Films you never tire of watching

[Slyjoe]

Blue Juice - a british comedy/surfing film with Sean Pertwee and Catherine Zeta Jones.

[yellowjack]

Zulu
Full Metal Jacket (mainly the first half)
Blues Brothers
Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels
Murphy's War
North By Northwest
Out of Africa
Too Late the Hero
Harry Brown

and Clint's work, all of it, but particularly...

Blood Work
Gran Torino
Absolute Power
The Bridges of Madison County
Letters from Iwo Jima
Flags of Our Fathers

[nicanary]

Interesting how many of them are older than the age of the poster. CGI and special effects are responsible for dumbing-down of more modern stuff.

My Cousin Vinny (love it)

[Prawnboy]

Heat
Grosse Point Blank

[Matt_N]

Shawshank Redemption
Space Jam

[miniman]

Prawnboy said:

Grosse Point Blank

Good call.

[downstairs]

Some dreary films in this thread! Don't people like to watch new things? There is no film I would rather re-watch over a new film I hadn't seen before instead. The closest is Raiders Of The Lost Ark, probably. But I'm only saying that because I've watched it a few times and haven't seen it for years.

Lord Of The Rings Trilogy? Bloody hell.

[singlecoil]

Dances With Wolves (all time favourite, very special film)

The Mystery Men
Galaxy Quest
Remains of the Day
Local Hero
Despicable Me (and sequel)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
You Only Live Twice
Snatch
Lock Stock etc
Driving Miss Daisy

Excalibur (extraordinary stuff, superb film)

[Timbo_S2]

Agree with many of these. I'll add:

Point Break
48 hours (and another 48 hours)
Young Guns
Star wars
Matrix

[HonestIago]

Some great suggestions so far!

I'm a big fan of Westerns:
-Pale Rider
-True Grit
-Big Jake
-Rooster Cogburn
-The Good the Bad and the Ugly
-The Magnificent Seven

War Films:
-Where Eagles Dare
-Battle of the Bulge
-Kelly's Heroes
-The Great Escape
-Von Ryan's Express
-Enemy at the Gates
-Zulu

-All the Bonds (especially Roger Moore era)
-Original Star Wars
-Indiana Jones
-House of Flying Daggers
-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
-American Beauty
-The Shawshank Redemption
-Dances with Wolves
-Jurassic Park 1 + 3
-Mission Impossible 2

I'll no doubt think of lots more later!

Edited by HonestIago on Wednesday 22 October 12:08

[bodhi]

Lots of great suggestions so far, only two I can add are:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (took me about 5 watches to remember how it ends)
Super Troopers (possibly the silliest film I have ever seen, and never fails to make me laugh out loud, especially the opening scene and the "meow" prank).

[Matt_N]

Slyjoe said:

Blue Juice - a british comedy/surfing film with Sean Pertwee and Catherine Zeta Jones.

Haven't watched that in ages, a lot of real Cornish surfers were in it.

[BlackpoolRock]

Snatch, Shaun of the dead, The Gumball Rally (1976), Gone in 60 seconds

[MitchT]

Smokey and the Bandit immediately springs to mind

[Hooli]

nicanary said:

Interesting how many of them are older than the age of the poster. CGI and special effects are responsible for dumbing-down of more modern stuff.

Proper special effects age much better.

I think all mine have been mentioned except Convoy.

[vxr8mate]

Unforgiven
Once Upon A Time In The West
Bullet
Get Carter
Zulu
Dredd
It's A Wonderful Life

[TwigtheWonderkid]

PF62 said:

Groundhog Day?

[Composite Guru]

Battle of Britain
Flash Gordon
Star Wars Eps 45&6
Great Escape
Police Academy
Taken
Click
Saving Private Ryan
Smokey & the Bandit

Probably could name more but these are off the top of my head.

[FastRich]

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells
Rock 'n' Rolla
The Rock (previously mentioned)
The Italian Job (original)
Rush
Lucky number sLeven
Swordfish
The Bank Job (I know it's a Jason Statham film but it's actuially pretty good!)
And the best of the lot? The Business.

There are many more. "Modern" films are rarely as good as films from even 10 years ago - they've either been done before (how many variances of violent revenge/romance can there really be?) or there's too much reliance on technology - it's cheaper to CGI a sinking ship or car speeding through a city smashing stuff up on the way or a warehouse explosion than it is to actually make it happen. Health and safety boffins help stop play too.

Edited by FastRich on Wednesday 22 October 14:29

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