What infinitely replayable classics have you watched at least ten times? - Page 8

I love The Professional too. I have the BD and have watched it a bunch of times, most recently a couple of weeks ago.

dumb & dumber

Friday

Home Alone 1/2

Bloodsport (probably watched 100 times that summer when it came out on VHS)

Office Space

Napoleon Dynamite

and

A Christmas Story

This is a truly great thread. It has potential to be turned into an awesome feature article, too.

 

It would also be cool to hear WHY these movies have such replay value. What makes you want to watch a film you know by heart again and again? Is the reason different with every film? 

 

I personally can understand the replay value in a good comedy, as something truly funny is funny no matter how many times you see it. But when it comes to action/adventure films, they don't have as much replay value to me. I'm curious as to what makes these films so appealing to you on a personal level.

 

Thoughts?

Heat
The original three star wars movies
The Matrix
Band Of Brothers
We were soldiers
Shawshank Redemption
Spy Game (Had this on DVHS)
Caddyshack
Blazing Saddles
All the Bourne movies
3:10 to Yuma
Oceans 11
The Usual Suspects
Hunt for Red October
The Game
Sneakers
Ronin
Smokey and the Bandit (for Jackie Gleason's performance. Still makes me laugh every time, and very quotable.)

Way too many for me to list. I only buy movies that fall into this category.

I agree, too long for a list.

So how many do you own?

Deserving of a whole new thread...your idea, why not start one? I'd post in it.

Willy Wonka-the original version of course.

Hehe, yeah the same reason I put it on my list
He just do that stressed out character really well, it's wonder he didn't get a heart attack in almost every scene

oh yeah, all the sean connery and roger moore bond movies

Newsies
Sound of Music
My Sister's Keeper
I Am Sam
Not classics, I know. Excellent movies, nevertheless.

Sound of Music, definitely classic....

The lists are wonderful. Makes a good shopping list. I recall ones with re-watch value are those that, when they show up on TV, make me want to sit right down and get into it; no matter where in the movie it was when I tuned in.

A Few Good Men
Nottinghill
Diner
Blazing Saddles
Joe Dirt
Shawshank Redemption
Hoosiers
Caddyshack

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ---- "Party!!"--- LOL, Liz at her best

Star Trek-The Wrath of Khan..... Khan, one of the best villain's ever!....."The Chrysler Cordoba, with fine Corinthian Leather"..... Ricardo pitched a car damn well , too, hehe

The Deer Hunter-- Walkin performance was amazing. must have watched that 10 times on broadcast tv in the 80's alone
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Edited by kfox203 - 9/12/12 at 6:06pm

Aliens
History of the World Part 1
Matrix
Dumb and Dumber
Ronin

Midnight Run
Porkys
Scarface
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Fog
Halloween 2 1981

Ferris Buehler's Day Off probably the movie I've seen the most times. Seems like it happened to be on TV ALL the time and I always watched it, going back to when I was about 7
Braveheart is probably a close second, actually wore out the tape (or tapes actually)
Original Star War trilogy of course
Star Trek 2 and 4
Blazzing Saddles
Ghostbusters
maybe Stripes
Saving Private Ryan most likely, only movie I've seen 3 times in the theater
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, somehow I think I've seen it more times than the other Jones' movies

Zulu, somehow became a tradition to watch at Christmas every year since it came out on BD (not sure I've made it to 10 though)

I've seen Master & Commander in a few lists. I've only seen it 3 times. But, I've read through most of the 20.5 book long Aubrey-Maturin series 3 times, and some of them a 4th!

Choose Me

Trouble In Mind

Friends Of Eddie Coyle

Five Corners

Local Hero

Stuntman

Searching For Bobby Fischer

Big Chill

Zero Effect

Big Country

Once Upon A Time In The West

Chinatown

Three Days Of The Condor

All The President's Men

All That Jazz

Boys On The Side

Heaven Can Wait

Buckaroo Bonzai

Day Of The Jackal

Songwriter

White Christmas

Starman

Without reading the entire thread, and just off the top of my head, some of the movies I watch over and over include:

Aliens
Demolition Man
Empire strikes back
Fifth Element
Jurassic Park (1&2)
Matrix
Raiders
T2
Titanic
True Lies
Twister

Probably a lot more, but can't think of any more right now.

Back to the Future 1,2 & 3... Come on you guys, those are 3 movies you can watch again and again and never get tired of!

Forrest Gump

Jurassic Park series

Lethal Weapon series

Matrix series

The Notebook

Rush Hour series

True Lies


Don't know if my choices qualify as classics, but whenever they're on TV I have to stop and watch!

In no particular order:

Blade Runner
The Seventh Seal
Naked
Drugstore Cowboy
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
The Matrix (1)
Ghost in the Shell
Grosse Pointe Blank
Pulp Fiction
Finding Nemo
Ratatouille
Up
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Wizard of Oz
A Clockwork Orange
Harakiri
Hero
Léon
Warriors of Heaven and Earth
Unforgiven

Ran, by Akiro Kurosawa

Das Boot, by Wolfgang Petersen

Unforgiven, by Clint Eastwood

Bladerunner, by Ridley Scott

Snatch, by Guy Ritcjie

Fightclub, by David Fincher

Raising Arizona, by the Cohen Brothers

Fargo, by the Cohen brothers

No country for old men, by the Cohen Brothers....you get the drift....

There's alternative versions of these films from other directors? It's the Coen brothers in any case...and Guy Ritchie

It's the Coen brothers in any case...and Guy Ritchie

Sorry, can happen.
Thanks for the correction.

First addition: Mr & Mrs Smith

Terry Gilliam's Brazil
Dazed and Confused
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Ed Wood
Up in Smoke
Goldfinger
You Only Live Twice
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Die Hard
The Longest Yard (orig. ver)
Slapshot
Hollywood Knights
1941