Movies you can watch over and over

I ' m right behind you , daddy-O. But we won't even have to own any movies. We will just assume we've already seen them and just forgot.

 

That is actually very interesting. It was one of my all time favorite movies and I was very excited to get it on DVD a couple of decades ago. Yet I've only tried to watch it once, and didn't get all the way through. The only thing I can think of is that my wife wasn't into it and, truth be told, there are so many other great movies that have been created since then that the competition is too fierce.

Same thing happened with It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, though I did finally watch it all the way through.

 

It was such a great cast and all of them in their prime. Wonderful musical score. I saw it at the movies when I was kid when it was released and it's been a favorite ever since.

 

" My girlfriend's a vegetarian which pretty much makes me a vegetarian..."
--- Samuel L Jackson in ' Pulp Fiction '

 

I saw it in the theatre for the first time when I was about 10. Loved it! Lots of action! Good guys and bad guys ! War! No icky girls !

 

Goodfellas
2001
Koyaanisqatsi
PlayTime
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Big Lebowski

 

The Maltese Falcon
Ruggles Of Red Gap
Harvey
The Big Clock
To Have And To Have Not
Rio Bravo
The Searchers
Forbidden Planet (except for the 'Tasmanian Devil' attack)
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Black Orpheus
The Wild Bunch
The Birds
Peeping Tom
Dr. Strangelove
A Hard Day's Night
Don't Look Back
The President's Analyst
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Harder They Come
Death Wish (1974)
Taxi Driver
Alien (1979)
Diner
Barfly
Goodfellas
Red Dawn (1984)
Heartbreak Ridge
Die Hard (1988)
Cry-Baby
The Big Lebowski
True Romance
Tremors (1990)
Pulp Fiction
Tombstone
Open Range
Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Jackie Brown
The Rundown (2003)
Team America: World Police
The Runaways
Lawless (2012)
Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood

 

Godfather I & II
Shawshank Redemption
Star Wars (original trilogy & the sequels)
Sideways
Goodfellas
The Jerk
Many Christmas movies

Probably others, but these are the first off of the top of my head.

 

One of my favorite lines in the movie, and yeah...

My wife and I like to play the game "Movie?". It's completely random. One of us will say a line from one of the movies we own and say, "Movie?" and the other has to guess.

e.g. I might say, "I'm a chain! Movie?" And my wife will say, "Steel Magnolias." We've both gotten almost too good at it.

 

The Sting

When I worked at a video rental store in college, I would put on Quiz Show when I opened Sundays. It had a good soundtrack, some funny parts I could watch, and only one part with swearing so it didn't bother the few customers that came in that much.

The only problem is, usually, someone would ask what movie it was then want to rent it because it "looked good." It was our only copy, so I'd have to take it out of the player and rewind it to rent it out. Then they'd come back that afternoon and complain that it was boring.

 

My short, from-memory list:

1. The Sixth Sense - My favorite repeatable horror film. Shyamalan made one other film that's even better, in my opinion and just as repeatable.
2. Unbreakable - My favorite Bruce Willis film and a reinvention of the superhero film. Too bad Glass didn't (for me) capture the magic.
3. Glengarry Glen Ross - A Male Weeper. That's what I told my wife after we watched it. And it is, but it's a great one. Every actor is perfect in their part. i don't care if you're in sales or not, we all have to face the same things in life.
4. Live Free; Die Hard - My favorite of the franchise. I know the first one is supposed to be best, even a Christmas film to boot, but I actually like this one best.
5. Galaxy Quest - I just can't stop laughing at it. I'm not even a big Star Trek fan, but I simply enjoy it from beginning to end.
6. It's a Wonderful Life - I actually used to hate this (Uncle Billy's memory issues made me self-conscious) but my daughter-in-law, whom I love, insists on seeing it once per year and I've grown to appreciate its many virtues.
7. Beyond Tomorrow - My real favorite Christmas film - actually it's a redemption tale, which foreshadows It's a Wonderful Life, produced by Lee Garmes, Gone with the Wind's original cinematographer, whose eerie lighting and economical camera setups and special effects (it is a ghost story) really tackle some story elements and scenes I'm more used to seeing in pre-code 1930s films, but somehow make this the darkest of all holiday classics. Avoid the colorized version, not only for its compromised visual effect but because two important scenes are cut.
8. The Third Miracle - Very personal to me, but a great Ed Harris performance as a troubled Catholic priest. Shot like an indie film in Canada (to resemble Chicago), but powerful story.
9. Citizen Kane - Being a sound guy, I can't help but love this film for its audio, including the moody Bernard Herrmann score.
10. The Saboteur - Hitchcock never got better than this. Part of its charm might be Dorothy Parker's charming little scenes, including the lovers' fight scene (which features both Hitchcock and Parker in cameos) and the circus performers. But, the sweeping Edward Weston-like cinematography and American West travelogue add to make this his biggest film ever, although I know other films are more well known.

 

Godfather (s)
Shawshank Redemption
The Sting (still love that ending)
The Hustler
Maltese Falcon/Big Sleep
Big Lebowski
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
White Heat
Pulp Fiction

 

Shawshank Redemption
The Usual Suspects
Forrest Gump
A Soldier’s Story
Million Dollar Baby
Friday

 

20 re-watchable films for me that come to mind (in no particular order):

Caddyshack
The Blues Brothers
Road House
The Producers (1968)
Star Wars (1977)
The Wizard of Oz
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Auntie Mame
Scrooge (1951)
Duck Soup
Rear Window
The Bad News Bears (1976)
UHF
Halloween (1978)
This is Spinal Tap
The Road Warrior
The Terminator
Conan the Barbarian
Sleeping Beauty
The Big Lebowski

 

Amazing performances from all involved. It's the anti-wife movie. No women whatsoever, tons of foul language and sexual innuendos (and not so subtle ones), a topic that is dry, and a denouement most wouldn't care for.

It pretty much is a movie that embodies what my wife would never watch in a million years.

 

A Few off the top of my head.

Barry Lyndon (my favorite Kubrick)
Safety Last
Come Drink With Me
Dragon Inn
Star Wars: A New Hope
Valley Girl
The Red Balloon
Gregory's Girl
The Bride Of Frankenstein
Annie Hall
The Gay Divorcee

 

Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes films
Aliens
Die Hard 4
Event Horizon
Spirited Away
Starship Troopers
Clear and Present Danger

I like watching that last one all the time, but even more now, as it seems to parody current events of government.

 

Forgot to put Trading Places on my list. I probably watched it a couple of dozen times on tape back in the '80s.

 

Most movies in my collection get viewed once a year,but there are some exceptions..Spiderman-Batman Begins-Hidden Figures-Deadpool-Malcolm X-Get On Up-Magnificent Seven[both versions]-Enter The Dragon-Sherlock Holmes-Hang Em High-Do The Right Thing-Breakfast At Tiffany's-The Devil At Four O'Clock-Claudine.

 

My Cousin Vinny
Naked Gun

I’m sure there’s more. Happy New Year.

 

You'll love it, it's a wonderful and very rewatchable film! Also on my list:
Victoria (2015)
Most Kubrick films, in particular 2001, Clockwork Orange and The Shining
Reservoir Dogs
Sweet Smell Of Success
Whiplash

 

An all-time classic David Mamet adaptation. She should probably steer clear of Oleanna too.

 

The new version of Little Women is one of those movies too. I plan to buy it in the spring.

 

It would have been better if Cliff Dalton had played McQueen’s role.

 

Lol. No, show her Oleana! And then you can both curl up and relax to Edmund.