Great movies you'll NEVER tire of

[stealthwise]

Same question as before, only reversed.

For some reason, I could probably watch Dodgeball every day and get a different laugh from something I failed to notice the last few times I saw it. Really well-structured for a throwaway sports comedy.

Also, Ravenous, Adaptation, Unforgiven...

[Linkara]

The Richard Harris/Vanessa Redgrave version of Camelot. I <3 every second of it. ^_^

o/ In short, there's simply not a more congenial spot... o/

[Christopher Cross Is God]

The Hours
The Bourne Identity
Event Horizon
Gattaca

I love many other movies, some of which I'd definitely say are better than Event Horizon & Gattaca, but the 4 films above, for whatever reason, I can watch countless times without tiring of them.

[BnL]

I love most of Neil Simon's comedies. Faves are probably Plaza Suite, Murder By Death, and The Out-of-Towners (the original!)

I love horror anthology movies, my favorites probably being Creepshow and Black Sabbath. They need to make more though, dammit!

Clue. Similar in tone to Neil Simon's Murder By Death. Love it.

Haven't seen Adventures in Babysitting in years, but I used to watched in at least once a week.

The Lady Vanishes. My favorite Hitchcock movie (for the moment). That awful movie Flightplan stole the plot of this movie, and it still sucked. See the real thing. It's WAY better. Equal parts humor and suspense.

And of course, as I mentioned in the other thread, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

[TheWraith]

There are simply too many great films I could watch constantly and never, ever tire of.

[JamesRitcheyIII]

By Director--stuff I fail to tire of, that I've seen at least three times (most--MORE).

1. The Ruling Class--Peter Medak
2. Casablanca--Michael Curtiz
3. Citizen Kane, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil (1998 restoration)--oh, GUESS!
4. The Third Man--Carol Reed
5. Spellbound--Hitchcock (and almost everything)
6. Seconds (and anything else by Frankenheimer)
7. Kurosawa Addict (will stop everything if I run across anything I haven't seen)
8. Tarantino and/or Rodriguez Addict
9. David Lynch Addict ('cept Dune)
10. Ghost Dog--Way of the Samurai--Jim Jarmusch
11. Coen Brothers

Honorable mention:
I loves me some Matrix, and Fight Club.
Batman Begins, V and Sin City ROCKED, because, dammit, at least they're going in the right direction.
I've watched A Scanner Darkly four times already, and that number will undoubtedly grow..
I just saw American Beauty for the first time this week--I predict I will be buying it, and wearing it out.

[Buzz Dixon]

In no particular order:

THE SEVEN SAMURAI
THE DIRTY DOZEN
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL
DUCK SOUP
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
PULP FICTION
THE GODFATHER I & II
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
THE STUNT MAN
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
LA DOLCE VITA

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm
The Big Lebowski
Disney's The Sword & The Stone
Dead Man
My Cousin Vinny
Philidelphia
The first two Reeve Supermans
National Lampoon's Animal House
Back To The Future trilogy
High Fidelity
What About Bob?
The Coleman Francis trilogy (only with Mike & the bots, though)

[Karl O'Neill]

i have watched spiderman 2 about 20 times, that train-fight scene blows me away everytime.

[TCJohnson]

Every Halloween I see Nightmare Before Christmas at this movietheater/bar near me.

[mgs]

gah@!!!! I just had this HUGE List up an it evaporated! :(
Lotr, Spider-Man2, SIn City, Enter the Dragon, THe Royal Tennenbaums, Unforgiven, Bambi, THe Naked Gun, Dances with WOlves, Raiders of the lost ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Animal House, Kill Bill, Vol.1, Meet the Parents, Batman, Mr. Mom, Pirates of the Caribbean, Singing in the Rain, The Shining, Conan, Saving Private Ryan, A League of their Own, Forrest Gump, Big, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, Rushmore, Happy Gilmore, Joe Dirt, Midnight Run, A Bronx Tale, Groundhog Day, Men In Black, A Christmas Story, Office Space, Raising Arizona, *looks down* The Princess Bride, Superman, Grave of the Fireflies, Crumb, The Matrix, Old School, Young Frankenstein, Blade Runner, The Secret of Nimh, Time Bandits, Kissing Jessica Stein, ....

Of course, some will debate the 'greatness' of these. ;)

[Tobias March]

The Princess Bride....I've even met a poor impoverished soul who hasn't seen it yet.

[Drumore]

Network
Broadcast News
Heathers
Breakfast Club
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pulp Fiction
Young Frankenstein
Dead Poet Society

[Fish Sauce]

Memento
LA Confidential
Anchorman
Zoolander
Old School
Pulp Fiction
Batman Begins
Reservoir Dogs
The Castle

And there'd be others I can't think of right now.

[Lester C.]

I've lost track the amount of times I've watched Old Boy.

[Aggie]

- kill bill vols. 1&2...<actually i'm getting ready to watch vol. 1 right now...
:D >

- the color purple

- mulholland drive

- steel magolias

- the children's hour

-cat on a hot tin roof

-the original parent trap

- napoleon dynamite

- blazing saddles

- fried green tomatoes

- the naked gun: tales of police squad

- the ten commandments

- shane

- the miyazaki trifecta <spirited away, princess mononoke, and howl's moving castle>

- the incredibles

- the little mermaid

and batman beyond: the return of the joker

i've more but i'm really anxious to go watch kill bill again...:)

[TCJohnson]

Dancing in the Rain,

Is Dancing in the Raid the same as Singin' in the Rain? Just wondering if you are talking about a movie I don't know about.

[mgs]

Is Dancing in the Raid the same as Singin' in the Rain? Just wondering if you are talking about a movie I don't know about.

sorry, changed it. Meant 'Singing in the Rain' the ole musical classic! ;) My brain's been on overdrive for a while.

[Erebus]

I can't watch huge, epic movies more then a couple of times, even though I'll usually love them the first time they come out. I always end up falling asleep or just turn it off. I can watch some feel-good actions and comedies as many times as I want. Some are:
Rush Hour
American Pie
Goldeneye
Clerks/ Clerks 2
Old School
Talledega Nights
Anchorman
Dumb and Dumber
Finding Nemo
Hercules (animated)
Shrek/Shrek 2

[Starba]

Gattaca
Casablanca
The Matrix
Back to the Future 1, 2, and 3
Forrest Gump
Mortal Kombat
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Batman Beyond: RotJ

Greatest movies ever? Well, not all of them. But damn it if they aren't fun.

[Dark Galaxy]

Fun:*
The 40 Year-Old Virgin
Office Space
The Princess Bride
Finding Nemo
Singin' in the Rain

Girly:
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Gone with the Wind

My Geek Movies:
Apollo 13
Serenity

Action/Drama:
Shawshank Redemption
The Hunt for Red October
The Abyss
Tombstone

*and the part of Anchorman when they sing "Afternoon Delight." I don't know why, but I could watch that over and over and over, and laugh every time.

[Tobias March]

Hudsucker Proxy/The Big Lebowski/Oh Brother Where Art Though
Night of the Living Dead
Ringu
The Shining
The Warriors
Kiss Me Deadly
Cassablanca/The Maltese Falcon
Network
Fight Club
American Werewolf in London
Withnail & I
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Trading Places
Blade Runner
The Hitcher
Jump Tomorrow
Dazed and Confused
Blue Velvet
Duck Soup

[JeffreyWKramer]

THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
THE SEVEN SAMURAI
THE ROAD WARRIOR
UNFORGIVEN
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE
CADDYSHACK
PULP FICTION
LORD OF THE RINGS
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
THE MATRIX
THE INCREDIBLES
TOMBSTONE
GHOSTBUSTERS
STAR TREK II
KILL BILL, p. 1 and 2
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON
THE TERMINATOR and T2
SPIDER-MAN and SPIDER-MAN 2

[Night Swordsman]

Please do not laugh:

Riki Tiki Tavi


Seriously.

[Jade_GL]

- The Manchurian Candidate (the original one, not remake)
- Citizen Kane
- The Third Man
- The Wizard of Oz
- It's a Wonderful Life
- There's No Business Like Show Business
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Clue
- Sin City
- Star Wars IV-VI
- Back to the Future I-III
- Rudy
- Se7en
- The Shawshank Redemption

And I know I will be adding 300 to the list when I get it on DVD, but I won't list it officially yet. I just have a feeling that it will be on the list. :D

[Hurricane]

"Batman & Robin" and "Nick Fury: Agent of Shield"

[NickG]

Clue. Similar in tone to Neil Simon's Murder By Death. Love it.



I must have rented that freaking movie 20 or 30 times when I was young, I haven't watched it in a couple of years but, good money I STILL wouldn't get tired of it now.

[PatrickG]

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. I think everything Trek is at its Zenith in this film without time anomalies or Holodecks. (Though I love both in moderation.) The ships feel like, well, ships. The political commentary is spot on without being terribly partisan and the characters overcoming themselves drives the plot.

The Majestic.

Fight Club.

Donnie Darko.

Citizen Kane.

Maverick.

Aladdin.

The Seventh Seal.

Bonnie & Clyde.

The Sting.

The Man Who Knew Too Much.

I seem to gravitate towards pretty stylized movies, when you think about it.

My roommate has a Tombstone fixation and, more than once in his life, has done nothing but eat, sleep and watch it for a week straight.

[JamesRitcheyIII]

By Director--stuff I fail to tire of, that I've seen at least three times (most--MORE).

1. The Ruling Class--Peter Medak
2. Casablanca--Michael Curtiz
3. Citizen Kane, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil (1998 restoration)--oh, GUESS!
4. The Third Man--Carol Reed
5. Spellbound--Hitchcock (and almost everything)
6. Seconds (and anything else by Frankenheimer)
7. Kurosawa Addict (will stop everything if I run across anything I haven't seen)
8. Tarantino and/or Rodriguez Addict
9. David Lynch Addict ('cept Dune)
10. Ghost Dog--Way of the Samurai--Jim Jarmusch
11. Coen Brothers

Honorable mention:
I loves me some Matrix, and Fight Club.
Batman Begins, V and Sin City ROCKED, because, dammit, at least they're going in the right direction.
I've watched A Scanner Darkly four times already, and that number will undoubtedly grow..
I just saw American Beauty for the first time this week--I predict I will be buying it, and wearing it out.

Oops. Left out--EVERYTHING BY STANLEY KUBRICK.

[cedardryad]

Glory
Dragonheart
Robin Hood Men In Tights
Lion King
Serenity
Princess Bride
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Equilibrium
Monster's Inc.
Bubba HoTep
A Bug's Life
Batman Begins
Hellboy

I think that's it.

[DocL]

A Hard Day's Night

[JeffreyWKramer]

Oops. Left out--EVERYTHING BY STANLEY KUBRICK.

I am very fond of a lot of Kubrick's stuff - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE is another film I never tire of watching - but I think I'd rather put in a Barney video than watch EYES WIDE SHUT again.

[Infra-Man]

A couple repeats off other lists but:


Anything by Terry Gilliam (except for Brothers Grimm)
City Lights
A Hard Day's Night
Most Woody Allen movies with a special place in my heart for Crimes and Misdemeanors
The General
Bride of Frankenstein
Freaks
Singin' in the Rain
Down By Law
The Third Man
Glengarry Glen Ross
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Pretty much anything starring the Marx Brothers
Pretty much anything directed by Billy Wilder

[Wrigley]

Zoolander. The funniest movie ever made.

[Karen El]

There are a lot of good movies listed here that I could watch more than once, but I would tire of if I saw them more than once in a couple of years, there are some downright stinkers that I would never watch again without good reason, but then there are a couple of stinkers that I love, so I'm not judging, and there have been several mentioned that I would have buried with me.



- the miyazaki trifecta <spirited away, princess mononoke, and howl's moving castle>


I had to go look up what trifecta meant, and I'm still not sure how it relates to movies, but I do know there are a whole bunch more Miyazaki movies that I am physically unable to stop watching if I catch sight of them while they are playing, including Kiki's Delivery Service, Laputa, Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, and My Neighbour Totoro. In fact the only Miyazaki I'd be reluctant to see again is Grave of the Fireflies because it's just too emo.

[stealthwise]

I am very fond of a lot of Kubrick's stuff - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE is another film I never tire of watching - but I think I'd rather put in a Barney video than watch EYES WIDE SHUT again.

Bingo, man, what schlock.

[JoeK32880]

Have you guys seen Eyes Wide Shut more than once? Because I almost hated it in the theater (sadly the only Kubrick I saw in teh theater), but after watching it on DVD a couple years ago I liked it A LOT more.

[Wrigley]

A Hard Day's Night
Paul's Grandfather; he's very clean.

One of my all time favorite lines.

[stealthwise]

Have you guys seen Eyes Wide Shut more than once? Because I almost hated it in the theater (sadly the only Kubrick I saw in teh theater), but after watching it on DVD a couple years ago I liked it A LOT more.

No, there's a huge list of movies I'd rather give another chance before Eyes Wide Shut, including Amelie, which was well-crafted, but did nothing for me at all emotionally.

[Aggie]

...I had to go look up what trifecta meant, and I'm still not sure how it relates to movies, but I do know there are a whole bunch more Miyazaki movies that I am physically unable to stop watching if I catch sight of them...

oh i was just using the word in the loosest of terms...in my opinion, those are his top three films in order...i would have added naussica, but if i said "quadfecta" the literary gods would have smote me...:o

[Lunar Daydreamer]

Casshern.
Ah! My Goddess: The Movie.
Empire Records.
Pump Up The Volume.
Mallrats.
3 Iron.
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… & Spring.
Versus.
Saved.
Christmas In August.
Anchorman.
Freaked.
Before Sunrise.
Before Sunset.
So Close.

[JoeK32880]

No, there's a huge list of movies I'd rather give another chance before Eyes Wide Shut, including Amelie, which was well-crafted, but did nothing for me at all emotionally.

Fair enough, I'm not guaranteeing you'd like it more if you saw it again anyway!

Personally, I loved Amelie. One of my all-time favorite movies.

[Night Swordsman]

No, there's a huge list of movies I'd rather give another chance before Eyes Wide Shut, including Amelie, which was well-crafted, but did nothing for me at all emotionally.

I liked the lawn gnomes. :)

[DavidAllred]

Fletch
The Big Lebowski

[Shisho]

The Princess Bride....I've even met a poor impoverished soul who hasn't seen it yet.

Inconceivable!!! :D

That's on my list too. Serenity & Ocean's 11 make the list too. If I catch them while flipping channels, I have the hardest time not watching to the end. Only a few movies can boast that. (And though not a "great movie" by any stretch, I can't manage to flip past Bedazzled with Brendan Frasier either. Shut up. It's funny.)

[stealthwise]

Inconceivable!!! :D

I, uh, I haven't seen The Princess Bride either, which is really sad, given that I actually own it, but my wife doesn't like it, and I haven't made the time to actually sit down and see it.

[Tobias March]

Inconceivable!!! :D

That's on my list too. Serenity & Ocean's 11 make the list too. If I catch them while flipping channels, I have the hardest time not watching to the end. Only a few movies can boast that. (And though not a "great movie" by any stretch, I can't manage to flip past Bedazzled with Brendan Frasier either. Shut up. It's funny.)

Everyone needs to see it at least once. Today I bought my flatmate the book as a birthday present :)

And on the Frasier version of Bedazzled - I liked the bit were he became a drug baron convinced he couldn't speak Spanish.

Watch the original with Pete and Dudley though. There's some great scenes in it. It's almost as wacked as the Magic Christian (http://youtube.com/watch?v=C8shpirOIvo&mode=related&search=) - which is wacky like a fox on laughing gas.

[Karen El]

I, uh, I haven't seen The Princess Bride either, which is really sad, given that I actually own it, but my wife doesn't like it, and I haven't made the time to actually sit down and see it.

You could always read the book. The two are very close and a lot of the best dialogue is used direct. Although the character performances are wonderful, and there are some moments like the fight scene between the Man in Black and Inigo that come alive on screen, the movie does cut out a lot of fantastic stuff, and the framing sequence works better as an editorial voice.

However, I can't help but wonder if a spousal dislike of The Princess Bride is not grounds for divorce.

[stealthwise]

You could always read the book. The two are very close and a lot of the best dialogue is used direct. Although the character performances are wonderful, and there are some moments like the fight scene between the Man in Black and Inigo that come alive on screen, the movie does cut out a lot of fantastic stuff, and the framing sequence works better as an editorial voice.

However, I can't help but wonder if a spousal dislike of The Princess Bride is not grounds for divorce.

That's an interesting suggestion, although I'm not sure why I'd have time to read a book when I can barely get through a two-hour movie at this point.

[KevinTBrown]

There are numerous movies....

My top 3, in this order, are:

Silverado
Mr. Roberts
A Christmas Story

[shrike]

Sad to say but Sound of Music.

Logan's Run.

Victor/ Victoria.

[Shisho]

Everyone needs to see it at least once. Today I bought my flatmate the book as a birthday present :)

And on the Frasier version of Bedazzled - I liked the bit were he became a drug baron convinced he couldn't speak Spanish.

Watch the original with Pete and Dudley though. There's some great scenes in it. It's almost as wacked as the Magic Christian (http://youtube.com/watch?v=C8shpirOIvo&mode=related&search=) - which is wacky like a fox on laughing gas.

I know you'll think this is weird (me being a bookworm and all), but I actually like the movie better than the book. Although the book is very funny and very good.

And Stealthwise, when you actually do get around to watching it, the "inconceivable" thing will make more sense (although, you have to say it with a lisp.) It's funny, trust me.

[Hatut Zeraze]

Miller's Crossing
Clue
Princess Bride
Raising Arizona

[Jade_GL]

Forgot one:

The Three Amigos

:)

[JeffreyWKramer]

Have you guys seen Eyes Wide Shut more than once? Because I almost hated it in the theater (sadly the only Kubrick I saw in teh theater), but after watching it on DVD a couple years ago I liked it A LOT more.

I tried watching it a second time, on the off chance I'd somehow missed something. I gave up about 2/3 of the way through.

The movie's a mess, through and through. The problem starts at the casting - Cruise and Kidman were there for star power, without much thought to the roles they were playing. Even that could have possibly been salvaged, though, with one simple change: Kidman and Cruise's roles should have been switched. Cruise does not have the emotional depth to carry off the role he was assigned. Nicole Kidman could have done that job.

[Night Swordsman]

I know you'll think this is weird (me being a bookworm and all), but I actually like the movie better than the book. Although the book is very funny and very good.

And Stealthwise, when you actually do get around to watching it, the "inconceivable" thing will make more sense (although, you have to say it with a lisp.) It's funny, trust me.


I am the opposite,the movie is a GREAT Movie,but the book? Pure Magic. I said it before,lots of books are better than the movies based on them,but this is a rare time where the book is nearly impossible to beat,but the movie did a Awesome job of trying.

Shisho can be Buttercup anytime. :)

[Karen El]

See this is the problem with things like The Princess Bride. Anytime they are mentioned they immediately become the focus of attention and drag the entire thread into a black hole of awesome.

And I am smiling because I know something you don't know. I am not left-handed.

[Shisho]

See this is the problem with things like The Princess Bride. Anytime they are mentioned they immediately become the focus of attention and drag the entire thread into a black hole of awesome.

And I am smiling because I know something you don't know. I am not left-handed.

Oooooh! Do that cool flip thingy Wesley does in the sword fight! :D

Young Carey Elwes...*swoon* He can be my farmboy any day.

[DocAbsurd]

I just found my copy of 'Buckaroo Banzai' and I've watched it 3 times in 2 days. I'd forgotten how much fun that damn movie is.

'Brazil' is another.

We're still watching 'A Christmas Story'.

Red Green's 'Duct Tape Forever'.

'Brother Bear' with the Rutt and Tuke commentary on.