I bet I have seen these movies hundreds of times. I could quote the dialogue as it plays. I don't sit down and watch them start to finish undistracted. I don't own any of them, nor do I rent them. But if I just want the TV on in the background for filler noise while I do something else (opposed to stereo, depending on mood), I can usually find one of these movies somewhere on cable lol!
Lethal Weapon 1 and 3 (2 s-u-c-k-e-d)
Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2
The Fugitive
Harry Potter 1 and 2
Die Hard 1 and 3 (2 s-u-c-k-e-d)
Dave
Babette's Feast (I've seen it about a dozen times)
Yojimbo
47 Ronin
Seven Samurai
On the Waterfront (seven times; I was in fatuated with Eva Marie Saint)
Not Tonight Henry (a very soft porno flick, but the first I ever saw as a young man, about five times)
Watched Midnight in the garden of Good and Evil again. The most exciting part was the snippet about Johnny Mercer, and hearing K.D. Lang sing "Skylark"..a capella, no less.
They filmed some of Master and Commander at the Galapagos Islands. Most of the scenes were made at Bartholomew Island near Penacle rock. When I spent time at the Galapagos last year, we were anchored near that very spot where they filmed the movie. I loved that movie too!
Here's one of my pics of Bartholomew Island. We climbed that hill and looked 'down' at Penacle rock.
Here's Penacle Rock from top of the hill.
hmmm.... I'll say
Shrek
Les tripplettes de Belleville (French animated film)
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amelie of Montmartre)
Blues Brothers (1 and 2000)
Lord of the Rings (all)
Star Wars (all)
Harry Potter (1 and 2)
Dancer in the Dark (
)
Edward scissorhands
and lots of Disney films...
Roman Holiday
The Philadelphia Story
Peyton Place
The Ten Commandments
Cheaper By The Dozen - the original
Father of the Bride - the original
The Three Faces of Eve
Dead Ringer - the original
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
All About Eve
North by Northwest
Pocketful of Miracles
The Pleasure of His Company
Pillow Talk
Move Over Darling
North to Alaska
The Birds
I like alot of newer stuff too but the older movies take you back to another time, another place. I can watch a good old movie, The Three Faces of Eve for instance, and practically feel my mother watching with me, just like we used to do. Everything but the popcorn.
Im sorry but Lord of the Rings just left me in the road. It was a mass clustering of effects .
I think the theater of the mind makes a far more satisfying production than the film industry. We are always , in a movie, subject to a small committees view. I know this is a minority report but , im actually saying that LOTR was missing something and I cant put my finger on what would have made it for me.
Maybe it was the "Docudrama' method of storytelling that annoyed me.
One of my all-time favorites.
"The Apartment."
Austin Powers 1,2,3
All Michael J Fox movies
... and ...
crap I can't remember, but I think those above are a pretty good start here.
Yes on "The Apartment," arguably Jack Lemmon's best performance if it weren't for "Save the Tiger," "The Days of Wine and Roses," "Glenngary Glenn Ross," "Some Like It Hot" (likely one of the best comic performances in all film history) and on and on.
Eve's Bayou. Gorgeous movie.
I could watch All About Eve again & again for the wonderful, witty dialogue & the great performances. Wonderful!
And another, more obscure, one I like a lot is Ordinary People. A very moving & insighful observation of a family in deep distress.
Does anyone ever mention one of my all-time favorites, The Cider House Rules? It's a great argument for situational ethics, starring Michael Caine, Carlize Theron and Spiderman. All great actors.
I'll list some I've seen at least twice and sometimes as many as five times. Some of those I'd still see again. Will come back and add more as I think of them.
No particular order here -
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Song without End (nobody's ever heard of that one, I went crazy about the music)
I don't think I could see either of those one more time now.
Great Escape
Bullitt
High Noon
Death in Venice - Visconti
Garden of the Finzi-Continis - was that also Visconti?
Down and Dirty (italian, Brutti e Sporchi, e Cattivi, with Nino Manfredi)
Bread and Chocolate (italian, by Ettore Scola, I think - with Nino Manfredi)
Amarcord - (italian) Fellini
Christ Stopped at Eboli (italian) I think by Francesco Rosi, but maybe not... from memoir by Carlo Levi, with beautiful photography.
Seven Beauties, by Lina Wertmuller, with Giancarlo Giannini. I guess it counts as italian.
Umberto D, italian, this one killed me.
Open City, italian, Roberto Rosselini
Seven Samurai, japanese - Kurasawa
Rashoman (japanese) Kurasawa?
Ikiru japanese
Tampopo japanese
Moliere french, by Minoushkine
Going Places( french, Depardieu and De Waare (well, let's say I'd really like to see it again, am not sure I saw it twice, but I saw a few Depardieu and De Waare flics)
The Clockmaker, french, with Philipe Noiret
Tunes of Glory british, with Alec Guiness
Besieged - italian, Bertolucci
There are several film noirs I could stand to see again, but I forget their titles. May have to look them up and post back.
Yes, all of Kurasawa's films, I could see forever.
You mentioned Bullit. I must admit that I have consistently enjoyed the films of Steve McQueen. What about the Indian Bicycle Theif?
Yes, I also liked the 41 or however many Ronin, and Dodeskaden, and there were others by other directors that I forget the names of, one had Chrysanthemums in the title.
But I had never seen any of those twice.
Never saw the Indian Bicycle Thief. The italian movie Bicycle Thief, though a classic, was never one of my 'very favorites'. With LW I also liked the italian film Night of the Shooting Stars but I didn't see it more than once.
I guess I had a crush on Steve McQueen, 'me and several million other women'.
Ah, I remembered another one. For some reason I adored the movie Under Fire, with Nick Nolte and Johanna Cassidy, and saw it at least three times and also got the album, a real sign of infatuation for me.
Oh, no, I am remembering more.
Z,
Battle of Algiers,
Battle of Chile,
Burn.
I'm sure I saw those twice and would watch them again now.
How embarassing. I meant to say the Indian movie, The Bicycle Theif, but it's was an Italian film. It was such a long time ago I forgot. And they would both have been with subtitles. Que verguenza!
