# Movies you watch over and over and over again. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 22, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539 "2009-06-22T01:22:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/41 "2009-06-22T17:49:23Z")
_Undercover Blues_. I could list others, but they’re all on other people’s lists. This is _my_ little rewatchable gem. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/42 "2009-06-22T17:49:24Z")
Oops, wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/43 "2009-06-22T19:54:53Z")
Here to mention **The Blues Brothers**. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/44 "2009-06-22T19:57:37Z")
I second “The Man Who Would Be King.” Another great soundtrack 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/45 "2009-06-22T20:38:12Z")
The ones that I get out at least once a year: \*\*Reality Bites \*\*[months go by and then I think, it’s time for Reality Bites again] \*\*Love Actually \*\*[at Christmas] **Something New** [months go by and then I think, it’s time for Something New again] The one I’ll watch any time I can rope someone new into experiencing it: **Gallipoli** The ones that I watch whenever they come on TV, and I get roped in: **Sweet Home Alabama How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days** **Pretty Woman** ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/46 "2009-06-22T20:43:28Z")
\*\*Blues Brothers Mean Girls My Neighbor Totoro Shaun of the dead Anchorman\*\* Strange collection of movies. True though. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/47 "2009-06-22T20:44:16Z")
I should also put down some others that I watch a lot that I don’t actually like that much: **Against All Odds** **Sphere** I’ve gotten into the habit of studying in front of the TV set, and I need something to serve as white noise in the background to concentrate. **Against All Odds** and **Sphere** are fairly brainless thrillers that don’t engage me that much, and I managed to get them dirt cheap, so when I have a lot to get through, I plug them into the DVD player and just concentrate on what I’m studying. When one’s over, I take a study break, and then I just plug the other one in. Of course, I don’t really wind up _watching_ them that much, so these might not count. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/48 "2009-06-22T21:26:07Z")
_Shakespeare in Love_. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/49 "2009-06-22T21:33:17Z")
Most of the movies I watch over and over again have bad, suggestive puns for titles. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/50 "2009-06-22T22:05:25Z")
> [@sqweels](#): > > Most of the movies I watch over and over again have bad, suggestive puns for titles. 😉 You mean you just keep putting them in and out, in and out of the VCR/DVD player? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/51 "2009-06-22T23:12:45Z")
_It’s A Wonderful Life A Christmas Story Forrest Gump Platoon We Were Soldiers Hamburger Hill Star Wars_ Original trilogy ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/52 "2009-06-22T23:21:30Z")
Rear Window North By Northwest To Catch a Thief Psycho and, to get away from Hitchcock, Anatomy of a Murder The Manchurian Candidate (do you even have to ask which?) Bell, Book, and Candle and, of course The Princess Bride. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/53 "2009-06-22T23:27:35Z")
**Pride and Prejudice** the Colin Firth version and the Keira Knightley version, I have watched probably around 75 times. It is a very good movie to knit too. **Ocean’s 11 and 13** 12 was crap. Another very good listening too film. At least 50 times. Each. **Snatch**. Pulls me in every time. at least 5 times a year. \*\*Harry Potter \*\* all of them. I get in a mood and just watch them in order. Can’t wait for 6. Lost count of how often I’ve watched them. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/54 "2009-06-22T23:59:57Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > You mean you just keep putting them in and out, in and out of the VCR/DVD player? One hand on the fast-forward button and one hand… ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/55 "2009-06-23T00:05:06Z")
If I come across any of the following movies while channel surfing, I am obliged to watch them to the end: \*\*The Blues Brothers The Fifth Element Airplane Cars (if my son is watching too - he’s crazy for it too) Jaws (but only until the Kitner kid gets it 22 minutes in) Aliens\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/56 "2009-06-23T00:14:26Z")
Armageddon - I’ll always stop to watch that one. Die Hard - Yippie Kay-Yay! Terminator - Love the original. Princess Bride - The motherload of geek quotes. And almost any episode of Phineas and Ferb. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/57 "2009-06-23T00:46:12Z")
Pretty in Pink Bride & Prejudice Pride & Prejudice (the Colin Firth version) Grosse Pointe Blank Shrek ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/58 "2009-06-23T01:37:18Z")
Back to the Future trilogy Original Star Wars trilogy ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/59 "2009-06-23T01:47:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > Well, I guess I’ll put _Stranger Than Fiction_ in the queue. Let us know what ya think. > [@Miller](#): > > _Shakespeare in Love_. Yup. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539/60 "2009-06-23T01:55:17Z")
Jaws Star Wars (and that includes the awful newer ones, that we watch marvelling at the awfullness) The Matrix Excalibur Merlin (mini-series with Sam Neill) Edward Scissorhands What’s Eating Gilbert Grape Chicago (for the musical numbers) All Harry Potters All LotR A Christmas Story The last three I would, if left to my own devices, sit and watch from beginning to end, and A Christmas Story I would sit and watch for all 24 hours. Ben Hur King of Kings The Ten Commandments …and…when babysitting, I bring along Homeward Bound (the newer one) to keep the kiddies entertained, and I end up crying for happiness at the end, every single time. Oh, and Beauty and the Beast, the black and white French one with sub-titles. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-over-and-over-and-over-again/500539.md?page=4)