Films that you watch over and over....

[discokermit]

over the years mine have changed. as do everyone's. from my youth,
quadrophenia
the blues brothers
blow up
vanishing point
the italian job
up the junction
the great escape
two lane blacktop
billy liar
blazing saddles.

i used to know every line in quadrophenia when i was sixteen. first saw it with a mate when i was twelve. we were skiving off school round his sisters while she was at work. his brother in law had a video van which we raided and saw that and a porno which we watched with cushions on our laps.

more lately, last twenty years, it's been,
matewan
land and freedom
night and the city
pulp fiction
resevoir dogs
kill bill 1&2
casablanca
battle of britain (paisley silk scarves and spitfires!)
the maltese falcon
the big sleep
the wild bunch
bring me the head of alfredo garcia
get carter
groundhog day
double indemnity
blue collar
north by north west
his girl friday
school for scoundrels
total recall
meantime

i've watched bladerunner, star wars and grease more times than i actually like the films but i can sit through them easy enough.
some of my favourite films i don't watch that often in case i spoil them or summat.

actually, i think i've seen bladerunner more times at the cinema than any other film. mainly because of all the different cuts.

 

[DotCommunist]

for a 'modern' one rather than my old classics- I've probably seen Cloud Atlas five or six times now. From that to a woeful story like Jupiter Ascending is some fall.

 

[DaveCinzano]

his girl friday

school for scoundrels

Very you

 

[felixthecat]

If I see they're on Tv or find them on Netflix, these are some of the ones I'm always happy to waste a couple of hours watching.
Rear Window
Vertigo
Night of THe Hunter
Cape Fear
Blues Brothers
Aliens
Whats Eating Gilbert Grape?
Big
Total Recall
National Lampoons Animal House
Se7en

probably more but these are the ones that come straight off the top of my head.

 

[DotCommunist]

Total Recall

i can do that film nearly line for line. Michael Ironside, Arnie, Sharon stone? glorious

 

[The Octagon]

i can do that film nearly line for line. Michael Ironside, Arnie, Sharon stone? glorious

Watched this the other night and all I could think was Quaid was a moron.

Get your mind wiped and go back to living in blissful ignorance with Sharon Stone you fool!

Incidentally, what was the long term plan if Quaid didn't go to Mars? Was Lori signed up for a full 'Truman Show' gig of acting his wife for the rest of their days?

 

[DotCommunist]

Watched this the other night and all I could think was Quaid was a moron.

Get your mind wiped and go back to living in blissful ignorance with Sharon Stone you fool!

Incidentally, what was the long term plan if Quaid didn't go to Mars? Was Lori signed up for a full 'Truman Show' gig of acting his wife for the rest of their days?

ennit, spen your days having epic ligature and sex with SS.

 

[Reno]

Not counting the rubbish The Hollow Man, of the science fiction films Verhoeven did, I always found Total Recall the least interesting, but I suppose its the one that brings out the Schwarzenegger fans out.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Alien
Aliens
My Neighbour Totoro
Jurassic Park
Starship Troopers
Die Hard
The Towering Inferno
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back

seen all of those a number of times!

 

[alsoknownas]

ennit, spen your days having epic ligature and sex with SS.

You're thinking of Salon Kitty.

 

[DotCommunist]

Not counting the rubbish The Hollow Man, of the science fiction films Verhoeven did, I always found Total Recall the least interesting, but I suppose its the one that brings out the Schwarzenegger fans out.

Hollow Man was verhoeven? truly every day is a schoolday. Apparently the rapey bit was even more rapey before they cut it.

 

[DaveCinzano]

i can do that film nearly line for line.

TBF, given your habit, not necessarily the right line for line

 

[Reno]

Hollow Man was verhoeven? truly every day is a schoolday. Apparently the rapey bit was even more rapey before they cut it.

It doesn't even feel like a Verhoeven film and he apparently hated it. Vcerhoeven tried to make something more mainstream after Starship Troopers and Showgirls flopped and it was the reason why he returned to Holland.

 

[DotCommunist]

TBF, given your habit, not necessarily the right line for line

getchya ass to venus

 

[Reno]

You're thinking of Salon Kitty.

That's a film I will only ever watch once.

 

[mod]

Trainspotting
Pulp Fiction
God Father 1 and 2
The London Nobody Knows
Quadrophenia
Apocalypse Now
The Great Escape

 

[alsoknownas]

That's a film I will only ever watch once.

Yeah, I'd be a bit worried about anyone who watched that over and over.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Films I watch pretty much once a year...

Max Max Trilogy
Kill Bill I & II
Masters of the Universe
Beautiful Thing
The Wizard of Oz (Usually on telly over xmas, but I'll dig out the DVD if I don't catch it)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (always on Hallowe'en, seeing as it is a Hallowe'en film!)
The xmas collection: Home Alone I & II, Santa Claus the Movie, the Santa Clause, Call Me Claus
Dad's Army (my favourite of the sitcom big screen adaptions)
Batman I, II & III
Star Trek Generations, First Contact and the two Pine/Quinto ones
Die Hard with a Vengeance (Yes, its my favourite one)

Films I watch many times a year...

Rocky Horror Picture Show
Shock Treatment
Lord of the Rings Trilogy

 

[Orang Utan]

I don't really like watching films more than once cos there's always other films to watch.

 

[RainbowTown]

Films I make a point of watching every year:

Persona.
Night Of The Hunter.
Passion of Joan of Arc.
Bambi.
Badlands.
Spirit of The Beehive.
Close Encounters of The Third Kind.
Bringing Up Baby.
The Servant.
The General.
The Gold Rush.
Brokeback Mountain.
Celine and Julie Go Boating.
Amarcord.
Dumbo.
Au Hasard, Balthazar.

 

[blossie33]

oops dp

 

[DexterTCN]

Bladerunner
The Matrix
The Crow
Spirited Away
Naked Gun
Rocky Horror
Jaws
Fight Club
Usual Suspects
T2
Gattaca
Leon
Vanilla Sky
Nolan's Batmans
Let The Right One In

 

[Looby]

Empire Records is probably my most watched film now.
Ferris Bueller
To kill a mockingbird
The first Sex and the city film if I need a cry but not the awful, offensive SATC 2.
Any old shit romcoms tbh, easy watching.
As a kid it was Grease and Dirty Dancing, me and my best mate watched them both every week. [emoji33]

 

[Orang Utan]

it would do my nut in having to watch films over again like that!

 

[Looby]

I'm guessing you'd only do it if you wanted to.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Not so much into rewatching films as I used to be, as these days I often struggle to find the time to watch films I want to see at all.

But I've probably seen Lost Highway once a year since its release. Most other Lynch films I've seen a good few times too. Can always find something 'new' in a Lynch film no matter how many times I've seen it.

More recent films I've seen a few times are Dead Man's Shoes and Drive, but them more because they're so pleasingly made.

 

[Reno]

it would do my nut in having to watch films over again like that!

Considering how dissapointing many of the new films are, sometimes I just want to be sure that what I'm going to watch is a film I love. There also are quite a few films which get better on a rewatch for me. The first time I'll watch a film mainly for the plot, but later I tend to focus on film making aspects, acting, etc

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm guessing you'd only do it if you wanted to.

of course, but there are so many films out there that need to be watched and there's not enough time to watch them.

 

[Orang Utan]

Considering how dissapointing many of the new films are, sometimes I just want to be sure that what I'm going to watch is a film I love. There also are quite a few films which get better on a rewatch for me. The first time I'll watch a film mainly for the plot, but later I tend to focus on film making aspects, acting, etc

yeah, i get that, but my desire for novelty always trumps my desire for nostalgia. i'm like that with music too.

 

[Orang Utan]