A dozen movies I'd re-watch without hesitation ...

[Ben Sinise]

I don’t know what it is, but unlike a lot of members here, I cannot re-watch most movies. I certainly wouldn’t buy a DVD or video and watch it repeatedly, in the same way that you'd buy an album and listen to it over and over.


So having said that, there are some movies I would re-watch when they pop up on the screen from time to time. Here’s some of my nominations, what are you drawn to ...

1) One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
2) Pulp Fiction
3) Blues Brothers (original only)
4) The Godfather (any of the trilogy)
5) M.A.S.H.
6) 2001: A Space Odyssey
7) The Shawshank Redemption
8) Silence Of The Lambs
9) Any Monty Python
10) Any Clint Eastwood (non spaghetti)
11) Any Alfred Hitchcock
12) Any Marx Brothers

[Mark]

Some of the ones that I do rewatch, at least a part of, every time that they are on TNT< AMC, etc:

Trading Places
Die Hard (first two only)
Fletch (a very guilty pleasure)
Every Which Way But Loose
Dirty Harry (first one)
The Natural
Beverly Hills Cop (only the first one)
Field of Dreams (sob...sob....sob)

[Evan L]

1)A Hard Day's Night
2)A Night At The Opera
3)Kill Bill Vol. I & II
4)The Godfather
5)Monty Python & The Holy Grail
6)The Shawshank Redemption
7)Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
8)Dogma
9)Diva
10)Goodfellas
11)Local Hero
12)Star Wars

I tend to favor comedies, as you can see....

Evan

[daveman]

It's for this very reason why I tend not buy as many DVD's as I should; I think, OK, I can buy this and watch it once every 3 months....or buy this CD, and play it a lot. Inevitably, I end up with the CD most of the time.

[Ben Sinise]

Getting back to your thread about movies youl would re-watch watch over and over...I disturbing know the dialog to the movie "Dazed and Confused" to the point that it freaks out anyone who watches it with me. :agree:I'm usually under strict orders to keep the trap shut when re-watching a movie; quoting lines just before they come is a big no-no. I sometimes can't believe others can't remember what's next. :o

[Evan L]

I can recite Monty Python & The Holy Grail word for word....

"Must be a king" "How can you tell?" "He hasn't got s**t all over him!" :laugh:

Evan

[Ed Bishop]

The measure of a good film is when you enjoy going back to rewatch it after some time away. Doesn't matter whether the film is trash--PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE--or genuinely classic, like CITIZEN KANE or THE GODFATHER. The true measure is that you want to see it again, to find out if there's still anything you missed. As much as reliving the experience is fun, to this day I watch PSYCHO mainly to study it, to see if there are any other subliminal things going on, or dialogue that means more than one might first have thought.

By the same token, some acknowledged classics I honestly don't care to ever watch again. Among these are DeSica's THE BICYCLE THIEF(just too depressing and bleak, but not in that 'Manchurian Candidate' way that I don't mind); for now, GONE WITH THE WIND(the last part is just tragedy upon tragedy without any release; the final words are so fraudulent they still make me cringe); or JUDGMENT AT NUREMBURG(yeah, we get it, the Nazis were bad, thanks for that enlightening fact! :rolleyes: )...and, Ed's Golden Rule: never trust any movie that has conveys a message so obvious is spoils the magical experience of filmgoing(almost anything Stanley Kramer was involved with, some worse than others).

:ed:

[Ken_McAlinden]

Ed's Golden Rule: never trust any movie that has conveys a message so obvious is spoils the magical experience of filmgoing(almost anything Stanley Kramer was involved with, some worse than others).Actually, as a producer, he made some films that managed to be "message" movies, but also managed to be entertaining & re-watchable. e.g. "High Noon", "The Caine Mutiny", "Member of the Wedding", and "Home of the Brave". As a director, the only "social commentary" film of his that I ever feel the urge to re-watch is "Inherit the Wind". Spencer Tracy and Fredric March save that one admirably and somewhat cushion the blow to the head of the message.

Regards,

[Ben Sinise]

Ken, I'm waiting to see your list - I'm expecting great things!

[Craig]

Brazil
The Graduate
Harold and Maude

[romanotrax]

1 - Night Shift
2 - Fast Times At Ridgemont High
3 - Caddyshack
4 - Vacation
5 - Valley Girl
6 - Sixteen Candles
7 - Spinal Tap
8 - Best In Show
9 - Tom Dowd & the Language Of Music
10 - Waiting For Guffman
11 - Jesus Christ Superstar
12 - West Side Story

Bubbling Under 12

Notorious
Guys & Dolls
Sid & Nancy
Great Rock & Roll Swindlle

[Ed Bishop]

Actually, as a producer, he made some films that managed to be "message" movies, but also managed to be entertaining & re-watchable. e.g. "High Noon", "The Caine Mutiny", "Member of the Wedding", and "Home of the Brave". As a director, the only "social commentary" film of his that I ever feel the urge to re-watch is "Inherit the Wind". Spencer Tracy and Fredric March save that one admirably and somewhat cushion the blow to the head of the message.

Regards,

Hello Ken! :wave:

Well, HIGH NOON, goes without saying....the latter two remain underrated, while CAINE really works thanks to a great cast and some memorable dialogue....but it all revolves around the strawberries, as unique a metaphor for obsession as I've encountered..and it works! Very well done in spite of its static tendencies, which is also typical of Kramer all too often...

:ed:

[Jimbo]

I can recite Monty Python & The Holy Grail word for word....

"Must be a king" "How can you tell?" "He hasn't got s**t all over him!" :laugh:

Evan

I could trade every other line with you! :righton: Fetchez la vache!

M.P. & the Holy Grail
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Princess Bride
Beetlejuice
Local Hero
A Clockwork Orange
Grease
Love and Death
Toy Story (1 and 2)
Mr. Roberts
The African Queen

...and a bunch of others...

[Mike B]

It's for this very reason why I tend not buy as many DVD's as I should; I think, OK, I can buy this and watch it once every 3 months....or buy this CD, and play it a lot. Inevitably, I end up with the CD most of the time.


I feel the same way. I've also come to feel like Ben Sinise. I figure there are so many wonderful films to see that I don't want to be spending time on stuff I've already seen. I've even sold off most of my DVD collection and kept a couple of favorites and TV shows. (I don't count music DVDs because they're like live albums with stuff to see)

That said, of course there are movies that I'd eagerly re-watch at the drop of a hat. Not surprisingly, a few have a lot to do with music. Here's a dozen:

1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) Amadeus
3) The Blues Brothers
4) Any and all Pythons
5) Mullholland Drive
6) Notorious
7) Terminator/Terminator 2
8) American Psycho
9) Pulp Fiction
10) Clint Eastwood "Man With No Name" trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More, The Good the Bad and the Ugly)
11) The Seven Samurai
12) A Clockwork Orange

[Geoman076]

Raising Arizona

[Mark]

Forgot two:

48 Hrs.
Silver Streak

[Ken_McAlinden]

Fetchez la vache!Of all of the lines in the film, this is the one that almost makes me wet myself. I imagine the sight of me trying to explain it to my buddies who did not study any French would be nearly as funny as the joke itself:You see, it's like the imperative form of a regular "-er" verb in French, but it's really just...uh...wake up! I'm almosty done here. Now like I was saying, the reason it is so funny and you should have been laughing is... :help:

Regards,

[Captain Groovy]

Midnight Run
Casino
The Odd Couple
A Night At The Opera
National Lampoon's Vacation
Fletch
Hopscotch
Broadway Danny Rose
Bananas
Road to Utopia
Being There
Flirting With Disaster

And runners-up...

Annie Hall
Road to Morocco
Seems Like Old Times
Snatch
A Day At The Races
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

JEFF!

[levi]

The Big Lebowski (50 times easily)
Pulp Fiction
High Fidelity
Apocalypse Now
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Shawshank Redemption
The Front Page
The In-Laws
American Beauty
The Rear Window
The Commitments
Bull Durham

[Beatlelennon65]

Holy Grail
Blues Brothers
Pulp Fiction
Just about any of the Pink Panther movies- Kato you idiot!

[4_everyman]

1. Always
2. Night Shift
3. Splash
4. Roxanne
5. High Fidelity
6. Raising Arizona
7. Barefoot In The Park
8. The Goodbye Girl
9. Dumb and Dumber (yeah, yeah, i know)
10. The Big Lebowski
11. Godfather (I/II)
12. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (yeah, yeah, i know)

I'm kinda like Evan. I like to laugh a lot. :laugh:

[Sput]

In no particular order...

The Hunt For Red October
Little Big Man
Black Hawk Down
Airplane
Young Frankenstein
Dr. Strangelove
The Fifth Element
Lord of the Rings (3 parts)
A Hard Days Night
Babe
Sixth Sense
Gone With The Wind
The Green Mile

[Uncle Al]

I will offer the following amens:

Lebowski (let's go bowling...)
Pulp Fiction (best viewed with people who don't understand dark comedy. They are appalled, you crack up just watching their jaws drop. Throw in the Kill Bill duo for the same reason).
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (I mean, really. This is a no brainer. My teenage kids watched it 4 or 5 times without undue influence from me. And they quote it as well).

Here's a couple I enjoy:

Memento - continous thrills. Every 4 minutes you can't figure out what's going on. You just HAVE to see it more than once to get it straight.

Fight Club - I didn't see it coming, and I'm pretty good at figuring it out. Had to see it more than once to see if their were any inconsistencies. Still haven't found any.

[Dave]

Most likely all of the ones listed, but there are a few guilty pleasures of mine haven't received any mention yet.

Animal House
7
Dreamscape
The Prophecy
Spiderman
The Ten Commandments
The Beverly Hillbillies
Happy Gilmore
Labamba
The Edge
Cliff Hanger
The Exorcist
Alien (all of them)
Up In Smoke (intoxicants are a requirement) :D
Ghost
The Doors
The Net
Mission Impossible
The Chinese Connection
Enter The Dragon
Blood In, Blood Out
Contact
The Jackyl
That Thing You Do
Powder
The Matrix
The Shinning (Jack Nicholson version)

[Ken_McAlinden]

My guiltiest pleasure in this category:

Tommy Boy

I could watch it every week for a year and still laugh. "Black Sheep", on the other hand, would be a great candidate for a studio accidentally losing a negative.

Regards,