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I haven't known what movies to watch lately. Does everyone have their own treasure movies that they've seen many times? ๐Ÿ˜€

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[โ€“] MarieMarion@literature.cafe 4 points 3 weeks ago

Most definitely Big Fish. Every time I swear I won't cry; every time I end up sobbing. With snot.
It just hits too close to home. I even had to trigger-warn my 55-year-old dad, to whose home it hits even closer.

  • Brazil
  • Pulp Fiction
  • A Clockwerk Orange
  • Delicatessen
  • Bad Boy Bubby
[โ€“] chrisgpz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago
  • Super Troopers
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Breakin
  • The Blues Brothers
  • Predator
  • Aliens
  • Garden State
  • Starship Troopers
[โ€“] mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[โ€“] anthropozaen@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

Probably only Star Wars 1 - 6.

[โ€“] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

BTTF trilogy

Return to Oz (Mostly, I commented to say this, because no one else has yet.)

Most of James Bond

Along with many of the others already mentioned, but I'd be remiss if I didn't include Miracle on 34th Street (1947), probably all of the Charlie Brown Specials, A Christmas Story, Frosty the Snowman, The Grinch who Stole Christmas, and probably several others, just because as a kid we watched them every holiday. I'm sure there's more on this list, but I'm old.

I've also watched the first season of Altered Carbon at least three times, and Rick and Morty, Archer, and others.

[โ€“] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Lots of good ones posted already. Trying to add to the list:

The Princess Bride, La Femme Nikita, My Own Private Idaho, Ong Bak, Ichi the Killer, Kung Fu Hustle, The Matrix, Dai Nipponjin (Big Man Japan)

[โ€“] tangible@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Interstellar, The Day after Tomorrow, Deep Impact.

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[โ€“] A7thStone@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Amelie

City of Lost Children

Delicatessen

Yes I like Jeunet.

Dark City

Children of Men

I also like distopias.

Lanyrinth

One name David Bowie

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[โ€“] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[โ€“] s1ndr0m3@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Real Genius. It is a movie with a very young Val Kilmer and lasers. That's all you need to know. Watch it.

I re-watch movies and tv shows very often. Some movies I've seen over 20 times.

It's rare for me to only watch something once.

[โ€“] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Dumb and Dumber

I can't believe I didn't see anyone else post it. Mostly I've rewatched it because it was replayed on cable so much but I certainly love it.

[โ€“] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Marry poppins.

What a good movie.

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[โ€“] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I got trash taste, granted but;

As a kid? He man and the masters of the universe.

As a young adult? Grandma's boy.

Currently? I don't think I remember movies well enough for it to be considered a rewatch. But I've definitely rewatch Peter Jackson's lotr more times than reasonable.

[โ€“] Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Madmax...all of them.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, probably a dozen times.

John Wick 1-4. Saw them all in the theater at least three times a piece. More at home

[โ€“] anotherpos@feddit.online 3 points 3 weeks ago

Terminator, for the nostalgia.

[โ€“] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Real genius.

[โ€“] systemshock@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I watch The Hogfather every Christmas (Hogswatch?) Eve. Think the count is up to 11 or 12 now.

Drop Dead Gorgeous Best in Show

[โ€“] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Muppet Treasure Island
A Muppet Christmas Carol
The Princess Bride
The Great Mouse Detective (the most faithful movie adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, fight me)
Inception
Ghost in the Shell
The Little Mermaid, but not by choice. It was my little sister's favorite movie and she would genuinely watch the VHS tape of it, rewind it, and then watch it again immediately. My brothers and I once entertained ourselves on a family road trip by quoting the whole movie, word for word.

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[โ€“] h_ramus@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Lost Highway VHS got pretty worn out back in the day

[โ€“] nieminen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Princess bride Tron Iron man (and the rest of the infinity stone arch) Decoy bride There are more, just can't think of them right now.

[โ€“] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Starship Troopers, Die Hard 1 & 2, Alien & Aliens Mad Max, Road Warrior, Thunderdome, Meet the Parents, Little Miss Sunshine, Wedding Crashers, Step Brothers, Office Space, LoTR Trilogy, OG Star Wars trilogy, Any if the Star Trek films, 2001

[โ€“] Akasazh@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Ones I haven't read in this thread:

Trainspotting

Tombstone

The matador (2005)

[โ€“] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle

[โ€“] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Three Days of the Condor

Excellent 70's paranoid thriller.

I posted it to !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social a while back, if you want to watch it.

EDIT: Agh, it was taken down from Archive.org. It's available for free on Pluto though.

[โ€“] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Lord of the Rings, Gattaca, There's Something About Mary, Dazed and Confused, The Death of Stalin.

[โ€“] FRYD@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Spirited Away
  • Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
  • Tron
  • Every Disney movie that came out between Peter Pan and Toy Story 2 including those two.
[โ€“] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 3 points 3 weeks ago

I basically never rewatch movies. The only exception is Lord of the Rings basically. I think Sinners and Megalopolis will join it, but I haven't rewatched them yet

Tron: Legacy and Hot Rod are my comfort movies.

[โ€“] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago
  • Monty Python's Holy Grail, Life of Brian and Meaning of life (in that order of rewaches). Although I haven't seen them in years, now that I live somewhere where weed is legal I should do that (never seen them stoned)
  • Primer, which if it's not on your list here you either haven't seen it or haven't understood it
  • The Mummy and Harry Potter (especially the first couple). They're one of my wife's comfort movies so we watch them every once in a while if she's feeling down
  • LotR, although it's more of an event to rewatch them.
  • Stargate, every few years we rewatch the TV show when we have nothing else to watch, we do that with some other TV shows as well as it's good background noise to just relax. And since it starts and ends with movies we've watched those several times.
  • Pink Floyd's The Wall and Daft Punk's Interstella 5555 are awesome music albums so I have watched those several times
  • Hair, similarly love the musics

And although I haven't seen them too many times (but at least twice) Memento is a great movie if you haven't seen it. Also I haven't seen it multiple times but The Strangers is a great horror movie.

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