Movies You Can Watch Again & Again!

[2BNTV]

There are quite a few movies that people can watching several times and still enjoy.

What movie would you pick and why?

[Polar Bear]

As is being discussed in another thread...

The Usual Suspects. So little is as it appears the first time through. Plus, each scene is simply enjoyable to watch on its own.

[Shimpy]

I watch "Grumpy old Men", "The Outlaw Josie Wales" and About Schmitt" almost every other month. "Grumpy old Men" is just down right funny. "The outlaw Josie Wales" is a movie that I can enjoy the revenge he gets. "About Schmitt" is a movie that I can really feel for him and can almost relate to all his feelings.

[RickeyD]

Cool hand Luke, because it illustrates one mans struggle against a corrupt system against all odds.

[RickeyD]

Rebel without a Cause, for the same reason stated above.

[RickeyD]

American Graffiti, because of the cool music.

[RickeyD]

Animal House, for the same reason stated above.

[Taltarzac725]

Agree about The Outlaw Josey Wales. I would add many of Clint Eastwood's movies. I watch Blood Work quite often so I can check something I saw in it long ago. Blood Work (2002) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blood_work/)

Like Gladiator too.

[telder]

The Hoosiers basketball in Indiana

[Taltarzac725]

Humphrey Bogart movies.

Play it again Sam. Play It Again Sam.....Bogart - YouTube (https://youtu.be/plSKtjfSjrA)

[redwitch]

Rocky Horror Picture Show cause it's downright funny and great fun with audience participation.

Any Mel Brooks movie.

The Ritz. Not PC but love it anyway.

Independence Day. Has a little of everything with good humor.

Men in Black.

Any Kate Hepburn movie.

[onslowe]

"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" Lee Marvin, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Vera miles. Black and White. Good versus evil. Stereotypes of the old West cast with wild abandon throughout. The ruined steak dinner scene. Magnificent.

In like fashion, "HighNoon" the loneliness of the brave man who is tempted to avoid the confrontation with overwhelmning odds.

[Boomer]

"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man." -- That's one of the first things Kathleen Turner says to William Hurt in Body Heat.

She sure picked him. She sure was right......... :shocked:

[Ecuadog]

Not my favorite of all time, but one that I can watch over and over is Patton.

[Barefoot]

"What About Bob". I think Bill Murray is hilarious. :a20::girlneener:

[retiredguy123]

Space Cowboys.

[Coal Miner]

Goodfellas and All three Godfathers

[2newyorkers]

Westward the Women. Independence Day and any Cary Grant movie.

[ColdNoMore]

- Remember the Titans

- Independence Day

- Men in Black I & II

- Forrest Gump

- Glory Road

- Pulp Fiction

- The Big Lebowski

And many others that I try to watch, when I notice they are on. :coolsmiley:

[CFrance]

Fargo and Captain Ron.

[Bjeanj]

Body Heat: my husband and I disagree on whether she *really* loved him or was just using him. I think the latter.
A Simple Plan: a feeling of doom for the whole movie. And you would be right. Has been described as a neo-noir crime thriller. Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton are very good.

[Schaumburger]

Gone With The Wind
Love Story
The Godfather
The Sound of Music
Rocky
All The President's Men
Ordinary People
Goodfellas
The Help
The Way We Were
Catch Me If You Can
Sideways
Animal House
Blues Brothers

[KayakerNC]

Shane.
True Grit (both versions)
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[Polar Bear]

Body Heat: my husband and I disagree on whether she *really* loved him or was just using him. I think the latter...

Love that movie. And as far as I'm concerned, you are absolutely right...she was definitely using him from the very beginning.

Been a long time, but remember that scene in the bar when his fellow lawyer says he had met Matty and she was asking about lawyers who had a black mark in their past. That was clincher. Even William Hurt knew it then.

[BK001]

Some of my picks would be:

The Green Mile (and anything with Tom Hanks)
The Shawshank Redemption
Some Like It Hot
Mr. Roberts
Terms of Endearment
Cat Ballou

and any Broadway Musical especially
Chicago
Carousel
Oklahoma

[Boomer]

"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man." -- That's one of the first things Kathleen Turner says to William Hurt in Body Heat.

She sure picked him. She sure was right......... :shocked:


Body Heat: my husband and I disagree on whether she *really* loved him or was just using him. I think the latter.
A Simple Plan: a feeling of doom for the whole movie. And you would be right. Has been described as a neo-noir crime thriller. Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton are very good.


Love that movie. And as far as I'm concerned, you are absolutely right...she was definitely using him from the very beginning.

Been a long time, but remember that scene in the bar when his fellow lawyer says he had met Matty and she was asking about lawyers who had a black mark in their past. That was clincher. Even William Hurt knew it then.

To My Fellow Fans of Body Heat,

I agree. She set him up from the start. No question about it. That meeting was no accident. She knew he would hit on her when she walked by.

In an early scene, if you watch closely, you will see a clown driving a car. -- I saw that scene as foreshadowing. I assume the director did, too. Anyway, William Hurt most certainly was Matty's clown.

I seldom watch movies more than once, but this one I have seen about 4 times, since 1981.......might make it 5. :)

[Allegiance]

Goodfellas and All three Godfathers
And A Bronx Tale.

[BobandMary]

Moonstruck. We watch it every couple months. We make "Cher eggs" for breakfast all the time.

[ColdNoMore]

The Green Mile (and anything with Tom Hanks)


Absolutely!

How could I have forgotten to include anything with Tom Hanks? :oops:

[Hancle704]

The Shawshank Redemption
History of The World Part 1
Blazing Saddles
Saving Private Ryan
It's a Mad Mad Mad World
Outrageous Fortunes
Bull Durham
Grumpy Old Men

[Phanatic Luvr]

The American President, my all time favorite, with Michael Douglas and Annette Bening. I only wish we all could have had the opportunity to vote for Andrew Sheppard this year.

[vinricci]

Gladiator

Fiddler On The Roof

[John_W]

From recent times it has to be "Sideways", Jack and Miles trip through the wine country of California I find never gets old. I have probably seen it at least 35 times.

From my older favorites, "Chinatown"with Jack Nicholson. I never get tired of the film noir and the fact the story is not something simple you'll figure out in advance, it keeps you thinking. I've seen this one at least 50 times.

Also from my classic favorites, "Heaven can Wait". Everyone is great, Warren Beatty is perfect for this part, I became a big fan of Jack Warden after this, and Charles Grodin and Dylan Cannon were perfect. I've seen this one at least 50 times and it never gets old.

Another classic favorite is "Network". 'I'm Mad as Hell and I'm not going to take it Anymore", one of the greatest movie lines. The 1970's couldn't be anymore ripe for the invention of reality TV, it's pretty standard fare today, but in the 70's we thought it was so new and cool. If you've never seen this film and you enjoy reality TV, "America's Got Talent" for sure, watch this movie. I've seen this one at least 50 times.

I have so many more that when they come on I can't turn off, from Dirty Harry, Sunset Blvd, The Caine Mutiny, 12 Angry Men, Psycho, In Cold Blood, Bullitt, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Mash, French Connection, American Graffitti, The Exorcist, Jaws, Taxi Driver, Dog Day Afternoon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Animal House, Airplane, Alien, Caddyshack, Amadeus, Jagged Edge, Down & Out in Beverly Hills, Blue Velvet, Raising Arizona, The Player, Forest Gump, Se7en, American Beauty, Donnie Darko, all the Bourne movies, Napolean Dynamite, Collateral, Zodiac, Cloverfield, The Wrestler, Up in the Air, to name a few.

[Taltarzac725]

From recent times it has to be "Sideways", Jack and Miles trip through the wine country of California I find never gets old. I have probably seen it at least 35 times.

From my older favorites, "Chinatown"with Jack Nicholson. I never get tired of the film noir and the fact the story is not something simple you'll figure out in advance, it keeps you thinking. I've seen this one at least 50 times.

Also from my classic favorites, "Heaven can Wait". Everyone is great, Warren Beatty is perfect for this part, I became a big fan of Jack Warden after this, and Charles Grodin and Dylan Cannon were perfect. I've seen this one at least 50 times and it never gets old.

Another classic favorite is "Network". 'I'm Mad as Hell and I'm not going to take it Anymore", one of the greatest movie lines. The 1970's couldn't be anymore ripe for the invention of reality TV, it's pretty standard fare today, but in the 70's we thought it was so new and cool. If you've never seen this film and you enjoy reality TV, "America's Got Talent" for sure, watch this movie. I've seen this one at least 50 times.

I have so many more that when they come on I can't turn off, from Dirty Harry, Sunset Blvd, The Caine Mutiny, 12 Angry Men, Psycho, In Cold Blood, Bullitt, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Mash, French Connection, American Graffitti, The Exorcist, Jaws, Taxi Driver, Dog Day Afternoon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Animal House, Airplane, Alien, Caddyshack, Amadeus, Jagged Edge, Down & Out in Beverly Hills, Blue Velvet, Raising Arizona, The Player, Forest Gump, Se7en, American Beauty, Donnie Darko, all the Bourne movies, Napolean Dynamite, Collateral, Zodiac, Cloverfield, The Wrestler, Up in the Air, to name a few.

All really good movies.

[Northerner52]

Fiddler on the Roof

[Taltarzac725]

Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/singin_in_the_rain/)

This movie usually cheers me up quite a bit.:thumbup:

Debbie Reynolds - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/debbie_reynolds)

[Boomer]

2B, thank you for starting this thread. We have Netflix and Amazon, but sometimes when we want to watch a movie, we can't think of one. Clicking aimlessly through their buzillion titles, hoping for a hit, is most often pointless because we have never even heard of most of them.

This thread will help. I hope it continues.

[Taltarzac725]

2B, thank you for starting this thread. We have Netflix and Amazon, but sometimes when we want to watch a movie, we can't think of one. Clicking aimlessly through their buzillion titles, hoping for a hit, is most often pointless because we have never even heard of most of them.

This thread will help. I hope it continues.

American Film Institute (http://www.afi.com/100years/movies10.aspx)

There are many good lists out there.

I audited two courses at the University of Nevada, Reno in Film Criticism. The courses were taught at a movie theater in the MGM Grand in Reno, Nevada. Professor Howard Rosenberg taught these. Howard Rosenberg (http://www.unr.edu/art/people/howard-rosenberg) I love his 224 Mail Box.

I audited his classes in Westerns and Sci/Fi Horror and chatted a bit with his Teaching Assistant Kirk G., who had been in my Class of 1977 at Earl Wooster High School up to the point that I took correspondence courses at Reno High School and skipped my Senior Year.

All of the movies he discussed were worth watching quite often. I will try to recall many of these.

There is another Howard Rosenberg who was a "TV Guide" critic so the name may seem familiar but that man lives in Los Angeles and not Reno, Nevada. Former L.A. Times TV Critic Howard Rosenberg Enjoying the Life of Academia - NewspaperAlum (http://www.newspaperalum.com/2012/07/former-la-times-tv-critic-howard-rosenberg-enjoying-the-life-of-academia-.html)

[2BNTV]

I'll weigh in. The six movies readily available on my shelf for viewing are in no particular order are:

1. "The Shootist", with John Wayne, Lauren Bacall and Ron Howard.
2. "The Thin Man", with William Powell and Myrna Loy.
3. "Godfather"' we all know the players.
4. Godfather II.
5. The Best Years Of Our Lives with Frederick March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews and Harold Russell, (real WWII vet who lost both his hands in the war), and Hogey Carmichael of Stardust fame.
6. The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorrie, Sydney Greenstreet and Elijah Cook Jr.

A special mention to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers.

There are many others, so............carry on.

[juneroses]

Space Cowboys.

I’ll also cast a vote for Space Cowboys. If the choice had been mine alone, I would have never seen it, but my husband liked the stars and thought it was a good choice. When it ended, giant tears were streaming down my face. I headed out the theater’s side doors, hoping no one would see me. Nevertheless, two ladies heading toward the ticket booth passed and I heard one whisper reverently to the other “Did you see her...it must be a good movie”.

I’ll also vote for Bridges of Madison County. My DH and I had rented it and were watching at home. I was “in” Madison County, I was Meryl Streep/Francesca. It was a poignant moment, I was anguished...and suddenly the movie stops, my husband pops out of the recliner and says “I’ll make popcorn!”.

A third favorite which I don’t see replayed often but nevertheless enjoy is Murphy’s Romance with James Garner and Sally Fields.

[Bjeanj]

Reading all these posts reminded me of other movies I have watched numerous times:
Being There (Peter Sellers): especially in this election year
Independence Day
Silver Streak: I laughed through most of the movie. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor
Blazing Saddles: Gene Wilder and Cleavon Little.
Armageddon

MUST rent/find some of the other movies mentioned here, especially this summer!

Thanks for starting this thread!

[Boomer]

I’ll also cast a vote for Space Cowboys. If the choice had been mine alone, I would have never seen it, but my husband liked the stars and thought it was a good choice. When it ended, giant tears were streaming down my face. I headed out the theater’s side doors, hoping no one would see me. Nevertheless, two ladies heading toward the ticket booth passed and I heard one whisper reverently to the other “Did you see her...it must be a good movie”.

I’ll also vote for Bridges of Madison County. My DH and I had rented it and were watching at home. I was “in” Madison County, I was Meryl Streep/Francesca. It was a poignant moment, I was anguished...and suddenly the movie stops, my husband pops out of the recliner and says “I’ll make popcorn!”.

A third favorite which I don’t see replayed often but nevertheless enjoy is Murphy’s Romance with James Garner and Sally Fields.

I know what you mean. Sad tears. Happy tears. Not-sure-why tears. Know-all-too-well-why tears. I get 'em all...........

I just got all teary-eyed at the end of The Secret Life of Pets when all those people arrive at their homes and are greeted with all that sweet love. (I put on my sunglasses before I left the theater.)..........IwillnotgetanotherdogIwillnotge tanotherdog......

Boomer

[Mikeod]

In addition to some of those already mentioned, we have saved several on our DVR from the 30's that we watch over and over. Most of the Astaire-Rogers movies, along with the Thin Man series. Casablanca. Marx Brothers. My Man Godfrey and the similar Merrily We Live.

More recent. Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles.

[Chi-Town]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Goldfinger

Dr. Strangelove

Blade Runner

Apocalypse Now

[asianthree]

Vacation....Men in black....27 Dresses

[HOPSKIPJUMP]

Hard to believe no one mentioned 'Some Like it Hot' with a cast to die for & great story line. Just a great movie.
How about " We're No Angels" another great story line with an all star cast.
You people are boring me!!!!!!!!!

[Carla B]

When we used to have cable TV we both loved Turner Classic Movies. I'm hoping Roku will sometime offer a channel similar to that. In another thread, you all talked about "The Usual Suspects" which I've now rented from Amazon. Now I'm going to order "Body Heat" too.

Like Redwitch, we also like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," mainly for the music. We had a friend who brought us the DVD and the written lyrics to the whole score one time when he came to visit us on our boat. Phrases from some of those songs pop into my head spontaneously years later.

I can always watch Casablanca and not tire of it.

[John_W]

Reading all these posts reminded me of other movies I have watched numerous times:

Being There (Peter Sellers): especially in this election year
Independence Day
Silver Streak: I laughed through most of the movie. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor
Blazing Saddles: Gene Wilder and Cleavon Little.
Armageddon

Thanks for starting this thread!

"Being There" I have on my DVR right now so I can watch it whenever I want, I've seen it about ten times. Peter Sellers I can't say was great in the film, because he didn't have to really act like he did in Pink Panther films. Just the whole premise of the film is great and Jack Warden as President, he's a favorite of mine going back to 12 Angry Men and Heaven Can Wait. How can I forget Peter Sellers really great in Dr. Strangelove, with the incredible George C. Scott.

"Silver Streak" I can remember I saw that film twice in the theater when it was new. I don't do that often, but your right, you can laugh all the way through. The only other time I saw a film twice in the theater was "Raising Arizona".

"Blazing Saddles" is good, but for older comedies I love Airplane, Animal House and Caddyshack. I've probably seen each one 20 times. Raising Arizona I mentioned above and somehow forgot on my list, but that film I've also seen at least 20 times plus in the theater twice and it introduced us to John Goodman. Coen Bros films can make you do that, so I've got to include The Big Lebowsky, Fargo and O'Brother. Speaking of John Goodman, I've got to throw in "Sea of Love", with Al Pacino and John Goodman and Ellen Barkin, what a great film and saw it with my wife on our first date.

[RedChariot]

Any Bette Davis film. Especially from the 30's, 40's and even the 50's. She stole every scene.

[dotti105]

My very favorite movie is "Love Actually". It's much newer than most listed here, and it is (sort of) a Christmas movie, but I LOVE it. The insights and overlap of the lives of the characters and the resolutions, not always happy. I love to watch it, each time feels like the first.

[Taltarzac725]

My very favorite movie is "Love Actually". It's much newer than most listed here, and it is (sort of) a Christmas movie, but I LOVE it. The insights and overlap of the lives of the characters and the resolutions, not always happy. I love to watch it, each time feels like the first.

That's a really good movie.

[Taltarzac725]

American Film Institute (http://www.afi.com/100years/movies10.aspx)

There are many good lists out there.

I audited two courses at the University of Nevada, Reno in Film Criticism. The courses were taught at a movie theater in the MGM Grand in Reno, Nevada. Professor Howard Rosenberg taught these. Howard Rosenberg (http://www.unr.edu/art/people/howard-rosenberg) I love his 224 Mail Box.

I audited his classes in Westerns and Sci/Fi Horror and chatted a bit with his Teaching Assistant Kirk G., who had been in my Class of 1977 at Earl Wooster High School up to the point that I took correspondence courses at Reno High School and skipped my Senior Year.

All of the movies he discussed were worth watching quite often. I will try to recall many of these.



There is another Howard Rosenberg who was a "TV Guide" critic so the name may seem familiar but that man lives in Los Angeles and not Reno, Nevada. Former L.A. Times TV Critic Howard Rosenberg Enjoying the Life of Academia - NewspaperAlum (http://www.newspaperalum.com/2012/07/former-la-times-tv-critic-howard-rosenberg-enjoying-the-life-of-academia-.html)

There were a number of John Wayne movies shown by Howard Rosenberg in my Film Criticism course.



Red River was one of these. Red River (1948) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/red_river/)

Also Stagecoach and The Searchers.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/john_wayne

[Chi-Town]

Fargo and Captain Ron.
Come February up north Captain Ron was a must view. I had it on laser disc.

[Taltarzac725]

Come February up north Captain Ron was a must view. I had it on laser disc.

Captain Ron (1992) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/captain_ron/)

Forgot all about Captain Ron .

Love Fargo and the Series based on it. Check out the butcher store in the 2nd Season of Fargo the Series.

Someone out there likes me, I think. Fargo: Season 2 - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/fargo/s02/)

[Taltarzac725]

Kirk Douglas - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/kirk_douglas/)

Another movie Howard Rosenberg singled out for his Film Criticism Class at the MGM Grand in Reno, Nevada. We would view the movie after he gave a short introduction and then he would talk about themes in the film we just saw as well as those that went from movie-to-movie.

It was very interesting.

I like a number of the movies of Kirk Douglas.

Lonely are the Brave (1962) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lonely_are_the_brave)

[Shimpy]

I've given my choices but would like to add a couple chick flicks that I really enjoy. "You Got Mail" and "When Harry Met Sally"

[jblum315]

" 3:10 to Yuma." The original, not the remake with a happy ending.

[msendo]

Same Time Next Year- with Alan Alda and Ellen Burstn

[SCasey]

Ant-Man. It has everything a movie needs...a little sci-fi, romance, action, drama. Even my wife thinks it is a great movie.

[Taltarzac725]

I've given my choices but would like to add a couple chick flicks that I really enjoy. "You Got Mail" and "When Harry Met Sally"

Those are both very enjoyable.

[Taltarzac725]

Cat Ballou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Ballou)

Seem to recall that Cat Ballou was one of the movies that Howard Rosenberg showed at the MGM Grand in his Film Criticism Class on Westerns that I audited at the University of Nevada, Reno.

If it was not, it should have been.

I do remember another one that was Will Penny-- Will Penny (1968) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/will_penny/)

Not a very good movie.

[eweissenbach]

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Jack Nicholson's crowning achievement.
Cat Ballou - Lee Marvin was fantastic
Bye Bye Birdie - I was in love with Ann-Margaret
Dr. Strangelove - Peter Sellers best
Virtually any Joel and Ethan Coen Movie; including
Big Lebowski - That rug tied the whole room together - You're way out of your element Donnie
Fargo - I once lived among the frozen chosen
Raising Arizona - Nathan Arizona has more kids than he needs
All the Christopher Guest ensemble movies
Best in Show - Fred Willard's ad libbed commentary on the dog show is classic
A Mighty Wind - a must if you liked folk music

[Taltarzac725]

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Jack Nicholson's crowning achievement.
Cat Ballou - Lee Marvin was fantastic
Bye Bye Birdie - I was in love with Ann-Margaret
Dr. Strangelove - Peter Sellers best
Virtually any Joel and Ethan Coen Movie; including
Big Lebowski - That rug tied the whole room together - You're way out of your element Donnie
Fargo - I once lived among the frozen chosen
Raising Arizona - Nathan Arizona has more kids than he needs
All the Christopher Guest ensemble movies
Best in Show - Fred Willard's ad libbed commentary on the dog show is classic
A Mighty Wind - a must if you liked folk music

Enjoyed all on that list.

[eweissenbach]

Well Tal, for better or for worse we share similar tastes.

[Taltarzac725]

Well Tal, for better or for worse we share similar tastes.

I see almost every new movie I can and have been doing so since I graduated from Law School in May of 1989. I got a VCR player soon after that to catch up on all the movies that working abut 20 hours a week and going to law school full time racked up in the unseen pile.

Here is a movie from the Howard Rosenberg Film Criticism Class for Sci Fi/Horror at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Forbidden Planet (1956) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/9400/)

I do not think I have seen that movie since then-- around 1981 or 1982.

[JBoxer]

My vote is for SECOND HAND LIONS. It's got a bit of everything, adventure, comedy, romance - and it's something the kids and adults can enjoy.

Second best is FIELD OF DREAMS - especially if you're a baseball fan.

[Taltarzac725]

My vote is for SECOND HAND LIONS. It's got a bit of everything, adventure, comedy, romance - and it's something the kids and adults can enjoy.

Second best is FIELD OF DREAMS - especially if you're a baseball fan.

Those are both good.

I have seen The Wizard of Oz and Who Framed Roger Rabbit many times because they were favorites of Tal Tar or Zac whenever they came over in Palm Harbor to visit and swim and the like.

[tomwed]

I didn't read all the posts and I'm very late in the game so forgive me if someone also named this movie.
It's "Nobody's Fool."


Why?

It's Paul Newman as a senior citizen, always the coolest person in the movie and always the best looking man in the room.

Jessica Tandy, is always someone I can't get enough of, a master. She portrays somebody that reminds me of someone else. It's a real person.

Bruce Willis, just the skilled actor in this role---not the hero or love interest.

Melanie Griffith is hot, young and has an interest in Paul Newman----as if there is hope for us male seniors.

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Officer Raymer, maybe the greatest actor I know who left us all too soon, another natural---even when he is a jerk, like in this role.

And it takes place in Hudson New York in the winter---I know that place a little and the weather I know well,,,crappy snow and not where you want to be if you are carpenter or work outside and need to deal with it. The location and the weather is also a character. If you know what I mean.

Here is the trailor:v=qH9C9_WsmLA

Here is a little scene that kind of explains why I can watch it again and again: v=NUjUcMhlc9o

And another sweet scene that makes you feel good about being a dad, being a friend: v=8H7Hv770ggQ

Look for it---I guess it's a chick flick,,,whatever that means

[Taltarzac725]

I didn't read all the posts and I'm very late in the game so forgive me if someone also named this movie.
It's "Nobody's Fool."


Why?

It's Paul Newman as a senior citizen, always the coolest person in the movie and always the best looking man in the room.

Jessica Tandy, is always someone I can't get enough of, a master. She portrays somebody that reminds me of someone else. It's a real person.

Bruce Willis, just the skilled actor in this role---not the hero or love interest.

Melanie Griffith is hot, young and has an interest in Paul Newman----as if there is hope for us male seniors.

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Officer Raymer, maybe the greatest actor I know who left us all too soon, another natural---even when he is a jerk, like in this role.

And it takes place in Hudson New York in the winter---I know that place a little and the weather I know well,,,crappy snow and not where you want to be if you are carpenter or work outside and need to deal with it. The location and the weather is also a character. If you know what I mean.

Here is the trailor:v=qH9C9_WsmLA

Here is a little scene that kind of explains why I can watch it again and again: v=NUjUcMhlc9o

And another sweet scene that makes you feel good about being a dad, being a friend: v=8H7Hv770ggQ

Look for it---I guess it's a chick flick,,,whatever that means

Nobody's Fool (1994) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1059487-nobodys_fool/)

Cannot say I remember the movie but I am sure I have seen it just because I would have gone to something with these actors in it.

[Schaumburger]

Many of us have probably ditched our VCR's quite some time ago. Japan's Funai Electric manufactured the last VCR's in July. Remember when VCR'S were cutting edge technology?

I bought my first VCR at Marshall Fields at Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie, Illinois (north suburb of Chicago) in about 1984-85...I think I spent about $400 on it. My coworkers all told me to get VHS and not Betamax. Now I didn't have to be home to watch a TV show...I could just tape it. And rent movies from the video store down the street...what was not too like about that (except for the late fees)? Now you could buy your favorite movies and watch them over and over again. It took my roommate's boyfriend about 3 hours to get that first VCR hooked up and running in our apartment in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood . . . bless him :)

It took a ruling in 1984 from the US Supreme Court saying that using a VCR to tape television shows was not a violation of copyright laws to get the demand for VCR's going.

I now end my trip down memory lane.

[Taltarzac725]

Many of us have probably ditched our VCR's quite some time ago. Japan's Funai Electric manufactured the last VCR's in July. Remember when VCR'S were cutting edge technology?

I bought my first VCR at Marshall Fields at Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie, Illinois (north suburb of Chicago) in about 1984-85...I think I spent about $400 on it. My coworkers all told me to get VHS and not Betamax. Now I didn't have to be home to watch a TV show...I could just tape it. And rent movies from the video store down the street...what was not too like about that (except for the late fees)? Now you could buy your favorite movies and watch them over and over again. It took my roommate's boyfriend about 3 hours to get that first VCR hooked up and running in our apartment in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood . . . bless him :)

It took a ruling in 1984 from the US Supreme Court saying that using a VCR to tape television shows was not a violation of copyright laws to get the demand for VCR's going.

I now end my trip down memory lane.


I probably got mine in 1989 just so I could keep out of Jennifer V.'s hair when she was studying for her last year of law school at the U of MN and I was living with her.

I have had some kind of playing device since then. Recording devices not so much.

[Taltarzac725]

I watch Die Hard every six months or so. Saw part of one of the sequels while giving platelets at One Blood a few days ago. Live Free or Die Hard (2007) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/live_free_or_die_hard)

Things were quite strange though at One Blood the last time.

There seemed to be an elephant in the room. :D:highfive::posting:

Die Hard (1988) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/die_hard/) I remember seeing it in Minneapolis just before a relationship with a male law student went really bad. Saw it with him. Phoney friend who took me for a ride and used to bug me all my Third Year of Law School with jibes about "Meeting my parents". One of my worst experiences in law school but my friends at Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners helped me out dealing with it and I learned that he had pulled something similar with a First Year Law Student during our First Year which caused her to drop out of Law School. I just had to get a little Old Testament on the man. Kind of a fitting movie for that memory in Die Hard. The creep graduated from Law School but we did not have enough evidence to do anything more than warn students away from him through the grape vine.

[ColdNoMore]

Many of us have probably ditched our VCR's quite some time ago. Japan's Funai Electric manufactured the last VCR's in July. Remember when VCR'S were cutting edge technology?

I bought my first VCR at Marshall Fields at Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie, Illinois (north suburb of Chicago) in about 1984-85...I think I spent about $400 on it. My coworkers all told me to get VHS and not Betamax. Now I didn't have to be home to watch a TV show...I could just tape it. And rent movies from the video store down the street...what was not too like about that (except for the late fees)? Now you could buy your favorite movies and watch them over and over again. It took my roommate's boyfriend about 3 hours to get that first VCR hooked up and running in our apartment in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood . . . bless him :)

It took a ruling in 1984 from the US Supreme Court saying that using a VCR to tape television shows was not a violation of copyright laws to get the demand for VCR's going.

I now end my trip down memory lane.

Speaking of memory lane, there's probably very few kids under the age of 15 these days that could tell you that they have ever heard the phrase... "Be kind and rewind." :D

[Taltarzac725]

Speaking of memory lane, there's probably very few kids under the age of 15 these days that could tell you that they have ever heard the phrase... "Be kind and rewind." :D

I certainly heard that a lot. And some libraries where I would get VCR tapes would charge you if you had not rewound them.

I had to get a DVD player after we moved to the Villages in 2005 because the Blockbuster that used to be in Spanish Plaines was phasing out all the VCR tapes and just going to DVDs.

I miss John, Charlotte, Mimi and the rest of that crew at the Blockbusters that used to be where First Watch is now. FIRST WATCH DEBUTS IN THE VILLAGES | First Watch (http://www.firstwatch.com/openings/first-watch-debuts-in-the-villages/)

This opened around 2012???

[Taltarzac725]

Tombstone (1993) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tombstone/)

"I'm your Huckleberry!" Doc Holiday "I'm Your Huckleberry" - YouTube (https://youtu.be/Bh3xpSJwmk4)

I visited the tourist trap Tombstone back around 1972. It was OK. :duck::MOJE_whot::clap2::1rotfl:

Tombstone Arizona | Information and Tourist Guide (http://www.tombstoneweb.com/)

[CritterLover]

Older:
Cool Hand Luke
Jeremiah Johnson
The Big Red One
Jaws

Newer:
The Breakfast Club
Raising Arizona
ET
St. Elmos' Fire
Serendipity

Even newer:
Dead Poets Society
The Hunger Games
Any of the Bourne series!

[Taltarzac725]

Older:
Cool Hand Luke
Jeremiah Johnson
The Big Red One
Jaws

Newer:
The Breakfast Club
Raising Arizona
ET
St. Elmos' Fire
Serendipity

Even newer:
Dead Poets Society
The Hunger Games
Any of the Bourne series!

Good choices.

Patton is another movie I watch fairly regularly. Patton (1970) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/patton/)

Along with Kelly's Heroes (1970) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kellys_heroes/)

[Taltarzac725]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but I watch this almost every chance I get.

Ghost (1990) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1031086-ghost/)

Demi Moore - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/demi_moore)

[CFrance]

A Christmas Story... "You'll shoot your eye out!"

[tv2016]

The American President, my all time favorite, with Michael Douglas and Annette Bening. I only wish we all could have had the opportunity to vote for Andrew Sheppard this year.

Love that movie!

[DigitalGranny]

I watch White Christmas every day from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve.
We both watch My Big Fat Greek Wedding about once a month.
I love Steel Magnolias also.
Thanks for this thread. I'm going to try to watch them all!

[600th Photo Sq]

" An Affair to Remember "....Gary Grant...Deborah Karr....." The Time Machine "... Rod Taylor, Alan Young...and last but not least..." The Wild Bunch " William Holden he had the leading role but lot's of other actors had excellent roles.

My least favorite's... anything to do with the Draft Dodger....non other than " John Wayne "... and the Traitor " Hanoi Jane Fonda ".

[CFrance]

I watch White Christmas every day from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve.
We both watch My Big Fat Greek Wedding about once a month.
I love Steel Magnolias also.
Thanks for this thread. I'm going to try to watch them all!
DG, If you like White Christmas every day for a month, you probably won't like Fargo--scratch off the list!

[Yung Dum]

Fargo is one. Godfather 1 & 2. are 2 more. Airplane and The Breakfast Club are 2 more. Night Of The Living Dead is another. Mary Poppins concludes my short list.

[Nucky]

How about the Saw Movies! Ay Dios Mio...I have to sleep with a nightlight on and the closet door open.

[chuckinca]

Most of the above and

Spartacus
Ben Hur
Wizard of Oz
Apocalypse Now
Good Morning Vietnam
Tootsie
Shane
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Strangelove
Doctor Zhivago
Reds
The Way We Where
et al

[Taltarzac725]

How about the Saw Movies! Ay Dios Mio...I have to sleep with a nightlight on and the closet door open.

I have seen those more than enough for right now. I do enjoy scary movies though.

[Paper1]

Jeremiah Johnson, Redford.

[Taltarzac725]

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/treasure_of_the_sierra_madre/)

One of my favorite movies. I am a big Humphrey Bogart fan.

[jblum315]

Moonstruck

[Walt.]

Alfie (the original Michael Caine classic)
The Graduate
Groundhog Day
Lassie Come Home
The Search (Montgomery Clift) - almost the same as “Lassie Come Home”
The Searchers
Shane

The Heartbreak Kid (the original) - available on Youtube.
The Heartbreak Kid (1972) - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vusvJaxKZFo)

I like lots of movies, but these are some of the ones I’ve watched numerous times.

[Shimpy]

Alfie (the original Michael Caine classic)
The Graduate
Groundhog Day
Lassie Come Home
The Search (Montgomery Clift) - almost the same as “Lassie Come Home”
The Searchers
Shane



I forgot about "Shane" one of my all time favorites. I guess I'll play it in the next couple days.

[Shimpy]

I forgot to add one of my best of all times......"How the West Was Won".......... What makes this a classic is it covered so many years and generations and included stars such as...............
Carroll Baker
Eve Prescott
Lee J. Cobb
Marshal Lou Ramsey
Henry Fonda
Jethro Stuart
Carolyn Jones
Julie Rawlings
Karl Malden Karl Malden
Zebulon Prescott
Gregory Peck
George Peppard
Zeb Rawlings
Robert Preston
Roger Morgan
Debbie Reynolds
James Stewart
Linus Rawlings
Eli Wallach
Charlie Gant
John Wayne
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Richard Widmark
Mike King
Brigid Bazlen
Dora Hawkins
Walter Brennan W

[Taltarzac725]

I forgot to add one of my best of all times......"How the West Was Won".......... What makes this a classic is it covered so many years and generations and included stars such as...............
Carroll Baker
Eve Prescott
Lee J. Cobb
Marshal Lou Ramsey
Henry Fonda
Jethro Stuart
Carolyn Jones
Julie Rawlings
Karl Malden Karl Malden
Zebulon Prescott
Gregory Peck
George Peppard
Zeb Rawlings
Robert Preston
Roger Morgan
Debbie Reynolds
James Stewart
Linus Rawlings
Eli Wallach
Charlie Gant
John Wayne
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Richard Widmark
Mike King
Brigid Bazlen
Dora Hawkins
Walter Brennan W

I see that every once in a while.

[Taltarzac725]

Kelly's Heroes (1970) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kellys_heroes/)

Kellly's Heroes.

This is another movie I like to see but I do remember being bullied a little bit by someone in that theater. I often remember if something bad happened before or while I was viewing whatever movie.

[JerryLBell]

Most films in most genres are something I can watch only once or one in a great while. I just remember them too well to watch them over and over again. The comedy stops being funny, the drama stops having impact, the mystery is gone. Normally, I can only watch a film repeatedly if it visually very complex and interesting and that normally only happens in Science Fiction or Fantasy films. I can watch any of the following over and over:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Terminator 2
Blade Runner
Aliens
Avatar
The Fifth Element
The Martian
Inception
Gravity
Star Wars (yeah, even the prequel trilogy)
Star Trek (OK, not Star Trek V)
The Matrix (even the sequels)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (not so much for The Hobbit trilogy)
The Harry Potter Films
Some of the Marvel Universe films

That said, there a few comedies I can watch repeatedly:

Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
Animal House

[John_W]

Kelly's Heroes (1970) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kellys_heroes/)

Kellly's Heroes.



For some reason I totally forgot about Kelly's Heroes, who can forget Oddball, I thought Donald Sutherland stole the show.

http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9r8pd2Ro91rta6qjo1_500.jpg

Then next time I see him, it's Hawkeye Pierce, again he's the glue that holds all the characters together. I could never watch the television version, Sutherland was so entrenched in my mind that Alan Alda was just too meek. What also made it so memorable for me, was I was in Korea when I saw Mash for the first time.

https://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/system/images/photo_albums/donald-sutherland/large/05-suth-mash.jpg?1384968217

Next, just to show he's multi-talented character actor, Donald Sutherland plays the detective in Klute, a film that Jane Fonda won the academy award. A really good 70's suspenseful crime drama that had you on the edge, I saw it again just a few months ago. Or he was doing his best Steve McQueen impersonation.

http://www.citizenpoulpe.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/donald-sutherland.jpg


The Graduate

How this film slipped my mind, if I've seen it once, I've seen it 25 times, honestly. There wasn't a flaw in this entire film and it had you rooting for the good guys at the end. Who would of thought that Mr. Robinson would go on to become the Mayor of Jaws Beach.

I'm want to say just one word to you, just one word. Plastics.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iF8PNmcHsM4/VOkOvNAB8VI/AAAAAAAAI3g/x-KzMprgwu0/s1600/One-Word-Plastics.jpg

[Shimpy]

Kelly's Heroes (1970) - Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kellys_heroes/)

Kellly's Heroes.
.

Love the theme song "Burning Bridges".......Mike Curb Congregation - Burning Bridges (with lyrics) - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXIjE_gDw94)

[Ken24]

Didn't see anyone mention this one I can't pass up The Great Escape with Steve McQueen and James Garner.