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Princess Bride

• Month Python and the Holy Grail
• Young Frankenstein
• Seven Samurai
• LOTR Trilogy

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

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

Office Space

In steam of consciousness order:

• Young Frankenstein
• Princess Bride
• Double Indemnity
• Nightmare Before Christmas
• The Breakfast Club
• The Fifth Element
• 12 Monkeys
• The Terminator
• Star Wars (first trilogy)
• Harvey
• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
• Men In Black
• The Incredibles
• Inception
• E.T.
• The Sting
• Grease
• Ghostbusters
• West Side Story

Probably a number of others

Kung Fu Hustle I’ve seen countless times.

Pretty much any studio Ghibli movie. Have watched spirited away, Totoro, howls moving castle, valley of the wind, and many more more than 3x. Don't often rewatch stuff but have a soft spot for ghibli!

Brazil (1984)

I revisit Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind every few years when I wanna get my guts all twisted into knots.

I think when Kaufman is left on his own he's too much of a bummer and Gondry on his own is just too far out. But somehow they come together in a perfect balance with Jim Carey in perhaps his best serious role, IMHO. The soundtrack really takes it the extra mile.

I appreciate it because Joel and Clementine come off as just two kinda fucked up people having a kinda fucked up relationship; very relatable. Neither is perfect or completely at fault and the film very much leaves it up to your interpretation if they can or should work together. I don't think it has a happy ending, do you? Compare that to something like 500 Days of Summer where you're really supposed to sympathize with Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character but mostly I end up wanting to push him into the mud. Hard.

The subplot between the doctor and his secretary is maybe a little unnecessary? But Kirsten Dunst is amazing so whatever.

I wish I had stayed.

Primer

Napoleon Dynamite

• Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
• The Third Man (1949)
• The Ladykillers (1955)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Repo Man (1984)
• Stalker (1979)

Probably several others, but those are the first to come to mind.

I lost count:

Primer. Twice before and once after reading an explanation

I think in general comedies are just way easier to rewatch for what ever reason.

Also I think just because I rewatch a movie a lot does not mean it is the best movie. I think some movies just give a certain vibe that is enjoyable.

• Airplane
• Naked Gun
• Scary movie
• Simpsons movie
• Spirited Away
• Se7en
• The Prestige
• Inception
• Weathering with you

I probably also watched some Christmas movies a ton of times just because they played on TV a lot when I was a kid like Home Alone.

Hundreds of Beavers! It's an absolute delight showing it to someone who has never seen it before.

I don't re-watch movies very often, and more than three times is rare as hens' teeth. Sometimes it's because it's an absolute classic, or sometimes it's because I'm weirdly fascinated by it. Let's see if I can remember those rare exceptions.

• Starship Troopers (good movie, and something about it charmed my socks off)
• Les Triplettes de Belleville (absolutely must-see, smashing masterpiece, no need to know French) (free to watch here!)
• Big Lebowski (words cannot describe)
• The Life of Brian (Monty Python's finest movie IMO, and a fascinating commentary on religion)
• Fire and Ice (good movie, and I found the rotoscoping utterly entrancing) (free to watch here and here!)

Lots.

The OG Star Wars (4, 5, 6)

Shawshank Redemption

Edge Of Tomorrow

Top Gun

Princess Bride (top 5 sword fight!)

Most all of Pixar’s stuff, and Dreamwork’s kids movies. My kids grew up with them.

Sleepy Hollow (Depp/Ricci version)

The Departed

Rob Roy (another top 5 sword fight)

Dune (original ‘80s version)

Alien/Aliens/Alien 3

Tron

Goonies

Rat Race

Lost Boys

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

The Breakfast Club

Ferris Buellers Day Off

Deadpool

The LOTR trilogy

Blade Runner - both films

Heist (a lesson in writing a script consisting of one-liners)

Ocean’s 11

The Name Of The Rose

The Last Mohican

Master And Commander

5th Element

Any of the Monty Python films, but especially Quest for the Holy Grail

That’s a start.

If I had to whittle it down to absolute favorites: Princess Bride, Monty Python, and OG Star Wars.

Bad Santa is my christmas movie. I regret watching Bad Santa 2 once.

Pulp Fiction

Dogma, Lawrence of Arabia, Philadelphia Story, Hudson Hawk, The Martian, Edge of Tomorrow, Kung Fu Hustle, Delicatessen, Apocalypse Now, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, LOTR, Star Wars (original 3), The Thin Man series.

Also Dr. Strangelove and all the Monty Python, Princess Bride, 5th Element

Snatch

• Robots
• Scott Pilgrim against the World
• David (Your Name)
• Hardcore Henry
• In Time
• How to train your dragon
• NiNoKuni
• The girl next door
• The secret life of Walter Mity
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Iron Man
• Moana
• The Giver
• Kung Fury
• Incredibles
• Constantine
• The last witch hunter

All watched 3 times or more and logged.

milo and otis is an eternal classic for people of all ages

The Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. I know it's popular to hate on them and point out flaws, but most of them are perfect "junk food" comfort food flicks. And some of them are really good!

Marry poppins.

What a good movie.

My cousin Vinny I watch it once a year because it is a masterpiece.

Terminator 2. Judgment Day is my favorite movie of all time. I watch it pretty consistently. Sometimes I'll leave it on playing in the background when I'm doing stuff on the computer.

• Brazil
• Pulp Fiction
• A Clockwerk Orange
• Delicatessen
• Bad Boy Bubby

Jurassic Park. (1,2 and 3)

Tremors (1 and 2)

Lake Placid (RIP Betty)

And Then There Were None

The Thing

Robin Hood (Disney animated version)

Star Wars (Original trilogy + Episode 1)

Addams Family Values

Django Unchained

Inglorious Basterds

Pulp Fiction (not a Tarantino stan, I swear)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Aliens

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Ironman (first one)

Pacific Rim

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Big Short

Probably more than that TBH. I rewatch a lot.

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

I’ve probably seen Hot Fuzz more times than any other movie. It was a comfort movie for a while.

the lotr trilogy is a good one, especially if you have the extended versions.

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.

One movie to rule them all

Midnight Run - it's just a perfect movie, not one frame is superfluous in this movie

The Thing - yearly re-watch

Spirited Away - yearly re-watch (always accompanied by other Miyazaki movies)

Smiley Face - one of the few movies that make me smile, Anna Faris is the cutest thing ever

Alien - I watched it secretly as a kid while everybody was asleep at home, and watched it who knows how many times since. It didn't scare me, it kindled my love for sci-fi.

These are just movies I've probably seen more than 3 times in no particular order, they aren't all necessarily masterpieces (though some are):

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Princess Bride

Blade Runner / Bladerunner 2049

Idiocracy

Interstellar

Spaceballs

Clue

The Other Guys

Dr Strangelove

Airplane! / Airplane 2!

Terminator 2

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Home Alone

12 Monkeys

Inception

The Iron Giant

Trading Places

Star War: Backstroke of the West, The Third Gathering

Top secret, Back to the future, Star Wars (IV,V and VI), Godfather (all three), LOTR (all three), Goodfellas,

• Super Troopers
• The Big Lebowski
• Breakin
• The Blues Brothers
• Predator
• Aliens
• Garden State
• Starship Troopers

A ton, but the one I'm most inclined to talk about is The Thing (1982). We rewatch it almost weekly since I introduced my spouse to it which is amazing because each time we spend about an hour afterwards dissecting the things motives, the order of replacements, different theories, etc. It's truely one of the best movies ever made. The practical effects get a ton of praise, but for me it's just gotta efficiently the movie is at what it does. You know every character within minutes of their appearance, you feel the alienation and paranoia, and the thing itself is so inexplicable that even after hundreds of watches in my life time I genuinely can't rationalize why it does what it does.

The 2011 one would have been better if they left in the pilot alien and had better set and custome guys. It doesn't feel like a pequal, it feels like a remake set in 2011.

Off the top of my head / all-time popular:

• Avatar (the blue alien one)
• Interstellar
• The Dark Knight trilogy
• Lord of the Rings trilogy

To satisfy my inner little boy:

• Ip Man
• Transformers
• Pacific Rim

Animation:

• Frozen
• How to train your dragon trilogy

Yeah I'm a basic bitch