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Which movies do you never get tired of watching over and over again?

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alisoncooks

alisoncooks

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Alexander & the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day

National Treasure

Yours, Mine & Ours (Lucille Ball)

Goosebumps (Jack Black)

Back to the Future (all)

 

Actually, so very many movies that I rewatch often. I find comfort in familiarity. 

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AnneGG

AnneGG

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Poldark (technically a show, but I binge it like a movie.) 

Little Women (pbs version) 

Ever After 

You’ve Got Mail 

Anne of Green Gables (OG version) 

A Little Princess 

 

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Annie G

Annie G

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Mostly Christmas movies because it brings back memories of watching them every year with the kids. 
 

Dh will watch any Bourne movie at any time, even if it’s more than half over when he happens to see it’s on. Drives.Me.Crazy. 

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Lady Florida.

Lady Florida.

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Oh, there are many, most but not all are guilty pleasures. I'm not one to surf channels but on the those rare occasions when I do surf if I come across any of these I'll stop and watch no matter how much of the movie is left.

White Christmas
Singing in the Rain
West Side Story
The Princess Diaries
Clueless
Lost in Austen - technically a series
Legally Blonde - the original
Galaxy Quest
Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Blues Brothers
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Steel Magnolias

 

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Sk8ermaiden

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I'll agree on National Treasure, Legally Blonde, Ever After.

Also love Stepford Wives and Sweet Home Alabama,

I can put on any Harry Potter at any time, but it's more background noise than active watching. 

 

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kbutton

kbutton

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You've Got Mail

Anne of Green Gables (Megan Follows)

Little Women (Winona Ryder)

Secretariat

Hidalgo

Apollo 13 and movies like it--I must like crisis stories based on true events--Valkyrie fits too

Australia

 

Ever After

Sweet Home Alabama--I haven't seen it in forever though, and I haven't caught it on a streaming service. 

When I was a kid, I really liked Friendship in Vienna, Goodbye Miss Fourth of July, Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, and Back Home, none of which have appeared on Disney Plus yet, much to my dismay. Oh, and I probably had The Man From Snowy River memorized, lol! 
Adding The Night Train to Katmandu to what I watched over and over as a kid.

 

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JustEm

JustEm

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Any Coen brother's film, most tarantino, moulin rough, A Bronx Tale, Goodfellas, and True Stories are the ones that come to mind. I'm sure there are others.

 

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Spy Car

Spy Car

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The first film that leaps to mind is Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 French New Wave classic "Breathless" (aka À Bout de Souffle) with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. Not quite sure why, but i've always been crazy about this film.

Bill

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Farrar

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Searching for Bobby Fischer for me as well. And another vote for National Treasure.

Also...
Star Wars original trilogy
Catch Me If You Can
Dave
Field of Dreams
Back to the Future trilogy
Princess Bride
Roman Holiday
The Girl Can't Help It

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Garga

Garga

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Stardust

Napoleon Dynamite

The Princess Bride

White Christmas

Scrooge (not Scrooged)

You Can’t Take it With You

Twilight and New Moon but none of the others (I know, I know...but I love them!)

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Back to the Future, all three

UHF

Clue

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

LOTR movies, but not The Hobbit movies

Groundhog Day

 

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Robin M

Robin M

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Anything Star Wars, Star Trek, or Godzilla related.

Men in Black,

Ghostbusters,

The Abyss, 

Hunt for Red October

Jurassic Park 

 

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Robin M

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47 minutes ago, Lady Florida. said:

Oh, there are many, most but not all are guilty pleasures. I'm not one to surf channels but on the those rare occasions when I do surf if I come across any of these I'll stop and watch no matter how much of the movie is left.

White Christmas
Singing in the Rain
West Side Story
The Princess Diaries
Clueless
Lost in Austen - technically a series
Legally Blonde - the original
Galaxy Quest
Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Blues Brothers
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Steel Magnolias
 

Hubby's the same way with Blues Brothers and Office Space.  No matter when or what point in the movie.   

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Janeway

Janeway

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Back to the Future, all of them.

There are others that have been enjoyable to watch multiple times, but I have seen Back to the Future so many times, I have no idea.

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JustEm

JustEm

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40 minutes ago, Garga said:

Stardust

Napoleon Dynamite

The Princess Bride

White Christmas

Scrooge (not Scrooged)

You Can’t Take it With You

Twilight and New Moon but none of the others (I know, I know...but I love them!)

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Back to the Future, all three

UHF

Clue

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

LOTR movies, but not The Hobbit movies

Groundhog Day

 

Wow, minus the twilight movie I would add all of these movies to my list. Now I wish we lived closer because if also go to the movies with you every week if we did, ha.

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lmrich

lmrich

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For my dh Jaws. When we first got married, I was stunned how often it was on TBS and how often he watched it. 

Harry Met Sally 

Sleepless in Seattle

Les Mis

While You Were Sleeping

too many to mention

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Spy Car

Spy Car

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Another film I never tire of seeing and love so much, and probably few people have seen is an Iranian film called Bashu: The Little Stranger.

I saw this in the theater when it was released in 1989. Fell in love with this poignant film. Beautifully and sensitively made. It is the only time I can recall going to see a film, then taking a friend so I could see it a second time, and then taking my Dad so he could see it (and so I could see it a third time). 

Bill

 

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Ailaena

Ailaena

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The Fifth Element

But I’ve only seen the whole movie from beginning to end a few times because I used to just catch parts of it here and there.   Which I’m ok with 😛

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I’m not saying it a fantastic movie, just a movie I wan watch a bunch without getting sick of it
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Ali in OR

Ali in OR

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The ones I'll be able to think of are the ones we own on DVD. And now that we have Netflix and the kids are grown, I don't see our DVD collection ever growing much...a movie would have to be really re-watchable to justify buying now! So, the most-watched of what we have:

The Harry Potter series 

Enchanted

Ramona and Beezus

Elf and the Muppet Christmas Carol (our holiday classics)

Animated: Tangled, Monsters Inc and sequel, The Toy Story movies, The Incredibles, Beauty and the Beast, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Shrek movies

I'll watch the BBC Pride & Prejudice, Princess Bride, should re-watch War & Peace but haven't yet, and a few others, but these are once-every-few-years. And we enjoy the Sherlock shows too.

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Spy Car

Spy Car

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4 minutes ago, alisoncooks said:

With every response in this thread, my (mental) list gets longer! 

Add the 3 films of the Apu Trilogy by Indian (Benjali) director Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959).

Made on shoestring budgets in gorgeously beautiful black and white, this trilogy is near the apex of cinematic achievement AFAIK. Masterpieces!

Bill

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itsheresomewhere

itsheresomewhere

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Some are- 

Steel Magnolias ( the one with Sally Field)

Apollo 13

While You Were Sleeping

1776

The Green Mile

Star Wars (all)

Beauty and the Beast ( cartoon version)

Christmas Vacation

Dirty Dancing

Enchanted

 

 

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Junie

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In no particular order:

Sabrina (the newer one, although I like both)

While You Were Sleeping

Lorenzo's Oil

It Could Happen to You

Pride and Prejudice (with Keira Knightley)

Emma

Mission Impossible (the first one)

One Fine Day*

The Cutting Edge (as @fraidycat mentioned above; I thought I was going to be alone on that one)

The Parent Trap (the newer one)

Dave

 

*One Fine Day is a fun movie for me because it reminds me of how my parents (my mom and step-dad) met -- at daycare pickup.  I was four and my parents were newly divorced.  My mom fell in love with the dad of a little boy in my class (who later became my step-brother, although I didn't see him much because he lived with his mom).

bluemongoose

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I like too many!

Jane Austen movies: especially Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth)

The Princess Bride

The Sound of Music

So I married an Ax Murderer

You've got mail

Back to the Future

Anne of Green Gables

North and South

Wives and Daughters

12 Angry Men (the old black and white one)

 

With the Family:

Harry Potter Series

The Incredibles 1+2

Matilda

Zootopia

Nanny McPhee 

 

I am sure there are more that I am just not thinking of...

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BakersDozen

BakersDozen

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I have very little patience for sitting through movies but will sit through/watch these:

Oscar (our family favorite)

Bourne series (first 3 only)

Pretty much anything with Meg Ryan (You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, etc.)

Breakfast Club

Emma (NOT Gwyneth Paltrow one)

Pride and Prejudice (NOT Keira Knightley one)

Anything with Colin Firth

Sense and Sensibility (even if it has Kate Winslet...yuck)

Stranger Than Fiction (the only Will Ferrell movie I can tolerate)


 

alisoncooks

alisoncooks

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1 hour ago, Junie said:

In no particular order:

Sabrina (the newer one, although I like both)

While You Were Sleeping

The Parent Trap (the newer one)

How could I forget these! I just (re)watched While You Were Sleeping a couple of days ago. (And Sabrina a few days before that!)  And I can't even tell you how many times my girls and I have watched the newer Parent Trap. 😄

 

 

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Junie

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25 minutes ago, Spy Car said:

And Coco.

Love that movie. Gets me every time.

Bill

I don't know if you speak/understand any Spanish, but this movie is even better in espanol.

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Spy Car

Spy Car

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31 minutes ago, Junie said:

I don't know if you speak/understand any Spanish, but this movie is even better in espanol.

Next time I'll watch it in Spanish. Good idea. Thank you for the suggestion.

Bill

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