Name the top 5 movies that you would happily re-watch, given the opportunity.
Here are mine:
- Overboard
- Zorro, the Gay Blade
- Dave
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait 
To Kill A Mockingbird 
Dave 
Overboard 
Zorro The Gay Blade
Here’s the catch. You can only have 5 movies in your list at any given time.
If you think of another one, or someone suggests one that should have been on your list, you have to update your list to give up one of your previous 5.
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Phylllis
Dr. Strangelove
The Apartment
Captain America: The Winter SoldierThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1776
Casablanca
senyordave
The Road Warrior
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
This is Spinal Tap
Cabaret
Orange
Almost Retired
Casablanca
Best Years of Our Lives
The Thin Man
Animal House
Caddyshack.
I invite any first year psychology majors to analyze that list. And guess my age…..
WaterGirl
@Phylllis: I haven’t seen The Apartment in decades, though I did love it.
edit: Definitely some excellent choices here.
MazeDancer
The Candidate
Pride & Prejudice (All versions)
Sense & Sensibility (Emma Thompson version)
You’ve Got Mail (Mostly for the opening shot of Meg Ryan’s impossibly perfect apartment. But like the silly story, too.)
Hamilton
Pete Downunder
p.a.
Missouri Breaks
Bend it Like Beckham
Alien
REM Tourfilm (Concert film count? No? Then O! Brother Where Art Thou)
Eight Men Out
Phylllis
@WaterGirl: There are so many layers to that movie. We watch it and reread Ebert’s review every year at Christmas.
Raven
Lost in America
Jeremiah Johnson
McCabe and Mrs Miller
The Last Detail
Scarecrow
Phylllis
@Almost Retired: 58? Also, The Thin Man is another Christmas movie favorite.
WaterGirl
@Phylllis: Someone not only read the instructions, but is following them! I’ll be right back, I have to go write that in my diary. :-)
White & Gold Purgatorian
In no particular order:
Electric Horseman
Star Wars (the original one)
To Have and Have Not
Bringing Up Baby
Master and Commander
5x5
(not actually a) Dr. Thoth Evans
Star Wars (No, not “Episode IV”. Not “A New Hope.” [email protected]#^-ing STAR WARS!)
The Big Lebowski
Galaxy Quest
The King’s Speech
Spirited Away
Phylllis
@WaterGirl: Hated to strike through Captain America, but Casablanca must take precedence.
artem1s
The Princess Bride
Sanjiro
Fitzcaraldo
The Third Man
Pulp Fiction
WaterGirl
@5×5: That makes me think of Father Goose with Cary Grant – we must have watched that a dozen times.
Baud
Two bits, four bits, six bits, a peso. All for
ZorroBiden, stand up and say so!Bruuuuce
Bull Durham
1776
Real Genius
Singin in the Rain
Victor Victoria
(Having watched pretty much all of these double-digit times, it’s the beginning of a much longer list.)
WaterGirl
@Phylllis: I admire your moral courage.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I had forgotten about that line! So awesome.
RobertDSC-iPhone 8
The Godfather Part I
Gladiator
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Avengers Endgame
The Breakfast Club
gwangung
Singing In the Rain
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Black Panther
Star Wars: A New HopeThe Empire Strikes BackBlazing Saddles
CaseyL
In no particular order:
Murder on the Orient Express (1974 version)
The Andromeda Strain
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
Documentary: Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides
The Lion in Winter
Spirited Away
Raven
The Cincinnati Kid
Cinderella Liberty
Three Women
The Last Waltz
The TAMI Show
WaterGirl
it’s fun to see everybody’s movies, but I guess this doesn’t encourage conversation!
Phylllis
@Raven: Heh, Lost in America. Saw that in the theater on a date with an attorney in Charleston SC. The audience erupted with a hearty schmuck when he agrees to pay extra for leather seats. Charleston yuppies, a breed unto themselves.
Raven
@WaterGirl: name this film “rules , in a knife fight???”
SiubhanDuinne
O/T, but AOC is killing it in a tribute to RBG.
MSNBC
Raven
@Phylllis: come on 22!!!
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: What show?
germy
Withnail and I
It’s A Gift
Animal Crackers
Amarcord
The Triplets Of Belleville
geg6
Young Frankenstein
(This Is) Spinal Tap
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Blazing Saddles
The Life of Brian
Yes, those are my choices and fuck anyone who thinks I am a little too into a certain genre. I love them all madly.
WaterGirl
@germy: I thought that was a typo, but it’s a movie!
WaterGirl
@geg6: We’re not judging!
Almost Retired
Yup, Phylllis, exactly right, although my nym was an assist….
JoyceH
Lawrence of Arabia
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
The Sting
Star Wars
All The President’s Men
Elizabelle
Haven’t read the list. Mine is Chinatown, the marriage of Maria Braun, I would like to see Amacord again. Django unchained. Don’t know the fifth. Maybe Amadeus
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: I hope it brings out the youth vote.
WaterGirl
What if you could only name 4? Which one would you give up? That would be really hard for me.
Raven
@geg6: Terri Garr is a go-go dancer in The Tami Show!
LuciaMia
Enchanted April
Twelfth Night (the Trevor Nunn version)
O, Brother, WhereArt Thou.
All About Eve
The Wrath of Khan
Phylllis
@Almost Retired: Same age, and apparently the same cultural influences.
Josie
Once Upon a Time in the West
Shawshank Redemption
To Kill a Mockingbird
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python Holy Grail
geg6
@artem1s:
If I could have more choices, The Princess Bride and Lost in America would be added to my list. But I’m not striking any of my choices for them. But both great!
SiubhanDuinne
Casablanca
All That Jazz
Field of Dreams
The Scarlet Pimpernel (L. Howard/M. Oberon)
The Red Shoes
Elizabelle
@geg6: Spinal tap and young Frankenstein for sure. Loved them both.
Mike in NC
Wife wants to watch “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. I checked my DVD stash and don’t have it, but it appears to be available on Amazon Prime.
LuciaMia
@CaseyL: LOVE The Lion in Winter.But Ive seen it so many times I can practically quote it verbatim!
WaterGirl
@Josie: Ooh, Shawshank Redemption. Definitely in my list of favorite movies. But I don’t know that I could watch it over and over.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
I love that movie, especially the opening credits song (“Pass Me By”).
WaterGirl
Question for everyone:
What makes a movie something that you can watch over and over vs. something you think is a great movie?
Geminid
My Darling Clementine. Ride the High Country. The Rainmaker. The Bridge over the River Kwai. Bullitt
Wag
The Princess Bride
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Apocalypse Now
Touching the Void (best movie about mountain climbing EVER)
Sid and Nancy
Elizabelle
I love Porco Rosso.
oldgold
Casablanca
Godfather I
Cool Hand Luke
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Wizard of Oz
divF
Mixture favorites + ones that haven’t been mentioned:
Henry V (1989 version)
Topsy-Turvy
The Philadelphia StoryMan for All SeasonsLA Confidential
Amadeus
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
Oh yeah, The Lion in Winter for sure.
This is a Top Six list, yes?
Josie
@WaterGirl:
That scene in which he plays the opera song over the loudspeaker for everyone just makes me cry every time.
Jack Canuck
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Ooh, Field of Dreams. Very tempting!
LuciaMia
@WaterGirl: Great dialogue is always a biggie.
Raven
@Geminid: Lonely are the Brave is pretty good to.
Phylllis
@WaterGirl: I watch all kinds of movies over and over. Invariably see something new each time. For example, the last time we watched Strangelove, I noticed James Earl Jones totally had some fabulous, yet subtle, facial expressions going on.
divF
@SiubhanDuinne: I agree, but put Lion in Winter in somewhat of a “guilty pleasures” category. So much overt chewing the scenery.
My god, I forgot Man for All Seasons – may need to reconsider.
FlyingToaster
Comfort and Joy (1984, Bill Forsyth)
Time Bandits
The Great Race
Topkapi
Complex World (1991)
LuciaMia
A good friend whos a Western fan turned me onto “Westward The Women.” A pretty realistic depiction at the time.
mrmoshpotato
Dropping Jurassic Park
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Lawrence of Arabia
Cinema Paradiso
Nosferatu (1922)
To Kill A Mockingbird
WaterGirl
I can watch Pretty Woman over and over too, but it wouldn’t displace any of my current 5.
If we all had to agree on a movie that someone has listed here, do you think we could do it?
LuciaMia
Going over my five but have to include ‘Local Hero.’
CaseyL
@LuciaMia: Me, too – plus I have the script in book form.
Wouldn’t it be a hoot to gather up a bunch of Lion in Winter fans who’ve watched the movie that much, and show it again a la Rocky Horror? Dressed as characters in the movie, and reciting the lines along with the movie?
“At least John loves me!”
“Like a glutton loves his lunch.”
Raven
@LuciaMia: that’s a very interesting point about Jeremiah Johnson. I basically have it memorized but watching it with the commentary by Pollack, Redford and Milius was really informative. They point out that , in about a third of the film, there is hardly any dialogue since his wife doesn’t speak English and the boy is left mute from trauma. The dialogue that there is is great but sparse. When they were trying to figure out how to dub it they went to Stanley Kubrick because he was connected with folks in Europe who could do it effectively.
MagdaInBlack
@FlyingToaster: Finally someone who appreciates ” Time Bandits”
Ninedragonspot
I would put Heaven Can Wait on that list, but only if it’s a supercut that only has Dyan Cannon’s and Charles Grodin’s scenes in it.
He’s A Woman, She’s A Man
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh, Thompson)
Ninotchka
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
#1 isn’t immortal film-making, but either that or Peking Opera Blues would be my choice for sick-in-bed, cheer-myself-up entertainment
WaterGirl
If remakes were made of all of your movies, would you go see any of them?
Which ones?
p.a.
@FlyingToaster: I’m ‘in’ Complex World. You can see the top of my head in the background when The Smithereens are at the bar complaining about the band.?
Fun fact if you’re not a Pvd local: the street preacher was not an actor, and was not an act. That was his actual schtick and his actual style, preaching on Kennedy Plaza for years.
Tim Now Sir Simon Poshlord
Animal Crackers
The Nutty Professor
Dawn of the Dead
Suspiria
Singin’ in the Rain
MazeDancer
@Raven: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Which I should maybe trade out for Sense & Sensibility on my list
WaterGirl
@Ninedragonspot: I love James Mason in Heaven Can Wait. I love him so much.
“I’m not asking you to lower your expectations, so much as broaden them.”
phein61
Local Hero
Lair of the White Worm
Time Bandits
Key Largo
In The Heat of the Night
LuciaMia
@CaseyL: ‘Id hang you from the nipples, but you’d shock the children.’
‘Shall we hang the holly or each other?’
Mel
Big Fish
Withnail and I
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Eve’s Bayou
Sense and Sensibility (1985)
Ninedragonspot
@WaterGirl: You’re absolutely right. He’s in the supercut.
Felanius Kootea
Pride and Prejudice
Spirited Away
Lord of the Rings
Sully (my husband can’t understand this one)
Akeelah and the Bee
WaterGirl
Only John Cole would answer my question in a thread of his own, 30 minutes after mine went up!
jc
The Birds
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Russians Are Coming …
Slaughterhose Five
Cabaret
patrick Il
Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
Bullit
Winter’s Bone
ex Machina
WV Blondie
Coming late to the party, but my five:
5x5
@WaterGirl: I’m going to start breaking the rules. (Sorry; not sorry.)
I love Casablanca. So many great lines.
1776 is a lot of fun. My niece had a school project about John Dickinson. I told her I would watch 1776 and give her a play by play. “To the right, to the right; always to the right.” Wasn’t too fond of John.
I love The Thin Man. Too much fun; great banter. Myrna Loy.
The Women.
I’m afraid to watch Cabaret. I’ve seen the stage play 5-6 times; I love the soundtrack. I don’t want it to be the last time I saw Cabaret and erase the last show.
I need to watch Treasure of the Sierra Madre. I like Bogart.
I have to review the thread (in order to break more rules.)
eddie blake
the 5th element
john wick
pacific rim
thor: ragnarok
brazil
eta- i mean, my god i love SO many movies, i own hundreds and hundreds, but five it is.
dexwood
Guilty pleasures…
Thank God It’s Friday – the running joke about Jeff Goldblum’s car cracks me up.
My Favorite Year – Peter O’Toole, enough said.
Young Frankenstein – Just plain fun.
Slaughterhouse Five – very faithful to the book.
The Big Lebowski – no reason needed for me.
In no order of preference.
CaseyL
@LuciaMia: I almost replied, but then it occurred to me we’d likely wind up quoting the entire movie to one another!
Phylllis
@WaterGirl: Only 1776, because there are so many great theater actors who could do it justice.
LuciaMia
And that candy cane striped dress she wears on Christmas Eve is wonderful.
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
A great movie is one that it’s good to have watched. A movie you can watch over and over is a movie that it’s fun to be watching. There’s naturally a lot of overlap, but there are movies that hit your emotions too hard to be watched again. I feel like I’m a better person for having seen Schindler’s List and Waltz With Bashir, but they are not movies I feel the need to see again and again.
Jinchi
This is a movie I’ve never actually seen, but can identify from a single chord and quote verbatim, because it’s such a favorite of my SO that it’s been part of the ambient soundscape in our home for years.
FlyingToaster
@MagdaInBlack:
“Mum! Dad! Don’t touch it — it’s EEEEEEVIL!”
Poof!
oclib
The Martian
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world
The big Chill
Four Rooms
The Last of the Mohicans
geg6
@WaterGirl:
NO! NEVER!
They are all perfectly cast and cannot possibly be improved upon.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Shawshank
Goodfellas
Thor: Ragnarok
The Avengers
Galaxy Quest
eddie blake
@FlyingToaster:
“if i were creating the world i wouldn’t mess about with butterflies and daffodils. i would have started with lasers, eight o’clock, day one!”
MazeDancer
@WaterGirl:
There isn’t that much overlap. Interesting how everyone has their own list.
patrick Il
@MagdaInBlack:
Ebert and Siskel had a disagreement about Time Bandit. Siskel, the craftsman, disliked the disorderliness, Ebert liked the imagination.
Omnes Omnibus
Young Frankenstein
The Fifth Element
Charade
The Princess Bride
Four Weddings and a Funeral (Don’t judge me.)
Elizabelle
I love everybody’s suggestions. Thank you.
To being able to see movies in a theatre again, once President Biden has put us on a safer path.
WaterGirl
@Roger Moore: The only thing that got me through Schindler’s List was the music.
MazeDancer
@Jinchi: There are a lot of versions of Pride & Prejudice. TV Series. Movie.
Some are better than others. The Keira Knightley movie and the Colin Firth TV Series are the best, IMHO
eddie blake
@patrick Il:
siskel had the imagination of a brick.
Geminid
The Sandpiper gets an honorable mention, for the scene in which Charles Bronson achieves the ultimate American male dream: he punches out Richard Burton. Almost makes up for the crappy theme song- The Shadow of Your Smile.
Omnes Omnibus
@Raven: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
khead
Let It Ride
The Caine Mutiny
Aliens
Jaws
Shawshank
Zelma
Casablanca
Roman Holiday
Spotlight
1776
Star Wars
Gettysburg
FlyingToaster
@p.a.:
That’s so cool!
I was living in Somerville, MA at the time; watched Complex World at the Somerville Theater before it was subdivided. As a big NRBQ fan, it was such a riot watching them play a Beatles tribute band.
WaterGirl
@geg6: These were my movies.
I saw the remake of Overboard but only because I was at my niece’s and we were all watching together on a holiday, otherwise hard now.
Hard No on Zorro the Gay Blade, Dave, and Mockingbird
Maybe on Heaven Can Wait.
Omnes Omnibus
@dexwood: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN IS A WORK OF FUCKING GENIUS AND NOT A GUILTY PLEASURE!!!!
jackmac
NO PARTICULAR ORDER:
Bull Durham
My Favorite Year
All the President’s Men
Lord of the Rings (yeah they all count as one)
The Wrath of Khan (KHAN!!!!)
Matt McIrvin
A Chinese Ghost Story
The Miracle Fighters
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2001: A Space Odyssey
List subject to change based on whim.
WaterGirl
@Zelma: Cheater! :-)
Roman Holiday, love that! Used to watch that every New Year’s Eve.
geg6
@WaterGirl:
In some cases, they are the same thing. Like, Young Frankenstein is a truly great movie. By any measure. Plus, it just makes me happy to watch it every time I do.
Some great movies don’t need multiple viewings because they make such an emotional impact that you know it will never feel that way again. Here I’m thinking Schindler’s List or The Man Who Would Be King.
Central Planning
geg6’s resonated with me the most. For a list of movies not mentioned that I could go for :
Mystery Men
Galaxy Quest
LoTR, 1st or 3rd
Ocean’s 11
Last of the Mohicans
ETA – I see some were mentioned that I have on my list, but I started putting this together before I saw them
dexwood
@Omnes Omnibus: Thank you. Sometimes my Catholic upbringing kicks in. Mea Culpa.
Omnes Omnibus
@dexwood: I apparently feel rather strongly about the matter.
debbie
@Phylllis:
I had a whole new impression of Rex Harrison after watching Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
dexwood
@Omnes Omnibus: No harm done.
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
I haven’t put together a list yet, but I think almost any list I’d come up with I would want to see the remakes, if only to be able to say I had seen them.
Quinerly
@MagdaInBlack: one of my all time favorites.
(I also love “A Boy and His Dog.”?)
WaterGirl
@geg6: Good points.
If I walked through a room where any one of my five was playing, I would stop and watch.
Zelma
@WaterGirl:
I didn’t mean to cheat; I just can’t count!
Misamericanthrope
My current five (no particular order):
The Witch
Raising Arizona
Safe
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Blue Velvet
khead
@gwangung:
This is an excellent list.
Drdavechemist
Drawing from others’ lists:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh/Thompson)
The Great Race
The Princess Bride
Singin’ in the Rain (especially the scenes with Donald O’Connor)
tokyokie
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), C’era una volta il West (Once Upon a Time in the West), 重慶森林 (Chungking Express), 七人の侍 (Seven Samurai), and The Hustler. 大菩薩峠 (Sword of Doom) might be on there were it show up on TV more often.
FlyingToaster
@MazeDancer: Only because it’s a top 5. If it were a top 50, there’d be a LOT of overlap.
himahamma
Bad News Bears (original)
Bull Durham
Ran
Saved
My Neighbor Totoro
debbie
@LuciaMia:
I once watched Lion in Winter and Becket as a double header. Great fun, all that scenery chewing!
geg6
@Omnes Omnibus:
Totally with you on that. My favorite movie of all time.
OGLiberal
I agree with many selections here. Not mentioned, I believe, is “Midnight Run”. Just has so many of my favorite lines. I mean, Jimmy Serrano – “Sidney, sit down, relax, have a sandwich, drink a glass of milk, do some fucking thing.” It’s a huge dude film with no significant female actors but Grodin, DeNiro and Farina are perfect.
Speaking of DeNiro, best line ever from “Meet the Parents”:
“Stupid cat? How could you say that? That cat’s been like a brother to you! We’re supposed to let him wander the streets without food, water or toilet?”)
p.a.
I saw a Butch and Sundance mention. No one has The Sting yet? Not on mine either, but a great movie and very re-watchable imho.
himahamma
@Matt McIrvin: spiderverse, should have thought of that!
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Raven: I’m very late to the party, but Butch Cassidy, of course.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Charade!
Also love Wait Until Dark
patroclus
Galaxy Quest
The Big Lebowski
Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
The Princess Bride
eddie blake
five is HARD!
debbie
Memento
Dr. Strangelove
Wings of Desire
Lion in Winter
Wizard of Oz
Phylllis
@debbie: The height of his ‘Sexy Rexy’ days.
James E Powell
There are probably 50 to 100 movies that I would happily watch again. I will re-watch pretty much any movie with Humphrey Bogart, Paul Newman, Denzel Washington, Catherine Deneuve, or Sally Field. Movies written & directed by John Sayles.
These are five that I think are kind of peculiar to me.
Cold Comfort Farm
A Hard Days’ Night
Dinner Rush
Snatched
Winter’s Bone
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Cannonball Run
Showgirls
Howard the Duck
Battlefield Earth
The Waterboy
LuciaMia
Remakes can be such a touchy thing. Penny Marshall did a remake of one of my favorite movies, “The Bishops Wife.” Called “the Preachers Wife”,starring Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington. At the time I thought, if anybody can play a Cary Grant-like character, its him.
Well, it was pretty awful.
Elizabelle
@James E Powell:
Winter’s Bone! Yes, that’s a favorite too.
Also Patch of Blue with Sidney Poitier, just because it had a big impact on me.
patroclus
@patroclus: And if I could add a 6th, it’d be Thunderheart.
Roger Moore
Preliminary list:
Princess Mononoke
7 Samurai
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Princess Bride
WaterGirl
@eddie blake: You can do it! I have faith.
Elizabelle
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: What about Water World, or whatever, with Kevin Costner. That one lulled me to sleep. In the movie theatre.
AliceBlue
To Kill a Mockingbird
LA Confidential
Vertigo
All About Eve
The Best Years of Our lives
WaterGirl
@patroclus:
Thunderheart. I don’t recall the details of that movie, but I do know that I LOVED it.
Felanius Kootea
@Felanius Kootea: If it were a top 10 list, I’d add:
The Matrix
The Fifth Element
Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
Black Panther
Whale Rider
WaterGirl
Does anyone have a movie on their list that not even one other person chose?
edit: I just looked. No one else picked 4 of my 5 movies. What’s wrong with you people? :-)
randy khan
@Misamericanthrope:
That’s hard core.
Tehanu
1. Carnival in Flanders
2. L.A. Confidential
3. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
4. Local Hero
5. Eat Drink Man Woman
patroclus
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: LOL. I’ve seen all of those and they are all awful (imho).
beth
Mary Poppins
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Godfather
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Young Frankenstein
Heidi Mom
Casablanca
Henry V (Branagh version)
Chariots of Fire
The Last of the Mohicans
Master and Commander
WaterGirl
@patroclus: But we’re not judging. :-)
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Elizabelle: I was limited to five. I couldn’t include classics like Heaven’s Gate, Rambo II, The Green Berets and Water World, nor germs like Hudson Hawk and most of Stallone’s and Sandler’s “movies”.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
The Princess Bride
Red River
Some Like It Hot
Young Frankenstein
Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson version)
And if I got a sci-section,
The Fifth Element
Galaxy Quest
I love Alan Rickman!
eddie blake
@WaterGirl:
i’m at #90.
Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus: My list wasn’t my five favorite movies nor the five movies I consider the best of all time. They are five movies that, if I am channel surfing and I see they are on, I would stop immediately and settle in to watch even if there was only 10 minutes left.
Felanius Kootea
@CaseyL:
I’m traumatized every time I watch The Lion in Winter. Brutal movie. Not one I can watch often. Some of the movies I consider incredible, I never want to watch again. Twelve Years a Slave, The Killing Fields, The Lion in Winter, Eve’s Bayou all make that list.
WaterGirl
Next time we should do our 5 favorite movies from when we were kids.
(Not that we’re not all young at heart.)
LuciaMia
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of The Were-Rabbit.
Lady Tottington’s teeth deserves it’s own special mention
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: That was the question, after all.
Misamericanthrope
@randy khan: Ha! in some ways, yes, but it is filled with plenty of sublime, off-kilter moments that lessen the severity of the blow
I certainly can’t hear ” Candy Colored Clown” the same way ever again!
WaterGirl
@eddie blake: Oops! Weird, I saw comment #89 and #91, but somehow I missed yours at 90.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus:
I don’t judge you at all. That would be on my list too.
We’re watching Notting Hill at the moment.
zhena gogolia
Bridget Jones’s Diary
1995 Pride and Prejudice (TV miniseries, but still)
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Charade
To Catch a Thief
sdhays
Here are mine:
Leto
Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back (1980 version)
Wrath of Khan
Aliens
O’Brother Where Art Thou?
Young Frankenstein
Everyone has something on their list that I love. Also this took longer than I thought.
Mike in Oly
I can’t pick five. I simply can’t. There are at least a dozen that I have watched over, and over, and over again. And probably a dozen more that have slipped my mind (because my days of watching them over and over and over again are behind me). Here’s two sets of five that I can safely say I’d never get tired of seeing…
Cabaret
Blade Runner
Dial M For Murder
Auntie Mame
Watership Down
Shirley Valentine
Aliens
The Brave Little Toaster
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Princess Bride
Auntie Beak
Heidi Mom
@WaterGirl: Great movie! Val Kilmer, Graham Greene, Sheila Tousey, Sam Shepard. Val Kilmer, who’s reluctant to acknowledge his Indian heritage, has visions; Graham Greene, who’s desperate to have them, doesn’t. In the end Val Kilmer rides away with the dog.
zhena gogolia
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
No Ishtar? Although I guess that’s being reevaluated as a misunderstood masterpiece.
zhena gogolia
@Auntie Beak:
Yeah, tough for me to leave out Airplane!
randy khan
Let’s see – They’re almost all repeats from others’ lists, but that’s sort of not a surprise.
Star Wars (Empire is a better movie, but it’s Act II of a three-act play.)
The Princess Bride (possibly the best execution of story-within-a-story ever)
Singin’ in the Rain (possibly the perfect movie musical)
The Wizard of Oz
Ocean’s 11
I think what makes these re-watchable is that they all have memorable lines and scenes you want to hear and see again and they have satisfying stories that take you where you want to go in the end (okay, MPHG is an exception there).
I’ve seen a fair number of the MCU movies on TV after seeing them in the theater, and they’re fine but I don’t feel much compulsion to watch them again.
To go off tangent a bit, here are the five musicals I could see again and again, which not coincidentally include the musicals I’ve actually seen the most:
A Chorus Line (as perfect a show as there is)
42nd Street (perfect in a completely different way)
Sunday in the Park with George (have to limit myself to one Sondheim, or that would be almost the entire list)
Cabaret (almost picked the movie instead)
Hamilton (only once so far, but I will be seeing it again)
Oh, Lord, I want live theater back.
Ivan X
Margin Call
Airplane!
Brazil
Crank: High Voltage
Miller’s Crossing
Do I have to stop?
Heat
The Stuff
Taken
Repo Man
John Wick
To Live And Die In L.A.
I mean I could do this for hours.
lgerard
Ed Wood
Sherlock Jr
Cousin Cousine
The Killing
Laura
LuciaMia
And after choosing ‘O, Brother…’
I cant believe I left out “Raising Arizona.”
patroclus
@Heidi Mom:Yeah, Thunderheart is one of my all-time faves. A good plot and the mood and music are just pitch perfect for a Native American sensitive film. Val Kilmer’s all-time best and, I think, Graham Greene’s too. (I liked Dances with Wolves, but Thunderheart is WAY better). As per the question, I would stop whatever I was doing to see it again and again. Just excellent!
WaterGirl
@Leto: Took longer to read the thread, or took longer to decide on your 5 movies?
rekoob
Goodness! Surprised no mention of “West Side Story”. I’ll confess — if I could have only one movie, it would be that. I know there are plenty of problems at this remove (and versus the stage production and revivals), but it’s hard to beat. Most of my other four have already been taken, though I’ll vote for “The Dish”, a great little movie.
khead
@OGLiberal:
Can’t believe I forgot it. The “smokingest” film ever. De Niro smokes everywhere. Houses, cars, trains, planes, restaurants, a police station, airports… you name it.
“Gee, I’ve been looking all over for these! Thanks Alonzo!”
WaterGirl
@Heidi Mom: Oh, right, they are federal agents, yes? I may have to watch that one again.
randy khan
@randy khan:
I see that I forgot to edit out a comment when I decided that MPHG was not as rewatchable as The Wizard of Oz. So maybe I snuck a sixth one in accidentally.
WaterGirl
@Auntie Beak: Going from memory, because I’m too lazy to go back and look, but it seems like may have a lot of overlap with geg6.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Some people seem to be getting into the merits of the movies. And with this type of movie the merits don’t necessarily matter. Young Frankenstein (in addition to being a staggering work of genius) was a movie my dad and I saw together. We had walked to our local cinema because he wanted me to see American Grafitti, but it had ended. We decided that, as long as we were there, we would go to the new movie they were showing, Young Frankenstein. I was only about 10 so I missed a bunch of the jokes, but we had a great time. Even though my mom and my brother subsequently saw it and found it funny, it wasn’t the same thing for them. In a way, it was our movie.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Really? At the time I declared it to be the worst movie I had ever seen.
randy khan
@rekoob:
I know West Side Story better from the stage version (although I saw the movie first). The stage version is very good.
Misamericanthrope
@LuciaMia: Yes! “Son, you got a panty on your head”!
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Airplane was my #6. I struggled, but in the end, the others won out.
Tim Now Sir Simon Poshlord
@WaterGirl: many of these could’ve made my list. I just went off the top of me head.
Felanius Kootea
@randy khan: What is MPHG?
tokyokie
@WaterGirl:
The Leone films I listed have been on my all-time favorite films list since I first saw them as a kid. C’era una volta il West was the first movie I ever went to twice during its initial run, putting me far ahead of the critics on that one.
patroclus
@rekoob: The Dish is fantastic!! Sam Neill’s signature role! (“don’t f**k up,” “copy that” and the best rendition of the Star Spangled Banner ever)! And another like that is the Canadian one about the cancellation of the Avro Arrow, with Dan Akroyd. I think it’s called the “Arrow” but can’t really remember.
Pete Downunder
I’ve had my five, but reading the lists reminded me. Charade has one of the great opening scenes of any caper movie. Also I don’t see any love for foreign language films, but if you only see one I highly recommend The Intouchables. It’s in French with subtitles and is just wonderful. Omar Sy is a comic genius. I’d gladly watch many others recommended here again – Henry V (the Branagh version 1990), my late mother called the play Hank Cinq -, The Sting; Breakfast at Tiffany’s (except for the horrible miscasting of Andy Roony);I could go on but won’t.
tokyokie
@sdhays: Have you ever seen the French short La jetée on which Twelve Monkeys is based? You should check it out; it’s available on Criterion.
randy khan
@Omnes Omnibus:
I took it the same way you did. I can’t even remember how many times I saw Star Wars in the theater, let alone on TV, because it is so easy to watch again and again. Empire absolutely is a better movie, but it’s not compulsively rewatchable (and, honestly, the big reveal at the end loses its punch after the first time). And there are lots of movies not on the list that I think are better, deeper, more profound, than anything on the list.
My list of musicals has a bit of that there, too, in 42nd Street, which is perfect but not at all deep. It’s a Broadway show about putting on a Broadway show, and the plot is about 90% mechanics, which is neither original nor necessarily that interesting. But the music and the dancing are fabulous and she starts the show as a nobody and ends it as a star, so, really, it’s just a lovely thing to see.
randy khan
@Felanius Kootea:
Well, before I edited it to take that movie out, the abbreviation would have made sense. It’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus:
Absolutely. My 5 movies that I would watch over and over and not the same list as the 5 best movies or even my favorite movies. And not the same of my list of “if you could only ever see 5 movies again, what would those be?” movies
edit: it still makes a fun and interesting thread, even if it is morphing.
...now I try to be amused
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Assassination Bureau
The Three Musketeers (d. Richard Lester, 1973)
The Lion in Winter
Before Sunrise
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s how I feel about Cary Grant movies. They are all tied up with my dad.
OGLiberal
@khead: “I’m Mosley!”
dnfree
@FlyingToaster:
Local Hero. (Also by Bill Forsyth.). Everything is the opposite of whatever cliche you think it’s going to be.
I have it on DVD and unfortunately they made cuts, including to the critical last scene. Wish I could get a full version.
Pete Downunder
@patroclus: I completely forgot a few great Aussie films – unforgivable now that I live here – The Dish is great, Lantana with Geoffrey Rush is amazing, Red Dog – sentimental but excellent, and for those thinking of coming to Australia for any length of time, assuming we can ever travel again, required viewing is The Castle (1997). Many Australian catch phrases are taken from that film, much as Americans quote from Casablanca. It’s a wonderful, heart warming movie with a great cast. It might also be our answer to It’s a Wonderful Life.
Felanius Kootea
@randy khan: Ah; of course :).
Amir Khalid
Les Misérables (the musical; few spoken-word adaptations tell Victor Hugo’s story as well or as vividly)
Harry Potter (the whole series)
Beauty and The Beast (Disney’s underrated live-action version)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
The Message (biopic of Prophet Muhammad, directed by Moustapha Akkad)
Leto
@WaterGirl: Took longer to make because I love so many of these. Like I’ll rewatch Karate Kid, Back to the Future (all three), most of the Marvel MCU, Alien, Jaws, War Games, Red Dawn, Ferris Butler… I mean it’s just kind of an endless list really. I’d probably strike all OG Star Wars movies because I can recite every line in my sleep.
Ivan X
I’m detecting a common appreciation for absurdism here. Most people have at least one absurdist movie.
patroclus
If I could add two more to the eminently rewatchable list, they would be Y Tu Mama Tambien and Goodbye Lenin.
dnfree
@Tehanu: yes! Local Hero
Ivan X
Also, for all you Princess Bride fans, the book is a fantastic read, if somewhat different (as in, more satirical and meta) in tone.
WaterGirl
@Ivan X: Perhaps that’s what really brought us all together, and not politics or pets!
Ivan X
I’m just gonna post eleventy times in a row. Can we organize a Balloon Juice Zoom or Discord movie night somehow? It seems like there are fairly compatible choices here.
Wyatt Salamanca
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather
Lawrence of Arabia
Citizen Kane
All About Eve
Ascap_scab
This is Spinal Tap
Blazing Saddles
Paris, Texas
Die Hard
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
grandmaBear
@WaterGirl: little shop of horrors
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: It’s a major reason I oppose threaded comments.
WaterGirl
@Ivan X: I had a similar thought… all agree to watch the same movie on the same night. Then I thought, nah.
But with what you’ve suggested, we would watch somehow together at the same time on Zoom (or whatever) and could interact as we watched. Is that what you are suggesting?
dnfree
@LuciaMia: I am excited to see Local Hero mentioned more than once. I can never talk people into watching it. Maybe I am too overly enthusiastic. They edge away.
Ivan X
@WaterGirl: Yes! It was not a very developed thought, but that’s more or less what I was thinking.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Me, too. On a good thread, it’s very fluid, which I consider a good thing.
WaterGirl
@Ivan X: If you want to develop the thought, and think about how it could work, I’m willing to pose it to the group. Maybe we pick something that on a common streaming service and all agree to start watching at the same time, and have a zoom at the same time.
Ivan X
Ok. Let me cogitate!
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl:
I thought that person’s list was trying to be a list of the worst movies of all time.
patroclus
@dnfree: I loved Local Hero (up until the time they cooked the rabbit)! It’s not on my list because it kind of reminds me of the Wicker Man, which I loved but wouldn’t exactly want to see again and again.
e julius drivingstorm
Bang The Drum Slowly
The Natural
His Girl Friday
McCabe And Mrs. Miller
Repo Man
zhena gogolia
@divF:
Oh, Topsy-Turvy! I adored that film, but I have only been able to see it once, in the theater when it first came out. I wonder if I’d be able to watch it again and again like Charade.
Ivan X
@zhena gogolia: Ishtar is not a misunderstood masterpiece, nor an atrocity. It’s a perfectly amusing film, quite funny at times, both when it was released (I saw it then), and now (I saw it recently). There’s totally nothing great nor wrong with it. It’s just one of those films that created massive gossip and expectations due to its massive delays and budget overruns, and the egos involved. It certainly doesn’t look like a movie that should have cost what it did, but so what? If you evaluate it on its own terms, there’s little to dislike. Especially Charles Grodin, whose dryness is transcendent.
zhena gogolia
@Ivan X:
I saw it when it came out and I was bored out of my mind.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: I was responding to the “Ishtar is being reconsidered” comment, or was trying to, anyway!
Elizabelle
Loving these suggestions. Saving this thread.
Ivan X
@zhena gogolia: Well, I lol’ed, so that’s what makes horseraces. But I’m sometimes the only person laughing in a theater. Those songs are up there with any of Spinal Tap’s, as far as I’m concerned.
BethanyAnne
Clue
Addams Family Values
Blazing Saddles
Dangerous Liaisons
Noises Off
lurker
To add to a dead thread…
Today’s list in no particular order
Lord of the Rings (all three…)
The Quiet Earth
Time Bandits
The Big Lebowski
Caddyshack
Others that would make the list easily:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
This is Spinal Tap
Star Trek 2 – The Wrath of Khan
Ghostbusters (the original, but the recent all female team remake was pretty good too, the others less so)
Blues Brothers
Animal House
Total Recall
Blade Runner
ok, this extended list probably goes beyond cheating…
WaterGirl
@lurker: The Blues Brothers!
WaterGirl
@Ivan X: I remember two things about Ishtar:
Leto
@lurker: Total Recall over Predator?
Viva BrisVegas
Late to the party, but that’s what I get for living 14 hours into the future.
The Big Sleep (1946)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
2001 (1968)
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Searchers (1957)
Ivan X
@Viva BrisVegas: Oh yeah. Night Of The Hunter. I need to watch it again.
Ivan X
@WaterGirl: haha. At least it made an impression.
schrodingers_cat
I will list the Hindi movies I like. These are the movies that are enjoyable which I would enjoy watching more than once.
FlyingToaster
@dnfree: I admit to being a Forsyth freak; I am about the only person I know who watched “That Sinking Feeling” more than once.
He seems to have retired after “Gregory’s Two Girls”, which is just too damn bad.
Leto
@WaterGirl: so, so, soooo good! It was just on recently but I came in during the Nazi car chase, and the ludicrousness of the of it… combine that with the whole state descending on the tax building, with Steven Spielberg playing the tax collector… it’s pretty much non-stop laughing.
FelonyGovt
Local Hero
Lost in Translation
The Station Agent
Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
Just One More Canuck
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Howard the Duck?! Wtf?
Maltese Falcon
Endless Summer
O brother where art thou
shawshank redemption
holy grail
lurker
@Leto: more of a Phillip K. DIck type story fan than a shoot’em up fan. Predator would be worthy, as would Alien. All for vaguely similar but ultimately different reasons.
@WaterGirl: oddly, I clearly forgot Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles in the cheating part of the list. And 12 Monkeys…
Uncle Omar
Roger Moore
@Amir Khalid:
Doing a biopic of Muhammad must be really hard, given that you aren’t allowed to show him on screen. Then again, there’s the old saying that art thrives on restrictions.
lurker
And then there’s
Goodfellas
Casino
The Parallax View
Brazil
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
… so I guess that is the list from half an hour later
E
Goodfellas, Casino, Gladiator, Aliens, Raging Bull.
lurker
Art by reprehensible people:
Chinatown
Sleeper
Ninth Gate
Home Alone 2 (Trump has a cameo)
there’s got to be a fifth in the Weinstein catalog somewhere
tokyokie
@Ivan X: I agree with you about Ishtar; it’s OK, but nothing special, although Grodin, as usual, is a hoot. As I recall, stars Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty bullied director Elaine May throughout the production, thinking they knew more about film comedy than she did, then once shooting was finished, they savaged May anonymously in the entertainment trade press. Critics went along, and the movie sank like a rock. But I also recall Ishtar having scenes that went on forever that basically consisted of Hoffman and Beatty mugging for the camera, believing they were adorable and therefore funny. They were wrong.
Compare Ishtar to a similarly disastrous production of the same era: Lucky Lady. It wasn’t watchable when it was first released, and I doubt it’s gotten better with age.
dnfree
@schrodingers_cat: Monsoon Wedding is terrific.
Argiope
Smoke Signals
Billy Elliott
The Fifth Element
Blazing Saddles
The Queen
Mandarama
@James E Powell: Dead thread, probably, but kindred spirit alert!
”There have ALWAYS been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm.”
MacBaby25
So far I have only seen one Marx Brothers movie listed: Animal Crackers. Since this is my first comment on this site (or any site) since Hesiod was a blog, here are my 5:
Duck Soup
Blazing Saddles
Dr. Strangelove
This Is Spinal Tap
Beetlejuice
WaterGirl
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Feathers
Out of the Past
Now, Voyager
Any episode of The Avengers TV series
Age of Innocence
Blade Runner
Most Film Noirs, TBH
I’m realizing that I’m not much of a rewatcher. When younger I usually saw over 200 films a year in the theater and often rewatched – Reds, Pulp Fiction, Fabulous Baker Boys.
Anybody else here old enough to remember the big old theaters that showed double feature recent and classic films all day, before the VCR and video rentals. It was the Harvard Square and Somerville Theaters in Boston. Haunted those. There was also the one in Washington DC. I think it was on Pennsylvania Ave. You could buy a punchcard ticket 10 films for $10. Does anyone remember the name of it. That was really what started me on my road to film loving. Met the Body Heat Fan Club folks there. Wish I had kept the ID tag they gave me. It was construction paper with a straight pin to put it on. Need to rewatch that. Saw it so many times, because it was paired all the time with a classic noir I hadn’t seen. And I’d paid my dollar, hadn’t I?
billcinsd
Sullivan’s Travels
Hangmen Also Die
The Tao of Steve
Bandwagon
My Man Godfrey
Central Planning
I’ll add a couple more:
History Of The World, Part 1
Moonraker (saw it as a kid in NYC). I could go for another Bond one in here too
Jeffro
Raising Arizona
Star Wars: A New Hope
Die Hard
Avengers: Endgame
Where The Buffalo Roam (but only with the original soundtrack!)
zhena gogolia
@Feathers:
Hubby says Biograph. (DC theater
And yes, I will watch Now, Voyager any number of times. Any time it’s on.
SFBayAreaGal
Star Wars Rogue One
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Blast)
Blade Runner
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
All of the Harry Potter Movies
prostratedragon
Another chronic repeat viewer here; watch with relaxed attentiveness and you will see something new every time. Five of my favorites:
All About Eve
Brazil
Chinatown
Metropolis
The Third Man
Regine Touchon
A Fish Called Wanda
Best in Show
On the Waterfront
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A Lion in Winter
Austin Bailey
Casablanca – Almost perfect, well crafted and acted, writing is spot on
Lawrence of Arabia – Visually stunning, acting is brilliant, writing is spot on
The Princess Bride – Every line is quotable (writing), every character is perfect
Local Hero – so subtle, seeing the characters realize what’s important
The Producers (original version) – Brooks second movie, manic, Zero and Wilder made a perfect odd couple
Ask me tomorrow and I’ll have another top 5 that I’m as passionate about.
Regine Touchon
@Just One More Canuck:
@Just One More Canuck: Love O Brother!
SFBayAreaGal
Star Wars Rogue One
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Blast)
Blade Runner
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
All of the Harry Potter Movies@SFBayAreaGal:
Dang 5 is hard. I have to add Young Frankenstein, The Great Race, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz, Black Panther, Alien, aaargh so many more
moonbat
The X-Files: Fight the Future
ANY Harry Potter Movie
The Fugitive (Love TLJ in that movie)
LoTR: The Fellowship of the RIng
Galaxy Quest (By Grabthar’s Hammer!)
Ilefttxwhenannlost
Singin in the rain
Dogma
Freeway
Blues brothers
Fargo
mquirk
Duck Soup
Nightmare Before Christmas
My Cousin Vinny
Star Crash
Princess Bride
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lol chikinburd
Blazing Saddles
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the 8th Dimension
Airplane!
The Iron Giant
I don’t have a fifth one
Ajabu
Probably a dead thread by now but these are so eclectic I want to include them:
1. Black Orpheus
2. Where’s Poppa
3. Little Big Man
4. Cotton Comes To Harlem
5. Jackie Brown
if you want to do 50 instead I could work with that also…
A Good Woman
Wow, what memories as I review the choices.
LOTR – Fellowship
Ladyhawke
Blade Runner
The Women – original
The Lion in Winter
And, if none of the above are available, anything with Bogie and Bacall.
Ann Marie
I love so many of the movies suggested so far, but a few of my favorites to rewatch have not been mentioned:
Ruthless People
Day of the Jackal (original version)
The Gay Divorcee (or really any Astaire-Rogers musical)
Sneakers
Ocean’s Eleven (may have been mentioned)
prostratedragon
@prostratedragon: Don’t know how I forgot Vertigo, which I watch a few times a year.
Christopher Taylor
Clueless
Jaws
Dirty Dancing
Aliens
Jackie Brown
Plausible
Finally, after 9 years of lurking, I am forced to risk revealing my witness protection location just to suggest some films for your viewing pleasure.
Casablanca; Everybody’s favorite. Bogart nearly falls back into his early career lisp when he says
“I was misinformed”.
Trees Lounge: Steve Buscemi painfully becomes senior alcoholic and earns stool at end of the bar.
Local Hero: I’ll watch and rewatch anything that Bill Forsyth directs.
Girl Walks Into A Bar: Filmed at some great old L. A. dive bars. Carla Gugino looks great in all of them. Stay through the closing credits for some great dance scenes.
Bubba Hotep: J. F. K. and Elvis are both still alive and meet cute in a nursing home in the south. Kennedy is now a black man (Ossie Davis) due to some (bungled, or was it?) C.I.A. surgery. An ancient Egyptian mummy falls off a truck and visits. Then things get weird.
Steve the Old
Dersu Uzala
Sling Blade
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Missing
In The Heat Of The Night (Poitier and Steiger)
Raoul Paste
Being There
NotMax
Not in any way to be construed as a list of favorites nor of must-sees, am limiting the choices to those (a) have pleasant memory of seeing once only, (b) curious to renew acquaintance with and (c) have become problematic or impossible to find. Thus titles which with any regularity (if at all) come around on places such as TCM or via the usual suspects among streaming services are excluded.
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Fellini’s Roma
Un Mundo Maravilloso
.
Bonus #1 (because although saw it multiple times while it played at the theater where was working it seems to have dropped off the edge of the world since): End of the Road.
Bonus #2, if only to confirm it is as watchably dreadful as recall: Wrecking Crew (1942).
trnc
The popcorn accompaniments –
Raising Arizona
This Is Spinal Tap
Philadelphia
12 Angry Men
Sleuth
Tom Fitz
Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
Two for the See Saw
Tom Jones
anything by Mel Brooks
James E Powell
@Mandarama:
I saw something nasty in the woodshed!
prostratedragon
@tokyokie: If you don’t need subtitles or just want to look, it’s also free on youtube. Another of the many I didn’t list that I rewatch.
NotMax
@Tom Fitz
The other movie based on a Fielding novel, Joseph Andrews, from the same director is a darn good ride too. A sample.
Yutsano
Three I have seen mentioned:
The Princess Bride (had read the book first but the movie is still *chef kiss*)
Auntie Mame (the Rosalind Russell version from 1958 please and thank you!)
The Fifth Element (MULTIPASS!)
And two that I haven’t:
WALL-E (love stories are hard. Love stories this pure are even harder)
Akira (I still consider this one of the best anime films ever made)
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Feathers: I went to a dollar theatre one weekend when I was in HS that showed Gone With The Wind and How the West Was Won. Long afternoon.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@A Good Woman: Oh, how could I forget Ladyhawke! I love that movie and probably have it memorized liked The Princess Bride, although different genre.
HeartlandLiberal
These are movies I DO rewatch, every couple of years. Reasons vary, but most because the story telling and direction are so perfect, the acting and dialog so well timed, and they all tug at my emotions with great power.
The Quiet Man
(The only John Wayne movie in which he really acted, plus Maureeen O’Hara)
The Muppets Christmas Carol
(Michael Caine and Kermit, perfection)
Gettysburg
(Ted Turner epic, I just finished reading “the Killer Angels” book, and the movie is BETTER. I had great* grandfathers fighting on BOTH sides, one at Gettysburg and one with Sherman across Georgia.)
Parent Trap 2
(I am not sure I know of a movie in which the direction achieves such timing of lines and impact)
Red October
( One ping, Vasily. One ping only; I would like to have seen Montana. One of the absolute best.)
Juju
Big,
Brooklyn,
An Affair to Remember,
About Time, and
Toss up between Galaxy Quest and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
WaterGirl
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J R in WV
I see some movies mentioned over and over that we haven’t seen yet, will have to fix that.
No one mentioned Matewan, a Sayles movie about organizing the union in the southern WV coal field?!
Many faves were mentioned over and over, Casablanca, The Sting, Chinatown… as a child, Mom took me to see most of the Vincent Price / Boris Karloff films, some of which were really good, even tho many of the had a special effects budget of $50… not enough for a horror flick.
Will have to watch Princess Bride, have not, DVD is in the house somewhere. Thanks for all the great suggestions!! Black Panther would be on my list!
WaterGirl
@prostratedragon: I still remember the time I watched Airplane, which I had seen many times before, and noticed something new at the magazine stand – a magazine titled something like something like “Whacking Material”.
WaterGirl
@Plausible: Welcome!
Feathers
@zhena gogolia: Thanks! But not the Biograph. That was in Georgetown and saw many films there as well. That one was more arthouse. The one I remember was between the Capitol and the White House and showed Body Heat repeatedly, along with more 60s and 70s popular fare. Went to see the Audrey Hepburn War and Peace there with my Russian class. I couldn’t find it on the Cinema Treasures site, which is strange. Did find several old theaters from Alexandria. Apparently the Vernon, where my Dad used to take us to go see old Hollywood movies (National Velvet, Song of the South(!)) had a 40 foot Cinerama screen. And it was just a local movie theater that served the neighborhood. Sigh. I love my 55″ screen and my streaming, but I want Cinerama too!
Ivan X
@Plausible: I love Bubba Ho-Tep!