what movies can you watch again and again?

Add About a Boy to my list. After seeing this movie for the first time Saturday on Starz!, I have seen it 4 times already and I still like it. It's nothing ground breaking, but it is quite pleasant and quaint with a very decent soundtrack by Badly Drawn Boy.


Speaking of Hugh Grant, that reminded me of another movie that I can watch over and over. I'm not sure if anyone else has mentioned it (or even if I mentioned it already) but there is the hysterically funny, IMO, Four Weddings and a Funeral. The movie that really made Hugh Grant's career, here in the colonies anyway.

 

The Poseidon Adventure is a classic that I can still get thrills from every time I watch it.

 

Speaking of which, I'd buy a DVD of Andie McDowell's Loreal commercials! What a gorgeous, real woman!

 

There is a little insane movie called "Cul de Sac" (Polanski 1966) I enjoy watching over and over as much as Blow-Up.

BC

 

Hmmm, Who prints out that list?!

 

Too many already listed to know if this has been said, but a have a box LD collection of the "Thin Man Movies", I have watched each at least twice a year for the last five or six years.

 

If only more than the first one were out on DVD.

 

There are a lot of "cult classics" that are worthy of repeated watching, but my all time favorite that I NEVER get tired of is the incomparable "Tapeheads" starring Tim Robbins and John Cusack, produced by none other than Michael Nesmith.

It's a HILARIOUS movie with so many sight gags and inside jokes that you need to watch it a few times before it all starts to gel. On top of that the MUSIC is absolutely fantastic. The soundtrack is brilliant, with acts such as Junior Walker, Sam Moore (of Sam & Dave fame), Bo Diddley, King Cotton, Fishbone and Devo.

I cannot recommend this movie strongly enough! I would characterize at as Blues Brothers meets Dumb & Dumber, but much better than that mixture might suggest.

Editorial review stolen from Amazon.com:

This underground comedy pairs two well-known actors with unique comic timing between them in a story of pursuing dreams amidst harsh realities. Two luckless life-long friends and suddenly unemployed security guards (Tim Robbins and John Cusack) seek to fulfill a lifelong dream try their hand at music-video production. Along the way they encounter the worst the music and television business has to offer, falling victim to a few scams and all the while clinging to their unbeatable optimism. Finally they hit upon an idea to resurrect a long-dead 1960s group, with predictably disastrous results. Blues legends Junior Walker and Sam Moore make appearances, and the soundtrack is a treat, featuring the likes of Bo Diddley and Devo. As a satire of the video age, it's hit and miss, but enough comic moments exist between the two leads to make Tapeheads an interesting diversion. --Robert Lane

 

Dr. No, Goldfinger, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Stripes.

 

Dumb and Dumber
Duel at Ganryu Island
The Hidden Fortress

 

GI Jane *
Terminator
Terminator II - Extreme DVD release is Very Good and the best yet.
Sweet Home Alabama - great sound track **
Legally Blonde *
True Lies
Die Hard triology
Beverly Hills Cop Triology
Parent Trap 1 & 2
Adventures in Babysitting
Clueless
The Rock
The Net
Princess Diaries
Miss Congeniality
Under Siege

 

Great lists!
I rarely go to a theater. Maybe once every two to three years so these are all the home versions.

Harvey - I can never pull myself away from that one.
Arsenic And Old Lace
Casablanca
Any Clint Eastwood western - I don't care for the Dirty Harry movies though.
Jaws
Usual Suspects
Reservoir Dogs - finally watched the DVD last weekend and was amazed how much I was missing on the VHS with the odd commercials running faintly in the background from different speakers.

All the Austin Powers Movies
Dumb and Dumber
Shrek - And I don't have kids.

 

The Big Lebowski

 

One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest
Blazing Saddles
Any Curly Three Stooges short
The Godfather
Citizen Kane

 

I can watch all of these films over and over.
My 40 favorite movies:

The Navigator
My Best Girl
The General
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
City Lights
M
The Invisible Man
It Happened One Night
Holiday
Modern Times
Dumbo
Casablanca
The Palm Beach Story
To Have And Have Not
I Know Where I'm Going
Strange Love Of Martha Ivers
The Big Sleep
The Red Shoes
The Bicycle Thief
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Key Largo
The Third Man
Sunset Boulevard
Strangers On A Train
Seven Samurai
Rear Window
The Night Of The Hunter
East Of Eden
The Searchers
Witness For The Prosecution
A Face In The Crowd
Paths Of Glory
Vertigo
North By Northwest
The Hustler
Yojimbo
The Graduate
Cool Hand Luke
The Heartbreak Kid

 

Once Upon A Time In The West
I just rented this one, it is amazing. I grew up on this film as a kid on the weekends, to see it uncut and without commercials is a treat.

This is a great film for so many reasons:

• Henry Fonda for the first time as a villian, it tore people up, but was great casting. And those incredibly blue eyes!
• This was the film that made Charles Bronson.
• A great turn by Jason Robards.
• And Claudia Cardinale, va-va-voom!
• Plus Sergio Leone: incredible close-ups, Tarantino-like references/homages to other great westerns, and the full use of letterbox Panavision on those great landscapes. Great stuff.

Groundhog Day
So quick and witty, it gets me every time.

 

Shane

[Ladd] Shane - Wilson, I heard of you
[Palance] Wilson - What have you heard Shane?
Shane - I heard your a low down yankee lier.

What a great scene.

other movies

Sea Wolf
Magnifecent 7
Maltese Falcon
Any James Bond w/ Sean Connery
They Died With Their Boots On
Angles With Dirty Faces
The Searchers
EL CID

 

And then Earthquake to shake out the soot!!!

Ones I can watch over & over:

Casablanca
The Wizard of Oz
Gone With The Wind
Ben Hur (the 1959 remake especially, love the silent classic as well)
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (Carl Reiner, Jonathan Winters, Alan Arkin all deliver classic comedy performances)
Young Frankenstein
The Lion in Winter (1968)
The Sting
The Princess Bride
Shakespeare in Love
Pleasantville
Star Wars Trilogy (the original theatrical releases, which I have on Laserdisc)
True Lies
Die Hard
Speed
City Lights
The Great Dictator

edit: oops! I almost forgot: Buckaroo Banzai

 

2001 A Space Odyssey
Brazil
Videodrome
Naked lunch
Mulholland drive
Reservoir dogs
Raging bull

 

My personal choices -

City Lights (best Chaplin movie, as far as I'm concerned)
High Noon
West Side Story
Logan's Run
Star Wars (1977 edition)
Animal House
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

And I have a feeling I'll be adding Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow to this list...

 

Spirited Away
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Fifth Element
Event Horizon
Eat Drink Man Woman
Tampopo
Hunt For Red October
All 14 Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes films

 

Goodfellas
Godfather
The Mask of Zorro
Woodstock - when I'm nostalgic for my youth
Great Escape or just about any Steve McQueen movie

 

Punch Drunk Love
Groundhog Day
Grosse Point Blank
Drugstore Cowboy
The Lord of the Rings
A Fish Called Wanda
The X-Files - Fight the Future
Rattle and Hum

 

- What Time Is It There?
- Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Both films directed by Ming-liang Tsai (Malaysia)