Movies you can watch over and over

I'm not one that can watch most movies more than once--one viewing is enough for me in most cases.

There are a few I can watch again and again. Watched Blade Runner 2049 with my Dad while visiting for X-Mas, he had never seen it (it was at least my 3rd viewing), and it's got me wanting to watch the "Final Cut" of the original Blade Runner again tonight* (which I've seen, along with the "Director's Cut", probably a dozen and half times).

Another I watch every year on Halloween is John Carpenter's original The Fog--not a film that's overly scary or terrifying, just eerie and creepy, and I love the setting and story.

What are some of the films you can watch over and over and keep coming back for more?

*Also seems fitting to watch considering the concept designer of both films, Syd Mead, passed away today. RIP

 

I have watched the Shawshank Redemption, the Shining, Alien and Aliens countless times. I don't think they're the best thing I've ever seen (although they are all excellent movies). I guess I just like how the story unfolds.

 

I've seen Pulp Fiction many times. Quentin Tarantino dubbed it a "hang out movie" where you watch just spend time with the characters. I think The Shawshank Redemption is a lot like that, that you're not so much invested in the story as you are the characters like Andy and Red.

 

The Shawshank Redemption
Amadeus
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Aliens
Lethal Weapon
The Raid 1 & 2
The Big Kahuna
Glengarry Glenn Ross
Indiana Jones 1 & 3

 

Any musical movies - I'm old & I grew up with the classics.
Any Hayley Mills movie - She's my favorite Disney actress & I want all her movies.
Alita: Battle Angel - This is such an awesome movie & I urge everyone to see it. Yes, it's that good!

 

Midnight Cowboy
Body Heat
Amadeus
Bridge on the River Kwai

 

Lawrence Of Arabia
Tombstone
Three Days Of The Condor
Alien
Wonder Boys
McCabe and Mrs Miller
Blade Runner
Michael Clayton
Two Lane Blacktop
The Great Escape

 

Good to know--I have this queued up to watch soon for the first time.

 

Goldfinger

 

That thing you do
Back to the future

When I happen on either of these I always tell myself I'll just watch a little or wait until a favorite scene happens, but I always end up watching the whole thing.

 

ELF
A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott version for us)
A Christmas Story
The Harry Potter series
The Graduate
a bunch of the Pixar films
Chronicle
The Shining
A Clockwork Orange

I know there are more, but my mind is blanking on them at the moment.

 

Frozen

 

Jaws

 

Liked since I saw it at movies when it came out. Now days when I watch it it takes me back to 1975.

 

Old b/w noir films - Bogart, Grant, Robinson..

 

both godfather's
lebowski
heat - and most michael mann movies
silence of the lambs
thomas crown affair
most bond movies
the bourne movies
most things with bill murray
sicario
scorcese movies

 

The Godfather films are the most rewatchable films of all time, to me. Acting, production, human drama, history, and some nice action. Classy, magnificent films.

 

My wife and I dumped TV in 1997. We survived on DVD's and Blue Ray's. We have a couple hundred. We bought most of them at pawn shops or used in some other way. The list of movies I HAVE watched many times is long. The number one title would be That Thing You Do. It's my desert island movie. It is just plain fun, it is something I can relate to (I've been in over a dozen bands), and it's very "light" regarding the drama.

The rest that we've seen over 5 times (if not ten):

All the Meg Ryan romance films (e.g. When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, etc.)
Steel Magnolias
All of the Back to the Future movies.
The Big Lebowski
Pulp Fiction
All of the Cars movies
All of the Shreck movies
All of the Toy Story movies
Hairspray
All of the Daniel Craig 007 movies
Red
Red II
Expendables II
13 Going on 30
Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
It's a Wonderful Life
White Christmas
Star Wars (the first one released)
A lot more that escape me at this point. The above list is just off the top of my head.

 

Second place, steak knives. Third place, YOU'RE FIRED!
That movie is a true classic - and quite depressing. I used to sell Kirby Vacuum cleaners and before that, I sold Fuller Brush door to door. And then real estate. I really felt those guys' pain.

 

Three days of the condor is a CLASSIC! It is a "curl up on a rainy saturday with a cup of coffee and a blanket" movie.

 

From my perspective, some movies are true masterpieces, but don't really lend themselves to repeat watching. Others, just the opposite. I can watch That Thing You Do over and over, even though I admit it is a very simple movie. Meanwhile, I only needed to see Shawshank Redemption once, though I did enjoy it the second time, a decade or more later.

I'm getting pretty old (I"m 66) and looking forward to dementia. I'll only have to own one movie.

 

Have you seen Little Shop of Horrors? It's one of my absolute favorite musicals.

 

I saw that movie, and loved it - until the end. I had the same experience at the end as I had with Maze Runner, though it is much better than the latter.

The problem? It didn't end. It might as well have said, "to be continued". Great movie up to that point, though. When a movie presents a bunch of riddles and questions, and then never answers them, I consider that either very lazy, or I feel like they sucked me into a "cliffhanger". I don't do cliffhangers. It's why I don't care for so many of the television shows on Amazon Prime. Each episode must be a story on its own with a beginning and an end. An ongoing backstory is fine, but there needs to be an up-front story that comes to an end.

 

I have watched many movies many times but ' The Great Escape ' is the one I have watched the most often.
Watched it as a kid , watched it as a teen, watched it as an adult...I may even watch it today. I never tire of it.