What movies can you rewatch often and not get tired of?

FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 107 points –
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5th Element.

One of, if not the best action flick of all time.

The Princess Bride, obviously.

When I was a kid, I watched this and Labyrinth so much. I'm pretty sure I have both on dvd if not bluray. I feel like I need to pull them out.

Die Hard and Galaxy Quest.

The pacing of these movies is great. There's really no part of either I'd fast forward.

Die Hard is the best Christmas movie. My son demands we watch it every year.

Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, LOTR, Akira, Blazing Saddles, The Matrix, Shaun of the Dead, Friday, and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

I'm going to guess you're about 40.

Because that sounds a lot like my list.

Idiocracy. Cracks me up every time I rewatch it.

Yes, yes, yes. I don't get to watch it often these days, but it's always so much fun. Now go away, I'm baitin'.

Rat Race, The Big Lebowski, The Blues Brothers, Mars Attacks, Constantine, any Riddick, any Resident Evil, any Alien, any Matrix, any Predator, Equilibrium, Gattaca, District 9, and a lot of others I can't remember at the moment because I'm quite drunk.

Serenity

As well as the whole firefly series. Watches them all annually.

Oh, if we're doing more than just the movie...

...the one TV season, sure, and the Dark Horse & BOOM! Comics, 8 novels, and a bit over half a dozen Board Games; including The Original, Adventures, 'Misbehavin, Fluxx and a few others as well.

I have no difficulty admitting to be a little bit of a fan here.

"Alien" (1979) still gets me every time I watch it. The slow build, the pops of horror, the delectable suspense of the Big Chap hunting. I know every scare, every moment of terror, every death by heart... but it still gets my circulatory system going. All other home invasion/haunted house movies can go home, Alien nailed it.

I love all alien movies but I always fall asleep at the first one. Maybe I was too young and need faster movies.

I think I should watch it again. Wasn't there a remastered 4K version, lately?

Dunno. I've got it on Blu-ray... that's... 4k...? I'm not sure.

Is it “2024-new"? I thought I read about a remastered version from this year.

  • Naked Gun
  • Airplane!
  • Men in Tights
  • Down Periscope
  • La Soupe aux choux (Cabbage Soup from Louis de Funes)
  • Oscar

Yeah, the last one is oddly popular in my country. No clue why. Must be something in the water.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

LOTR: The Two Towers

Primer

Antitrust

Hackers

Star Trek: TMP

Scarface

Hot Tub Time Machine

I just watched Hot Tub Time Machine for the first time the other day. The ending is incredibly messed up. They come back and stuff is different but they don't have memory of the last 20 years? They just overwrote the new timeline versions of themselves. And Rob Corddry isn't even sad about it, he's basically like screw those guys that I've built my life around I got my messed up friends back.

The rest of the movie is pretty good though.

Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
The Italian Job (2003)
Sneakers (1992)

Sneakers is one where a remake might actually be welcomed. I adore the original but spycraft has changed so much. It’s a fascinating genre too. Probably my favorite.

Red teaming is probably less interesting cinematically now.

I’ll watch anything in this genre though so don’t let my skepticism slow anyone down from trying

Sneakers

How have I not watched this for years? I used to have it on VHS and watched it so many times. Mainly because I was in love with River Phoenix and heartbroken when he died.

I need to find somewhere to stream it.

Think i saw it on Freevee or Tubi just last week. Oooorr maybe not. Just looked and couldn't find it. I know I saw it available free with ads somewhere cause I'd just talked about it with someone and then noticed it was available.

Oceans 11, I can watch that when I'm happy, sad, sick, or just on in the background. The perfect heist movie

Lately, Megamind and Scott Pilgrim vs the World.

Also, Terminator 2, and lots of others that I can't think of right now.

LoTR, hunt for red October, most Bond films. The Mummy.

Ghostbusters, Back To The Future trilogy, Terminator 2, Beetlejuice, The Matrix, OG Star Wars Trilogy, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner, Goodfellas, Jacob’s Ladder, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Boogie Nights

The Prestige. There are so many layers to that movie. I've watched it 4 or 5 times, and each time I notice new details.

I think on the third rewatch I noticed that the first line of the diary had a different meaning:

::: spoiler !"We were two young men at the start of a great career. Two young men devoted to an illusion. Two young men who never intended to hurt anyone." :::

Great suggestions so far. I'll add a few that I didn't see mentioned yet.

Dogma

The Godfather 1 and 2

Tombstone

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, watching it every year on christmas,... Still laughing my ass off.

Grandma's Boy

Zootopia

Sing/Sing 2

Grandma’s Boy

I haven't seen that movie in ages, but I have watched it many times. The scene that really gets me is when they clean under the sofa and there are numerous cat carcasses.

I'll never not laugh at

"Kane! How many times have I told you to knock before coming into my office?"

"Uh... I did knock but I think the music is too loud?"

"Does it scare you?"

"No... I just don't really like techno."

"You would if you had robot ears."

"Uh.... Yeah. Maybe."

My brother and I quote this money to this day, such a classic.

"How could he see me?"

Super Troopers

The one where its just paint drying for 8 hours to fuck with the UK ratings board

Most Marvel movies

Your moms porno she did before you ruined her body

The Matrix

Buckaroo Banzai

Oh man, I watched this a couple weeks ago. It had probably been decades since I last saw it. It was just as awesome/terrible as I remembered.

The Birdcage. Every time it ends, I want to restart it.

The 1993 Super Mario Bros.

As campy and crappy as it is, it never fails to put a smile on my face and make me laugh, that movie rules.

The 5th element

Die Hard 1

Back to the Future, any

Jurassic Park 1

The Lion King

Road to El Dorado

Surely I'm forgetting a few but these come to mind now

Dodgeball, Space Jam, anything with Adam Sandler, SuperBad, anything with Jim Carrey,

The Mummy, The Princess Bride, The Devil Wears Prada and Jurassic Park never get old for me.

Agree with many others here. Also: Aliens, Terminator 2, True Lies, Bad Boys, The Naked Gun, Top Secret!, Hot Shots: Part Deux, Deadpool 1-3

Gattaca. It's just such a well made film.

<3. The letters in the title could be a DNA sequence. We might watch this tonight, for date night!

Rush Hour The Lion King Kung Pow LotR Harry Potter

  • Rush Hour: The Lion King

    • Carter and Lee take on a nefarious plot to overthrow the king in the African savannah, ultimately foiling Scar's plot and ensuring Simba inherits the throne, whilst working undercover in the Hyena underworld.

  • Kung Pow: LotR

    • The Fellowship of the Fist must face off against Lord Sauron, but first Frodo must train under True Master Gandalf to achieve his destiny.

  • Harry: Potter

    • Detective Harry Calahan must infiltrate a secluded military school in the Scottish countryside as the new DADA teacher, in order to take down an organisation known only as "Dumbledore's Army" led by a single battle-scarred teen known only as The Potter.

Top-tier recommendations, good sir

Everyone has about the same answers here, and I agree with many, but I've got a weird one:

Super Size Me

Something about it just compels me. And it always makes me want McDonald's afterwards... I truly struggle to explain why.

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Trivia: the guy was an recovering alcoholic and started to drink again - this is actually what can be seen throughout the documentary

I heard that he was an alcoholic during the experiment, hence why the doctors were baffled by the state of his liver after one month.

But that adds more to the mystery of why I like it - I never believed the food would do that to you in the first place

The Coronetto Trilogy from Edgar Wright

-Shaun of the Dead

-Hot Fuzz

-The Worlds End

I rewatched Young Guns recently, and besides the fantastic nostalgia rush, I realized that I had only ever seen the edited for TV version

Children of Men, The Boondock Saints, I Origins.

Used to be The Matrix as well, but I'm kind of over it now.

Children of Men is so good. I love this thread because I'm seeing mentions of so many great movies that I used to watch all the time but I realize it's been ages since I've last seen them.

The Hunt, The Way, Smokey and the Bandit, Clerks, Clerks 2, The Judge, Encanto, Spirited Away, Days of Thunder, Edge of Tomorrow, Nobody, Predator, Real Genius.

Aliens, Constantine, Gone in 60 Seconds, Wall-E, How to Train a Dragon, Hamilton, LotR, Kung Pow, Twister, Jurassic Park, Infinity War/End Game, Greatest Showman

Reefer Madness (Musical), Prince of Egypt, Hunchback of Norte Dame, Marie Antoinette, Kiki's Delivery Service.

The big lebowski almost requires rewatching. It just gets funnier and funnier every time, there are so many little details and quotable lines. "Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man."

Thematically, you can watch the film through different lenses. I remember reading an article about the religious undertones - the dude as Buddha, Walter as Yahweh etc. Makes Jesus as a weird little pervert even funnier.

Surprised no one mentioned Memento.

I'd say that you HAVE to re-watch it to understand wtf is going on.

Pulp Fiction. Whenever I caught it on cable, I would always end up watching it to the end.

Prometheus. Such a great movie!

We must be thinking of different films...

I know it gets lots of hate, but it's a visually stunning movie.

The production values are good, and it's generally entertaining, but I just can't cope with the gaps in logic and the seemingly deliberate attempts to make it conflict with the Alien films.

I'd rather re-watch the Red Letter Media review than the film itself.

Man of steel Batman V Superman UE Zack Snyder's Justice League The Dark Knight Trilogy Inception Interstellar Pulp Fiction Django Unchained

for quite a long time following the matrix i rewatched that shit so many times on so many different media that i could pretty much recite the entire movie. it's been quite a while now, so if i ever watched it again i would enjoy it just as much, but my ability to karaoke along would probably be down to 40-50% of the spoken lines.

the fight club is fun to rewatch couple times because you keep seeing new layers of foreshadowing.

up is always a joy, and a guarantee for me to cry twice. i was gonna say tear up but that shit hits me hard i can barely contain myself.