Which are your favourite films to watch over and over again?

Some are like a big comfy blanket (Grease, Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman, When Harry met Sally, Four weddings and a funeral) you can dip in and out and still follow it.

Some you watch for the cinematography... ones i can think of were cape fear, rope, north by northwest, rules of attraction.

Some you watch to work out the story and see if there are plot holes and the imagery and themes in them... se7en, fight club, minority report, inside man, total recall, terminator, fatal attraction, robocop, donnie darko, sixth sense, usual suspects, american beauty... could go on and on in this category.

Some you just watch as they are damn entertaining... goonies, indiana jones, Back to futures, terminators, die hards.

It's A Wonderful Life - I watch this every year at least once and still love it, and still feel the tears welling up.

Robocop / Starship Troopers - I lump these together as I tend to watch them both after each other due to the similar tone, and Verhoven's style.

Donnie Darko - Beautiful.....just beautiful.

Lord of the Rings - I re-read the book every 3 years or so, and now also watch the trilogy too.

Airplane, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles - my favourite 3 comedies

Finding Nemo - the best Pixar film in the collection....until Wall-E comes out on BluRay that is.

Evil Dead trilogy

Fight Club - I spent one week watching this every day (twice a few times)....much like....

Trainspotting, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Natural Born Killers.

Back to the Future, Goonies, Gremlins 1 & 2 - films from my youth which I still adore today.

Star Wars & Empire Strikes Back - Such great films (non-special garbage CGI editions). Jedi misses the rewatchability stakes thanks to the Ewoks which spoil it all for me. Don't even start me on the prequels (I don't own any of them, and never will)

Jaws - I can quote this film line for line I have seen it so much. Spielberg proved his skill early on and rarely beats it for pure thrill. Yes the shark looks fake, but it still chills you!

There are plenty more - every DVD I own is a film I can rewatch over and over depending on my mood.

All 6 Star Wars films, yes, even Return of the Jedi.

My comfort films are Groundhog Day (even with Andi MacWooden), Ghostbusters (both of them), The Mirror Has Two Faces (terrible but strangely compelling, especially with the bonus of Jeff Bridges and Lauren Bacall), Singin' in the Rain, Scrooged (but only at Christmas), and - bizarrely - The Silence of the Lambs.

They're films I can put on to 'watch' while knitting; I know them so well that each scene is burnt into my memory so I don't even have to look up from the needles.

Didn't realise I had such a thing for Bill Murray until I listed those.

Agreed on Robocop, only the first one though, Robocop 2 and 3 sucked majorly IMO, especially 3 as it was made "kid proof" to get a lower age rating.

Whatever happened to the Robocop TV series?

My comfort films are Groundhog Day (even with Andi MacWooden), Ghostbusters (both of them), The Mirror Has Two Faces (terrible but strangely compelling, especially with the bonus of Jeff Bridges and Lauren Bacall), Singin' in the Rain, Scrooged (but only at Christmas), and - bizarrely - The Silence of the Lambs.

They're films I can put on to 'watch' while knitting; I know them so well that each scene is burnt into my memory so I don't even have to look up from the needles.

Didn't realise I had such a thing for Bill Murray until I listed those.

Ah I think you've forgotten your thing for Mr Ramis!! He wrote Groundhog Day!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ramis

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Ah I think you've forgotten your thing for Mr Ramis!! He wrote Groundhog Day!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ramis
But of course! I had forgotten about that. He's also in it :D . Not sure what he'd been up to in the intervening years, but I suspect pies were involved.

Ooh, and Green Card too, disturbingly also with Andi MacDowell, and I'd also forgotten about When Harry Met Sally.

Singin' in the Rain, Scrooged (but only at Christmas), and - bizarrely - The Silence of the Lambs.


I love Singin' in the Rain... well, most musicals of that era. Nothing finer when it's a drab day. :) Know what you mean about Silence of the Lambs too. That and The Usual Suspects are always watchable (even if it's with only half-an-eye!)

But of course! I had forgotten about that. He's also in it :D . Not sure what he'd been up to in the intervening years, but I suspect pies were involved.

Ooh, and Green Card too, disturbingly also with Andi MacDowell, and I'd also forgotten about When Harry Met Sally.

Yeah I like lots of films with Andi MacDowell in despite me thinking she's a bobbins actress! I think I just like saying Gerard De-pa-dew (Depardieu) though! :hihi:

Stir Crazy - perhaps the best film ever made
Ghostbusters - had that on again at the weekend
Dodgeball / Wedding Crashers / Happy Gilmore

all good for when you want light comedy and not to think too hard.

Agreed on Robocop, only the first one though, Robocop 2 and 3 sucked majorly IMO, especially 3 as it was made "kid proof" to get a lower age rating.

Whatever happened to the Robocop TV series?


I don't mind Robocop 2 so much. The level of ultra-violence was still right, and just enough of comic book legend Frank Miller's writing can be seen in it (he released a comic series a few years back which retold the events how he originally penned them before the other writer came in to 'tweak it' for the studio)

Robocop 3 was terrible - but the computer game of it on the Atari ST was pretty decent.

There were 2 TV series'. The first spun straight off the kiddy friendly 3rd film and was dross. The second mini-series (Prime Directives) tried to get it all back to the tone of the first 2 films (and even lifted a couple of stories from the comic book series), but the actor playing Robo was terrible....no match for Weller. Verhoven hinted that he would like to go back and make another Robocop film one day, but don't hold your breath on that.

Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Edward Scissorhands, La Dolce Vita, The Dreamers, 2001 a Space Odyssey... any Hitchcock film.

When I was a kid, I watched the Disney Robin Hood every single day for about a month. :)

Am I really sad for saying Father of the Bride Pt 2, Sister Act 1+2, Bridget Jones.

I also love sitting with red wine watching the 6 hr Pride and Prejudice with grrrrr Colin Firth :)

My faves to watch over are, Grease, Wizzard of Oz, Final destination trilogy and Wild Hogs. Wild hogs is a fantastic film, so funny.

Smokie and the Bandit, Jackass the Movie, Bladerunner, Sleepy Hollow, Beetlejuice, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Candyman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Last Man Standing (I know it's a largely slated remake of a remake, but I love it!), Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, Apocolypse Now, Jackie Brown, Terminator 1 and 2, Jaws, The Orphanage, Pan's Labryinth, Hellboy, Batman Begins, Billy Madison, Evil Dead 2, Bubba Ho Tep, On The Buses, I think I'll stop now.

Definitely the On the Buses trilogy, they don't make British comedies like that any more (probably for good reasons, the PC Brigade wasn't as prominent in the 70s)

My faves to watch over are, Grease..

Keep a look out in September then. We are doing a one-day special of Grease in digital at Cineworld. More details as we get them.

I also love sitting with red wine watching the 6 hr Pride and Prejudice with grrrrr Colin Firth :)[/QUOTE]

I totally agree he was gorgeous :)

My fav when I am feeling down is Dr Doolittle with Eddie Murphy - what more can you ask for in a film than a talking guinea pig:hihi:

Comfort blankets:
The Princess Bride
St Elmo's Fire
Fried Green Tomatoes...
Grease II :shame:

Other:
Clerks; Chasing Amy; anything else by Kevin Smith
Withnail and I
Bound
Before Sunrise/Before Sunset
Lost in Translation
Casablanca
Almost anything with Winona Ryder in...

(This is just off the top of my head: I might think of others)

I Love Ice age 2 lol, I can watch that again and again!! :thumbsup:

Pulp Fiction
Jaws
Batman Begins & Batman - The Dark Knight
Gladiator
Terminator 2

Oh there are so many.

I know I am sad, but I have watched The Matrix over 400 times, but I can't (what seems to be a male ability) quote it much! I think its 'cos I have mumnesia.

I have also watched The 5th Element around 100 times
Raiders of the lost Ark around 200
Various Star Wars totalling 100.

anything by Kevin Smith
Withnail and I
Brick
Catch And Release
Garden State
Addicted To Love
Keeping The Faith
Inside I'm Dancing
Mr & Mrs Smith
Lotr
Potc
V for Vendetta

Pretty much anything with a decent soundtrack

I have hundreds of dvd's but always end up watching the same ones over and over again like-
Heathers, Dirty Dancing, As good as it gets, Somethings gotta give, Big.

The Business starring Tamer Hassan
Layer Cake starring Tamer Hassan

Dodgeball, one of the funniest, And Rumblefish with Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke, one of the best shot films I've ever seen and a decent script.

Stuff from the late 80s like Three Men and a Baby and the first 2 Look Who's Talking movies, them babies are SO gorgeous! :love:

Just a shame Look Who's Talking 3 (the one with the dogs) was crap, like the Next Karate Kid, why?! I realise that Ralph Macchio was actually older than the character he was portraying in the original Karate Kid trilogy, but he could still have been brought back if they HAD to make a 4th film.

Such a shame that Noryuki "Pat" Morita aka Mr Miyagi, died a couple of years back.

OH loves to watch cinema paradiso
he listen to the sound track all the time to

All 6 Star Wars films, yes, even Return of the Jedi.

Return of the Jedi!?!

You don't have a problem with Phantom Menace?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWDWl_nEcoY

I know I am sad, but I have watched The Matrix over 400 times

I had a disc get stuck in my DVD player one time as well. I just bought a new one.

Incidentally the film was Battle Royale. If anyone at Richer Sounds managed to get it out of the old DVD player I dumped on them, please let me know.

I have actually had to replace "The Princess Bride" once, because I wore the first DVD out. And this is after wearing out the VHS.

Others that are likely to need replacing soon:

Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return Of The Jedi
Labyrinth
Sense and Sensibility (1995, Emma Thompson)
Shaun Of The Dead
Star Trek: First Contact
Pulp Fiction
The Breakfast Club

I can watch War Games all the time and also the seasonal films A Christmas Carol (with Alistar Sim) and It's A Wonderful Life.

Ghostbusters
Fight Club
Transporter
Clerks 2
28 Days later
Aliens

for me its easy watching films that usually involve music

mamma mia
dirty dancing
10 things i hate about you
clueless
mean girls

its all films that dont require much thinking but are great fun none the less! :hihi:

Stand By Me and The Breakfast Club.
Back when I had then on VHS, I wore out my copies... I just love those films!

There are some truly awful films listed here, mamma mia, 5th thingy, Shaun ... You have no taste or intellect.

There are some truly awful films listed here, mamma mia, 5th thingy, Shaun ... You have no taste or intellect.

And your favourites to watch again and again are? It is easy to criticise others tastes, but to then not give an idea of your own..... well....

Bladerunner
Fitzgeraldo
Leon
Camille Claudel
Pans Labyrinth
Legend

I'm hoping someone has the bottle to do Wasp Factory at some point but I'm sure they'll spoil what's in my imagination from reading the book.

The Matrix
Goodfellas
Scarface
American Psycho
The Day After Tomorrow

Return of the Jedi!?!

You don't have a problem with Phantom Menace?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWDWl_nEcoY

No.

OK whoever invented the Jar Jar Binks character wants shooting IMO, but on the whole it's not THAT bad a movie.

My Neighbour Totoro (I love most studio Ghibli but this one is just a little bit special).
Arlington Road (Jeff Bridges is just the bestest)
Transformers: not because the film was fantastic, just because the nostalgia takes over and Optimus Prime makes me happy.
Big Fish

I'm sure there are loads more but these are off the top of my head!

I never believed I could ever see a film more than once, but after seeing Mamma Mia, I can. Its the music innit ?:)

I never believed I could ever see a film more than once, but after seeing Mamma Mia, I can. Its the music innit ?:)

How about...

Shaw Shank?
Mary Poppins?
7 Brides For 7 Brothers?
Superman?
The Kind and I?
Finding Nemo?