What movie can you watch again and again? I like "All The President's Men" It is complicated

[applegrove]

enough that it remains interesting even though I have seen it once every few years. It is well acted. I love Jason Robarts as Ben Bradlee. A timeless story of good winning out over evil.

[nirvana555]

1. Its unbelievable how many movies I'll watch over and over...

I own quite a few DVD's and of course those are the ones I love:
The Fugitive, Casino, Goodfellows, The Notebook, Primal Fear, Office Space, it's A Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace, and many, many more!

[fizzgig]

3. i never get sick of office space

casino is a good flick, too.

[AnneD]

98. Good choices

I like the classics too African Queen, Casa Blanca.

[Brigid]

4. One thing about "The Fugitive":

You know how Kimble got the call on his car phone to come to the hospital to assist with a surgery? That got Kimble out of the way for a short time, but how could Nichols have known that was going to happen?

[WinkyDink]

12. You know that Nichols was the main villain, right? As in, arranged everything?

[Brigid]

21. Of course Nichols was the mastermind.

But this wasn't something he could arrange. He couldn't arrange for a patient to experience severe bleeding in the OR and for the OR doctors, whoever they were, to call Kimble for assistance. I wonder if Sykes had to change his original plans at the last minute when Kimble didn't go into the house with his wife. Sykes seems to have hidden in the house and waited until he heard Kimble return from the hospital.

[fizzgig]

2. i need to watch that again

watched it once in my high school journalism class but not since. i've read the book more than once and think i'd appreciate it more now, especially since i spent five years in newspaper in my former life.

edit: i have a lot of movies that i will watch over and over. the dark crystal, tombstone, shawshank redemption, goonies and many more.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. I've probably watched Yellow Submarine 50 times or more

The same for Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[Ino]

6. Oh gosh, it's embarrassing how many!

Godfather I & II, Gosford Park, Fargo, the whole Sopranos saga, HBO Rome series, Best in Show, The Color Purple... those are SOME that I've watched probably a dozen times

When it gets to the point where I'm scrutinizing the extras to see what they're up to... well...

And yes, I've watched Groundhog Day over & over. I watched it once counting the number of times the day repeated, to see if it had any significance (none that I could tell).

[Smarmie Doofus]

57. Fargo.

"Then you have this execution-type deal."

[Ino]

71. I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake!

pancakes house

[Smarmie Doofus]

82. Don't sound like too good a deal for HIM. n/t

[Sherman A1]

7. 12 O'Clock High, Casablanca

Maltese Falcon, An Affair to Remember, Key Largo, North by Northwest, The American President come to mind just off the top of my head.

[mrmpa]

48. Agree with North by Northwest & The American President. I also can watch....

Hoosiers, The Best Years Of Our Lives (it's on TCM right now), Godfather Part II and Independence Day. I have a nephew that texts me if Independence Day is on.

[Sherman A1]

55. The Best Years of Our Lives is another great one

I really can't go with the Godfather series, I appreciate that they are well done, but just don't like the subject. I won't watch any prison films or gangster films, just don't find them to my liking.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. I'm a real Sherlock Holmes nut

and besides reading the Conan Doyle stories over and over since childhood, I've watched the 14 Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce movies again and again as well as all the Granada Jeremy Brett TV episodes many times. There are quite a few other films I've seen many times including The Big Sleep which I love.

[mucifer]

9. You should check out free old time radio recordings of Sherlock Holmes:

https://archive.org/details/OTR_Sherlock_Holmes_smurfmeat

these sometimes help me fall asleep at night.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. Bookmarked - thanks

[clarice]

74. Not a movie but....

I'm curious to know if you have watched the series "Sherlock" ?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

78. I have

Unfortunately, it's not my cup of tea. I just don't see Mr. Cumberbatch as incarnating Sherlock Holmes, not the way the three great actors who previously played him have: Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, and Peter Cushing. And I don't think the 21st century is a proper setting for the Holmes stories. Much of the charm of Holmes resides in the fact he used cutting edge forensics and psychological profiling during the Victorian era. Nowadays, with advances in police science, there is much less for him to do in the modern era that sets himself apart as a great superhero that he was in the 1890s. And in the original Conan Doyle stories there's the interesting contrast between Holmes and the many aristocrats who he deals with who have to come begging for his help; Holmes, somewhat misanthropic and arrogant, was at ease among the masses as well as in any social strata and was beyond social class, a distinctive superhero quality really missing when the story is based in the 21st century. Holmes could get away with insulting even Kings, the way he did at the end of A Scandal In Bohemia where he refused to shake his client the King's hand and insulted him without the King's realizing it when he suggested that the woman the King refused to marry, a commoner, and whose photo Holmes was hired to retrieve, Irene Adler, was clearly not at the King's social level (expressed in a sarcastic way by Holmes which is understood to imply that she was at a higher level than the King).

[clarice]

79. I agree. My favorite SH movie is "Murder by Decree" nt

[MissMillie]

10. I, too, can watch many over and over again

Steel Magnolias
The Hunt for Red October
A League of Their Own
Groundhog Day
Apollo 13
The American President

lots more I'm sure

[WinkyDink]

11. Ty's "Zorro"; "GF I&II"; "Jaws"; "Hoosiers"; "French Connection"; Basil's "S.H."; Bournes; "Dirty

Rotten Scoundrels."

[Xyzse]

13. Nothing, I don't like watching movies over and over.

Some movies, I plan to enjoy just once in my life.

The only time I tend to watch something again, is when I am showing it to someone else.

[Aristus]

14. I saw 'Labyrinth" over a hundred times as a teenager.

The film was the first VHS tape I ever owned. Just about ran it to shreds. I was a huge Muppet fan (still am!), and I was in love with Jennifer Connolly at the time.

These days: Rollerball and Local Hero.

[bettyellen]

80. I love Local Hero, need to see that again...

[AnneD]

99. I lived in Houston at that time...

I like to check the background.

[geardaddy]

15. So many movies.

I watch many movies repeatedly.

Fargo
Raising Arizona
Breaking Away
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
The Great Escape
American Werewolf in London

way too many to mention!

[Smarmie Doofus]

56. Fargo.

"It's a reeeeeeaaal shame."

Ubetcha.

[HERVEPA]

16. White Men Can't Jump , Casablanca

[RebelOne]

17. "Pitch Black" with Vin Diesel. I love that man.

I also love the original "The Thing From Outer Space" with James Arness as the monster.

[kairos12]

76. I always tell my son "Pitch Black" was better than "Star Wars." It has

been a running family commentary for years.

Really Luke versus Riddick.

[RebelOne]

81. Riddick wins hands down. n/t

[rppper]

94. We just picked up the Riddick trilogy set and...

The new cd/br set of the new Riddick movie...I have a crush on Thandie Newton, so I have to go with chronicles, but all three movies kick @$$...I'm anxious to see what the next one will be...they left it wide open...

[Common Sense Party]

18. Groundhog Day. Princess Bride. Spinal Tap. O Brother Where Art Thou. Fletch. Three Amigos.

Bruce Lee flicks. Jackie Chan. LOTR. Shawshank Redemption. Probably a lot more.

ETA: How could I forget Monty Python & The Holy Grail?

[Demoiselle]

20. The Inlaws.

I can't get enough of Alan Arkin.

[Initech]

22. Tons!

Here's a few off the top of my head:

- The Big Lebowski
- Office Space
- Idiocracy
- The Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad
- My Cousin Vinnie
- Back To The Future Trilogy
- The Blues Brothers
- Animal House
- Con Air (yeah yeah)
- Bad Grandpa
- Dark Knight Trilogy
- Hot Fuzz
- The World's End
- Iron Man
- The Avengers
- Any Kevin Smith movie except for Jersey Girl and Cop Out
- Monty Python And The Holy Grail
- This Is Spinal Tap

[MrMickeysMom]

35. I'll have to check out Kevin Smith movies...

Who knows… maybe I've watched and didn't recall him.

The rest are RIGHT up my alley!

[Initech]

38. Clerk's, Mallrats, and Dogma are his best.

[MrMickeysMom]

39. Who did he play in Dogma (one of my favorites) ???

[Initech]

40. Silent Bob

"Holy shit! Silent Bob is an instrument of God!"
"Or Cardinal Glick is the kind of asshole who would bless his own clubs for a better golf game. "

[MrMickeysMom]

47. Oh!

"No TICKET!"

[kairos12]

87. Clerks--"a bunch of savages in this town." "I wasn't even supposed to be here today."

[Initech]

88. "I don't watch movies!"

[ZombieHorde]

52. Great list! nt

[PasadenaTrudy]

23. Ghost World, This is Spinal Tap, Wings of Desire n/t

[CTyankee]

24. CHARIOTS OF FIRE!

Everything about that movie is excellent. Acting, direction, cinematography, costumes, story...and of course the music. It's on movie channels a lot...every time it is on we watch at least part of it because no matter when we catch it, it always offers something wonderful...

[Graybeard]

25. The Court Jester

Really I could name any Danny Kaye film. The Court Jester is so full of 'throw-away' lines that one can miss in a single viewing,(The Witch: "She finds you passing fair and passing grace." Kaye: Er...uh....tell her I'm just passing through.&quot And Sylvia Fine's song lyrics are wonderfully entertaining as always, ("Because a Jester unemployed is nobody's fool.&quot
.

[solara]

67. I am with you there..

One of Kaye's funniest films I think

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.

[solara]

68. I often watch favorite films

Court Jester
O Brother Where Art Thou
The Net
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Moulin Rouge
Goodfellas
Godfather 1 & 2
Resurrection
All the President's Men
American President
Dave
The Fugitive
Being There
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Galaxy Quest
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
Die Hard
I am seeing a pattern here.. actually pretty much anything with Alan Rickman
Matrix

[libodem]

26. Polyester

By John Waters. It is a scratch and sniff movie about a highly dysfunctional family. Divine plays the alcoholic mother. It is so weird and wonderful and strange.

[A Simple Game]

27. Blazing Saddles. n/t

[leftynyc]

70. I forgot Mel Brooks on my list

Shame on me. I'd also include Young Frankenstein and High Anxiety.

[A Simple Game]

84. Almost any Mel Brooks film for me. n/t

[Kali]

28. Dark Star, RepoMan, Big Lebowski

can't stand to watch repeats of serious movies

[MrMickeysMom]

34. Big Lebowski, Kali….

Am I wrong, Kali? Am I WRONG?!

[tavernier]

29. I often prefer to rewatch a film I really like

than taking a chance on the unknown.

I've had to replace Love Actually and Men in Black, and hubby has upgraded Godfather several times.

[Mrdrboi]

30. Men in Black for me :D

I love MiB and really enjoyed MiB 3. MiB 2 was meh.

[8 track mind]

31. Bullitt, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 2001,

the first Star Trek flick from 1980, The Magnificent 7, Brannigan, The Seven-ups, The French Connection, all James Bond flicks with the exception of "The Man with the Golden Gun"

[nirvana555]

36. Brigid, re: The Fugitive- I think the whole reason that the "one armed man" killed

The wife and not kimbell was because he planned to kill kimbell but because kimbell had to go to do the last minute surgery it was the wife that got killed. That was something that Nichols hadn't planned on....God I love that movie!

[WinkyDink]

62. Agatha Christie wrote of a perfect plot to kill and have the target convicted.

[LynneSin]

32. I love "Velvet Goldmine". Great music, great plot - I think I'll watch it again tomorow

[WorseBeforeBetter]

91. Ooh, that is a good one.

I may have to look for that at my local used book/DVD store.

[MrMickeysMom]

33. That's a good one for me, too...

Just watched it a few months ago late at night by myself. It should be REQUIRED for journalism students, but certainly any student of history.

[Brother Buzz]

37. Get Shorty

It's perfect in so many ways; one of Elmore Leonard's tightest and most entertaining stories.

[kairos12]

86. That is a good one.

[AnneD]

100. Excellent....

got the tune going now.

[Raffi Ella]

41. Drive

Marie Antoinette
Devil Wears Prada
Bridgette Jones Diary
Blood Diamond
Fight Club
Grosse Pointe Blank
Lost in Translation
Amelie

[DFW]

42. A few

The Illusionist
Avatar
Ådalen '31
Luftslottet Som Sprängdes
Shooter
Woodstock
In the Heat Of The Night (original with Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger)
If
Die Blechtrommel

[rurallib]

43. Cabaret, Doctor Zhivago

It may be the political theme although I really love the scenery in both.
Dare I say it - Woody Allen's Love and Death

[closeupready]

44. Very visual films - David Lean's films, any of the Qatsi films (Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi),

older films I recall from childhood, like Laurel & Hardy, etc.

[mainer]

45. Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Galaxy Quest

I think I'm hanging out too much with my geek friends.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

46. I'm on a big "Perks of Being a Wallflower" kick.

Wonderful little film and Ezra Miller is quite easy on the eyes.



Hmm, I'd also add "About a Boy," "Lars and the Real Girl," "The Hangover," and "Trainspotting."

[Rob H.]

65. That's a *great* movie

A friend of mine turned me on to it and, not knowing anything about it before seeing it, I was surprised at how much I liked it. Being a misfit weirdo in high school myself probably had a lot to do with it.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

89. Awww. :-)

For a film dealing with such heavy subject matter, it manages to be funny, sweet (but not cloying), and uplifting. The only thing I thought was a bit off was not knowing "the tunnel song," but the writer/director swears he didn't know it was Bowie.

To "feeling infinite"!

[Rob H.]

102. Me, too!

The characters not knowing the song was by David Bowie took me out of the world of the movie for a minute. I just thought, "Really? How could they not know that?" Funny, sweet, and uplifting are the perfect words to describe it.

[Sognefjord]

49. Alexander Nevsky, Battleship Potemkin

Any Eisenstein.

[ailsagirl]

50. Vertigo, Rope, Shadow of a Doubt, Suspicion, North by Northwest

From "the Master of Suspense"

[WinkyDink]

61. My favorite NBN scene is the matchbook throw.

[ZombieHorde]

51. I have a bunch. Here are some in reverse alphabetical order starting with the second letter...

Izo, Zoolander, Zombie Holocaust, Ninja Scroll, Night of the Living Dead, Ghost in the Shell, The Dark Knight, The Beyond, Versus, Dawn of the Dead, ...

So many good movies!

[edbermac]

53. Any Hitchcock or Kubrick movie I'll always watch.

Even if I have a tape/DVD of one of their films that I can watch anytime, if it shows up on TV at 2:00am, I'll stay up and watch it.

[Sherman A1]

54. I like Kubrick too

I recall we had a Comp class in College and watched films then did a report on them. It was a combination film appreciation and English Comp. Enjoyed "The Hospital" and "Paths of Glory" by him.

[Smarmie Doofus]

58. All About Eve.

The best movie dialogue ever written. Far as I know, anyway.

Other mega-repeaters include:

Chinatown
Fargo
Dances With Wolves
Marvin's Room
Crash
The Last Picture Show
The Verdict
Nobody's Fool


And a whole bunch more.

[BarbaRosa]

59. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

I first saw this movie in a small theater in Grants just after it came out. It's so . . New Mexico, even though it was filmed in Mexico. And the music is great.

[KurtNYC]

60. Amélie, Amadeus, and The Doors (Stone)

for the music, the story telling and the atmosphere of the films.

Amélie makes me hungry, Amadeus moves me and The Doors makes me want to eat mushrooms.

[sendero]

63. Bad Santa..

... Idiocracy.

[Rob H.]

64. John Carpenter's "The Thing"

It came out in 1982 and it's amazing how well it holds up 32 years later. The practical effects (versus CG everything nowadays) really make a difference.

[hrmjustin]

73. Love that movie.

[Blue_Tires]

66. Since it hasn't been mentioned yet:

Apocalypse Now...

Every cinematic shot, every line of dialogue is a tapestry unto itself...

[leftynyc]

69. Casablanca, All About Eve,

Inherit The Wind, Mildred Pierce. Newer movies I like tend to be romantic comedies - things I don't have to really think about - It's Complicated, When Harry Met Sally, stuff like that. I own all the movies I listed so I can watch them whenever I like.

[hrmjustin]

72. 2010.

The Dark Crystal, The Goonies, Midnight Madness, Midnight Run, The Hunt for Red October, Star Wars, and Star Trek to name a few.

[clarice]

75. The Shootist. nt

[kairos12]

77. L.A. Confidential

[applegrove]

85. Yes that is an instant classic.

[kwassa]

95. as a former resident of LA, I love this film.

It shows large sections of Los Angeles that never appear in movies. "White Men Can't Jump" also does this, during a completely different era.

I've eaten several times at the Formosa Cafe, an old Hollywood restaurant that appears in LA Confidential.

[Submariner]

83. Canadian Bacon and Mystery Science Theater 3000

[rppper]

90. Goodfellas, casino, full metal jacket....

Murphy's war and the good,the bad and the ugly come to mind first...there are many more though...good films, some stinkers...all genres...I thought "waterworld" was a cool flick...

[applegrove]

92. I liked Waterworld too. I don't know why it got panned.

[rppper]

93. It was a good sci-Fi flick...

It was a long movie, but I found the evolution angle sharp, but I guess a lot of people didn't see it that way....I call spam "smeat" to this day! Lol

Check out Murphy's war if you haven't...solid peter O'Toole film...the scenes with the floatplane are reason enough to watch it.

[TorchTheWitch]

96. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

I think I've watched it 100 times since it first came out and I saw it in a drive in movie theater (I miss drive-in's).

There's tons of other ones though: The Other Boleyn Girl, Gladiator, the Bourne movies, Memoires of a Geisha, Dances with Wolves, Castaway, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Clue, The Life of David Gale, Pay It Forward, Timeline, Doctor Zhivago (with Hans Matheson and Kera Knightly - I still haven't seen the original one made in the '60's), Anna Karenina (all three versions - the newest one with Kera Knightly, the BBC miniseries and the one with Sean Bean and Sophie Marceau), The Quick and the Dead, Elizabeth I (with Helen Mirren), Elizabeth (with Cate Blanchet), Elizabeth the Golden Age, etc., etc.

Probably most of the stuff I watch over and over are miniseries like Pillars of the Earth and especially period dramas from the BBC like Bleak House, Little Dorrit and The Virgin Queen as well as tv series such as Game of Thrones, Spooks, Are You Being Served, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Borgias (with Jeremy Irons), etc.

[Boom Sound 416]

97. Anything Coen bros

[R. P. McMurphy]

101. I'd forgotten how many there are . . .

until I read the responses here. I;d like to add The Great Escape, Stalag 17 and The Shawshank Redemption.