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I haven't known what movies to watch lately. Does everyone have their own treasure movies that they've seen many times? πŸ˜€

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[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 9 minutes ago

The list of these films is short. To be exact, its probably only "Blow" (I think its from the year 2000). Its the story of one of the biggest cocaine smugglers in the US (his name was George Young). I can definitely recommend it.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 38 minutes ago
[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Princess bride Tron Iron man (and the rest of the infinity stone arch) Decoy bride There are more, just can't think of them right now.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 41 minutes ago)

Master And Commander: The Far Side of the Earth.

It's a war movie with an all male cast, and the manliest moment in it is when the Doctor who is doing surgery on himself to remove a bullet from his chest, looks at the captain who is assisting and asks "Are you alright?" And the marine that accidentally shot him is anxiously waiting outside the tent to make sure he's okay. GAH I'm going to the store and buying some beer and some popcorn and I'm watching a movie tonight.

[–] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Muppet Treasure Island
A Muppet Christmas Carol
The Princess Bride
The Great Mouse Detective (the most faithful movie adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, fight me)
Inception
Ghost in the Shell
The Little Mermaid, but not by choice. It was my little sister's favorite movie and she would genuinely watch the VHS tape of it, rewind it, and then watch it again immediately. My brothers and I once entertained ourselves on a family road trip by quoting the whole movie, word for word.

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Tremors 1, 2 or 3. Don't bother with 4+ its all straight to DVD nonsense.

Redline (2009) probably the best animated movie of all time (studio ghibli people i will fite u)

Idiocracy is very funny in a not very funny kind of way

Elemental was a fantastic Pixar IP that looks like its going to get some fascinating world building in a sequel

[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Redline (2009) probably the best animated movie of all time

I'm not sure if you mean that in the sense that "this is the best movie, which is animated, of all time" or "this movie has the best animation of all time", but in either case, Akira exists, so you can't possibly be correct.

Tremors, though, I can support you on without question.

[–] PragmaticOne@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Wow my list would be equally as large as some of the other people which have replied so I’m just going to list the ones I have seen the most -

  1. Blade Runner
  2. The Duelists
  3. Alien

…..and many many more :)

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

Ridley Scott for the win!

[–] JackiesFridge@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Too lazy to keep scrolling but I haven’t yet seen mentions of Lilo & Stitch (the best movie Disney ever made) and Dark City (the director’s cut and if you haven’t seen it don’t spoil it, just watch it).

…and now I’m seeing a bit of a tone difference between them

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[–] duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

A subset ...

  • Ghostbusters (1984)
  • The Princess Bride
  • Wrath of Khan
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Aliens
  • The Bourne Identity
  • Life of Brian
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
[–] normalentrance@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Excellent choices

[–] exaybachae@startrek.website 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)
  • Outlander (2008)
  • The 13th Warrior (1999)
  • Braveheart (1995)
  • Gladiator (2000)
  • Waterworld (1995)
  • Escape from New York (1981)

These and a few other similar 'epic' movies were my go to lullaby movies for decades.

I'd put them on late and fall asleep to them, but I'd also watch them through sometimes too. And I still throw them on sometimes, just for kicks.

[–] jestho@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I've seen Braveheart probably 30-50 times. Not very historically accurate, but such a great movie.

[–] MissInformed@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Victor Victoria. Jazz hot baby

[–] normalentrance@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)
  • Office space
  • Fight club
  • Robocop
  • Blues brothers
  • Home alone
  • Elf
  • A Christmas Story
  • Die Hard
  • Willow
  • Star wars (all of them)
  • Star Trek (most of them)
  • Tremors
  • Terminator 2
  • John Wick
  • Predator
  • The equalizer
  • Cable Guy

Honorable mention: the countless movies with Paul rudd that played on Saturdays on comedy central

[–] Seaguy05@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Thank you for calling out tremors!! The second is also great! Ass blasters is straight to dvd for a reason and should be ignored as with anything else past the first two.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago
  • Monty Python's Holy Grail, Life of Brian and Meaning of life (in that order of rewaches). Although I haven't seen them in years, now that I live somewhere where weed is legal I should do that (never seen them stoned)
  • Primer, which if it's not on your list here you either haven't seen it or haven't understood it
  • The Mummy and Harry Potter (especially the first couple). They're one of my wife's comfort movies so we watch them every once in a while if she's feeling down
  • LotR, although it's more of an event to rewatch them.
  • Stargate, every few years we rewatch the TV show when we have nothing else to watch, we do that with some other TV shows as well as it's good background noise to just relax. And since it starts and ends with movies we've watched those several times.
  • Pink Floyd's The Wall and Daft Punk's Interstella 5555 are awesome music albums so I have watched those several times
  • Hair, similarly love the musics

And although I haven't seen them too many times (but at least twice) Memento is a great movie if you haven't seen it. Also I haven't seen it multiple times but The Strangers is a great horror movie.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Three Days of the Condor

Excellent 70's paranoid thriller.

I posted it to !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social a while back, if you want to watch it.

EDIT: Agh, it was taken down from Archive.org. It's available for free on Pluto though.

[–] BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Waynes World.. its my guilty pleasure

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I know, I'll use the "may I help you-riff".

So I married an axe murderer is my guilty pleasure.

Soul mate 🫢

[–] Pazintach@piefed.social 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

The Fifth Element comes to my mind immediately. It was my happy place.

The Lord of the Rings, It's what I watch when I felt lost.

Also, Nostalgia, another film I rewatch when I felt not belonging and nowhere to go back to.

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago

Fifth Element is my happy place too!

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 3 points 6 hours ago

Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle

[–] mrmorganiser@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago

Galaxy Quest

[–] alternategait@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Second Hand Lions

The Night House

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Far too many to name, so here's the first 10 that come to mind:

  • Ghostbusters
  • Star Wars
  • Goodfellas
  • Aliens
  • Clue
  • Back to the Future
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
  • Akira
  • His Girl Friday
  • Escape to Victory
[–] Defectus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Primer, mostly to figure out the timelines.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Lots of good ones posted already. Trying to add to the list:

The Princess Bride, La Femme Nikita, My Own Private Idaho, Ong Bak, Ichi the Killer, Kung Fu Hustle, The Matrix, Dai Nipponjin (Big Man Japan)

[–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Dumb and Dumber

I can't believe I didn't see anyone else post it. Mostly I've rewatched it because it was replayed on cable so much but I certainly love it.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 24 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I haven't seen it listed here in a quick scan, so:

Office Space

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 8 points 8 hours ago

You don't need a million dollars to do nothing. Look at my cousin. He's broke as hell, don't do shit.

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I watch Groundhog Day at least twice a year.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

For some reason as a teenager I watched Fantastic Mr Fox about 17 times over several years. It is a good movie, but I can't say I recommend anyone else watch it that much. Once is enough.

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 49 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
  • Month Python and the Holy Grail
  • Young Frankenstein
  • Seven Samurai
  • LOTR Trilogy

I see a lot of LOTR fans here. Good crowd.

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