# Movies you watch at least once a year

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 22, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-at-least-once-a-year/163394 "2003-03-22T17:34:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-at-least-once-a-year/163394/41 "2003-03-24T23:26:09Z")

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“How the Grinch Stole Christmas” at christmas of course 😛

and my mom watches “A Miracle on 34th Street” every Black Friday

_warm memories_

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**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-at-least-once-a-year/163394/42 "2003-03-24T23:41:03Z")

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Apocalypse Now  
Moonstruck  
Godfather I & II  
Fight Club  
When Harry Met Sally  
Monty Python: Search for the Holy Grail  
Reservoir Dogs

And I show Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet and the Boris Karloff Grinch to my 9th grade kids every year.

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-at-least-once-a-year/163394/43 "2003-03-24T23:54:10Z")

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Many duplicates from previous posts:

2001: A Space Odyssey

Get Carter (the original, of course)

The Matrix

Zulu

The Maltese Falcon

The Big Lebowski

The Road Warrior

Kelly’s Heroes

North by Northwest

The Train

To Have and Have Not

Last of the Mohicans

Slap Shot

I’m looking for some common thread in the above, and I can’t find it…

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-at-least-once-a-year/163394/44 "2003-03-25T00:09:13Z")

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**A Christmas Story** is a family favorite.  
**Aliens** and **The Long Kiss Goodnight** because I like girls who kick ass.

**Ghostbusters** – I haven’t watched this in a while though. Time to fire up the VCR.

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**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-at-least-once-a-year/163394/45 "2003-03-25T00:14:19Z")

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**A Christmas Story** is a family favorite.  
**Aliens** and **The Long Kiss Goodnight** because I like girls who kick ass.

**Ghostbusters** – I haven’t watched this in a while though. Time to fire up the VCR.

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-at-least-once-a-year/163394/46 "2003-03-25T00:44:49Z")

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much ado about nothing (brannagh version) every march/april; the right stuff april-june; henry V (brannagh version) september; usual suspects-whenever.

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