/li][_]Plan 9 From Outer Space\* ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/30 "2000-05-07T22:00:55Z")
Wargames A Christmas Story Virtuosity Gone With the Wind While You Were Sleeping Rocky Horror Picture Show It’s a Wonderful Life … and I have drawn a blank! Oh well, carry on… ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/31 "2000-05-07T22:05:27Z")
Oh yeah…I left out **Fargo!!!** Hey! Smoke a peace pipe, man! I admit to watching Josey Wales, but am kind of embarrassed abot it. Sandra Locke is pretty awful in that movie. Fretful, I agree with you on Into the West. Fine film. Of course, I like almost all films set in Ireland for some reason. I, too, left ot Monty Python and the Holy Grail, as well as Life of Brian. (Odd, since like many of you, I am sure, I can recite most of the lines from both movies, in a really bad imitation of an English accent.) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/32 "2000-05-07T22:05:57Z")
Hmmm… I think most of mine have been covered, but… Star Wars Trilogy The Princess Bride A Christmas Story Men in Black Lost in Space (hangs head in shame) The Philadelphia Story Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Sleepless in Seattle Steel Magnolias Anything Disney ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/33 "2000-05-07T22:22:38Z")
There are many movies that fit the bill for me, but I’m not going to mention any of them, in order to focus attention on this one particular film by the incomparable John Sayles: [_ **PASSION FISH.** _](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0105107) (the link leads to the Internet Movie Database entry for the movie.) It stars Mary McDonnell and Alfre Woodard, with a supporting cast that includes Angela Bassett, David Strathairn (you either know who he is or I’m sorry for you), and Vondie Curtis Hall. I taped it off HBO and I watch it at least three or four times a year. YOU NEED TO SEE THIS MOVIE. ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/34 "2000-05-07T22:37:45Z")
- A Christmas Story - Grease - The Shawshank Redemption - Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - Goonies - Teen Witch - Alice in Wonderland ('85 Version) - The Neverending Story - The Wizard of Oz - The Boy Who Could Fly Looks like my childhood made quite the impact. ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/35 "2000-05-07T22:42:36Z")
ACK! I forgot E.T. and Karate Kid! ---
**Author:** ![Bubble\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Bubble\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubble_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/36 "2000-05-07T22:48:14Z")
1. Mommie Dearest 2. The Christmas Story 3. La Bamba 4. The Princess Bride 5. Goodfellows 6. Forest Gump 7. Mr. Bean 8. Dumb and Dumber 9. Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory 10. Aladdin (disney cartoon - the first one) ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/37 "2000-05-07T22:59:38Z")
Hmph. I just suck at this. Willy Wonka should be on my list too. ---
**Author:** ![Girlbysea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/38 "2000-05-08T01:47:45Z")
Remember… Ride The Wild Surf… All of those bodies… I mean, all of those nice boards. Hey, Purplebear, I know that you remember… ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/39 "2000-05-08T02:01:18Z")
Okay, the ones I’ve loved enough to buy on video and watch when life sucks: (in no order) Young Frankenstein Airplane Casablanca Animal House Buckeroo Banzai The Thing Addams Family (all) You can’t take it with you The Wizard of Oz Beetlejuice Monty Python & The Holy Grail The Haunting (original) That’s more than 10 and still leaves out some…but it’s ::shudder:: indicative. Veb ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828/40 "2000-05-08T02:09:11Z")
Good question. The answer is somewhat dependent on what shows up on the tube around here, but: 1. Back to the Future (1st episode) 2. Goodfellas 3. The Great Escape 4. Hamburger Hill (not a great movie but seems to be on the History channel all the time, plus I can’t resist anything with Phillip Glass’ music) 5. Some Like It Hot 6. The Wizard of Oz (like a magnet) 7. Zulu 8. Toy Story (I) 9. Dr. Strangelove 10. The Magnificent Seven Check out ‘Zulu’ if you’ve never seen it. A young Michael Caine, a thrilling score, a “true” story, make for a movie classic - an often overlooked, almost lost, classic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-have-seen-10-times-and-would-gladly-see-again/18828.md?page=3)