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Films that you watch over and over....

buiduyen

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Rush has been sitting on my shelf for a couple of weeks. I knew that film was going to be a good one, but for some reason never got around to watching it. I've been trying to slot it in somewhere, but life just got busy with other things. Decided, Friday night that I was watching this film no matter what! Discussed that small fact with my wife with bravo and steel. Ended up watching the Conjuring. Brilliant film. Honestly my nuts shriveled with that film. Stick Rush in the player and she flops to bed uninterested, in a film about two formula 1 drivers from the 70's. So I watch it on me lonesome! Credits roll. Now i know that I've had no drugs that night(unfortunately.)(WISH!) and i'm buzzing. I'm sitting there all by my self and thinking, fuck. That's maybe one of the best films I've ever seen. It's to the point that i'm having trouble sleeping its so fucking good. Whirling around in my mind.....spinning like a mf. So I decide next day that the wife and I are going to watch it. Me and the wife! So I ply her with more wine and after a round of totally hard core dance music i stick Rush on. She's fucking jazzed by the film and goes to bed. Before she hits the sack I ask her whether she thinks its age appropriate for my son who is twelve. She's not sure. I'm thinking I've got to show this film to my son. He needs to see this shit right? So I tell her so. A few seconds pass and she's like, yeah, lets show him. So tomorrow I'll be showing it to my son. Can't wait. So that will make 3 watches. Barely a couple days have passed. I know i'll watch it in midweek as I'm so freaked about the film. Then I'll be telling my friends about it and no doubt end up watching around their houses. This film has some way of beating The Prestige for watches but I foresee a possible contender. I may have watched The Prestige 15 - 20 times. The Thing is close to that the figure as well.

So what films have you watched over and over and over...........?
 
I go through phases. Over the years there have been many films that I'll put on "in the background" while I'm doing stuff or as I'm about to sleep. I know these films so well that I know almost every line, and they make me happy and relaxed. My favourites from the last couple of years have been The Life Aquatic, Lost in Translation, The Royal Tenenbaums (shit I just noticed that Bill Murray is in all of those).

For the last year or so I've been watching a lot of Woody Allen films, I have watched (bits of) these a million times...Annie Hall, Manhattan, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and her Sisters.
 
Seen all of these more than 10 times:

Vertigo/Marnie/Rear Window/Psycho
Black Narcissus/I Know Where I'm Going
The Night of the Hunter
Alien/Blade Runner
Cat People/Curse of the Cat People
The Ghost and Mrs Muir
Rosemary's Baby/Chinatown/The Tenant/The fearless Vampire Killers
Showgirls/Starship Troopers
Let the Right One In
Read My Lips
Suspiria
You Can Count On Me/Margaret
3 Women
Meet Me in St Louis
Dressed to Kill/Blow Out
Johnny Guitar
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Peter Ibbetson
Imitation of Life (1959)
Don't Look Now
Petulia
Point Blank/Prime Cut
Charade/Funny Face
My Neighbour Totoro
Blue Velvet/Lost Highway
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
 
...and I will add that "the most watched" is not the same as "the greatest films" for me. The films I mentioned I find comforting to re-watch. I like to re-visit the world of those films.
 
I don't tend to watch a film lots of times any more, other than the ones that always turn up on TV, the kind that if you come across one you end up watching most if not all of it.

However, when I was a kid:







:oops: :D
 
...and I will add that "the most watched" is not the same as "the greatest films" for me. The films I mentioned I find comforting to re-watch. I like to re-visit the world of those films.

You feel comforted by Let the Right One In? :eek:

Totoro though, yeah I've watched that a million times too :thumbs:
 
You feel comforted by Let the Right One In? :eek:

Totoro though, yeah I've watched that a million times too :thumbs:
I do ! Of any child in films, Oskar is the most like I was. I even had the same, blonde pudding bowl haircut. I just didn't have a vampire friend who would kill the bullies. :(
 
I do ! Of any child in films, Oskar is the most like I was. I even had the same, blonde pudding bowl haircut. I just didn't have a vampire friend who would kill the bullies. :(

Heh.

It's one of those films that are just too intense for me, as much as I loved it I could watch it only once. Anpther is Pan's Labyrinth.
 
Heh.

It's one of those films that are just too intense for me, as much as I loved it I could watch it only once. Anpther is Pan's Labyrinth.

I generally prefer films which scare me, make me cry or traumatise me to those that make me laugh or which get described as "heart warming" or "feel good". I think find them cathartic. Or maybe it's that I have a lump of coal where the heart should be. :)
 
...and I will add that "the most watched" is not the same as "the greatest films" for me. The films I mentioned I find comforting to re-watch. I like to re-visit the world of those films.
That's the same for me. Some of my fave films are quite exhausting experiences, or need a lot of time between viewings.

Two films I watch a lot are - Almost Famous (fun!), and Don't Look Now (intense).

A film I've only seen once, but can't wait to see again sometime is Antichrist.
 
I had to put Antichrist off after about 15 minutes, and Nymphomaniac after about 30. I just can't bear to watch them, as good as they are.

I love Melancholia though, one of my favourite films.
 
Jackie Brown and Howls Moving Castle.

I go through phases. A few years ago it was Shaun of the dead.
 
I had to put Antichrist off after about 15 minutes, and Nymphomaniac after about 30. I just can't bear to watch them, as good as they are.

I love Melancholia though, one of my favourite films.
The only thing by Lars Von Trier I've enjoyed rewatching is his haunted hospital TV series Riget/The Kingdom.
 
I don't tend to watch a film lots of times any more, other than the ones that always turn up on TV, the kind that if you come across one you end up watching most if not all of it.

However, when I was a kid:







:oops: :D


Flight of the Navigator is brilliant and one of my favourite films (for big kids) :oops::D
 
I had to put Antichrist off after about 15 minutes, and Nymphomaniac after about 30. I just can't bear to watch them, as good as they are.
I know what you mean - it (Antichrist) was the single most intense film experience I've had in a long while.
The only thing by Lars Von Trier I've enjoyed rewatching is his haunted hospital TV series Riget/The Kingdom.
Did you see Antichrist? I thought it was a cut above.
 
Fair enough. I don't like him particularly, and avoided watching it for ages, but I found it quite redemptive, and as a film it swallowed me whole.

I really like him as a character and I always hope one day he'll make something else I like. So I watch pretty much everything he does only to be disappointed every time. I still have 6 hours of the Nymphomaniac director's cut sitting there, unwatched. It seems like too much of a punishing effort.
 
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