I canβt not rewatch Hot Fuzz whenever itβs on telly
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Hot Fuzz is my answer too, but never on the telly. I saw it several times in the theater and bought the dvd immediately upon release.
For the greater good!
The greater good.
Shut it!
You're all wrong. It's Groundhog Day.
Finally! We need to move this correct answer up!
βWhat would you do if every day was the same and nothing you did mattered?β βThat about sums up my lifeβ
Iβm sure I misquoted there but such a wonderful movie.
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The Princess Bride is definitely up there for me. I don't usually rewatch movies, but this is one that I'll always be glad to sit through again and again.
I don't rewatch movies often, but in order of most rewatched: Gattaca, Sicario, Drive, Pulp fiction, Hamilton, Les Mis, China Town..
Drive!!! What a gorgeous film. I was about to comment that it's my most rewatched too.
Literally Groundhog Day, it's one of my favourites and about 20 years ago I started a tradition of always watching it every Feb 2nd, and so I've watched it 20 times plus maybe half a dozen times before then.
Not a movie but Band of Brothers is on top of the annual revisit list for the past 15 years
Closely followed by 5th Element & Starship Troopers
Somehow I stopped watching movies a few years ago, which kind of annoys me but we can't find time that much for a long movie. Of course binge watching TV series is another thing...
For me, the three rewatchables were:
- Stanley Kubrick: Barry Lyndon - If you're into cinematography and ultra techy perfection, this is the movie. And the main character is such an asshole.
- Celine Sciamma: Portrait of a Lady on Fire - This beautiful piece hits hard. Celine has an eye for women, and the story how the ladies take care of their own business since the beginning of time is really captivating.
- Pedro AlmodΓ³var: All About My Mother - A queer classic. I really like the old AlmodΓ³var telenovelas on acid, but this mid-career masterpiece has everything: the cinematography, the crazy characters and the melodrama.
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I Love You Man, my comfort movie and one I never get sick of or fails to pick me up
The Boondock Saints or The Matrix for me, both way over a dozen times.
The Bourne series. That shit was awesome!
A Silent Voice, really beautiful movie about bullying and redemption. I watched it a few years ago when I was in a really bad place, and it helped me a lot.
Shawshank Redemption
You know... I've never really thought about it that way, but my three favorites may be the same most watched.
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Empire Strikes Back
Miller's Crossing
Sometimes I'll watch Miller's Crossing with English subtitles/captions, just to take in all that insane and masterful dialogue, it truly is as if William Shakespeare had written a 1920s mob tragicomedy.
You ain't got a license to kill bookies and today I ain't sellin'. So take your flunky and dangle!
Interstellar
Howl's Moving Castle. I had an obsession with it at the time.
3 Idiots, a feel-good Indian movie.
All is well
The Matrix and Terminator 1 and 2
Just Because I didn't see it mentioned:
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly and Tombstone
I'm not much of an anime person (and maybe this movie gives that away), but Spirited Away is so magical. Just everything about it is so detailed, I'm entranced every time.
I watched the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie so many times as a kid I can still lip sync most of the film to this day.
I've also watched Space Balls and Monty Python and the Holy Grail more times than I can count.
Friday the 13th the new blood, V for vendetta and hackers.
For me it Lord of the Rings and/or Harry Potter. Can't count how often I watched these masterpieces.
Harry Potter!
Interstellar. I watched it like 4 times.
Maybe Thor Ragnarok
Hackers and Grosse Pointe Blank. Watched it almost every night to go to bed for years on VHS.
Isn't Grosse Pointe Blank from around '98 or '99?
That's when VHS was on its' very last legs. I think my first DVD player was from around 2001, by that time the graph line of DVD rising and VHS falling had already intersected, and this was in Mexico, I'm not sure when other parts of the world made the transition, say in the US, Europe or Japan it happened earlier.
Definitely the Avatar movie, I mean the blue ones not TLA. I watched it when it came out, watched it several times with my family and friends. Lastly I watched it at IMAX, was a fantastic experience. Sadly second movie did not live up to my expectations.
The Martian and Clerks!!
Airplane!
Surely you can't be serious.
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.
Mononoke Home / Princess Mononoke
Gangs of Wasseypur. It's a 5-hour movie, split into two parts. But really, it's just one epic story. I've watched it countless number of times. While in college, me and my mates would get high and watch this movie. I've probably watched it with most of my friends at least once.
Two other movies that come close are Pulp Fiction and Bhooter Bhobishyot.
Hateful Eight. The acting, pacing, dialogue all 10/10 IMO. It just feels cozy watching it.
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