I haven’t known what movies to watch lately. Does everyone have their own treasure movies that they’ve seen many times? 😀
Forest Gump
Hundreds of Beavers! It’s an absolute delight showing it to someone who has never seen it before.
Tenet
Watching it again might be worth it…
Midnight Run - it’s just a perfect movie, not one frame is superfluous in this movie
The Thing - yearly re-watch
Spirited Away - yearly re-watch (always accompanied by other Miyazaki movies)
Smiley Face - one of the few movies that make me smile, Anna Faris is the cutest thing ever
Alien - I watched it secretly as a kid while everybody was asleep at home, and watched it who knows how many times since. It didn’t scare me, it kindled my love for sci-fi.
Watched midnight run for the first time a few months back randomly. Quite enjoyed it, especially for its age.
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.
Amelie
City of Lost Children
Delicatessen
Yes I like Jeunet.
Dark City
Children of Men
I also like distopias.
Lanyrinth
One name David Bowie
Top secret, Back to the future, Star Wars (IV,V and VI), Godfather (all three), LOTR (all three), Goodfellas,
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!
Three times that’s it? There’s so many I couldn’t even begin to list them all.
Primer
Napoleon Dynamite
I was gonna say that one, GOSH
oh my god Primer was so good. That’s intense.
Primer doesn’t count. You haven’t watched it once until you’ve watched it three times.
So 9==3?
Evil Dead 2
Dr Strangelove
I watched Blade Runner many times, and I still think its crap. Although I like what it is trying to say.
Monty Python movies. All of them.
Spinal Tap
Fritz the Cat
Return of the Living Dead
So many more if I think about it.
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.
3 Idiots for sure
I don’t tend to rewatch films even if I liked them, but music and classic comedy keeps bringing me back.
- Almost Famous
- Blues Brothers
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Grease
- Monty Python movies (including Meaning of Life)
I’ve also seen some films multiple times due to having kids, but I can only think of Toy Story now.
back to the future
the thirteenth floor
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