Which Five Movies Have You Watched Many Times
Which Five Movies Have You Watched Many Times
It's hard for me to pick only five, but here are five listed alphabetically that I have watched and will continue to watch many times.
A Christmas Carol (1951) It's a feel-good movie, redemption ends up positive.
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Casablanca My favourite move of all time for a lot of reasons
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Chef Great progress of father-son relationship and a fun "road" movie that ends with reconciliation and success
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Dune (1984) The original version. My favourite Sci-Fi novel and my favourite Sci-Fi movie.
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The Jason Bourne Series All 3, I admit I'm cheating. All 3 are exciting, original, compelling action movies.
NOW, take a few minutes and tell me what 5 movies YOU have watched more than once, or feel you could watch over and over again and not tire of them or get bored.
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Come on everybody, pull your mind away from politics for a minute, give it a rest, and tell me what 5 movies you have watched more than once or could watch over and over again. Maybe you can even tell me why you made those choices.
There are so many movies that I will watch over and over and over and over again. Here's my five right off the top of my head that I have watched recently for the umpteenth time and will watch again. One of my sisters used to poke fun at me for that but now she is the same way, especially when it comes to Harry Potter.
Colombiana - that is a kick ass movie with Zoe Saldana
Moonstruck - Cher - snap out of it!
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Harrison Ford - I think Steven Spielberg has been visited by aliens at some point in his life. Close Encounters of the First Kind is another Steven Spielberg from way back in the day which leads me to believe alien visitation. lol
Baby Boom - Diane Keaton - just a great movie - she shows that a woman can have it all and not have to compromise
Mr. Mom - Michael Keaton - such a cute movie - Michael Keaton is such a versatile actor.
That's six but those just off the top of my head and one reminded me of the other.
Good choice Buzz
I have former 'president' cray cray fatigue
I love Harry Potter!
Because I am a firm believer in Magic . (In fact I've studied it...)
That's also why I've always loved Bell, Book, and Candle (except for the parts where it takes a negatively, politically correct stand against witches)
Doesn't Dean Martin sing When the Moon Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie in Moonstruck? There are so many movies about aliens coming to Earth one might think that people WANT it to happen. How about The Day the Earth Stood Still, The War of the Worlds, Battleship, The Independence Day movies, etc etc
I think I only watched the first Harry Potter movie.
A bit off topic here as it wasn't a movie-- but rather a radio broadcast (and not my favourite since I've only listened to a few brief excerpts). Just mentioning it here for historical value:
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre. [1] [2]
He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.
In 1938, his radio anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air gave Welles the platform to find international fame as the director and narrator of a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells 's novel The War of the Worlds , which caused some listeners to believe that a Martian invasion was in fact occurring. The event rocketed 23-year-old Welles to notoriety. [4]
(Read it all --> Wikipedia)
Orson Welles was one of the greatest, and I wish I had a zither playing as background to that statement.
I liked mainly for a specific reason-- it dealt with Magic.(I'm not interested in "Stage Magic" but rather telekinesis, Mediumship, and the like),
There were parts I didn't like because they were obviously aimed a pretty young kids,
In fact I was planning a trip to The Arthur Findlay College in England (often called "Hogwarts for Adults" ) but had to cancel my plans due to Covid.
I think the only thing that could have drawn me to watch any of them after the first one would have been Alan Rickman, who was a treat to watch no matter what movie he's in.
Casablanca is my single all time favourite movie! (And like you-- its for several reasons!).
Welcome to the club.
I have never watched The jason Bourne movies. But I was a big fan of Robert Ludlum novels. It was long ago, I don't remember how many there were but I real all (or most of them). A few were Jason Bourne stories.
I found this on Wikipedia:
Jason Bourne (/bɔːrn/) is the title character and the protagonist in a series of novels and subsequent film adaptations. The character was created by novelist Robert Ludlum. He first appeared in the novel The Bourne Identity (1980), which was adapted for television in 1988. The novel was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 2002 and starred Matt Damon in the lead role.
The character originally featured in three novels by Ludlum, released between 1980 and 1990, followed by eleven novels written by Eric Van Lustbader between 2004 and 2019, and three novels by Brian Freeman since 2020. Along with the first feature film, Jason Bourne also appears in three sequel films The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), and Jason Bourne (2016), with Damon again in the lead role. Jeremy Renner stars in the fourth film of the franchise,
The Bourne Legacy, released in August 2012.[2] Damon stated in interviews that he would not do another Bourne film without Paul Greengrass, who had directed the second and third installments.[3] Greengrass agreed to direct Damon in the fifth installment in the franchise. Greengrass jointly wrote the screenplay with editor Christopher Rouse.
(There's a lot more...)
I just realized I've seen the fourth Jason Bourne movie, "Jason Bourne", starring Matt Damon as well. So I've actually watched 4 of the series rather than 3.
I used to read a lot of spy novels-- Robert Ludlum was one of my favourite authors.
I also used to read a lot of detective stories (I started with Sherlock Holmes when i was pretty young and then read many others.
In addition to spy stories and murder mysteries I read a lot of science fiction
(That was the fiction-- I also read a lot of [non--fiction] Science Books.. .
I never read a Ludlum novel.
IIRC, three of them (all jason Bourne) were made into movies.
Now four.
Yes, I've watched all of them.
Yes, I know.
I agree with your top two Buzz. I ran across Casablanca the other day and even though I know every line of every scene, I watched it again.
There are quite a few movies, that if they are on TV and I have nothing to do I'll watch again (most are movie classics). The more recent ones are American Sniper and the Hurt Locker. I always loved "The Cincinnati Kid" and of course there is "The Best Years of our Lives."
There are a lot of movies that I only have seen recently that I would add to the list. For example: on Saturday night TCM has something called "Nuir Alley," hosted by Eddie Muller. Eddie tells the audience about the movie before it begins. I have gotten into the habit of sitting down with a drink at midnight for that regular showing of Film Noir movies and I've discovered a few gems that would fit into the category of watching again. There was one of those movies called "Out of the Past" (1947). Eddie rated it as the top Film Noir film of all time. Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas were all in it. Mitchum and Douglas were both 29 when they made it. The younger Greer would have likely had a great career according to Muller, but for some reason Howard Hughes blackballed her. I liked the script & the lingo, though I don't think anyone, no matter how slick they thought of themselves, ever talked like that.
I haven't seen a lot of your choices, but I've watched a lot of sniper movies recently, in particular Shooter, which I thought was pretty good. Can you imagine your pet dog opening the fridge and taking out and bringing a bottle of beer to you?
Yes-- if its an Australian Shepard! (They are one ofthe most trainable dogs there is,,,)
Long ago I came across a survey that claimed that Casablance and Gone With the Wind were the two most popular movies of all time . .
Probably true at one time.
But I bet no more than 20% of people born after 1970 have ever seen them.
Probably true of Gone With the Wind. I'm not sure about Casablanca (which may not be well known with Gen Z, etc)-- but my guess is that casablanca will always be tops with those who watch movies that are old classics.
Gone With the Wind was a groundbreaker.
Not everyone is into classic films.
From Wikipedia:
Although Casablanca was an A-list film with established stars and first-rate writers, no one involved with its production expected it to stand out among the many pictures produced by Hollywood yearly.
It had its world premiere on November 26, 1942, in New York City and was released nationally in the United States on January 23, 1943. The film was a solid, if unspectacular, success in its initial run.
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Exceeding expectations, Casablanca went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture , while Curtiz was selected as Best Director and the Epsteins and Koch were honored for Best Adapted Screenplay .
Its reputation has gradually grown, to the point that its lead characters, [ 9 ] memorable lines, [ 10 ] and pervasive theme song [ 11 ] have all become iconic, and it consistently ranks near the top of lists of the greatest films in history .
In 1989, the United States Library of Congress selected the film as one of the first for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Among the many reasons why Casablanca is my most favourite movie: the verbal repartee between Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) and Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains), the memorable quotes, many of the actors were actual refugees from the war (Yvonne's tears that were focused on during the playing of The Marsellaise were genuine, no eye-dropper needed), although it was a movie released in 1942 it had an insightful predictive line. When he was leaving, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) said to Rick "Welcome back to the fight. This time I know our side will win.", my mother really resembles Ingrid Bergman, I'm probably the only NT member who knows the name of the song Rick and Ilsa danced to in the nightclub in Paris....etc etc
A while back I was reading about the film. and learned much of what you just said.
(Interestingly, I discovered that no one in the film ever said "Play it again Sam"!)
I almost hate to admit it, but my eyes tear up at that playing of The Marsellaise! (For more than one reason. but mainly because I am a great Francophile at heart).
Yep, Ilsa just said "Play it".
Why does everyone love the Marseillaise, France’s national anthem?
LINK -> Why does everyone love the Marseillaise, France’s national anthem? - Classic FM
Maybe it's because "All You Need Is Love".
A great example would be "It's a Wonderful Life." It wasn't well received in its day, but when TV stations began televising it at Christmas time during the 70's, it suddenly became a holiday classic and people watched it every year.
Absolutely a Christmas Classic.
A Christmas Story has become my favorite Christmas movie
Groundhog Day
Tootsie
True Grit (1969)
Casablanca
Goodfellas
Groundhog Day is a perfect choice of a movie that you watch over and over again. I just watched Bill Murray in The Man Who Knew Too Little yesterday - what a weird movie.
Tootsie! Excellent choice!
Goodfellas is good. Casino is another.
Dustin Hoffman was hilarious.
Just fantastic.
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Paper Moon
Requiem for a Dream
Good Advice
That's an interesting list.
I’d watch any of these till the end if I came across them while channel surfing. Good Advice is an odd choice but I’ve seen it several times and it always makes me laugh, which is impressive for a romcom. Friday is another movie that’s on tv a lot and I can’t stop watching it, even though network television sanitizes it to death making it way less funny. The two follow up movies to Friday both sucked though.
You think American network television sanitizes movies? You should see what they do here - they even deleted the IMDb lists for Victor Mature's movies because they must have thought they were porn because of his name. But what REALLY pissed me off is that they deleted the whole most beautiful loving NOT PORNOGRAPHIC scene at the end of the Kiera Knightly version of Pride and Prejudice on the Pemberly terrace at night between Lizzie and Darcy that was after they were married.
Field of Dreams
2001: A Space Odyssey
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Apollo 13
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Good choices. All are great movies.
Thanks for the needed distraction, Buzz.
My top five comedies:
Best in Show
Airplane!
Dr. Strangelove
The Philadelphia Story
Spinal Tap
Best in Show - I love all the Christopher Guest mocumentaries and films
I'm trying my best, as long as you don't call me Shirley.
I did see that one. Excellent!
There will be no fighting in the War Room!
LOL.
Actually I should probably add to my list: "Anything Peter Sellers" IMO he should be on the shortlist of greatest comedians of all time!
Agreed
I loved a lot of the, I guess you might call them optics, of 2001 - and the colors were awesome.
“…2001…”
Perhaps the scariest antagonist in cinema in Hal 9000…Kubrick brilliance.
At least it could be switched off, while singing "Daisy, Daisy..."
A truly iconic movie.
For anyone who's seen 2001: A Space Odyssey this will sound familiar:
Recently I saw a new TV commercial. A young woman is rushing to leave home and get to work. (I forget her name-- let's say its "Mary"). Her door won't open. She says "open the Door Alexa*". Alexa says "I'm afraid I can't do that Mary" . Mary looks upset.
Then it says "You forgot your energy drink".. Mary goes to the 'frig, get her drink, Alex opens the door.
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* Its one of Amazon's smart electric devices-- it may be Alexa or one of the other ones
I remember the line.
Mary looks upset.
Then it says "You forgot your energy drink".. Mary goes to the 'frig, get her drink, Alex opens the door.
I forgot to mention-- imo its a very clever commercial. When I first saw it I had no idea what they were selling-- until the end.
The real theme seems to be that AI at first seems scary -- but after the door is unlocked for Mary, the technology of the future is ...scary!
But after a happy Mary is able to leave, the scene changes. You hear the words:
THE FUTURE NEED NOT BE SCARY
(Or words to that effect)
So what are they selling?
Well, then then say that the future need not be scary-- if people use their services.
Its a stock brokerage house! (lately the market often seems less predictable than usual) . . .
I like it because there have been more commercials lately that are not obvious at first as to what product.or service they are selling-- until the end.
In addition, they use a well known line from a very popular movie from the past.
So I thought it was clever.
Well, in the movie Goodbye Mr. Chips, Chips, his wife (Greer Garson) and friend Max drink a toast proposed by the wire "To the future", and then both she and her baby die during childbirth and Max, who is Austrian, is killed in the impending WW1.
I never saw the movie-- but I read the book more than once!
It was a pretty good movie. One has to be careful of any nurse whose name sounds like "rat shit".
I should point out that I enjpyed One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest perhaps more than many other people. Why? Because as an undergraduate I majored in Psychology-- I was greatly aware of the "weak points" in the field of psychology (at that time).
(In any even IMO it was a great movie).
I've seen a lot of evidence lately that psychiatry is needed a lot more now than ever before, but I can't talk about it here because of my RED BOX RULES.
Death in Venice
Black Cat White Cat
Ran
Dog Day Afternoon
The Misfits
... a number in the neighborhood of 300 fit in the top 5 making this exercise a chore. Good Lord, I've omitted all the films by Lina Wertmüller.
I watch movies I've seen before fairly often, although paying less attention to them than the first time. I've heard it compared to playing a music album you've heard over and over. It is comforting, they say.
Well, as I've said a few times, I watch an average of 2 movies a day, sometimes just one, sometimes as many as three. Today I watched one with some great folk and rock music in it, and music was a key item in the movie - The Music Never Stopped.
After multiple viewings all the small details come into focus, I look at movies as I look at fresco paintings, always finding new imagery posing new questions ... it is having your cake and eating it too.
I get myself very involved in a movie I'm watching. Woody Allen did a movie called The Purple Rose of Cairo where a character in the movie walks out of the screen into real life. I do the opposite, I figuratively enter the screen and become the characters in the movie. So I don't just WATCH a movie, I become a part of it. As for remembering details, I can watch scenes from the movies in my mind, reciting the lines of all the actors.
A while back there was a media critic named Marshall McLuhan. He wrote "The Media is the Message". (basically he felt the very same presentation sent a different message depending upon the media used).
For example, being exposed to a report on TV about dead soldiers on a battelfield during The Viet-Nam War had a very different feeling depending on whether you watched it on TV-- or read about it with no pictures, only text.
One of the concepts he had was that "projections of reality" often have a stronger effect on the viewer than actually witnessing the event itself.
He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life.
He is known as the "father of media studies".
That's because the individual adds his/her imagination to the actual reality.
And he also was a movie actor. I will NEVER forget the scene in Annie Hall when a man in a movie ticket lineup behind Alvy Singer (Woody Allen and Annie Hall (Diane Keaton) is showing off to his date by loudly spewing out about Marshall McLuhan's theory. Woody went off camera and returned pulling the REAL Marshall McLuhan into the scene. Here is the dialogue:
Alvy Singer : [the man behind him in line is talking loudly] What I wouldn't give for a large sock with horse manure in it!
Alvy Singer : [to audience] Whaddya do when you get stuck in a movie line with a guy like this behind you?
Man in Theatre Line : Wait a minute, why can't I give my opinion? It's a free country!
Alvy Singer : He can give it... do you have to give it so loud? I mean, aren't you ashamed to pontificate like that? And the funny part of it is, Marshall McLuhan, you don't know anything about Marshall McLuhan!
Man in Theatre Line : Oh, really? Well, it just so happens I teach a class at Columbia called "TV, Media and Culture." So I think my insights into Mr. McLuhan, well, have a great deal of validity!
Alvy Singer : Oh, do ya? Well, that's funny, because I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here, so, so, yeah, just let me...
[pulls McLuhan out from behind a nearby poster]
Alvy Singer : come over here for a second... tell him!
Marshall McLuhan : I heard what you were saying! You know nothing of my work! You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing!
Alvy Singer : Boy, if life were only like this!
I think you're right.
I think all great actors do that-- while they are playing the role they actually "become the character" (at least in their own mind).
I haven't seen many, many movies but I did see Annie Hall.
BTW I didn't know that Marshall McLuhan was in a movie!
I think that's true.
A while people people used that as an argument vs. kids watching too much TV. The notion was that watching TV does not encourage developping the imagination as so many details are shown on the screen-- whereas reading a book where all the child sees in text leads to them developing their imagination (of course people have debated that).
The reason I consider Paul Muni my favourite actor of all time is because that is exactly what he did, and he must have done it really well. You cannot help but believe he actually was Zola in The Life of Emile Zola. I know Gregory Peck did it to an extent as well, as he related a story about it in his docushow A Conversation with Gregory Peck, which must be available on YouTube, cause I watched it on bilibili. Everyone should watch it.
You're kidding. Watch it again. The dialogue I posted above is when he was in it.
@ Hallux
You're the only one who mentioned a Japanese movie. Seven Samurai by Akira Kurasawa would certainly qualify, as would its American remake starring Yul Bryner, The Magnificent Seven, which I have watched many times, but watched the newest remake with Denzell Washington only once. I think that movie was more concerned about inclusiveness than it was about the plot.
In a wider questionnaire I would have included all of Kurosawa's films and tossed in most of Herzog's - Fitzcarraldo was an operatic romp ... meh, back to viewing Mike Nichols' brilliant adaptation of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for the nth time.
Star wars (any one)
Smokey and the Bandit
Blues Brothers
Blazing Saddles
Lord of the Rings (any one)
Not The Dukes of Hazzard? LOL
OMG-- Mel Brooks! IMO one of the greatest comedians of all times!
(I'm also a big fan of Peter Sellers-- another comedic genious).
"Being There" - a brilliant acting job by Peter Sellers.
I missed that one.
Watch it. You'll love it.
Even some of his shorter scens contain humor.
Anyone remember this line:
Does your dog bite?
I don't, please explain.
The Shawshank Redemption
Animal House
Field of Dreams
Reds
Second Hand Lions
I could have chosen your top 3 myself.
I think just about every movie so far mentioned , i have watched more than 3 times .
For me , its a good bet if i willingly have sat down and watched it once , i will likely sit down and watch it again at a later date to see if i might have missed some little detail missed in the first go around . For me i tend to search out the underlying moral or societal message contained within the script or production .
I dont think I personally can limit myself to any top 5 because my viewing tastes are varied , but I will say i try each and every time i rewatch something , to try and take something different away from the viewing that i had not before .
With the advent of streaming on demand , my video library has suffered greatly, its not like in the days gone by when programmers would choose for us what would be shown . Some of the perrenials i remember from my youth are basically seasonal , like Capras its a wonderful life , or the wizard of oz , or bing crosbys white christmas . just to name a couple .
And its not just movies available anymore , some of those old HBO comedy specials are a favorite of mine , with names like Carlin , Pryor , Williams , and yes even Crosby , his bit about birthing and telling the Dr to "get the salad spoons man " still makes me chuckle , for me it was because its tied to a specific event of my life , the birth of my first child was about to happen, and I was slated to be in the delivery room soon , and NO i didnt use that line (thankfully)
keeping with the article though 2 that have not been mentioned yet , would be Glory , and Open Range .
You're able to get a lot out of the movies and so am I. I get so much out of them, they can make me happy or sad, make me laugh out loud or bring tears to my eyes, I can see how art imitates life and life also imitates art through them, they educate me about many things I never knew, they entertain me and keep me happily occupied since I'm fully retired. I love the movies.
As others said, too many to select just five but here are some I've watched many times.
Big Lebowski
American President
John Wick movies - there are 4 thus far
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Tombstone
Although I would never vote for either of the actual two candidates even if I could, I would have voted for Michael Douglas' character. or Martin Sheen's character in West Wing.
Gee, my all time favorites tend to shift with the season. Here's some of the favorites of the moment.
What do you mean by "planned obsolescence concerning the Bourne series? In the fourth one Bourne simply walks away at the end.
I'm talking about my VCR. I had collected a rather large movie library on VHS tape. But my VCR bit the dust and it's not easy to find a replacement because VHS is obsolete technology.
I'm waiting for streaming technology to do away with DVDs. That way the financial pirates can steal even more money for stuff they never produced. Why should I pay a license fee to watch a movie that's 80, 90, or 100 years old? You know the Wizard of Oz was released 85 years ago, Gone with the Wind was in theaters 84 years ago, and Casablanca was released 81 years ago. How much money do dead people need to earn?
Oh, okay, I understand. I have more than 100 movie CDs but I haven't been using them because I have access to so many movies on TV that I've never seen before.
The James Bond series of movies
Those were among my favourites as well. (In those days I watched more movies).
Although I tolerated those who followed him, to me the only REAL James Bond was Sean Connery
I've always felt the same way!
Some of the other James Bonds were pretty good actors, but for some reason I've always felt that Sean Connery was "the real" James Bond!
I think it's kind of natural to hang onto the first one who plays certain roles. For example, because of his role in Hunt For Red October I'll always consider Alec Baldwin to be Jack Ryan notwithstanding others followed him in that role.
Yeah, I liked the Sean Connery movies more than others, too. Seemed to me the Connery movies were more of a spoof on Cold War spies. The movies didn't try very hard to be serious. Same sort of silliness as Frankie Avalon beach movies. IMO the later movies lost some of the silliness. But then the pop culture had changed by then, too, so maybe that's what the audience expected.
A steel Frisbee hat? Really?
Similar to the choices made by charger 383. I'll never forget Marisa Tomei stamping her feet in My Cousin Vinny. I think it's what won her the Oscar.
Does that means Charger and I win?
When Buzz posts something on NT, everybody wins!
LOL
Thank for one of the nicest things anyone has said about me on NT. There are a few NT members who would challenge you to a duel because you made that compliment.
C'mon man...
At this point I want to ask all who have posted here: "Hasn't this been more fun than arguing, fighting and insulting over politics?
Enjoy life? Yes, it is Saturday night again, isn't it?
Sunday morning here.
Sunday arvo here..
Good morning. Funny, I just thought of the Seekers.
Some people might disagree with that.
More fun? A distraction perhaps. That's what I want from a movie; a distraction from reality to recharge. The problem is reality doesn't like being ignored.
Well, I, for one, don't give a damn if it doesn't.
But what is reality? Physical things that exist in the physical universe-- or projections of reality-- like Social Media?
Or, perhaps what our leaders say (adfer all, many people say that politicians never lie!)
Aliens
Raiders of the Lost Ark
LOTR series
Amadeus
Jurassic Park
As far as seeing something several times and not getting overly tired of it, I also want to say Band of Brothers, but that's a TV miniseries and wouldn't count here. Still, one of the best productions ever, IMO.
I forgot about my first and favorite ever sci-fi movie - Aliens
I like all the Indiana Jones movies except the Temple of Doom. I haven't seen the recently released Dial of Destiny yet but I recorded it for later.
I considered all the Indiana Jones movies pretty good entertainment.
I love Raiders and The Last Crusade, but I think the rest are meh.
Any and all of them are great, except Aliens....not a big fan.
As the French say: chacun à son goût
There are a lot of Sci-Fi movies I like a lot better than Aliens myself.
How dare you!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just kidding of course, that's my go to - some of the prequels and sequels though I'm not big fans of except maybe Aliens.
Temple of Doom was entertaining for sure but there's just something about Kate Capshaw, I've never seen her in anything else, but I did not care for her at all in that movie.
I wonder if she got the role because she's married to Steven Spielberg.
No, surely that kind of nepotism doesn't happen in Hollywood. /s
The scene I'll remember from Aliens as long as I live will be the weird little alien popping out of a man's body and dressed like Fred Astaire dancing along the bar singing "Hello my baby...".
I think that was a spoof in Spaceballs, not the actual Aliens movie.
Ooops! Sorry. I guess I remember the spoof better than the original movie. Anyway, Spaceballs was a great spoof of the Star Wars movies as well.
Yeah, it was pretty funny. Rick Moranis in that giant Darth Vader helmet cracked me up.
How dare you? Alien is my all time favorite science fiction movie. I saw it at the Drive in when it first came out around 1980.
Just kidding of course. Spaceballs is a pretty good spoof.
It was -
- that would have been pretty weird in the actual movie.
Did you watch the whole movie from beginning to end or were there some significant interruptions? LOL
If it had been, I might have considered Alien more memorable.
Band Of Brothers was great. That and Lonesome Dove are the two best miniseries ever in my opinion.
Glad you turned me on to Lonesome Dove.
Speaking of "oldies"-- has anyone seen Blackboard Jungle?
I did, but long ago. There have been other movies about the taming of wild school students. In Blackboard Jungle, Sidney Poitier was a wild student who was finally convinced to stay in school. Interestingly, he then played the part of the teacher who tames the wild class in To Sir With Love. Not long ago I saw Freedom Writers wherein Hillary Swank was a teacher who tamed a wild class, notwithstanding the opposition of her supervisor.
It was a long time ago!
One of the things I remembered about it was the song "Rock Around the Clock:"
Getting a bit off topic here, but I Just found this on Wipipedia:
"Rock Around the Clock" was first issued in May 1954 as a B-side to "Thirteen Women (and Only One Man in Town)". [ 17 ] While the song did make the American Cashbox music charts (contrary to popular opinion that it was a flop), it was considered a commercial disappointment. It was not until 1955, when "Rock Around the Clock" was used under the opening credits and four additional times in the film Blackboard Jungle , [ 18 ] that the song truly took off.
Many versions of the story behind how "Rock Around the Clock" was chosen for Blackboard Jungle circulated over the years.
Recent research, however, reveals that the song was chosen from the collection of young Peter Ford , the son of Blackboard Jungle star Glenn Ford and dancer Eleanor Powell . The producers were looking for a song to represent the type of music the youth of 1955 were listening to. The elder Ford borrowed several records from his son, one of which was Haley's "Rock Around the Clock". [ 13 ] In 2004, the song finished at #50 in AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
On July 9, 1955 "Rock Around the Clock" became the first rock and roll recording to hit the top of Billboard ' s Pop charts,
Although I must have heard the song being performed when I watched Blackboard Jungle, I saw it performed by Bill Haley and the Comets when I took a date to see the movie Rock Around the Clock at a drive-in theatre.
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Miraculous.
1) Forbidden Planet (1956)
2) Saving Private Ryan
3) Dune (both versions are excellent)
4) Lord of The Rings (all of them)
5) Star Trek the Motion Picture
You're at least as big a Sci-Fi fan as I was. Robbie the Robot in Forbidden Planet was a pre-cursor of the robotics developments booming today. My brother, who is 4 years older than me, was a huge Sci-Fi fan when he was a teenager and he would buy and read all the Sci-Fi magazines, and I would read them after he did, which introduced me to the great authors like Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Edward E "Doc" Smith, Arthur C. Clark, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert, etc. He even went to a Sci-Fi convention in Chicago and came back with a "Doc" Smith novel personally autographed to him by Doc Smith.
Very cool!
A lot of good movies were mentioned. I'll add 5 that weren't.
The Sting
The Godfather 1 & 2
This Boy's Life
Mississippi Burning
Malcolm X
I've watched most of those - good choices.
Chinatown, Driving Miss Daisy, Sunset Boulevard, Miller's Crossing and The Hustler...
More good movies. I like watching Morgan Freeman in anything he's in, and Sunset Boulevard is a great classic.
I can't name 5 movies I've seen multiple times (I generally don't do that), the only one that qualifies for me is The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption is a great movie about a number of things, that sometimes Justice can be unjust, and as well that Justice will eventually prevail. It's a lesson that perseverance can accomplish something (the prison library), It's about the development of a strong male bonding of very disparate individuals, and generally it was pretty entertaining. I've watched it more than once myself. Besides, as I've said above, I like watching Morgan Freeman in any movie, even soppy ones like The Magic of Belle Isle.
One of the reasons I watch a movie more than once is no different than others have said above. It is because I pick up on things I missed, or words I passed over the first time around. I just finished watching a movie for the second time that was an adaptation of a novel I had previously read and liked, and I got more out of it the second time than I did from the first viewing.
Lol I probably saw Pink Floyds "The Wall" 20 times in theatres and every time I saw something I hadn't seen before. Most likely because I was under the influence all but the last time
I've been there, Freefaller, but not for many years since.
Me too
Christmas Vacation
Titanic
Die Hard
Waterworld
Heartbreak Kid
Die Hard - Alan Rickman is such a treat to watch.
Most of you know I watch a lot of movies... This list would probably change every time I listed them but here goes.
A Christmas Carol - almost any version
Halloween - I watch it every Halloween
The Princess Bride - a favorite of both my wife and myself
John Wick - the one that started a franchise by fridging a dog
Star Wars: A New Hope - do I really need a reason?
Since you watch a lot of movies, why have you never played my movie quiz or game?
A New Hope needs no reason.
I almost always read them.