Movies You Can Watch Again & Again!
 

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

What movie would you pick and why?

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.

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.

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

Movies You Can Watch Again & Again!
 

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

American Graffiti, because of the cool music.

Animal House, for the same reason stated above.

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

Like Gladiator too.

The Hoosiers basketball in Indiana

Humphrey Bogart movies.

Play it again Sam. Play It Again Sam.....Bogart - YouTube

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.

"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.

"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:

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

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

Space Cowboys.

Goodfellas and All three Godfathers

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

- 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:

Fargo and Captain Ron.

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.

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

Shane.
True Grit (both versions)
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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.

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

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. :)

And A Bronx Tale.

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

Absolutely!

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

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

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.

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Gladiator

Fiddler On The Roof

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.

Fiddler on the Roof

Singin in the Rain.
 

Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Rotten Tomatoes

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

Debbie Reynolds - Rotten Tomatoes

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

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 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

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.

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.