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Mr B and I are sitting here watching Streetcar Named Desire for the umpteenth time and I think this just may be my choice. What say you?

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[+6] - Ticomaya - 08/24/2013[quote="hawkeye10"]I think the question was a poor one....a better one would be "what film do you come back to most time and again, which through the years continues to move...
[+5] - boomerang - 08/22/2013Call me corny but my answer has to be "The Princess Bride".
[+5] - Thomas - 08/23/2013[quote="JPB"]Never seen it. I'll check it out. [/quote] You're in for a treat. My runner-up is The Big Lebowski.
[+5] - farmerman - 08/23/20132001 is about 2.5 hours too long. The only thing worth while is the Straus (R) music. Mine is "Pulp Fiction" followed by "Valley of the Kings"
[+4] - panzade - 08/22/2013A Clockwork Orange [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmm5jeeH8mY[/youtube] Wendy Carlos did a great job with the film score.
[+4] - chai2 - 08/22/2013To Kill a Mockingbird.
[+4] - farmerman - 08/23/2013[quote] [strike] Dumb and Dumber". Classic. [/strike] [/quote] -10 points
[+4] - Lustig Andrei - 08/23/2013It's not fair to have to pick just one. Minute I hear the words "favorite movie" at least a half dozen trailers start playing in my head all at once. And you know what? Almost all of...
[+4] - edgarblythe - 08/24/2013There are a number of movies mentioned on this thread that I don't like, but I am being nice about it. :)
[+4] - Roberta - 08/29/2013Two scenes from Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run. First, Virgil playing the bass fiddle in the school marching band. He's marching dragging a chair. Virgil trying to rob a bank. Gets into a...

@JPB,

There are only a few movies that I don't tire of seeing over and over and over again, and Jaws is one of them. So I'm gonna go with Jaws.

A few others that are good multiple times are, "Hot Fuzz", "Charlie Wilson's War", "Burn After Reading", and "Dr. Strangelove".

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I could not pick just one, but for now I will say, The Grapes of Wrath.

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Dr. Strangelove would be a contender...but so would The Godfather or Godfather II. Silence of the Lambs would be in there also.

Gotta tell ya this: The ONLY movie I have ever walked out of without finishing it is....A Streetcar Named Desire.

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@Frank Apisa,

I guess that is more than one...but I was terrible at math.

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@Frank Apisa,

Dr Strangelove is another big favorite here.

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Gotta tell ya this: The ONLY movie I have ever walked out of without finishing it is....A Streetcar Named Desire.

literally

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@JPB,

A Clockwork Orange

Wendy Carlos did a great job with the film score.

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@JPB,

probably the Highlander.

maybe blues brothers.

I might hafta do five if I thought about it much...

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@rosborne979,

"Charlie Wilson's War" sounds familiar. I think I've seen it. May have to watch it again.

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@edgarblythe,

Yeah, that's a close one for me too. Not as close to real life as it was for others, but there are some poignant moments in there. "Secretariat" hit me too.

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@panzade,

I tried to read the book. Put it down half-way through. Never attempted to watch the movie.

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@Rockhead,

I'm not familiar with the Highlander. The Blues Bros is a classic yes!

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@JPB,

probably not your cuppa tea.

Queen did the soundtrack...

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The movies I saw five times back in the day would probably annoy me now. (Great Escape and some damned thing about Franz Lizst) - but up there in memory, that I only saw once, was The Third Man directed by Carol Reed, screenplay written by Graham Green. Very Noir.

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I asked Mr B to answer my question and he said, "it depends".

North by Northwest was the first movie he ever saw that he HAD to see again over and over.

The Godfather series were perennial favorites for the first 30 viewings but they're getting a little old after 300.

And, he'd HAVE to put a Cohn brothers movie on the list.

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@ossobuco,

Yeah, that's similar to the point Mr B was making. The genre matters as does the mood you're in when you're watching.

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@JPB,

He just added The Fellowship of the Rings to his list of maybe firsts.

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@JPB,

To Kill a Mockingbird.

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@chai2,

Runners up

Terms of Endearment
Pulp Fiction

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@chai2,

I've seen To Kill a Mockingbird many times, but never in a straight sitting.

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