OT: Movies that you will watch over and over

[CTrefugee]

I rarely watch TV except for UConn Basketball and Survivor. Try and not to miss a game or the show. When bored its Netflix and Disney + if my granddaughters are here visiting. If nothing suits me then I will channel surf for a movie to watch. I believe that this topic was an OT once before. What movie (s) have you watched over and over. I will list five of mine.

1) The Shawshank Redemption - Just an awesome movie.
2) The Godfather - Reminds me of my family except for the crime
3) Remember the Titans - Awesome true story
4) The Blindside - Great story and I watched this NFL Draft
5) The Replacements - Watching the team sing "I will survive" while in jail is worth the watch.

I can go on and on. Tere are plenty more but I mentioned five.

All good.........I'll add "Zulu" and LOTR

 

[64Zcode]

Wow, that's a good eclectic list that spans decades. I haven't thought about Father Goose in years. It's a funny movie.

Oh my, yes.
"They're getting married? Goody Two-Shoes and the Filthy Beast?"
I think Father Goose is the very first movie theater memory I have - Bank St Theater in New Milford.
There may have been others that I saw first, but this is the one that stuck...and you're correct, funny movie.

 

[savoy33]

Not my first, but probably one of the first three I saw in a theater. Pretty certain it was the Elm Theater in West Hartford, lol. All these years later, and it still cracks me up.

 

[FridaFriend]

When I was in college, I watched "Chushingura" at least two dozen times. It led me to "Seven Samurai" and other Toshiro Mifune movies, like "Rashomon".

I watched "8 1/2" many many times.

Another set of films that I watched many times were by Bergman, especially
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Cries and Whispers

But most of all: "Fanny and Alexander"

One of my all time favorites was: "All about Eve"

And "Laura", just to look at Gene Tierney.

And "The Third Man", to watch Alida Valli

 

[Rudy1927]

I Love the Wolf of Wallstreet. Leaves me in stitches.

 

[choochoo]

a few good ones not mentioned,
Empire of the Sun, john Malkovik and a very young christain Bale excellent war maovie
Educating Rita, love this movie great acting
blame it on Rio , funny and sad.

 

[dbmill]

Yeah, I watch the Sergio Leone Clint Eastwood trilogy of films any time I come across them on television.

 

[MSGRET]

Any Mel Brooks movie, my fav is Blazing Saddles. Watched it the other day on a local TC channel and was very disappointed because they had removed the campfire scene from it. The first time I saw it in the movie theater I ended up rolling on the floor with laughter. Got to find a DVD/Blu-ray somewhere.

Too many others to mention, but I do wear out my Blu-ray disc player with over 1500 disc's.

 

[dbmill]

Any Mel Brooks movie, my fav is Blazing Saddles. Watched it the other day on a local TC channel and was very disappointed because they had removed the campfire scene from it. The first time I saw it in the movie theater I ended up rolling on the floor with laughter. Got to find a DVD/Blu-ray somewhere.

Too many others to mention, but I do wear out my Blu-ray disc player with over 1500 disc's.

The Producers and Young Frankenstein are must watches any time they show up on TV in our house. The Producers is one of my wife's favorite comedies.

 

[CL82]

The Producers and Young Frankenstein are must watches any time they show up on TV in our house. The Producers is one of my wife's favorite comedies.

All three movies are great, but The Producers is hysterical. The ending is absolutely perfect.

"Vat is dis baby? Da fuhrer never said dis baby!" Just typing that, I'm laughing.

 

[Bigboote]

Anything with W. C. Fields.

Pride and Prejudice - I know the 1995 version is considered the definitive one, but I prefer the 1979 version.

The Philadelphia Story and the musical version, High Society.

Oh, geez, I don't know how many times I've seen the Bank Dick. I love You Can't Cheat an Honest Man and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, too.

The 1979 P&P is what got me started on a life-long love affair with Jane Austen. I've read everything she's written several times and own most of the dramatizations of her books (although there are some real duds that we never bought).

I love the Philadelphia Story but my wife and daughter don't.

 

[MSGRET]

All three movies are great, but The Producers is hysterical. The ending is absolutely perfect.

"Vat is dis baby? Da fuhrer never said dis baby!" Just typing that, I'm laughing.

Unfortunately in today's world these movies wouldn't be made, that's why I have so many DVD/Blu-Ray disc's. Some of the movies have parts removed and they're not the same.

 

[Notyetready]

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Hunger Games, RED, The Saphires, Hatari.

 

[Buzzyboy]

The Natural
Field of Dreams
The Sting
Kill Bill

and lots of those mentioned above

3 out of four ain't bad ... no use for Kill Bill

 

[Buzzyboy]

The Natural, Braveheart, Powder, the Bourne movies with Matt Damon, And Justice For All, Matrix, Shawshank, 3 Days of the Condor, Deja Vu, Two Guns, Tombstone, Good Morning Vietnam, Good Will Hunting, Butch Cassidy & Sudance Kid, The Sting, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, The Replacements, Legends of the Fall, My Cousin Vinnie and Airplane. Meet Joe Black, There's Something About Mary, John Wick movies, Runaway Jury, Bonnie & Clyde, Heaven Can Wait, Midnight Run and The Rock

 

[Buzzyboy]

This will be an incomplete because my tastes are too wide and varied.

Godzilla with Raymond Burr
Forbidden Planet with Walter Pigeon, Leslie Neilson and Anne Francis
King Kong - the original
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
The Devil's Brigade with William Holden
Bridge on the River Kwai
Tora, Tora, Tora
Run Silent, Run Deep
James Minchner's Hawaii
West Side Story
Brigadoon with Gene Kelly and Cyd Chariese
Guys and Dolls with Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra
Gun Fight at the OK Corral with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas
My Darling Clementine with Henry Fonda and Victor Mature
The Day the Earth Stood Still with Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal
High Noon with Gary Cooper
War of the Worlds with Gene Berry
When World's Collide
The Magnificent Seven with Yul Brenner
Stage Coach - original
Avatar

A good list but seems like only one movie from the last 50 or 60 years ....

 

[Buzzyboy]

Most of the one's above are favorites of mine!
I am a huge movies fan and have approximately 1,500+ in my collection!
The problem is most are on video and have spoiled through the years!
I have 500+ DVD's and watch over and over in my retirement and bad health!
I'll name some not named above: In no real order:
Sahara with Humphrey Bogart (WWII tank)
A Walk In The Sun with Dana Andrews
Von Ryan's Express with Frank Sinatra
Witness with Harrison Ford
When Harry Met Sally Billy Chrystal & Meg Ryan
Vision Quest with Matthew Modine
Valkyrie with Tom Cruise
Sands of Iowa Jima with John Wayne
Speed with Keanu Reeves & Sandra Bullock
Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis & Haley Joel Osment
Say Anything with John Cusack
Trouble with the Curve with Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake
The Vikings with Kirk Douglas & Tony Curtis
To Kill A Mockingbird with Gregory Peck
2001 with Keir Dullea & Gary Lockwood
All About Eve with Bette Davis
The Young Lions with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin
Summer of '42 with Gary Grimes &Jennifer O'Neill
Yankee Doodle Dandy with James Cagney
Love Actually with a lot of stars
Klute with Jane Fonda & Donald Sutherland
The Longest Day with hundreds of stars
Lady Sings the blues with Diana Ross
The Man That Shot Liberty Valance with James Stewart, John Wayne
Marathon Man with Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider
The Martian with Matt Damon
Gunga Din with Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, & Sam Jaffe
Going My Way with Bing Crosby
Gardens of Stone with James Caan & Anjelica Huston
The Bridge at Remagen with George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara
A Bridge too Far with hundreds of stars

You shouldn't get me started on movies!!

 

[Buzzyboy]

Speed, Summer of 42 and The Martian are wonderful additions along with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

 

[dbmill]

Speed, Summer of 42 and The Martian are wonderful additions along with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Have to admit my wife and I tend to favor older movies (just a matter of personal taste so to speak), but on occasion we do add more recent movies to the films that we tend to watch over and over again. "The Martian" is now one of those newer films that we quite enjoy that we've seen multiple times. "Hidden Figures" is another one as well.

 

[RedStickHusky]