Films you watch again and again

[onomatopoeia]

This list partly intersects with my "favourite films" list.

Star Wars
The Terminator / T2
Serenity
Jean de Florette & Manon des sources
Shakespeare in love
Some kind of wonderful

Jasandjules said:

10 Things I hate About you

After catching this on TV (yet again) last week, I finally bought it on blu ray.

[Du1point8]

I see not a lot of love for the 80s cult films.

Dazed and Confused is a must.
Ferris
War games
Top gun
Goonies
Aliens
Terminator
BHC 1/2/3
BTF 1/2/3
Teenwolf
breakfast club
Gremlins
Lost Boys
Running man
Stand by me
Ghost busters
Innerspace
Star wars
Star trek.

I got bored but you get the drift...

[Fas1975]

Lost Boys
Stand By Me
Big Fish

Those are 3 movies I can watch to the end, then immediately start again from the beginning.

[qube_TA]

The following titles are films I've watched so much I'm practically word perfect on the dialogue:

Blade Runner
Risky Business
Good Will Hunting
Apollo 13
Ghostbusters
Back to the Future
Shawshank Redemption
Jackie Brown
The Transformers: The Movie (original 1986 animated film)
War Games
Contact
The Iron Giant
Total Recall (original version)
The Terminator
T2
Strange Days
The Fast & the Furious (1&2, then 4 to 6)
War of the Worlds (original)
Cannonball Run
Smokie and the Bandit

Edited by qube_TA on Monday 3rd August 16:16

[Pesty]

A lot already mentioned.

I've found recently I can watch Jack Reacher and Oblivion over and over

[Cotty]

Basically anything I like ill watch it again. Have been known to watch a film then buy the DVD so I can watch it again. I have 400 DVDs so rather than listing them this is what I currently have on my ipod for watching on the train.

Back to the Future 1
Guardians of the Galaxy
Kartracer
Le Mans
Moon
Rampage
Closer to the edge (TT documentary)
The Raid 2
Tron Legacy
Silent Running

I have probably watched Silent Running the most out of that list.

If you are talking TV shows im curently on series 2 of Star Trek Voyager.

[944fan]

Grosse Pointe Blank

[Catweazle]

Forbidden Planet.

[spunky-mon]

All these replies and no one has mentioned this classic yet...

Cool runnings!

I am rather ashamed to admit to this one..

Mamma Mia

Also quite a few of the ones already mentioned above.

[Zammy]

Raising Arizona
T2
Predator
Airplane

[SilverSixer]

Withnail and I
Wayne's World
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Back to the Future
Rocky

[V8covin]

The only time I'd watch a film again is if there is absolutely nothing else to watch.I don't see the point,you know what's going to happen.
There are so many films made you can't possibly have watched them all.

Having said that,I do have a few 3D versions of films I've already seen in 2D that I've yet to watch.I'm in no rush

[Cotty]

V8covin said:

The only time I'd watch a film again is if there is absolutely nothing else to watch.I don't see the point,you know what's going to happen.

By that rational do you never listen to a song a second time as you know the lyrics.

[downstairs]

V8covin said:

The only time I'd watch a film again is if there is absolutely nothing else to watch.

I only ever watch films again out of laziness: if I stumble onto a film I've enjoyed while it's showing again on telly I can happily sit through a bit of it. But I don't think there are any I rewatch on purpose though; that's ridiculous when there are so many films to watch that I've never seen before.

That said, I did make the effort to watch Fury Road twice at the cinema, to enjoy the spectacle - but I won't watch it ever again now unless I catch it by accident on telly. I don't buy dvds or BRs. I've got a to-watch list dozens of titles long, all of which I'd prefer than watching Die Hard or Robocop or The Thing or Raiders Of The Lost Ark again - and those four are films I'd happily call my favourites.

I honestly can't understand the desire to deliberately watch things repeatedly. Unless the lists people are reeling off in this thread are laziness lists of things you wouldn't avoid if they were on? There are plenty of films I've liked that I could lazily veg in front of.

But I've got hundreds and hundreds of dvds on my shelves and hardly any of them have been watched more than once - that's why I don't buy them any more, and haven't for years. I'm hard-pressed to find time to watch new films - so if I've got a spare couple of hours I'm certainly not going to watch something I've seen loads of times before.

[Cotty]

downstairs said:

I only ever watch films again out of laziness: if I stumble onto a film I've enjoyed while it's showing again on telly I can happily sit through a bit of it. But I don't think there are any I rewatch on purpose though; that's ridiculous when there are so many films to watch that I've never seen before.

Im assuming most people watch new or new to them films, but sometimes people want to watch something that they know they will like and enjoy rather than take the risk of watching a film they might not like. Watch the new film some other time and watch something you have seen before.

I don't understnd the mentality of "I have seen it once I don't need to see it again", so you have no pictures in you house, no photos, nothing you ever want to look at again.

[downstairs]

Cotty said:

I don't understnd the mentality of "I have seen it once I don't need to see it again", so you have no pictures in you house, no photos, nothing you ever want to look at again.

That's right, and I insist my wife and children have plastic surgery to alter their appearance every day because that's exactly the same as not choosing to repeatedly watch the same films.

[Cotty]

Its a static image as opposed to a moving image. I assume you have video of your family. I assume you are defending having photos and probably video as you enjoy looking at the photos on a repeat basis and repeat viewing on the video.

People enjoy repeat viewing of things including film and listening to music a second or more times.

[Miguel Alvarez]

I forgot Warriors.

[Pints]

Miguel Alvarez said:

Forgot to add Rocky

I've never watched a Rocky film. Or Rambo.

[V8covin]

Cotty said:

By that rational do you never listen to a song a second time as you know the lyrics.

A song is 3 minutes long played in the background while I'm doing something else.Entirely different