I haven’t known what movies to watch lately. Does everyone have their own treasure movies that they’ve seen many times? 😀
Princess Bride
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!
Kung Fu Hustle I’ve seen countless times.
That and Shaolin Soccer are sacred films to me. :D
Journey To The West as well, though.
Primer
Napoleon Dynamite
Primer doesn’t count. You haven’t watched it once until you’ve watched it three times.
So 9==3?
oh my god Primer was so good. That’s intense.
I was gonna say that one, GOSH
Brazil (1984)
Hundreds of Beavers! It’s an absolute delight showing it to someone who has never seen it before.
YES. I only saw it once and I want to show it to someone else with no explanation!
I have one for you too:
“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”
I just grabbed it off the shelf from my library because it looked interesting. Never heard of it before.
I went in completely blind and fell in love. Just hit play and settle in. Absolutely lovely.
Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll give it a try!
I hope you enjoy it! :D
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.
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.
Snatch
Bad Santa is my christmas movie. I regret watching Bad Santa 2 once.
Top secret, Back to the future, Star Wars (IV,V and VI), Godfather (all three), LOTR (all three), Goodfellas,
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.
I watched the thing for the first time very recently. That movie holds up so well.
Watched midnight run for the first time a few months back randomly. Quite enjoyed it, especially for its age.
Pulp Fiction
Dogma, Lawrence of Arabia, Philadelphia Story, Hudson Hawk, The Martian, Edge of Tomorrow, Kung Fu Hustle, Delicatessen, Apocalypse Now, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, LOTR, Star Wars (original 3), The Thin Man series.
Also Dr. Strangelove and all the Monty Python, Princess Bride, 5th Element
Interstellar
Most Star Wars movies except 8 & 9
F1
Back to the Future trilogy
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
Both modern Dune movies
Fury
Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy
The Martian
Oppenheimer
