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I haven't known what movies to watch lately. Does everyone have their own treasure movies that they've seen many times? 😀

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[-] innermachine@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Pretty much any studio Ghibli movie. Have watched spirited away, Totoro, howls moving castle, valley of the wind, and many more more than 3x. Don't often rewatch stuff but have a soft spot for ghibli!

[-] modus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

oh my god Primer was so good. That's intense.

[-] AGD4@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Primer doesn't count. You haven't watched it once until you've watched it three times.

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[-] edgesmash@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Princess Bride

[-] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Top secret, Back to the future, Star Wars (IV,V and VI), Godfather (all three), LOTR (all three), Goodfellas,

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

In steam of consciousness order:

  • Young Frankenstein
  • Princess Bride
  • Double Indemnity
  • Nightmare Before Christmas
  • The Breakfast Club
  • The Fifth Element
  • 12 Monkeys
  • The Terminator
  • Star Wars (first trilogy)
  • Harvey
  • The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
  • Men In Black
  • The Incredibles
  • Inception
  • E.T.
  • The Sting
  • Grease
  • Ghostbusters
  • West Side Story

Probably a number of others

[-] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The Fifth Element is the quintessential sci-fi movie. Literally, the word quintessence means "fifth element".

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[-] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I haven't seen it listed here in a quick scan, so:

Office Space

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I love that Swingline only introduced the red stapler after Milton made it famous

[-] Flaco_waton@feddit.cl 1 points 1 month ago

A classic comfort film.

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[-] PineRune@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
  • Month Python and the Holy Grail
  • Young Frankenstein
  • Seven Samurai
  • LOTR Trilogy

I see a lot of LOTR fans here. Good crowd.

[-] MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

I had a holy grail vhs which i watched more or less every day after school. I used to be able to recite it from start to finish.

Also had both terminator movies on a double vhs so I've seen my fair share of them as well.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lots.

The OG Star Wars (4, 5, 6)

Shawshank Redemption

Edge Of Tomorrow

Top Gun

Princess Bride (top 5 sword fight!)

Most all of Pixar’s stuff, and Dreamwork’s kids movies. My kids grew up with them.

Sleepy Hollow (Depp/Ricci version)

The Departed

Rob Roy (another top 5 sword fight)

Dune (original ‘80s version)

Alien/Aliens/Alien 3

Tron

Goonies

Rat Race

Lost Boys

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

The Breakfast Club

Ferris Buellers Day Off

Deadpool

The LOTR trilogy

Blade Runner - both films

Heist (a lesson in writing a script consisting of one-liners)

Ocean’s 11

The Name Of The Rose

The Last Mohican

Master And Commander

5th Element

Any of the Monty Python films, but especially Quest for the Holy Grail

That’s a start.

If I had to whittle it down to absolute favorites: Princess Bride, Monty Python, and OG Star Wars.

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[-] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I am very old. Not sure if this will help or not. I will try to skip the obvious stuff.

Phantom of the Paradise 

Devine (warning very weird and sexual)

Time Bandits

Weird Science

Return of the Living Dead (1985)

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Baby driver ! Love it.

Mulan, many times, same with toy story, all the pooh movies, up, over the hedge, soo many like that

Almost heroes is a must watch. About hurt myself laughing at it. Same with both ace Ventura's.

[-] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Evil Dead 2

Dr Strangelove

I watched Blade Runner many times, and I still think its crap. Although I like what it is trying to say.

Monty Python movies. All of them.

Spinal Tap

Fritz the Cat

Return of the Living Dead

So many more if I think about it.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Jurassic Park. (1,2 and 3)

Tremors (1 and 2)

Lake Placid (RIP Betty)

And Then There Were None

The Thing

Robin Hood (Disney animated version)

Star Wars (Original trilogy + Episode 1)

Addams Family Values

Django Unchained

Inglorious Basterds

Pulp Fiction (not a Tarantino stan, I swear)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Aliens

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Ironman (first one)

Pacific Rim

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Big Short

Probably more than that TBH. I rewatch a lot.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Django Unchained

Inglorious Basterds

Pulp Fiction (not a Tarantino stan, I swear)

I laughed at this. Can't deny he's made some great films!

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

True. I wouldn't say he's the greatest, but the guy has a good sense of pacing, framing, and understands how to create a narrative with just the camera.

[-] duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A subset ...

  • Ghostbusters (1984)
  • The Princess Bride
  • Wrath of Khan
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Aliens
  • The Bourne Identity
  • Life of Brian
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago
  • Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
  • The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
  • Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
  • The Third Man (1949)
  • The Ladykillers (1955)
  • The Big Lebowski (1998)
  • Repo Man (1984)
  • Stalker (1979)

Probably several others, but those are the first to come to mind.

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[-] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Trick r' Treat, every year around Halloween, even before spirit made a bunch of merch for it

[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Three times that's it? There's so many I couldn't even begin to list them all.

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

My go to movies when I need to throw something on:

  • The Martian
  • Thor: Ragnarok
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • Aliens
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[-] dhcmrlchtdj__@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Rear Window never gets old

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

3 Idiots for sure

[-] krzschlss@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Midnight Run - it's just a perfect movie, not one frame is superfluous in this movie

The Thing - yearly re-watch

Spirited Away - yearly re-watch (always accompanied by other Miyazaki movies)

Smiley Face - one of the few movies that make me smile, Anna Faris is the cutest thing ever

Alien - I watched it secretly as a kid while everybody was asleep at home, and watched it who knows how many times since. It didn't scare me, it kindled my love for sci-fi.

[-] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Kung Fu Hustle I’ve seen countless times.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

That and Shaolin Soccer are sacred films to me. :D

[-] apftwb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Brazil (1984)

[-] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago
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[-] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Dogma, Lawrence of Arabia, Philadelphia Story, Hudson Hawk, The Martian, Edge of Tomorrow, Kung Fu Hustle, Delicatessen, Apocalypse Now, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, LOTR, Star Wars (original 3), The Thin Man series.

Also Dr. Strangelove and all the Monty Python, Princess Bride, 5th Element

[-] braxy29@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

i don't even have an answer for that. but i grew up pre-internet and owned lots of video tapes.

i'm marveling at the notion that there may be people who haven't rewatched movies a lot?

[-] raldone01@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • Robots
  • Scott Pilgrim against the World
  • David (Your Name)
  • Hardcore Henry
  • In Time
  • How to train your dragon
  • NiNoKuni
  • The girl next door
  • The secret life of Walter Mity
  • Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Iron Man
  • Moana
  • The Giver
  • Kung Fury
  • Incredibles
  • Constantine
  • The last witch hunter

All watched 3 times or more and logged.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Too many to count, and more than I even remember.

I went without internet in an area not friendly to children being outside, so I watched movies in no particular order over and over. Just "yeah I haven't watched this in a few weeks" and re-watch.

Lord of The Rings, Star Wars, Star Trek, Monty Python (all), Princess Bride, MIB, Evolution, Terminator 1&2, Starship Trooper... Honestly most popular Sci fi movies from the 90s... The sound of music, fiddler on the roof, a bunch of musicals..

I'm sure I watched the classic disney movies many times.

I know people who buy watch a movie and then don't feel like watching any of them ever again.

[-] Pazintach@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Fifth Element comes to my mind immediately. It was my happy place.

The Lord of the Rings, It's what I watch when I felt lost.

Also, Nostalgia, another film I rewatch when I felt not belonging and nowhere to go back to.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lots of good ones posted already. Trying to add to the list:

The Princess Bride, La Femme Nikita, My Own Private Idaho, Ong Bak, Ichi the Killer, Kung Fu Hustle, The Matrix, Dai Nipponjin (Big Man Japan)

[-] mrmorganiser@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Galaxy Quest

[-] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’ve watched a lot of movies more than 3 times.

12 monkeys is the movie I’ve seen most, though, coming in at multiple dozens of watches over the years. It’s easily my favorite. It kicked off a new way of thinking for me when I was an impressionable young teen, and has largely held up in terms of watchability.

The tv show based on it couldn’t have done a worse job of holding my attention, though. So that was disappointing.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Hundreds of Beavers! It's an absolute delight showing it to someone who has never seen it before.

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[-] MissInformed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Victor Victoria. Jazz hot baby

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

How to Train Your Dragon

used to fall asleep to it every night

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[-] blueduck@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago
  • Whiplash
  • The Princess Bride
  • Edge of Tomorrow
  • Rogue One
  • Lord of the Rings trilogy (extended editions) <— annual tradition for me
[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Edge of tomorrow is underrated.

[-] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Muppet Treasure Island
A Muppet Christmas Carol
The Princess Bride
The Great Mouse Detective (the most faithful movie adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, fight me)
Inception
Ghost in the Shell
The Little Mermaid, but not by choice. It was my little sister's favorite movie and she would genuinely watch the VHS tape of it, rewind it, and then watch it again immediately. My brothers and I once entertained ourselves on a family road trip by quoting the whole movie, word for word.

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[-] sveltecider@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

"I'm Thinking of Ending Things"

Kauffman is a genius

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