I haven’t known what movies to watch lately. Does everyone have their own treasure movies that they’ve seen many times? 😀
Princess Bride
- Month Python and the Holy Grail
- Young Frankenstein
- Seven Samurai
- LOTR Trilogy
I see a lot of LOTR fans here. Good crowd.
I had a holy grail vhs which i watched more or less every day after school. I used to be able to recite it from start to finish.
Also had both terminator movies on a double vhs so I’ve seen my fair share of them as well.
In steam of consciousness order:
- Young Frankenstein
- Princess Bride
- Double Indemnity
- Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Breakfast Club
- The Fifth Element
- 12 Monkeys
- The Terminator
- Star Wars (first trilogy)
- Harvey
- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- Men In Black
- The Incredibles
- Inception
- E.T.
- The Sting
- Grease
- Ghostbusters
- West Side Story
Probably a number of others
Every kid had that movie on tape or dvd that watched over and over. Mine was Young Frankenstein on beta.
Tron and various Star Treks
Mine was Ghostbusters. Watched it until the tape broke rewinding it one day.
It’s so great. Like Princess Bride, very quotable, too.
The Fifth Element is the quintessential sci-fi movie. Literally, the word quintessence means “fifth element”.
It’s so completely enjoyable.
I second most of these, especially The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
I would add most Kubrick films including Dr. Strangelove and 2001.
Also, Being John Malkovich, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Dawn of the Dead remake 2004
The most recent film I can’t stop watching is Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Theives.
Dr Strange love, 2001, and Being John Malkovich are all movies I’ve seen more than three times.
First time I’ve seen ‘Harvey’ mentioned here.
I wish I could give more upvotes.
When I was a kid, I got into watching old movies, and that one became my favorite. I loved that movie.
As he got older, Stewart did it on Broadway and a couple of times for television.
“If I ever go broke, I can always take ‘Harvey’ on tour and get back on my feet.”
I haven’t seen it listed here in a quick scan, so:
Office Space
You don’t need a million dollars to do nothing. Look at my cousin. He’s broke as hell, don’t do shit.
Watch your cornhole, bud.
I love that Swingline only introduced the red stapler after Milton made it famous
A classic comfort film.
Kung Fu Hustle I’ve seen countless times.
That and Shaolin Soccer are sacred films to me. :D
Journey To The West as well, though.
I revisit Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind every few years when I wanna get my guts all twisted into knots.
I think when Kaufman is left on his own he’s too much of a bummer and Gondry on his own is just too far out. But somehow they come together in a perfect balance with Jim Carey in perhaps his best serious role, IMHO. The soundtrack really takes it the extra mile.
I appreciate it because Joel and Clementine come off as just two kinda fucked up people having a kinda fucked up relationship; very relatable. Neither is perfect or completely at fault and the film very much leaves it up to your interpretation if they can or should work together. I don’t think it has a happy ending, do you? Compare that to something like 500 Days of Summer where you’re really supposed to sympathize with Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character but mostly I end up wanting to push him into the mud. Hard.
The subplot between the doctor and his secretary is maybe a little unnecessary? But Kirsten Dunst is amazing so whatever.
That movie is my white whale. I have tried to watch it a dozen times and I’ve never finished it. Not for lack of interest or trying. Just can’t do it
The indie movie theater near my college did a “soundtrack comes alive” showing with live music. It was phenomenal!
Pretty much any studio Ghibli movie. Have watched spirited away, Totoro, howls moving castle, valley of the wind, and many more more than 3x. Don’t often rewatch stuff but have a soft spot for ghibli!
Brazil (1984)
Primer
Napoleon Dynamite
Primer doesn’t count. You haven’t watched it once until you’ve watched it three times.
So 9==3?
oh my god Primer was so good. That’s intense.
I was gonna say that one, GOSH
- Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
- Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
- The Third Man (1949)
- The Ladykillers (1955)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- Repo Man (1984)
- Stalker (1979)
Probably several others, but those are the first to come to mind.
Repo Man has one of my all time favorite lines.
Harry Dean Stanton.
“I hate regular people. Regular people spend their entire lives running away from tense situations. Repo man spends his whole life getting into tense situations.”
Lite entering the office: "Someone piss on the floor again?
Great username.
I still have it on VHS. No machine, just the tape.
I can’t believe I had to read so many comments before getting to one that mentioned The Big Lebowski. So rewatchable.
Seriously! It’s the first movie I thought of. I went to a couple of Lebowski Fests back in the day. So much fun.
Having scanned through the list of movie titles in this thread the one I most want to watch again is The Third Man.
I think of all the movies everyone has mentioned only the Rocky Horror Picture Show is the one I’ve seen more then three times in cinemas. Sure I’ve seen a lot of movies three or more times but only Rocky had Saturday night Midnight showings that I went to for a couple of years.
On second thought the local rep house also played Stop Making Sense for a few months for Friday night midnight dance parties and I’m pretty sure I went to 10 or 12 of those too.
Hundreds of Beavers! It’s an absolute delight showing it to someone who has never seen it before.
YES. I only saw it once and I want to show it to someone else with no explanation! That movie had us rolling.
I have one for you too:
“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”
I just grabbed it off the shelf from my library because it looked interesting. Never heard of it before.
I went in completely blind and fell in love. Just hit play and settle in. Absolutely lovely.
Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll give it a try!
I hope you enjoy it! :D
I lost count:
‘The Warriors’ and ‘The Blues Brothers’ would be one of the best grindhouse double features of all times.
Every time Blues Brothers comes on tv, I’m hooked.
I don’t re-watch movies very often, and more than three times is rare as hens’ teeth. Sometimes it’s because it’s an absolute classic, or sometimes it’s because I’m weirdly fascinated by it. Let’s see if I can remember those rare exceptions.
- Starship Troopers (good movie, and something about it charmed my socks off)
- Les Triplettes de Belleville (absolutely must-see, smashing masterpiece, no need to know French) (free to watch here!)
- Big Lebowski (words cannot describe)
- The Life of Brian (Monty Python’s finest movie IMO, and a fascinating commentary on religion)
- Fire and Ice (good movie, and I found the rotoscoping utterly entrancing) (free to watch here and here!)
I think in general comedies are just way easier to rewatch for what ever reason.
Also I think just because I rewatch a movie a lot does not mean it is the best movie. I think some movies just give a certain vibe that is enjoyable.
- Airplane
- Naked Gun
- Scary movie
- Simpsons movie
- Spirited Away
- Se7en
- The Prestige
- Inception
- Weathering with you
I probably also watched some Christmas movies a ton of times just because they played on TV a lot when I was a kid like Home Alone.
Lots.
The OG Star Wars (4, 5, 6)
Shawshank Redemption
Edge Of Tomorrow
Top Gun
Princess Bride (top 5 sword fight!)
Most all of Pixar’s stuff, and Dreamwork’s kids movies. My kids grew up with them.
Sleepy Hollow (Depp/Ricci version)
The Departed
Rob Roy (another top 5 sword fight)
Dune (original ‘80s version)
Alien/Aliens/Alien 3
Tron
Goonies
Rat Race
Lost Boys
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Deadpool
The LOTR trilogy
Blade Runner - both films
Heist (a lesson in writing a script consisting of one-liners)
Ocean’s 11
The Name Of The Rose
The Last Mohican
Master And Commander
5th Element
Any of the Monty Python films, but especially Quest for the Holy Grail
That’s a start.
If I had to whittle it down to absolute favorites: Princess Bride, Monty Python, and OG Star Wars.
How do you manage to watch the OG star wars more than twice? I saw New Hope in the theatre. I saw the next one in the theatre and almost walked out. I saw the third one and thought OK I can deal with this, but not great.
Then I re-watched a New Hope again and realized, this is a boring movie.
10 seconds thought would have stopped you from making this comment.
These are some of my favorites I’m sharing, not yours. Ain’t nobody making you watch any of them.
No, I was serious. What do you find interesting enough to watch more than three times? New Hope was entertaining when I was 8, I must have seen that movie in the theater at least 10 times.
But as time went by I came to realize its pretty shallow, acting isn’t so great and the wow effects of 1977 aren’t much compared to the last 20 years. I actually get disappointed that I can’t enjoy re-watching it as much as so many other movies. Maybe I saw it too much.
I will change the question: Which version do you prefer? I can say I like the original as released best, all the changes later just don’t feel right to me.
