Groundhog Day - any other movies that you watch over and over?
KevinF said:
Have to add My Cousin Vinny! The scene with Marisa Tomei on the witness stand is great! She won Best Supporting Actress in 1993 for that movie.
+1
I don't usually watch movies on regular TV. But these are movies I'll stream on Netflix or Hulu or Amazon. Some I have on DVD.
Tom_Reingold said:
I'm surprised to see so many people still watch movies on TV. I would never think to do that, and I have no idea what is airing when.
Swingers! Here's the most cringeworthy scene.
Recently I also enjoyed In Bruges - I've seen that a number of times.
At risk of repeating:
Godfather I
Godfather II
GoodFellas
Stripes
History of the World Part I
Blues Brothers
Airplane
Yeah, I'm with you on a bunch of these. No harm in repeating - it's interesting to see people's individual lists.
On your list, I'm with you on 1,2 3 and 7. Not so much on the others, though I think they're good (except for Stripes - think I saw it once, so I just don't know it)
Never get tired of Airplane.
SteveIvan said:
At risk of repeating:
Godfather I
Godfather II
GoodFellas
Stripes
History of the World Part I
Blues Brothers
Airplane
jamie said:
Recently I also enjoyed In Bruges - I've seen that a number of times.
Oh yes. Farrell, Gleason and Fiennes all brilliant.
That was a great movie, but it's not one I really want to watch again.
Funny how that works.
Train_of_Thought said:
jamie said:
Recently I also enjoyed In Bruges - I've seen that a number of times.
Oh yes. Farrell, Gleason and Fiennes all brilliant.
There are a few that even though there is that "aha" moment the first time one sees them, they are still enjoyable again - e.g., Memento, Usual Suspects... Usual Suspects is especially fun on repeat to see the interactions with Spacey and Chazz...
Sixth Sense is another one like that.
And, yes, Usual Suspects is one of the greats.
As far as re-watching--how many times have we watched the Rocky movies, in whole or in part?!
What About Bob? is another fun movie to re-watch.
lanky said:
There are a few that even though there is that "aha" moment the first time one sees them, they are still enjoyable again - e.g., Memento, Usual Suspects... Usual Suspects is especially fun on repeat to see the interactions with Spacey and Chazz...
"What About Bob?" for some reason reminds me of "Multiplicity" - an underrated comedy and great performance(s) by Michael Keaton...
unicorn33 said:
Sixth Sense is another one like that.
And, yes, Usual Suspects is one of the greats.
As far as re-watching--how many times have we watched the Rocky movies, in whole or in part?!
What About Bob? is another fun movie to re-watch.
lanky said:
There are a few that even though there is that "aha" moment the first time one sees them, they are still enjoyable again - e.g., Memento, Usual Suspects... Usual Suspects is especially fun on repeat to see the interactions with Spacey and Chazz...
What about Bob, Mr. Holland's Opus, Close Encounters, -- all with Richard Dreyfuss
I really have a hard time watching anything with Ben Stiller although I did enjoy there's something about Mary.
This is one great list of movies!
flimbro said:
Putney Swope, Buckaroo Bonzai, Shawshank, Blazing Saddles, Network, Baghdad Cafe, Bulworth, any pre Hollywood John Woo, all Kurosawa
...and I've been known to watch trailers of movies that Eva Mendes might be in.
(fwiw: Monday 3/27 12:05am Encore "Children of the Corn V" starring Ms. Mendes)
There are a few Coen Brothers movies I can watch over and over again. The obvious one being the big lebowski. But also a serious man, faego, and raising arizona (best chase scene in cinema history).
Oddly, Jesse Eisenberg is in a couple. I can watch the hell out of Adventureland. If there was a Zombieland Channel that showed Zombieland 24x7 I'd never leave the house.
Others include Used Cars, Slap Shot, Glengarry Glenross, and the new Mad Max.
All That Jazz.
Lawrence of Arabia
Das Boot
Gandhi
Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns (Don't ask why. I don't know. But I enjoy the hell out of them.)
African Queen ( I own a model of the Queen. I was even more interested in the movie when I found it was based on an actual event. The Queen was located about 15 years ago)
The Third Man... but try getting that ear worm out of your head.
Saturday Night Fever
Glengarry Glenross is one I come back to a lot. The performances and dialog are so good.
Zombieland too.
terp said:
There are a few Coen Brothers movies I can watch over and over again. The obvious one being the big lebowski. But also a serious man, faego, and raising arizona (best chase scene in cinema history).
Oddly, Jesse Eisenberg is in a couple. I can watch the hell out of Adventureland. If there was a Zombieland Channel that showed Zombieland 24x7 I'd never leave the house.
Others include Used Cars, Slap Shot, Glengarry Glenross, and the new Mad Max.
yeah, let's hear see some love for All That Jazz! What a great movie. So under-rated I think.
Formerlyjerseyjack said:
All That Jazz.
Lawrence of Arabia
Das Boot
Gandhi
Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns (Don't ask why. I don't know. But I enjoy the hell out of them.)
African Queen ( I own a model of the Queen. I was even more interested in the movie when I found it was based on an actual event. The Queen was located about 15 years ago)
The Third Man... but try getting that ear worm out of your head.
Saturday Night Fever
Your ahead of me. My next thread is "Movies no one should ever watch twice."
DaveSchmidt said:
"Boyhood."
This thread proves very valuable. And I agree about Coen brothers movies. Those guys are absolute masters. My favorite is probably O Brother Where Art Thou. It is mindblowing.
A few others I've re-watched recently:
The Lives of Others
Signs
Il Postino
Dr Strangelove
Formerlyjerseyjack - Re: the African Queen, you might like this (or you might already know all of it)
I can never pass up On The Waterfront.
But I think there might be a divide between the movies that we love that are rarely played and the ones that are on constantly yet we get drawn into them in bits and pieces. In that category I would place A Few Good Men. Hard to resist the line "You can't handle the truth!" and that line feels particularly appropriate this political cycle.
I gotta say ---
a lot of people have mentioned the Coen brothers movies here. I've always been very mixed about the Coens. Some stuff is great (I can watch Fargo a hundred times), but a lot I just don't get. Dunno what I'm missing exactly.
I saw O Brother years and years ago, and remember liking it, but not much more. I'm watching it again tonight and lord almighty hallelujah!! - what a great movie! I mean - freaking sublime.
So maybe I just have to wait 10-15 years between viewings to get it.
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I rarely plan ahead when I end up watching a movie, unless it's on TCM, since I get their little TV-guide like magazine so I can see what's coming up for the month (that magazine seems so quaint these days). Even then I'll just dvr it rather than watch it when it airs.
What I do use is the favorites channel feature of Comcast, which I loaded up with all of the movie channels, so when I turn the TV on I flip through the favorites to see what's playing.