What movie(s) have you watched multiple times and would keep watching again and again?

I re-watch excellent movies with good dialog all the time. Things like The Philadelphia Story, The Lion in Winter, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men are all really well-written and I end up shaking my head at them even after the 20th viewing. I re-watch some movies for specific things like music (Blues Brothers) or seasonal favorites like Elf. Then there are series like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, or Band of Brothers that call me back every few years. There's stuff like Rifftrax, MST3K and Ken Burns documentaries that I leave running when doing dishes. And some are just dumb comfort food like Caddyshack, Terminator, Patton, The Thin Man, Bull Durham, blah blah blah.

OK, I guess I just re-watch a lot of stuff whenever I feel like it.
 
I noticed some mentions of "Red Dawn". They had damn well better be the FIRST iteration of that movie because the recent version is not acceptable.
I also noted a mention of Blues Brothers. Its a given that we're talking the original and not the abomination that was Blues Brothers 2000.

Also:
Animal House
True Lies
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
 
Gone With the Wind
The Outpost (read the book first, loved it)
13 Hours
Finding Nemo
Top Gun (both)
The Man From Snowy River
A Few Good Men
The Sound of Music
Tangled
The Way Back
Ratatouille
Rocky 1-4
Creed
Airplane
 
I'm a big Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson fan (please don't judge me). So, I never pass up Wedding Crashers, Couples Retreat, Four Christmas's, The Internship....I think I have a problem :cool:.
 
ProudDad2022 said:
I'm a big Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson fan (please don't judge me). So, I never pass up Wedding Crashers, Couples Retreat, Four Christmas's, The Internship....I think I have a problem :cool:.
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One of my kids steered us to a movie "Arkansas" on Prime which has Vince Vaughn in a non-comedic role. We didn't see it yet but its on our list for soon.
 
We have a hunting/fishing camp and we're about 30 miles from civilization, with no reception when there and my grandparent's have a home in Greece so a lot of older stuff (VHS cassettes and DVD) for someone born in 2002. Interestingly enough my girlfriend is a Film Studies Major. In no particular order:
Lion King
Jeremiah Johnson
A Few Good Men
Shawshank Redemption
Gladiator (I actually had to write a paper on this movie about his leadership qualities for ROTC-easiest A ever)
Point Break
Leon: The Professional
Rambo: First Blood
Uncommon Valor
Dirty Dozen
Red Dawn (the first one)
Stand by Me
Goonies
Rocky 1,2 & 4
Remo WIlliams The Adventure Begins (might be my favorite)
Tombstone
Spartacus the original movie and I've streamed the series from Starz a few times
Pool Hall Junkies
The Color of Money
Secondhand Lions
IP Man
The Five Heartbeats
Tora! Tora! Tora! (kind of funny anecdote to me- I think Tora means Tiger or Lightning Attack in Japanese, but in Greek- Tora means now and when my grandmother wants us to hurry up she says the same thing)


And an unhealthy amount of Gangster/Mafia movies:
A Bronx Tale
All of the Godfather Movies
Heat
Scarface
Carlito's Way
Casino
Goodfellas
Ricochet (with Denzel Washington and John Lithgow)
American Gangster
In too Deep
Deep Cover
Kiss of Death
King of New York
Once Upon a Time in America
Reservoir Dogs
The Usual Suspects
Narcos ( I've streamed this series on Netflix 3-4 times since I've been away at college)
 
Several have mentioned “Caddy Shack”. I once had a professional golfer as a student and learned from him that the players have the words of that movie memorized and would quote the movie to each other during rounds.
I would quite the movie during training. If he had a poor landing or other maneuver I’d quip, “That one was straight in the lumber yard.”
On another occasion I was telling him to “Be the airplane.” Eventually he got tired of listening to me and responded “It’s tough to be the airplane when you won’t shut up.”

Only movies I would add to some of the great ones mentioned (The Cowboys, Animal House, Stripes, True Grit (which one is better?)…), are “The Bridges at Toko Ri”, “The Bridge over the River Kwai”, and “The Best Years of our Lives”. The last one, don’t expect any battle scenes, but it’s a movie that any veteran can relate to. Not a movie but a mini series, “Lonesome Dove”.
 
Open Range with Robert Duvall & Kevin Costner. Every time it is on TV, I cannot go by the channel.

Unforgiven with Clint Eastrwood and Morgan Freeman is the same.
 
The Contender - 1999 Jeff Bridges as President
President Jackson Evans: I should have come down here and pointed my finger your way...

[focuses his gaze and points his finger at Rep. Shelley Runyon]

President Jackson Evans: ... pointed my finger YOUR way, and asked "Have you no decency, sir?"

No Country for Old Men - 2007
Michael Clayton - 2007 George Clooney
Mr. Greer: What if someone had stolen the car? Huh? Happens all the time.

Michael Clayton: Cops like hit and runs. They work them hard and they clear them fast. Right now there's a DCI unit pulling paint chips off a guard rail. Tomorrow they're going to be looking for the owner of a custom painted hand rubbed Jaguar XJ12. If the guy you hit, if he got a look at the plates? It won't even take that long.

[the phone rings]

Michael Clayton: There's no play here. There's no angle. There's no champagne room. I'm not a miracle worker, I'm a janitor. The math on this is simple. The smaller the mess the easier it is for me to clean up.

Mr. Greer: [points to the phone] That's the police isn't it?

Michael Clayton: No. They don't call.

The Idolmaker - 1980
 
Heatherg21 said:
Gone With the Wind
The Outpost (read the book first, loved it)
13 Hours
Finding Nemo
Top Gun (both)
The Man From Snowy River
A Few Good Men
The Sound of Music
Tangled
The Way Back
Ratatouille
Rocky 1-4
Creed
Airplane
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Great list...a couple I will have to check out, Tangled and The Way Back.
 
The Hunt for Red October
Blues Brothers
Casablanca
The Godfather
Big Trouble in Little China
The Princess Bride

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (cartoon)
 
Heatherg21 said:
Forgot Field of Dreams and Out of Africa.
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The mail has come today and a friend writes this to me. "The Masai have reported to the district commissioner at Ngong, that many times, at sunrise and sunset, they have seen lions on Finch-Hatton's grave. A lion and a lioness have come there, and stood or lain on the grave for a long time. After you went away, the ground round the grave was leveled out into a sort of terrace. I suppose that the level place makes a good site for the lions. From there, they have a view over the plain, and the cattle and the game on it."... Denys will like that. I must remember to tell him.
 
THParent said:
“… I suppose that the level place makes a good site for the lions. From there, they have a view over the plain, and the cattle and the game on it … Denys will like that. I must remember to tell him.”
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“Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.”
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