# What is the most entertaining movie you've ever seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [May 25, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897 "2021-05-25T17:49:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/121 "2021-05-28T10:50:01Z")
**Princess Bride**. My wife and I watched it (VHS tape), then looked at each other and one of us said, “Let’s watch it again…”. Which is the only time that has happened. However, that was partly due to Andre the Giant’s thick accent — it was a certainty that there were great lines we hadn’t caught the first time through. Second place is **Rocky Horror Picture Show** , which was nothing like any film I’d seen before. 4th-wall breaking, joyfully polyamorous, kitchen sink kitsch, and full of instantly catchy songs. Third place, **The Incredibles.** ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/122 "2021-05-28T11:55:36Z")
The most fun I ever had in a theater was **The Gods Must Be Crazy**. It was a long-run at a local art theater, and it was a bunch of people just enjoying the heck out of something all at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/123 "2021-05-28T15:19:12Z")
I agree with a lot of what’s been posted. I’ll add My Cousin Vinny. Air Force One Apollo 13 ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/124 "2021-05-28T15:34:39Z")
The first Indy movie, because you didn’t know what to expect. People roared when he shot the sword guy. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/125 "2021-05-28T16:04:59Z")
The Princess Bride is one of my all-time favorites but it didn’t awe me at first. It wasn’t until later when thinking about all the great lines that I realized it was genius. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/126 "2021-05-28T16:06:11Z")
Two movies come to mind in terms of just the moviegoing experience being incredibly memorable. Wayne’s World was released right before reading week (Canadian university winter break) and I went with a bunch of friends on one of the first nights. Absolutely packed house, I’d guess everyone was between 16 and 20 years old. During the “Bohemian Rhapsody” scene, when all the guys in the car started banging their heads in unison, the crowd reaction was so exuberant that I thought we’d blow the roof off the theatre. One of my best moviegoing moments ever. Then a few years later, seeing the South Park movie…it’s only about 80 minutes long but I swear for the last 70 minutes tears were running down my face I was laughing so hard. It’s not the funniest movie ever, but the audacity of the humour just kept punching me over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/127 "2021-05-28T16:13:26Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > > [@digs](#): > > > > Harvey. (My mom’s too old for a message board, so I posted that for her. But I love Elwood P. Dowd, too.) > > That’s my answer as well. Your mother has excellent taste. I’ll send you an invitation to her funeral. We all claim we’re going to be screening _Harvey_ at it (oh, and saving an aisle seat in the front pew for Harvey himself… who claims we’re all going down to Charlie’s for ‘a few cocktails’ afterwards, but he may not have his wallet with him, so if we wouldn’t mind standing him to a few drinks…) ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/128 "2021-05-28T16:15:40Z")
> [@veryfrank](#): > > the South Park movie My wife and I both quit smoking weed while she was pregnant and for the first few months she was nursing. The first time we smoked again we watched this, and our experience was similar to yours. (And the kid, bless him, slept through the whole thing.) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/129 "2021-05-28T16:23:36Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Errol Flynn’s **Robin Hood** and **Captain Blood**. They were a double feature at the local art house theater - the Majestic for you Madisonians… Ah, yes, the “Butt Buster” double features at the Majestic. They were cheap, they changed every day… and they were indeed classics. The real Butt Buster was the Saturday they showed Lawrence of Arabia followed by Doctor Zhivago. More than seven hours, in old bare-bones wooden theater seats. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/130 "2021-05-28T17:16:13Z")
Animal House- I saw it in the summer and moved into a fraternity house that fall at age 17. In hindsight, probably not the best idea. Airplane- no other movie kept me laughing all the way though. Star Wars- the first one. It’s the only movie I ever paid to see more than once. The special effects were the reason. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/131 "2021-05-28T18:31:37Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I’ll send you an invitation to her funeral. Call me at this number. Don’t call me at that one, that’s the old one. > [@digs](#): > > We all claim we’re going to be screening _Harvey_ at it (oh, and saving an aisle seat in the front pew for Harvey himself… who claims we’re all going down to Charlie’s for ‘a few cocktails’ afterwards, but he may not have his wallet with him, so if we wouldn’t mind standing him to a few drinks…) We shall see what we shall see. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/132 "2021-05-28T19:11:20Z")
I’m gonna go with _It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_ ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/133 "2021-05-28T20:12:32Z")
Oh yeah, that’s a great one. I showed it to my kids when they were little and they loved it. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/134 "2021-05-28T20:50:15Z")
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Quest for Fire and about 17 other movies in including several Star Wars and Star Trek flicks are all in the running for me, but one movie I just can’t get over how perfect it is is North By Northwest ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/135 "2021-05-28T21:37:09Z")
There have been only two movies that I saw in the theater more than once: _Jurassic Park_ and _There’s Something About Mary_. So both of those movies make the short list. There are really only two movies that I make a point of watching on more-or-less regular intervals: _Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion_ and _Camp Nowhere_. Both of them are teen-centric / young adult (is that a thing for movies like it is books?) movies that I watched, well, as a teen and and still, 25+ years later, get a kick out of. If I was forced to pick one of the above movies, I’d probably pick _Camp Nowhere_ as being the most entertaining despite it being almost completely unknown. ---
**Author:** ![eburacum\_45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum_45/32/3385_2.png) [@eburacum\_45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum_45)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/136 "2021-05-28T21:54:05Z")
The Commitments. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/137 "2021-05-28T23:34:44Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I’m gonna go with _It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_ All right, we all agree on that! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/138 "2021-05-29T02:30:42Z")
For just sheer, unrestrained joy, I’m going to pick _Guardians of the Galaxy._ It was the perfect contrast to what was trying to become the DCU. DC - “We still don’t know how to make a superhero movie.” Marvel - “Raccoon with a machine gun. Go nuts.” ---
**Author:** ![pmwgreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmwgreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmwgreen)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/139 "2021-05-29T22:33:45Z")
I have a few that I drag out from time to time. _The Frighteners_, _Hudson Hawk_, _The Mummy_ (Brendan Fraser version), but I’m going to spend this evening watching _Kelly’s Heroes_ in honor of Gavin MacLeod. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897/140 "2021-05-30T03:53:48Z")
Star Wars at the [Coronet](https://www.sfchronicle.com/movies/article/Star-Wars-and-S-F-s-Coronet-in-1977-An-6657553.php) (which was in walking distance of where I lived at the time) when it first opened. I was in 4th grade and it was a sheer, awesome spectacle from the first minute, especially as I was in one of the very front rows. Second was probably Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which I didn’t see first run but caught a few years later in revival, maybe 6th grade. I don’t think I’d ever laughed so hard (the monks whacking themselves in the face with boards damn near killed me). Third? Maybe The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, which I absolutely saw in revival around 5th grade and made me a Ray Harryhausen fan for life. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-entertaining-movie-youve-ever-seen/942897.md?page=8)