At the absolute top of the list is The Big Lebowski. I’m pretty sure it gets funnier every time I watch it. Also, pretty much any other Coen bros. movie, and:
Ghostbusters
Alien or Aliens (I can’t sit all the way through 3 or 4)
The Holy Trilogy
The Blues Brothers
Conan the Barbarian (not The Destroyer)
Superman 1 or 2
Braveheart
Raiders or Lost Crusade, but not Temple of Doom
…there are others, but that’s all I can think of at the moment. Man, that list ain’t gonna impress any film students, is it?
Some of the ones that have been mentioned, I’ll watch if it’s before my favorite part, if not, I’ll skip it.
Ferris, I love the part in the parade with the Beatles.
Truly, Madly, Deeply (love it)
Stalag 17
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pride & Prejudice (A&E version)
Face Off
Reservoir Dogs
African Queen
River Wild
As Good As It Gets
A Few Good Men (love the trial scene, ‘You can’t HANDLE the truth!’)
In alphabetical order:
Air Force One
Breakfast Club
Crocodile Dundee
Die Hard
Dream Team
Field of Dreams
Footloose
Hudson Hawk should go here, but I haven’t seen it 10 times
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Lethal Weapon
Mary Poppins
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Regarding Henry
Star Wars
That Thing You Do
Undercover Blues
Any Indiana Jones movies
Dirty Dancing
All Star Wars movies
Princess Bride
Philadelphia
My Life(guys will weep)
Batman(only the ones with Michael Keaton)
Clerks
MallRats
Chasing Amy
Dogma
My Fair Lady
White Christmas(tradition, without it I go nuts)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Frosty the Snowman
6th Sense
Joan of Arc(the tv version)
Favorites Reruns:
Star Wars (any episode)
Indiana Jones (Raiders and Crusades)
James Bond (Connery & Brosnan)
Tom Clancy (any)
Matrix
True Lies
Princess Bride
Dead Poet’s Society
Scent of a Woman
Mask of Zorro
Phenomenon
Philadelphia
American President
Wag the Dog
Dune
Odd Balls:
1776
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Little Princess
Secret Garden
A Challenge for Robin Hood
I have a feeling Gladiator is going to be joining this list. Incredible film!
Sixth Sense
Princess Bride
pretty much anything Disney
Star Wars (all three)
Indiana Jones (all three)
Matrix
Braveheart
Dragonheart
MIB
Antz (I haven’t seen A Bugs Life yet…)
Spaceballs
Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail
Monty Python’s Meaning of Life (has yet to see Life of Brian)
The 13th Warrior
The Fifth Element
Liar Liar
The Mask
Blade
Mortal Kombat Anihilation
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
City of Angels
Unforgiven
The Green Beret
The Dirty Dozen
Jurassic Park
Independence Day
Secret Garden
Um I think I’ll stop listing. Its long enough as it is. Is it just me or is there a lot of shoot 'em up guy movies on there? Maybe I should stop watching movies my Dad and brother get… Naw… I like seeing guys go at it with each other. grins
my first-thought-of movie was breakfast club which my friend watched every day for one whole summer. and i’m not estimating. being a 2 minute walk up the street, i watched it many times with her but have yet to get my own. she informs me it is now starting to get worn out.
but…princess bride, goonies, the indiana jones trilogy all come to mind.
oh, and my families christmas movies. every year. white christmas, little women (the first 3/4 of it), holiday inn and it’s a wonderful life.
Chasing Amy
Mallrats
Clerks
(missed Dogma so far)
Pulp Fiction (it was beers and bongs for months with this movie)
Shawshank Redemption
ANY Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, INCLUDING Josey Wales, and The good, the bad and the ugly!
Breakfast club is always a favorite
Any Monty python flick
Ronin has me glued to the screen with the chase scenes…
Tons more…
National Lampooon’s Christmas Vacation
Raising Arizona
Deathtrap
South Park; Bigger, Longer and uncut
The Usual Suspects
Fight Club
Annie Hall
The Manchurian Canidate
Citizen Kane
Bull Durham
Most of mine have already been mentioned, with the huge exception of Better Off Dead
John Cusack kicks ass, and this movie is so dumbly funny that I now own it.
Lethal Weapon ( The first one only)
Silverado
Buckaroo Bonzai
Radio Days
Lion in the Winter
Top Gun
Ferris Bueller
Princess Bride
Gone With The Wind
Pride and Prejudice ( A&E, yummmmmm.)
Some Like It Hot.
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Much Ado About Nothing
Kelly’s Hero’s.
Slap Shot
Godfather 1-3, with apologies for the third.
Animal House
1941.
Robin Hood ( Errol Flynn)
Indiana Jones’ ( they are like a magnet for me.)
Flame and the Arrow ( Burt Lancaster flick)
Singing in the Rain
Music Man
Beauty and the Beast.
MASH
Cold Comfort Farm
Emma
I’m forgetting a bunch.
I can easily mix chick flicks with guy flicks. I go both ways
There aren’t many movies I’ve seen that many times; a few of the ones I have I’m sort of burnt out on (Ed Wood’s entire oeuvre, for instance).
The movie I’ve probably seen more times than any other, and that I still will watch when I come across it on the tube or pop into the VCR every couple of years is Local Hero. It took about six or seven times before I felt like I had noticed every subtle joke or sight gag. I’m probably up to 15 or 16 viewings by now, not counting times that I’ve caught a few minutes on TV, and I still enjoy it every time. Partly it’s a function of memories associated with when and where and with whom I first saw it (Somerville Theatre, Somerville, MA, summer of 1985 – saw it three times in about a week) but mainly it’s just that there’s something about Bill Forsyth’s sensibility that strikes a chord with me, even more so in Local Hero than his other films (though Housekeeping is a favorite of mine as well).
Others include the first few movies in the Thin Man series, Sullivan’s Travels, His Girl Friday,It Happened One Night, Double Indemnity, Duck Soup, The Cocoanuts (an unfashionable choice, I know, but there are reasons), Some Like It Hot, Touch of Evil, Dr. Strangelove, Robocop, The Princess Bride, Much Ado about Nothing (though I walk out during Michael Keaton’s scenes), Bull Durham, and A League of Their Own.
It would be hard to have a SDMB film festival that everyone could agree on . . . Films I have on tape and watch over and over again:
Now, Voyager and/or Brief Encounter (great tear-jerkers)
Intolerance
Marlene: A Film
Three-Cornered Moon and/or Million Dollar Legs (great screwball comedies)
42nd Street and/or Gold Diggers of 1933
Dinner at Eight
Airplane!
Broadway Melody
The Man in the Silk Hat (Max Linder documentary)
Dangerous Liaisons
Moonstruck
Some like it hot
7-year itch
Casablanca
Muriel’s Wedding
The Full Monty
Truly Madly Deeply
From here to Eternity
This is Spinal Tap
The Ruttles (sp?)
Pride of Prejudice (A & E version and Laurence Olivier version)
Star Wars trilogy
Shirley Valentine
Most of Monty Python’s stuff
Vertigo
Rear Window
