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

Angela's Ashes!

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?

Mask of Zorro, I could sit and watch it for hours! Purely cos I'm in absolute unrequited LOVE with Catherine Zeta Jones! :love:

Any woman her age who looks THAT good in a corset, definitely gets my vote!

Bodyguard My favourite of all time. Kevin Costner ooooozes s*x appeal:love:

Replacement Killers
THe LAst Samuarai
Any Bourne
Racing Stripes
Kung Fu PAnda
The Incredibles.

I have some other faves - but due to the fact that my eyes leak when i watch them, i own them but don't watch them.

The Usual Suspects
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Shawshank Redemption
Young Frankenstein

Mine are:

Monsters Inc (classic pixar)
Shrek / Shrek 2
Con Air
Pulp Fiction
Gladiator
Superman 1 & 2 (classic superman)
Back to the future 1 & 2
Ghostbusters
Dead mans shoes

I'll stop there cos i could prob go on for ages !!

For me it's got to be Aladdin ... I guess I was just the right age when it was released and even 15 years later I can remember most of the lines.
That and:

Amelie
All About Eve (Fasten your seatbelts ... it's going to be a bumpy night!)
My Neighbour Totoro (in complete agreement with Silverclay, it is special)
North by Northwest (In my opinion Hitchcock's greatest)

And for some reason Bridget Jones's Diary, mostly because it's the cheesiest film I have on DVD so it always gets put on when I'm feeling a bit down in the dumps.

Some of the greatest films are films that I cannot watch over and over. Classic films (Green Mile, Shawshank etc) which i'll watch once a year etc. The films i can wtach again and again are generally comedies/feel-good films and action and include

Terminator 2
Bourne Films
Die Hard 1 & 2
Mamma Mia
American Pie
Road Trip
Star Wars (originals only)
Notting Hill
Wedding Singer
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Superbad
Rock Star
Groundhog Day
+ many more which i'll update :)

Robocop (first one only, Robocop 2 sucked balls, and 3 was plain crap)

Apparently there's a remake in the works of the original Robocop, to be released either this year or next year, no, just, no! The original was an 80s classic! The only advantage of a remake would be to update the technology used.

Anything by David Lynch (but especially Lost Highway)

Mamma Mia, Mamma Mia, Mamma Mia....did I mention Mamma Mia? :)

Got to go now and watch it again!! :hihi:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKx_14vJNZg

Scent of a Woman
Love Actually
Gladiator
Green Mile
Frankie & Johnny
Big Fish

fight club and vanilla sky :)

Mask of Zorro, it's been on Sky at various intervals this week, I watch it every time! Mmm, Catherine Zeta Jones in glorious HD! :love:

Wrong side of 40 and married to the son of a movie Legend she might be, but I still would.

The INCREDIBLES!!!
And the Animatrix...... and Oldboy....... and The Incredibles.

Probably too many to mention. A lot of what has been already mentioned before but also two of my favourites:

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Steve Martin)
Towering Inferno

The Colour Purple
Stand By Me
Happy Gilmore
Wedding Singer
Top Gun
Cocktail
LOTR Trilogy
Trading Places
Jerry Maguire
Willow

I could go on and on:hihi:

braveheart,always gives me a nice warm feeling,especially the potrayal of the english treatment towards our scottish cousins...but seriously my fave film ever.

Fight Club, i have watched it at least once a fortnight for eight years (even though i consider it my second favorite film behind casablanca, lol)

Usual Suspects

Enemy of the State

The Game

Armageddon
Fight Club
Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace (I mean I will keep watching it when it comes out on DVD lol)
Secondhand Lions
Deep Impact
Enemy of the State
Behind Enemy Lines
Happy Gilmore
The Waterboy
Shaun of the Dead
Anger Management
Big Fish
I Robot
Bicentennial Man
Ice Age 1 & 2
Finding Nemo
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Cool Runnings
All the American Pie films
Polar Express
The Grinch
Bruce Almighty

Don't really do it anymore but when I was younger there would be a few films that I'd watch over and over:

Little Shop of Horrors
Grease
first 2 Back to the Futures
Aladdin


I tend to find it a bit of a waste these days if I spend too much time watching the same films, I guess it's why I've not built up a huge DVD collection compared to how long I've had a DVD player. I'll do it more with TV series like the West Wing but even then it'll suddenly dawn on me that I'm wasting my time that'd be better spent finding something new.

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Anything by Luc Besson (but most often: Subway, Nikita, Leon)
Anything by Studio Ghibli (but most often: My Neighbour Totoro, Laputa, Porco Rosso)
The LOTR trilogy
The Bourne trilogy
Blackhawk Down
Alien & Aliens
2001:A Space Odyssey (even if only the space flying/docking sequence on Strauss' Blue Danube piece. I'm an absolute sucker for that scene, I just have to watch it whenever I chance upon it)
If they made 'proper films' of the following books, then those would become 'regulars' as well:
The Saga of the Seven Suns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_of_the_seven_suns) (Kevin Anderson, 7 books. Very strong Star Wars-beating contender)
Anything by Eric L Harry (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/eric-l-harry/) (Tom Clancy-esque, but better. Society of the Mind would be properly astounding)
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Without_Remorse) (think Bourne mixed with 'Taken' (Liam Neeson))

Armageddon
Fight Club
Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace (I mean I will keep watching it when it comes out on DVD lol)
Secondhand Lions
Deep Impact
Enemy of the State
Behind Enemy Lines
Happy Gilmore
The Waterboy
Shaun of the Dead
Anger Management
Big Fish
I Robot
Bicentennial Man
Ice Age 1 & 2
Finding Nemo
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Cool Runnings
All the American Pie films
Polar Express
The Grinch
Bruce Almighty

Each to their own, but to be honest I thought Quantum of Solace was crap, in fact I was so bored of it I fell asleep.

Gone in 60 seconds, has to have one of the best car chases in it ever and vanishing point.....

point break..dazed and confused...city of god...

Kung Fu Hustle - Hysterically funny

Gattaca - I like the quiet, understated performances, the issues the film raises and the cinematography

Star Wars IV: A New Hope - Reminds me of being a kid again

whenever i'm ill enough to warrant sitting on the sofa all day with a duvet i always watch fred and ginger movies; watched them a lot as a family when i was little so that's probably why.

amelie aswell cause its so sweet and romantic and we all need a bit of that sometimes. if i fancy some gunplay the bourne films or die hards 1 and 3 usually find their way into the player.

Any of the Elvis Presley films.

DEAD MANS SHOES ...........................What a Film

i have allway's been a fan of cartoon Transformers when I was a kid so now the new ones are on dvd that's pritty much all i wont on most of the time I love them

Fistfull of Dollars trilogy
Dirty Harry films except Dead Pool, which despite Jim Carey being killed and a cameo apperance from Guns & Roses, was poo

And on a non Clint theme I like these funnys
Monty Python's Holy Grail
Parole officer

Interstingly some above suggestions I had to force myself not to swith off & never want to see again ie
Angelas Ashes
Withnail & I

Singin in the Rain, Arsenic and Old Lace, and anything with Audrey Hepburn or Judi Dench
Also The lake House, and Nell (Jodie Foster was amazing in that!)

The business a great film with 80s music

There are far too many to mention so I'll just go through the most usual discs in my machine.
First, I have something of a christmas ritual. I like to watch Scrooge with Alastair Sim on Christmas Eve. Alastair's portrayal of Scrooge is absolutely spot on and I love the transition from grumbling old miser to clown meister.
Second, I occasionally have a Lord of The Rings weekend. I watch all three fims on consecutive nights. I am also re-reading the novel for the fourth time. Heavy going, but beautifully written.
Third, Every year, on May 25th, the date of it's original UK Cinema release, Star War IV A New Hope. A ground breaking film and a delight, especially for the nine year old kid who is still inside me.
Finally, I don't have it on DVD any more but when I had it on video, I would watch At the Earths Core with Peter Cushing and Doug McClure. It was an awful film then and still is, but when you're eight...

By The Way, At The Earths Core, I would watch it so often, two or three times a day in fact, that the tape wore out. In retrospect, I am lucky that it wasn't the machine. My parents would have murdered me!

300 - Perfect.

The two films that I have been recently watching over and over again have been 'Dear John' and 'The Last Song'. Both these films haven't been out for long, only around 3-4 months, and have really played a big part in me visiting the cinema quite often and being more interested in these big movie releases.

Well worth watching.

Josh.

i love films like The interview with a vampire , Beattlejuice , Silance of the lambs , Little shop of horrors , The rocky horror picture show , Blade

but them i also like films such as Steel magnolias , sister act 1+2 , The birdcadge ,Face off , The mummy to name just a few ..

Star Trek, Batman Begins,Hitman are the current faves.

pulp fiction - timeless classic

Sleepless in seatle, Some where in time, Star Wars, Indiana Jones & Alien