OT: Movies you'd watch multiple times

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:06 pm

Some good ones on earlier lists (LoTRs, original Matrix, Blazing Saddles, Goldfinger, Indiana Jones, Minority Report), but allow me to add a few cheesy ones of my own...these are ones which I will watch if I spot while channel surfing, even if they are part way through.

Tora! Tora! Tora!
Attack!
Kelly's Heroes
French Connection 1 and 2
Gunfight at the OK Corral
Hot Fuzz
The Producers (Gene Wilder version only)
Hard Boiled / A Better Tomorrow
Any of the Quatermass films

EZSnappin · Post by **EZSnappin** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:30 pm

davet010 wrote:allow me to add a few cheesy ones of my own...

A Better Tomorrow

I love the original, but A Better Tomorrow II is perhaps my favorite action movie ever. You get a twin brother never mentioned in the first movie and the most absurd 30 minutes of mayhem to end it. It serves as both sequel and parody at the same time.

On the HK movie tip, I'll throw out a few favorites I will watch at the drop of a hat:

Infernal Affairs
The Bride With White Hair (not the sequel though)
Chinese Ghost Story I & II
A Bullet in The Head
The New Legend of Shaolin
Happy Together
In The Mood For Love
King of Beggars
Once Upon a Time in China
Project A & Project A-2
Armour of God (aka Operation Condor 2: The Armour of God)

I lucked out when I lived in Baltimore - there was a theater that showed a Hong Kong double feature every Monday night for $5. Saw some real howlers but also caught most of the above mentioned films.

WillHunting · Post by **WillHunting** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:15 pm

JRod wrote:Who said they would watch City of God multiple times. That's the one about the slums in Brazil. No way I would watch that again. Great movie, though.

Why not? I thought it was brilliant, and I love every second of it.

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:30 pm

EZSnappin wrote:
davet010 wrote:allow me to add a few cheesy ones of my own...

A Better Tomorrow
I love the original, but A Better Tomorrow II is perhaps my favorite action movie ever. You get a twin brother never mentioned in the first movie and the most absurd 30 minutes of mayhem to end it. It serves as both sequel and parody at the same time.

I was always more partial to The Killer. The opening five minutes are just spectacular, and the tea scene where they are point guns at each other is hilarious. And, of course, lots and lots of doves.

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:41 pm

These are the ones I have watched recently for the umpteenth time.

The Great Escape (I've actually watched this movie more then any other in my life 80+ times to be exact)
3 Amigos
Usual Suspects
Matrix (original only)
Evolution (I don't know why but I love this movie)
HSM 1 & 2 (I have 2 girls, somewhere in the middle I became brainwashed)
Harold & Kumar
Old School
The Postman (yeah I know)
Magnificent Seven

EZSnappin · Post by **EZSnappin** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:05 pm

Brando70 wrote: I was always more partial to The Killer. The opening five minutes are just spectacular, and the tea scene where they are point guns at each other is hilarious. And, of course, lots and lots of doves.

The doves! Man, love the doves. I saw it in it's first release over here when they called each other "Mickey Mouse" and "Dumbo". Until I saw a proper subtitle job on home video I just couldn't get over how cheesy it was.

Stephen Chow's "King of Comedy" has an absolutely spot-on Woo parody sequence complete with doves that had me falling out of my seat.

icvu42 · Post by **icvu42** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:15 pm

Embrace of the Vampire... Alyssa Milano at her finest!

Rick

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:31 pm

Part of my short list, just some of the comedies:

Any Marx Bros. Movie, but especially the pre-MGM ones, although Night at the Opera still counts

Love and Death - one of Woody's best

The Party - pure brilliance

A Shot in the Dark - because i was just thinking about Sellers and Edwards and this is by a very wide margin my favorite Clouseau movie

I'll stop now.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:37 pm

Zeppo wrote:
Any Marx Bros. Movie, but especially the pre-MGM ones, although Night at the Opera still counts

I love those too...

" You cant fool me there aint no sanity clause"

greggsand · Post by **greggsand** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:51 pm

Man, it's hard imagine someone watching some of these 'over & over & over'. I think the only 3 hour+ downer movies not listed yet is Schindler's List & Sofie's Choice. good times...

Movies that I've seen more than I care to admit:

Top Secret, Die Hard, Color of Money, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction.

Yeah, I love stuff like The Pianist, but one time is good enough for me.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:32 pm

greggsand wrote:
Yeah, I love stuff like The Pianist, but one time is good enough for me.

Ya I loved Saving Private Ryan and We Were Soldiers but there is no way Im watching them again.

Great movies but just too depressing.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:46 pm

Some stuff that I don't think has been mentioned:

Any Bogart, especially with Bacall but also The Maltese Falcon, African Queen etc. I fully believe that the moment of clarity before death is when the plot of The Big Sleep is fully understood.

Chaplin's stuff. I've never been a Keaton guy. He's brilliant, but it's always been Chaplin for me.

A ton of concert films will stop me every time I flip by one... particularly The Last Waltz and Sign Of The Times.

Seven Samurai

Oultaw Josie Wales: for me it's THE western

Almost Famous (It may not be the best movie, but I love no movie more)

O' Brother Where Art Thou (not ranked among the best of the Coen's work, but again my favorite)

greggsand · Post by **greggsand** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:57 pm

RobVarak wrote:Some stuff that I don't think has been mentioned:

Any Bogart, especially with Bacall but also The Maltese Falcon, African Queen etc. I fully believe that the moment of clarity before death is when the plot of The Big Sleep is fully understood.

Chaplin's stuff. I've never been a Keaton guy. He's brilliant, but it's always been Chaplin for me.

A ton of concert films will stop me every time I flip by one... particularly The Last Waltz and Sign Of The Times.

Seven Samurai

Oultaw Josie Wales: for me it's THE western

Almost Famous (It may not be the best movie, but I love no movie more)

O' Brother Where Art Thou (not ranked among the best of the Coen's work, but again my favorite)

When are you flipping channels and see a Charlie Chaplin film???

vader29 · Post by **vader29** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:31 am

Just a few of the movies that I never grow tired of watching would be any of the Star Wars films, the Back To The Future Trilogy, Roadhouse, Clerks, Mallrats, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Waynes World, Slapshot, Sudden Death and Strange Brew.

lexbur · Post by **lexbur** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:35 pm

RobVarak wrote:
Almost Famous (It may not be the best movie, but I love no movie more)

I feel the same way about that movie. Of the movies I own, it's easily the one I've watched the most times.

grtwhtsk · Post by **grtwhtsk** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:48 pm

Movie that I love, and makes me laugh every time I watch it is Meet the Parents.

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:29 pm

RobVarak wrote: Chaplin's stuff. I've never been a Keaton guy. He's brilliant, but it's always been Chaplin for me.

I'm a huge Keaton fan, and I really like Harold Lloyd as well. I don't really love Chaplin's features that much, but some of his shorts are freaking brilliant. There's one called 'The Rink' that has some of the most amazing work on roller skates I've ever seen. Had me in stitches. The guy was unbelievably skilled.