Films that you watch over and over....

[Indeliblelink]

Films i end up watching many times tend to be Sunday afternoon type of films, like film version of comfort food. Any Connery or Moore Bond films, classic Carry Ons, classic WWII action films, Dam Busters, A Bridge Too Far etc, any classic Ford or Mann westerns, any golden US era Hitchcock or in fact any Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant films and any 70s disaster films, Earthquake, Towering Inferno. All good for just lounging on the sofa after a good Sunday roast and a few pints.

 

[SovietArmy]

My films would be not so popular but Soviet films never get me bored.

 

[8115]

Fight Club.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Theatre of Blood and the Dr Phibes films I could watch any day of the week and not get bored.

 

[DotCommunist]

I watch Its a Wonderful Life every year around christmas week.

 

[8den]

Life and death of Colonel Blimp, Millers Crossing, The Fisher King, the Third Man. Kelly's heroes.

 

[billy_bob]

Blues Brothers
Blade Runner
Mystery Train
Dead Man
Blue Velvet
The Odd Couple

Mystery Train and Blue Velvet I've probably watched 50 times each, easily. I don't see why you wouldn't re-watch a favourite film as regularly as you listen to a favourite album.

 

[felixthecat]

Blues Brothers

I wore out a video of the Blues Brothers.

 

[sunnysidedown]

Ivan's Xtc
Daisies
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Robinson in Space
The Warriors

 

[Virtual Blue]

Jacob's Ladder
Bladerunner
Drugstore Cowboy
Requiem for a Dream
Lost Highway
Hanna-Bi
Raid 2

 

[passenger]

the 39 steps the original one
shaun of the dead
being there peter sellers

 

[krtek a houby]

Brazil
Kung Fu Hustle
Dances with Wolves
Once Upon a Time in America
Goodfellas

 

[DotCommunist]

Brazil

makes me lol, when itv showed this they straight up billed it as a de niro film. He's a minor character! but from their trails for the showing you could have assumed it was all bob

 

[krtek a houby]

makes me lol, when itv showed this they straight up billed it as a de niro film. He's a minor character! but from their trails for the showing you could have assumed it was all bob

I'm shocked ITV even showed it. Not their usual fare? I remember first seeing it back in the late 80s on BBC2 and I fell in love with it. The cinematography, the performances, the soundtrack and just the sheer unusualness of it. Gilliam's vision was just so out there.

 

[8den]

Does anyone remember ITV risible dubbing of 18cert action movies in the 90s? literally no expense was made in looping the lines, and it sounded like someone had randomly grabbed anyone to overdub swearing. Die Hards "yippie Kay yah motherfucker" became
"yippe kay yah kimosabi"

 

[Orang Utan]

Does anyone remember ITV risible dubbing of 18cert action movies in the 90s? literally no expense was made in looping the lines, and it sounded like someone had randomly grabbed anyone to overdub swearing. Die Hards "yippie Kay yah motherfucker" became
"yippe kay yah kimosabi"

RoboCop's the one: 'Ladies leave'

 

[Santino]

RoboCop's the one: 'Ladies leave'

Forget you, melon-farmer.

 

[Orang Utan]

I like The Big Lebowski's 'finding a stranger in the Alps'
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/sep/11/clip-joint-swearing-censored

 

[DotCommunist]

RoboCop's the one: 'Ladies leave'

the original cut of that has Murphy's shooting going on for a good five minutes of total gore. I remember my brother as a teen telling me he'd seen it and it was fucking horrible. I just assumed it was hyped up dave relishing the gore too much but no, there is the verhoeven cut out there where it goes on for ages.

 

[Orang Utan]

the original cut of that has Murphy's shooting going on for a good five minutes of total gore. I remember my brother as a teen telling me he'd seen it and it was fucking horrible. I just assumed it was hyped up dave relishing the gore too much but no, there is the verhoeven cut out there where it goes on for ages.

Think that's the only version I've seen apart from the comedy clean ITV version

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

Met an old Italian/Mexican stone sculptor on holiday in Sardinia last month, got chatting as I was taking some photos of him. He opened a big box next to him & beckoned me over to look at his photo albums. Turns out he was a keen photographer during his earlier years in Italy, & had lots of monochrome photos that he'd taken of Sergio Leone dressed in Mexican bandit wear on set! How fucking is that?

 

[DotCommunist]

Think that's the only version I've seen apart from the comedy clean ITV version

I'll find a torrent one of these days. I don't know if the film loses or gains from it tbh- unless you take the thinking that verhoeven wanted to show the ultraviolence of a neoliberal/miniarchist future* and also demonstrate how fucked up Murphy was. Like in that 'he's been that shot up he could only come back in android form'

*Theres also something of this in Starship Troopers which on the face of it is quite a sci fi romper but then the level of gore rings different to the tone. Got a cinema 15 release here in npton which meant I also got the mixed gender shower scene, bankable when you are 15

 

[Orang Utan]

I'll find a torrent one of these days. I don't know if the film loses or gains from it tbh- unless you take the thinking that verhoeven wanted to show the ultraviolence of a neoliberal/miniarchist future* and also demonstrate how fucked up Murphy was. Like in that 'he's been that shot up he could only come back in android form'

Theres also something of this in Starship Troopers which on the face of it is quite a sci fi romper but then the level of gore rings different to the tone. Got a cinema 15 release here in npton which meant I also got the mixed gender shower scene, bankable when you are 15

Give me your address and I'll send you the Robocop boxset if you want

 

[DotCommunist]

 

[DotCommunist]

Give me your address and I'll send you the Robocop boxset if you want

safe! I'll pm you

 

[Reno]

I'll find a torrent one of these days. I don't know if the film loses or gains from it tbh- unless you take the thinking that verhoeven wanted to show the ultraviolence of a neoliberal/miniarchist future* and also demonstrate how fucked up Murphy was. Like in that 'he's been that shot up he could only come back in android form'

*Theres also something of this in Starship Troopers which on the face of it is quite a sci fi romper but then the level of gore rings different to the tone. Got a cinema 15 release here in npton which meant I also got the mixed gender shower scene, bankable when you are 15

The shifts of tone in Starship Troopers are supposed to be jarring as its a sci fi romper on the surface and then when you dig a bit deeper it's a satire on totalitarian regimes (and on the idea that action films are inherently fascist) where the heroes turn out to have been the villains all along.

Verhoeven saw both Robocop and Starship Troopers as black comedies and the gore in Robocop was supposed to have a Monty Python level of splatstick. It would have been shocking then had it got released, but it's not so bad now after the likes of Saw. At the same time we hardly ever get R-rated blockbusters with gore and nudity any more. Everything has to be aimed at a family audience.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Does anyone remember ITV risible dubbing of 18cert action movies in the 90s? literally no expense was made in looping the lines, and it sounded like someone had randomly grabbed anyone to overdub swearing. Die Hards "yippie Kay yah motherfucker" became
"yippe kay yah kimosabi"

Robocop version was the best, it was about 30 minutes shorter

"YOU BUILT THE FREAKY THING!"

 

[gimesumtruf]

The 3rd Man, wow, the music, Harry's face, chase in the sewers and Anna's long walk from the cemetery. It's my favorite.
I like the Computer-generated imagery (CGI) stuff, so I can freeze frame or watch repeatedly the amazing disaster, battle, horror and fight scenes. I must have seen 2012 about 10 times at least.
2012:- That train or that giant donut amazing, well, it's got it all really.
The Day After Tomorrow
Meteor
Gladiator
Lord of the Rings
Frightnight
I also love gangster movies. I've watched HEAT over and over, Goodfellas, Casino. Other favorites are No Country for Old Men, The Long Good Friday.
I love old black and white films :- Casablanca, Key Largo, Double Indemnity, I never tire of watching them especially the ones with B Lancaster, H Bogart,J Cagney, well! loads of the old timers
Films I've watched at least twice this year:- Man on Fire, Dr Strangelove, Oblivion, War of the Worlds (2005), Touch of evil.
Cowies:- I've watched more than twice:- Lawman (1971), Shane, both of the True grit.
I've seen all the films a lot more than twice

 

[passenger]

Fight Club.

never really got what all the fuss was about ?

 

[Cheesypoof]

Other movies from my yoot, which I practically know by heart!

Marnie, Psycho, Rebecca, The Graduate, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Goodfellas, Ferris Bueller's Day off, Some Like it Hot, The Wizard of Oz....will never get tired of them.