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What is a movie you've seen that never gets old--you can see it over and over?

Asked by Caravanfan (13724points) May 7th, 2019

I have several. This is a noninclusive list, but just off the top of my head:

Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Spinal Tap
The Enemy Below
Princess Bride
Holy Grail

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seawulf575's avatar

The Princess Bride
My Cousin Vinny
Second Hand Lions

janbb's avatar

The African Queen
A Night at the Opera
O Brother Where Art Thou
The Philadelphia Story
Lady and the Tramp
101 Dalmatians
The Princess Bride
The Thin Man

Off the top of my head.

Caravanfan's avatar

@seawulf575 My Cousin Vinny! Good one!

Caravanfan's avatar

@janbb I’d be down with O Brother

KNOWITALL's avatar

Starship Troopers (so funny)
The Color Purple (my cry movie)
Jane Eyre (original)
A River Runs Through It
Wolf of Wall Street
Dances With Wolves (esp my husband)

Caravanfan's avatar

@KNOWITALL You’re a Starship Troopers fan?? Would you like to know more?

(The sequels, on the other hand, were absolute crap)

KNOWITALL's avatar

@Caravanfan Yes, my husband teases me about it, I have always loved that cheesy movie-the first one. And I adore Neil Patrick Harris.

Dizzy: My mother always told me that violence doesn’t solve anything.

Jean Rasczak: Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that.

[to Carmen]Jean Rasczak: You.

Carmen: They wouldn’t say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed.

Jean Rasczak: Correct. Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn’t solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst.

ucme's avatar

The Good the Bad & the Ugly
Grand Budapest Hotel
The Shawshank Redemption
Marathon Man
The French Connection
The Pianist
It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Anything that Laurel & Hardy did

chyna's avatar

^Marathon Man – I can’t handle the “dental” scene!
How to lose a guy in 10 days.
Pretty woman.
Bohemian Rhapsody.

Caravanfan's avatar

@ucme Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Good one.

ucme's avatar

“is it safe?”

Patty_Melt's avatar

All the Harry Potter movies. I never watch just one. Each time I bought a next one, I would not watch it until I have watched the others first. Also, after Deathly Hallows 2, I like to go back to Sorcerer’s Stone, because it is funny to gradually watch them grow, then jump back to when they were eleven.
I will never be able to watch Harry collect Professor Snape’s tears without bawling aloud.
(love always, Mr. Rickman)

Hang Em High
Willy Wonka also the remake
Dances With Wolves
Little Big Man
My Fair Lady
The Ghost And Mrs Muir
Ten Things I Hate About You

Hmm, I thought I didn’t like romance stories, but look at that list.

I have watched the Potter movies many times over, and only just realized the last time that they were not about Voldemort, not even about Harry Potter. Those were just characters incidental to the story. It is really about Snape’s love for Lilly, and how it would not fade until the moment of Severus’ death. Through each movie, when it appeared he was staring at Harry in disdain, he was really looking at “her eyes” and feeling love’s pain anew. Even as he died, he needed Harry to know. He gave up his memories so Harry would know he had to die, but deep down he knew Harry had already figured that out. It was the truth of his secret relationship to Harry that he was really giving.

filmfann's avatar

Fight Club
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

janbb's avatar

@ragingloli Oddly enough, I don’t even want to click on your link.

ragingloli's avatar

@janbb
Hey, I am not the one who made a list of pornos.

janbb's avatar

@ragingloli You’re right. There always was something a bit kinky about “Lady and the Tramp!”

josie's avatar

The Outlaw Josey Wales

I had never heard of it until one of my instructors started calling me Josey Wales. He couldn’t spell, so he wrote it Josie.

I could watch that movie every week.

Caravanfan's avatar

@filmfann I don’t talk about Fight Club

Caravanfan's avatar

@josie I’ve never heard of it. THanks!

Tropical_Willie's avatar

The Great Escape

Patty_Melt's avatar

Josey Wales is a good one alright.

stanleybmanly's avatar

Lawrence of Arabia, The Wages of Fear, The Loved One, Where’s Papa?

stanleybmanly's avatar

@janbb loli’s link might surprise you. I wonder if all the extra arms and spare brains might yield an advantage.

Dutchess_lll's avatar

Well…watching War Games as we speak.
Secretariat.
My Cousin Vinny.
Wild Hogs.

Kardamom's avatar

The Sound of Music

Star Wars Episode IV (but only on the big screen)

Psycho (I love Hitchcock films, but this one is my favorite. There are so many great lines, and scenes, plus I had a mad crush on Anthony Perkins)

Chevy Chase’s Christmas Vacation

The Disney animated version of both Peter Pan, and The Jungle Book

Mary Poppins (with Julie Andrews)

The Wizard of Oz

A Hard Day’s Night (The Beatles first movie)

Snow White

Demosthenes's avatar

There aren’t very many I feel that way about, but some potential contenders:

Numerous Christmas movies, including Home Alone and A Christmas Story
Zoolander
The Big Lebowski
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

That’s all I can think of at the moment. In general it’s only lighthearted movies that I’m willing to see that many times.

Stache's avatar

Airplane!
True Romance
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Zombieland
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
30 Days of Night
Mean Girls
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Dazed and Confused

JLeslie's avatar

Legally Blonde.

My Cousin Vinny I think I have seen 10 times, that is a good one.

When I was younger I watched It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad world 10 times, but I have not seen it in a long time.

Many of the Star Trek Movies
.
Miracle on 34th Street With Natalie Wood. I can watch them all though.

Evita with Madonna

I used to think The World According to Garp was great, I don’t know if I would still like it, I haven’t seen it in a while.

Shawshank redemption

Forrest Gump

Dutchess_lll's avatar

The Outlaw Josie Wales and The Man from Snowy River. channeling Rick now.

anniereborn's avatar

The Notebook
A Christmas Story
This is Spinal Tap
The Big Lebowski
Willy Wonka (the original)

Caravanfan's avatar

@anniereborn A Christmas Story—awesome. Forgot that one

jca2's avatar

The In Laws (the version with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk)

Sideways

Little Miss Sunshine

Superbad

mazingerz88's avatar

Over and over again? Have to say…

Bladerunner
All Hayao Miyazaki films
Superman 1
Legend
Alien
Fright Night
Neverending Story
Splash
A Man and a Woman ( with Aimee )
Babette’s Feast
Ghost Writer ( by Polanski )
Ghost in the Shell
Wings of Honnemise
High and Low ( by Kurosawa )
Tokyo Story ( by Ozu )
A Bridge Too Far
Jim Jarmusch’s vampire film…Only Lovers Left Alive…or something like that. Lol
Jarmusch now has a zombie flick coming out. So far it looks good.

rockfan's avatar

Rear Window
Sunset Boulevard
Young Frankenstein
The Sting
Tootsie
The Princess Bride
Field of Dreams
A Fish Called Wanda
When Harry Met Sally
My Cousin Vinny
Office Space
Aladdin
The Iron Giant
The Incredibles
Toy Story 2

Kardamom's avatar

@JLeslie & @rockfan

Thank you for reminding me of Shawshank Redemption, and Young Frankenstein : )

Patty_Melt's avatar

Yah, me too, especially Shawshank Redemption. It is time to stick that one in the machine again.

Gotta love dementia though, because even the meh books and movies are like new each time. It gives me so much more to choose from.

ragingloli's avatar

Just so everyone knows, you can now watch the new “Detective Pikachu” movie FOR FREE on youtube

Patty_Melt's avatar

OMG! Hurry everybody!!!!

stanleybmanly's avatar

Sarcasm ms. Melt! Are you gonna watch it? A GA for you AND loli. Thanks loli

Patty_Melt's avatar

It wasn’t meant to be mean, just a poke.
I won’t be rushing to YT though, because I don’t have internet service. I have to pay for my data by the gig.

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