I haven't known what movies to watch lately. Does everyone have their own treasure movies that they've seen many times? πŸ˜€

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 67 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • Month Python and the Holy Grail
  • Young Frankenstein
  • Seven Samurai
  • LOTR Trilogy

I see a lot of LOTR fans here. Good crowd.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    In steam of consciousness order:

    • Young Frankenstein
    • Princess Bride
    • Double Indemnity
    • Nightmare Before Christmas
    • The Breakfast Club
    • The Fifth Element
    • 12 Monkeys
    • The Terminator
    • Star Wars (first trilogy)
    • Harvey
    • The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
    • Men In Black
    • The Incredibles
    • Inception
    • E.T.
    • The Sting
    • Grease
    • Ghostbusters
    • West Side Story

    Probably a number of others

  • source
  • hideshow 11 child comments
  • load more comments (5 replies)
    [–] 38 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I haven't seen it listed here in a quick scan, so:

    Office Space

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    I revisit Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind every few years when I wanna get my guts all twisted into knots.

    I think when Kaufman is left on his own he's too much of a bummer and Gondry on his own is just too far out. But somehow they come together in a perfect balance with Jim Carey in perhaps his best serious role, IMHO. The soundtrack really takes it the extra mile.

    I appreciate it because Joel and Clementine come off as just two kinda fucked up people having a kinda fucked up relationship; very relatable. Neither is perfect or completely at fault and the film very much leaves it up to your interpretation if they can or should work together. I don't think it has a happy ending, do you? Compare that to something like 500 Days of Summer where you're really supposed to sympathize with Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character but mostly I end up wanting to push him into the mud. Hard.

    The subplot between the doctor and his secretary is maybe a little unnecessary? But Kirsten Dunst is amazing so whatever.

    I wish I had stayed.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 19 points 6 months ago (7 children)
    • Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
    • The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
    • Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
    • The Third Man (1949)
    • The Ladykillers (1955)
    • The Big Lebowski (1998)
    • Repo Man (1984)
    • Stalker (1979)

    Probably several others, but those are the first to come to mind.

  • source
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • load more comments (7 replies)
    [–] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    I don't re-watch movies very often, and more than three times is rare as hens' teeth. Sometimes it's because it's an absolute classic, or sometimes it's because I'm weirdly fascinated by it. Let's see if I can remember those rare exceptions.

    • Starship Troopers (good movie, and something about it charmed my socks off)
    • Les Triplettes de Belleville (absolutely must-see, smashing masterpiece, no need to know French) (free to watch here!)
    • Big Lebowski (words cannot describe)
    • The Life of Brian (Monty Python's finest movie IMO, and a fascinating commentary on religion)
    • Fire and Ice (good movie, and I found the rotoscoping utterly entrancing) (free to watch here and here!)
  • source
  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    The Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. I know it's popular to hate on them and point out flaws, but most of them are perfect "junk food" comfort food flicks. And some of them are really good!

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] 14 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I’ve probably seen Hot Fuzz more times than any other movie. It was a comfort movie for a while.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    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!

  • source
  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    Princess Bride

  • source
  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    A ton, but the one I'm most inclined to talk about is The Thing (1982). We rewatch it almost weekly since I introduced my spouse to it which is amazing because each time we spend about an hour afterwards dissecting the things motives, the order of replacements, different theories, etc. It's truely one of the best movies ever made. The practical effects get a ton of praise, but for me it's just gotta efficiently the movie is at what it does. You know every character within minutes of their appearance, you feel the alienation and paranoia, and the thing itself is so inexplicable that even after hundreds of watches in my life time I genuinely can't rationalize why it does what it does.

    The 2011 one would have been better if they left in the pilot alien and had better set and custome guys. It doesn't feel like a pequal, it feels like a remake set in 2011.

  • source
  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Jurassic Park. (1,2 and 3)

    Tremors (1 and 2)

    Lake Placid (RIP Betty)

    And Then There Were None

    The Thing

    Robin Hood (Disney animated version)

    Star Wars (Original trilogy + Episode 1)

    Addams Family Values

    Django Unchained

    Inglorious Basterds

    Pulp Fiction (not a Tarantino stan, I swear)

    Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    Aliens

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Ironman (first one)

    Pacific Rim

    Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    The Big Short

    Probably more than that TBH. I rewatch a lot.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Off the top of my head / all-time popular:

    • Avatar (the blue alien one)
    • Interstellar
    • The Dark Knight trilogy
    • Lord of the Rings trilogy

    To satisfy my inner little boy:

    • Ip Man
    • Transformers
    • Pacific Rim

    Animation:

    • Frozen
    • How to train your dragon trilogy

    Yeah I'm a basic bitch

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    These are just movies I've probably seen more than 3 times in no particular order, they aren't all necessarily masterpieces (though some are):

    Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

    Princess Bride

    Blade Runner / Bladerunner 2049

    Idiocracy

    Interstellar

    Spaceballs

    Clue

    The Other Guys

    Dr Strangelove

    Airplane! / Airplane 2!

    Terminator 2

    Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

    Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

    Home Alone

    12 Monkeys

    Inception

    The Iron Giant

    Trading Places

    Star War: Backstroke of the West, The Third Gathering

  • source
  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    All LOTR and Harry Potter movies

  • source
  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)
    • Holy grail
    • The only two terminator movies that have been made
    • Akira
    • Black cat white cat
    • Underground
    • Casablanca
    • Cabaret
    • Lotr
    • Wall-e
    • Totoro (and a bunch of other ghibli movies)Β 
    • Pulp fiction
    • Life aquatic (because I always forget the story and whether I like it or not)Β 
    • Napoleon Dynamite (will never not recommend this to anyone, regardless of cultural snobery)

    Probably a bunch more

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    The Fifth Element comes to my mind immediately. It was my happy place.

    The Lord of the Rings, It's what I watch when I felt lost.

    Also, Nostalgia, another film I rewatch when I felt not belonging and nowhere to go back to.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    Hot Shots! Both, btw

  • source
  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 9 points 6 months ago* (9 children)

    Unusual or less known movies I've watched a quite a few times:

    • Leaves of Grass

    • A Scanner Darkly

    • Red Lights

    • Where the Buffalo Roam

    • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    -2010: The Year We Make Contract

    My mind is blanking on the others

  • source
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • load more comments (9 replies)
    [–] 9 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    A subset ...

    • Ghostbusters (1984)
    • The Princess Bride
    • Wrath of Khan
    • Lord of the Rings
    • Aliens
    • The Bourne Identity
    • Life of Brian
    • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    My no-doubt incomplete list (I enjoy watching old favourites over):

    • Bladerunner
    • The Blues Brothers
    • The Princess Bride
    • Baby Driver
    • The Cornetto Triliogy - Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End
    • Monty Python - Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Meaning of Life
    • Star Wars Trilogy (original and best)
    • Dune (the David Lynch one)
    • It's a Wonderful Life
    • Twelve Angry Men
    • Die Hard
    • Alien
    • Aliens
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

    There are plenty (nearing my 60s, I've had plenty time to watch movies ;). So allow me to name just a few I always enjoy watching. They are in no order save the two first ones:

    • '2001 A Space Odyssey'. There are movies, many are not that great, some are excellent and of those a few are true work of art, and then there is '2001'. I'm an admirer of most of Kubrick's work but this one is in a category of its own. I hated the first time I watched it, then I watched it again and was blown away, sequence after sequence. And I'm blown away every single time I re-watch it. It's one of the two movies I consider on par with the greatest books I've ever read.
    • 'Les enfants du paradis' (Children of Paradise). Marcel CarnΓ©, 1945. A french movie and the second of the two movies I consider as good as the best books I've ever read. Maybe even more than 2001...
    • '12 Angry Men'. Or what it means/should mean to live and to be a citizen in a democracy.
    • Gone With the Wind.
    • Ghost in the Shell (the original anime)
    • The Dictator (Chaplin)
    • 'The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean'. I love this movie despite all its flaws. I love every bits of it, even its flaws. And I love its ending even more.
    • 'Dances with Wolves'. I'm a sucker for Westerns and this one, right with 'Open Range' and maybe 'True Grit' (the Cohen version), which is also a great novel, is my all time most... loved Western. Not my favorite, but the one I love the most. Every time I watch it makes me wonder what the USA (and the rest of the world) could have been if they had managed to get rid of their hate (of the natives, and of nature). I should also list the Newman/Redford 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'. But I feel bad for only listing so few as there are many more great Westerns and even a few truly amazing ones (there is also a lot of turds, I will admit it). This genre deserves a thread on its own as it so often overlooked or ignored because of its label. It's sad.
    • 'Somewhere in Time'. next to Westerns, I'm a sucker for love stories. This one makes me cry every single time. I also like 'When Harry Met Sally', a lot.
    • A History of Violence. I expected not much of it but it happened to be a great movie. With an amazing casting.
    • The Birds (my favorite Hitchcock, so different from du Maurier's original short story which is also excellent, btw)
    • North by Northwest (another Hitchcock, another of my favorites)
    • Toy Story (the first 1, maybe the 2nd too), Ice Age (the 2 first ones)
    • 'Singing in the Rain'. The movie I've watched the most, bar none?
    • 'West Side Story'
    • 'Scarface' (the one with Al Pacino).
    • Kick Ass (the first one) made a huge impression on me. And gave me hope that all was not lost with contemporary US cinema that has grown afraid even of its own shadow and has started self-censoring, hard.
    • A clockwork Orange.
    • Full Metal Jacket (there is a lot I like less in it but it still is a great film)
    • Barry Lyndon. God may have created light but Kubrick mastered it, in that movie.

    There are so, so many more! Ozu is one of the directors I can endlessly watch and have a blast, I'm also a fan of Kurosawa. I have not even considered Italian (like, they were among the best) or the Russian cinema! Or even my own French movies: back in the days, French used to make a lot of great movies but that was before we too, like Hollywood, became so afraid of our own shadow that we started self-censoring... Sad times we're living in, bu that will pass.

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • load more comments (6 replies)
    [–] 8 points 6 months ago
    [–] 8 points 6 months ago*

    Young Frankenstein
    Pulp Fiction
    Big Lebowski
    Airplane! with Zero Hour! (1957) immediately after
    Fifth Element
    The Death of Stalin

  • source
  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

    Big Trouble in Little China

    Princess Bride

    The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

    Tank Girl

    Romancing the Stone

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    Where the Buffalo Roam

    Everything by Monty Python

    Edit: everything by Mel Brooks

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • load more comments (6 replies)
    [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    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 β€˜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.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Idiocracy, numerous times.

    As time passes, it gets worse (aka reality does. The movie is perfect)

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I probably watched The Man from Earth (2007) over ten times.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Aside from the several good twists, what gets me about this story is thinking about the scale of time. If a normal person likely can't remember what meal they ate last year on this date, imagine that x1000 (and more). Such a great concept.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Princess Bride

    Strictly Ballroom

    Paul

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    Star Wars 4,5,6

    LOTR all of them

    Operation Petticoat

    Dr Strangelove

    The Great Race

    Pacific Rim

    The Abyss

    True Lies

    Alien

    Aliens

    Clue

    The Cutting Edge

    Forbidden Planet

    Harry Potter series

    Kelly's Heroes

    The Last Starfighter

    Young Frankenstein

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    Star Trek movies: Wrath of Khan, First Contact

    Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

    Gumball Rally

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    The Lord of the Rings - watched these many times now, and a couple of those have been back to back marathons. And yes, extended editions every time.

    The Little Mermaid - The original Disney animated version. It’s possibly my favourite of what is known as the renaissance era.

    The Muppet Christmas Carol - I watch this every year on Christmas Eve. I think I’m up to about 15 or more years now. It’s without a doubt the best version of A Christmas Carol ever.

    Top three off the top of my head. I’m sure there’s more but the won’t match the number of times I’ve watched these.

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Galaxy Quest

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Far too many to name, so here's the first 10 that come to mind:

    • Ghostbusters
    • Star Wars
    • Goodfellas
    • Aliens
    • Clue
    • Back to the Future
    • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
    • Akira
    • His Girl Friday
    • Escape to Victory
  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 7 points 6 months ago*

    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.

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    The Rocky Horror Picture Show

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Hundreds of Beavers! It's an absolute delight showing it to someone who has never seen it before.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    How to Train Your Dragon

    used to fall asleep to it every night

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (1 child)
    • Mean Girls
    • Inception
    • Harry Potter series
    • The Lord of the Rings Trilogy extended edition
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    i don't even have an answer for that. but i grew up pre-internet and owned lots of video tapes.

    i'm marveling at the notion that there may be people who haven't rewatched movies a lot?

  • source
  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    The Departed

    Godfather 1 & 2

    Rogue One

    The Fifth Element

    Dune 1 & 2

    The Princess Bride

    Star Wars 1-6

    Anchorman

    Big Fish

  • source
  • load more comments
    view more: next β€Ί