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Films you happily watch many times

Started by Bigfella, June 14, 2022, 08:55:31 PM

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Crenners

For me, it's got to be Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: Angst in my Pants on June 15, 2022, 02:17:59 PMMost(/all?) of my regular re-watches are pretty embarrassing:
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Shock Treatment
  • Clue
  • Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • The Stepford Wives (1975)
  • Josie and the Pussycats
  • Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion
  • Funny Girl
  • Gypsy (1962)
  • Airplane!
  • Scott Pilgrim vs the World
  • Scream (1996)
  • Moulin Rouge!
  • Cry Baby
  • Singin' in the Rain

My husband also has lots of "comfort films", so I've ended up re-watching Jaws, The Towering Inferno, The Thing and Earthquake through his habits.

I wouldn't say they're embarrassing in the slightest, though of course that's because I love musicals and you've named some absolute classics there, and I'm extremely fond of all of the rest bar Shock Treatment (which I liked but didn't feel the need to watch again) and Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (which I've shockingly never seen).

The main ones for me would be:
Little Shop Of Horrors
Muppets Christmas Carol
Clue
Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure
The Rocky Horror Show
Highlander
Better Off Dead

There's plenty of films I think are technically better, but I rarely rewatch films and there's a lot I adored when I saw them at the cinema but worry I might not like so much a second time round.

Bence Fekete

## most overwatched and don't think been listed

  • Candyman (1992)
  • 2001
  • Anthropoid
  • Bad Lieutenant (2009)
  • Dogville
  • Brian (life of)
  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • Heat
  • Lost Highway
  • Network
  • There will be blood

## murdery bloke kill another slightly more murdery bloke honourable mentions i always feel compelled to finish even though they now contain roughly zero surprises

  • Scarface
  • The Departed (2006)
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Training day
  • Se7en

I mainly need to watch people die to truly r3lax

kalowski

Quote from: Crenners on June 22, 2022, 06:29:32 PMFor me, it's got to be Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.
I love Salò but hate the 120 Days of Sodom

kngen

Mad Max 2
Chopper
A Clockwork Orange
Goodfellas
Casino
Wolf of Wall Street
Pulp Fiction
Robocop
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
The Big Lebowski
Blade Runner
Style Wars
Escape from New York
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Night of the Hunter
North By Northwest
The Philadelphia Story
Duck Soup

(phew, glad I've managed to get a few genuine classics - as defined by the BFI - in my canon at the end there, as it started off a bit like Loaded's Guide to Propah Nawty Cinema)


Sebastian Cobb

K, adding a few people to the 'people I suspect have me on ignore' spreadsheet.

lubapurkhiser

#68
spam

itsfredtitmus

happy gilmore and mousehunt and guest house paradiso


Endicott

The Long Good Friday
Much Ado About Nothing (Whedon version)
Silver Linings Playbook
Winter's Bone
Amelie
Blues Brothers
Brazil
Dark Star
The World According to Garp
The Goodbye Girl
Gosford Park
The Incredibles
Serenity
Time Bandits
My Neighbour Totoro



elliszeroed

Off the top o' me noggin:

The Brady Bunch Movie
Last Year In Marienbad
Lost Highway
Anchorman

Replies From View

Back to the Future
Home Alone


but sometimes, like now, the idea of rewatching them again actually makes me feel physically sick.

Withnail & I - I don't care that this is a 90's student staple, quoted to death and turned into a drinking game. It's a masterfully done film, sad and hilarious, with possibly the finest dialogue known to humanity.
The Straight Story - Possibly David Lynch's least Lynchian film. Man goes to see his brother on a lawnmower. That's it. Either you well up with emotion at the core theme of this film, or you think "nothing happens". In which case, go away. It's not for you.
Repo Man - Funny enough to be entertaining. Weird enough to make it a cult classic. Full of quotable moments. Soundtrack punk enough that you could listen to it like a mixtape.
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood - It's become an accidental rewatch, because every time it's on TV, I inadvertedly end up watching the whole movie. I really think this is Tarantino's best work, because it feels like the nostalgia in this film is both sincerely done, and integral to the theme of shifting tides in late 60's Hollywood (and the US at large).

Capt.Midnight

Heat
Eyes Wide Shut

Keep coming back to these as of late. Both very stylish and well made.

Default set of go-to films when I fancy watching a movie but nothing specific really tickles my fancy:
Goodfellas
Seven
Boogie Nights
Scum
The Thing
True Romance
Withnail and I
The Raid
Dead Man's Shoes
Trainspotting
Toy Story 3
Pan's Labyrinth
Jaws
Angel Heart
24 Hour Party People
Nil By Mouth
Kill List
This Is Spinal Tap

magister

The Fog
Escape from New York
Moonraker
The Medusa Touch
Superman the Movie
The Body Snatcher
Apocalypse Now
Nosferatu
Horror Express
Plague of the Zombies
The Shining
2001
Jaws
Masque of the Red Death
King Kong
The Beast Must Die
Jason and the Argonauts
Starship Troopers
American Werewolf in London
Psycho
Lifeforce
Suspiria
Fantastic Mr Fox
Evil Dead 2
If....
The Dead Zone


Dex Sawash


Midway (1976) because it was on subnday afternoon once a month for all of my childhood when we only got 3 tv stations. Got all the proper old school bigs in it and Pat Morita off Happy Days (and eventually Karate Kid but we didn't know that then)

AngryGazelle

Jurassic Park
The Rock
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Spider-Man
Bad Lieutenant
Blade 1 & 2
The Mask
Dredd
Oldboy
Starship Troopers
Predator 1 & 2
The Thing
Withnail and I
Four Lions
Dumb and Dumber
Mad Max: Fury Road

Magnum Valentino

Mortal Kombat, 90s one. Know every beat of it.

Johnboy


SweetPomPom

JFK, especially the dir cut, almost perfect cinema.

Norton Canes


Toki

High Fidelity and Frank, for me. The latter made me well up at the cinema, embarrassingly. But the'I Love You All' bit has my mind racing through all the friends and family I'm grateful are still around whenever I see it.

High Fidelity I was just the right age for when I saw it the first time, and had also just been dumped. I watch it when I feel lonely or heartbroken and it's like putting pressure on a wound. But, um, in a good way.

RaspberrySwirl

High Fidelity
Withnail
Monty Python films
Big Lebowski
East Is East
Breakfast At Tiffany's
12 Angry Men (Fonda version)
Brief Encounter
Robocop
Total Recall
Blues Brothers
Sing Street

They'll be others I think of as soon as I press post no doubt.

Neomod

Blade Runner
O.H.M.S.S
The Fog
The Station Agent
The Ice Storm
Big Night
Ghost World
North by Northwest
Swingers

Mr Farenheit

Tampopo

Repo Man

Billy Liar

Flash Gordon

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