What 12 Movies Can You Watch Many Times and Still Enjoy?
What 12 Movies Can You Watch Many Times and Still Enjoy?
There are so many movies that are worth watching more than once, and it's really hard to narrow the list down to 12, but we have to try. Let's see your list. If possible give a reason why, and post a photo or trailer or video scene.
To start off, here is my narrowed down list of movies I've watched many times, in no particular order. Hopefully you have an hour or so to watch all the video clips and listen to the music.
1. Casablanca.
I've said this before that probably the main reason I like it is the continuous repartee between Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart and Captain Louis Renault, played by Claude Rains.
2. A Christmas Carol (a/k/a Scrooge) (Alastair Sim version)
Although I don't celebrate Christmas, it is my favourite movie to watch during that holiday. There are a number of remakes, but IMO none match that one. To me the most poignant moment is when Scrooge, played by Alastair Sim, asks his nephew's wife "Can you forgive a foolish old man who has had no eyes to see nor ears to hear all these years?"
3. Field of Dreams
If your eyes are dry when Ray Kinsella, played by Kevin Kostner, asks his father at the end of the movie "Hey dad, you wanna have a catch?" you're either a zombie or a robot.
4. Shawshank Redemption
I think Perrie said it best in her reasons for liking this film - it's a story of a great bonding between two very disparate individuals, Andy Dufresne played by Tim Robbins and Red, played by Morgan Freeman. The movie advances from injustice to poetic justice.
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
I'm a sucker for any movie where courtroom scenes are prominent, and there are many such movies, but in this one the lawyer is Atticus Finch, played by Gregory Peck, and even though he's enough reason to make the film worth watching over and over, the whole story, the acting of the kids add to the movie's high status.
6. The Godfather, Part 1
IMO it was a masterpiece, with a brilliant performance by Don Vito Corleone played by Marlon Brando, (take particular note of his mannerisms) and a stellar performance by Michael Corleone played by Al Pacino.
7. The Godfather, Part 2
Considered by many to be the best of the three, with a great performance by Robert DeNiro as young Vito Corleone. But the one who shone the brightest was Lee Strasberg playing Hyman Roth. Lee Strasberg ran the famous Actor's Studio, where method actors like Marlon Brando gained their skills.
8. The Magnificent Seven
There are many great Westerns, but this one, although it is a remake of the masterfully directed Akiro Kurosawa movie, Seven Samurai, it is fascinating to watch from beginning to end, and the musical score is magnificent. A great performance by Eli Wallach, playing the Bandit Calvera.
9. Pride and Prejudice (BBC miniseries with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle)
Perhaps it is because of my love for the novel written by Jane Austen (the reason I majored in English Literature for my B.A.) but I have watched every movie version of the novel including the Bollywood one and enjoyed them all, save for P&P and Zombies, which is a travesty notwithstanding the odd quotation from the novel being spoken.
10. Little Lord Fauntleroy (Both the Freddy Bartholomew 1936 and Rick Schroder 1980 versions)
I really can't explain this - it's kind of a fairy tale story about a pauper becoming aristocracy and changing an elder aristocrat's personality from haughty to kind. Alec Guiness played the Earl of Dorincourt in the 1980 film.
11. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn version)
Swashbuckling, again a story where justice prevails in the end.
12. The Third Man
The soundtrack theme:
For starters, I've always thought Orson Welles to be brilliant, whether it's a radio broadcast (War of the Worlds), or directing or acting. The Third Man is a film noir with dark shadows in both the plot and the scenes and the Zither adds to the tension and mystery. This "smirking" image is the first time you see Welles in the film, as his face pops out of the shadows. It is the avatar I used for my defunct Classic Cinema group.
So let's see YOUR list.
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