Movies You've Watched More Than 10 Times

The Leopard

The Shining

Gladiator

Amelie The Awful Truth Bringing Up Baby Diabolique Lord Love a Duck North By Northwest Rear Window Roman Holiday Rosemary's Baby The Stunt Man Sunday in New York ...and any Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple!

Two for the Road

El Secreto de sus ojos

Polisse

Raise the Red Lantern

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Breaker Morant

Rebecca

L. o. A.

Nightmare on Elm Street

The Quick and the Dead (1995)

An Unmarried Woman

Godfather

Godfather II

The Heiress

Yankee Doodle Dandy (and probably others on Million Dollar Movie on WOR-TV New York)

The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills)

101 Dalmatians (Disney cartoon)

Sleeping Beauty (Disney cartoon)

St. Elmo's Fire (incomplete chunks when I randomly run into it on TV)

Lolita (1962)

The Sure Thing

LA Confidential

Some Like It Hot

Gilda

The Shining

The Haunting (1962)

Becket

When Harry Met Sally

It’s a wonderful life, Singing in the rain

The Matrix

The Chalk Garden

The Grass Is Greener

The Haunting [1963]

The Innocents

Man's Favorite Sport?

Pretty Poison

Serial

Tootsie

The Wizard of Oz

Blade Runner

R15 I can see a common denominator in 3 of those.

I think we should be asking ourselves WHY we've gone to the effort of seeing these singular movies ten times each.

Most movies become tiresome after two viewings so I suggest these particular movies fulfil some need within our psyche.

Alien

Sexy Beast

Jaws

The Haunting (original 1962)

The Great Escape

Summer Wars (Subtitles, NOT dubbed)

The Battle of Britain (1969)

Zulu (1964)

Pursuit of the Graf Spee

Aliens

Tootsie

Minority Report

R17: Deborah K? Good catch. R4 is also my list. [Note Cary G and Tuesday W are regulars, too.]

I've been loving these films since childhood, when I discovered many of them staying up late watching "The Late Show"-airings on network TV [[italic]way[/italic] before cable and video... They're like comfort food.

I can list many, many more...

9 songs

Beaches

Ruthless People

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The Silence of the Lambs

Little Shop of Horrors

Sunset Boulevard

Gypsy (Midler version)

Evita

Scream

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman [1958]

Cat People [1942]

Charade

The Heiress

Horror Hotel [[italic]aka/italic] The City of the Dead]

How To Steal a Million

The Letter

The Lion in Winter

Notorious [1946 Hitchcock]

Village of the Damned [1960]

Twenty-five posts to mention All About Eve?

Are there any gay men left here?

Vertigo and Terms of Endearment

R25: I guess not... And of those who are here -- why do they always look like unhappy rabbits?

[quote]

I know someone who has all the releases of IL GATTOPARDO, be it 10 editions of blurays, 10 editions of DVDs, 10 editions of VHSs, VCDs, laserdiscs. Kinda OCD, I must say.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Amores Perros

Apocalypse Now

Badlands

Barry Lyndon

Days of Heaven

Dial M for Murder

The DIscreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Godfather

Godfather II

GoodFellas

The Graduate

Jackie Brown

Miller's Crossing

North by Northwest

Pulp Fiction

Rear Window

A Room with a View

Rosemary's Baby

Shallow Grave

The Thin Red Line

The Third Man

Trading Places

Trainspotting

Weekend (Andrew Haigh)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Wonder Boys

Mame

Dawson's 25 Load Weekend

[quote]Mame [quote]—guess which one

Okay.

OMG So many obsessed people!

I'm assuming half of you were watching a DVD instead of dressing up and paying for it in the cinema.

"Dressing up," r33? Yeah, we wore our flying suits and ties.

I would never not have seen Ordinary People fewer than ten times.

The Birdcage. I seem to be in the minority; few other millennials have seen it.

The real Buck would never have used a double-negative like in r35. Go home, Conrad.

The Day of the Jackal.

Godfather, 1 & 2.

Dial "M" For Murder.

The French Connection.

Hoosiers.

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Maurice The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Greene While You Were Sleeping Lady Beware Presque Rien The Lost Boys Sound of Music Evita Body Heat Sleepy Hollow Invictus The Johan Falk trilogy

Really, it's more like summoning a time and place that matters than the actual story.

CLEOPATRA

The Parent Trap

The Trouble With Angel's

Pollyanna

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Moonstruck

The Blind Side

Yours, Mine, and Ours

Autocorrect added the apostrophe.

Death Becomes Her

Also Foul Play, Bagdad Cafe, On the Border, Nadine, Tightrope, 4th Man Out, Taekwando, and the outlier, Russian Ark

Anything with Janeane Garofalo in it.

Excalibur

Mulholland Drive

On the Border with Casper Van Dien getting a gay kiss

The Wizard of Oz

The Sound of Music

Grease

Xanadu

9 to 5

Terms of Endearment

About Last Night...

Beaches

When Harry Met Sally

The Devil Wears Prada

The Sex and the City Movie (first one)

The John Hughes canon

Henry V (Branagh version)

Nicholas & Alexandra

Working Girl

Shane

Wizard of Oz

The Women (1939)

His Girl Friday

All About Eve

Some Like It Hot

Anne of Green Gables (the Megan Follows version)

Foul Play

Seems Like Old Times

The Lost Boys

Grease

Dead Again

Jaws

Carrie

Jezebel

All About Eve

Midnight

Bring it On

The Descent

The Crazies

Grease 2

Xanadu

A Woman Scorned

Death of a Cheerleader

Rebecca

Speaking of cheerleader movies, Fired up!

The devil wears Prada

Clueless

Moonstruck

The Wizard of Oz

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

It’s a Mad Mad world

Badlands

The Devils

Carrie (1976)

Female Trouble

Serial Mom

Desperate Living

Crimes of Passion

Crimes of the Heart

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Tommy

Vertigo

Night of the Hunter

The Silence of the Lambs

Andy Warhol's Heat

Taxi Driver

The Wicker Man (1973)

Hiroshima mom amour

Imitation of Life (1959)

Gone With the Wind

The Wizard of Oz

Annie Hall

Girls Will Be Girls

Withnail and I

Missing

Coal Miner's Daughter

3 Women

Coming Home

Coal Miner's Daughter

Mommie Dearest

Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Desperate Living (the holy trinity)

A Christmas Story

9 to 5

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (thank you, early 80s HBO)

R56

Forgot to add:

Walkabout

The King of Comedy

Atlantic City

A Clockwork Orange

2001: A Space Odyssey

The Right Stuff

The Original Star Wars Trilogy (1977-83). Cleopatra (1963). The War of the Worlds (1953). The Time Machine (1960). The Wizard of Oz (1939). Alien (1979). Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971). The Godfather (1972). The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966). 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). The Ten Commandments (1956). Ben-Hur (1959)...

𝑊𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 to list. Watching films over and over was generally something I did when I was much younger, although I have to admit that, of the list I've mentioned, even now I won't decline another opportunity to see them.

Clue

Coming to America

Glengarry Glen Ross

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Little Shop of Horrors

Serial Mom

OMG, r39. I can't believe I omitted the only movie I've seen in theatres more than 10 times (as opposed to television)!

And as long as I'm here, I'll add more to r38:

Jaws.

The World of Henry Orient.

The Parallax View.

To Sir, With Love.

The Bourne Identity (I've stopped, though, because as frenetic as the action was, the distributor PTB have speeded the Trilogy up to seasick levels. Not kidding.)

The Guns of Navarone.

North By Northwest.

Ocean's 11 (Original).

Eye of the Needle.

Topaz.

All the Connery Bonds.

Forbidden Planet

War of the Worlds (all versions)

It Came From Outer Space

Alien (all versions)

The Day the Earth Stood Still (both)

The Thing (all versions)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (all versions)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Fail Safe

Seven Days in May

Boy and his Dog

The Sum of All Fears

The Crawling Eye (aka Trollenberg Terror)

Cinema Paradiso

Ordinary People

Fate is the Hunter

Andromeda Strain

On the Beach (both)

Mahogany

The shining

The day after

Were Angel goes troubles follow

The trouble with angels

Between my years as a teenager taping movies from TV broadcast - honing my Pause/Unpause skills - then years buying some on VHS and DVD and download - the list is far too long.

Why so many repeated viewings? When I was a teenager, that usually stemmed from a "discovery" and ensuing crush on a particular actor. Sometimes a reliable source of laughter or suspense or surprise, even though I knew what was coming. Sometimes a reminder of who I used to be. Sometimes a "tradition" I once enjoyed with loved ones who are now dead. Sometimes a relief that it's still not me in that situation. Usually it is a temporary escape into a world where people behave the way I'd want them to.

Truth or Dare (theater release. 17 times, I believe), The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Cocksucker Blues, The Queen, Priscilla..., Orlando, The September Issue, Closed Set.

R56 /R58 How do you find time for this? Assuming 2 hours per movie, you've spent over 400 hours watching movies.

Maybe some of you are just listing your favorite movies...

Hairspray - the Travolta version. Love the music and dancing. Also The Wedding Singer and Music and Lyrics. I watch one of these when I need an emotional lift.

I love movies but the most I've ever watched any particular movie is five times. There are movies I've watched from beginning to end a couple times and then watched at least 10 times inn bits and pieces when they're on cable but I don't consider that "watching"...

If you're asking about movies that a person actually sits down and watches from beginning to end, I hope some of these posters misread your thread title and are just listing their favorite movies.

This short one

Napoleon Dynamite

The Shining

Grey Gardens (the original, not the HBO abomination)

R56, let’s get married.

Showgirls. It must be seen at least 10 times to be believed.

R40: By the way – Michael Woods in “Lady Beware”… Oh, my. Stalk [italic]me[/italic], please! Beware, indeed!

You do realize, R66, that 400 hours is less than 3 weeks over an entire lifetime. Do you have a concept of time?

I've watched Repo Man four times just since self-isolation started.

Can't Stop The Music-seriously. It's my go to when I'm feeling down.

Some were `on tv every year and it was a family thing to watch them, like "Miracle on 34th Street" and "A Night to Remember." and "The Ten Commandments" and "1776" and "Sink the Bismarck!"

I always skipped the one where Jimmy Stewart reviews his life.

Harold and Maude, Remains of the Day, Maurice

All About Eve, Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, Broadcast News, Tootsie, Wall Street, Working Girl, Overboard (original), Trading Places, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Dial M for Murder, The Help, and now that it's on HBO Max, Eating Raoul and The Long Kiss Goodnight.

Idiocracy

Airplane

Kill Bill (both)

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Blazing Saddles

Trading Places

South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

Cabaret

Hairspray (the original)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Parting Glances (1986) -- and every time I watched it, I saw some nuance I'd missed before. If you haven't seen it, please do. It's from back in the day when even gay men called AIDS "it," as in, "I don't have it."

Cabaret

Torch Song Trilogy

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

The Bishop's Wife [1947]

Left some out, dammit!

The Shawshank Redemption

The Green Mile

The Thing (1982)

War of the Worlds (2005)

The Lost Boys

Carrie

Heathers

9 to 5

Death Becomes Her

Suspiria

Halloween

Friday the 13th

National Lampoon's Vacation

Risky Business

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Creepshow

My Bloody Valentine

Sister Act

Dressed To Kill

Blow Out

Terms of Endearment

Ordinary People

American Beauty

The Sound of Music

Chicago

The Evil Dead

The Exorcist

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Superstar

Night of the Living Dead

I left out Seven Days in May.

For the poster who said there must be a reason we love our movies, I looked mine over and saw that the majority are about a hero/heroine carefully investigating and succeeding in getting justice. I guess that's what floats my boat. Just watched Coma again last night and love the Genevieve Bujold's character's absolute refusal to take shit from men.

Private Benjamin

"Yale, I don't have a back leg."

"People think I'm in a mental home?"

"You did Claire's dishes?"

The Exorcist

The Shining

Female Trouble

Pink Flamingos

Polyester

Death Becomes Her

Private Benjamin

The Maids

The Sheltering Sky

Dressed To Kill

Mulholland Drive

Chinatown

Apocalypse Now

The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)

I love your taste OP

Now, Voyager

"Shall we just have a cigarette on it?"

Enter the Dragon

[!!!] Unless I missed it, I think I may be the first to mention the one where Ingrid says, "Play it, Sam..."

The Women (1939)

Auntie Mame (1958)

North by Northwest

Rear Window

The Birds

Marnie

Young Frankenstein

All About Eve

Grease and Xanadu

The 3 directors who make movies that I could rewatch every year for the rest of my life are:

Hitchcock

John Carpenter

Brian De Palma

There's something about the mood and atmosphere of their films that keeps me returning over and over again. It's some kind of cinematic voodoo.

Auntie Mame (not the Lucy Mame)

Contact

Star Trek IV - The Journey Home

Wizard of Oz

Sound of Music

Mary Poppins

It's a Wonderful Life

White Christmas

Star Wars - Episode IV

Mars Attacks

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

Dune (1984)

Godfather I

Godfather II

Gone with the Wind

The Grapes of Wrath

The Untouchables--because Sean Connery was dead sexy, and sexy even after dead.

All John Waters’ Movies. Though I think that is more like religion than mere cinema 😊

R99 I’m with you! Polyester is a ❤️ fave!

The Maltese Falcon

Goodfellas

The Wizard of Oz

Rear Window

Waters is a national treasure.

Mildred Pierce

"...alligators have the right idea. They eat their young."

Suddenly, Last Summer

Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe

Alien

Hairspray

Moonstruck

All About Eve

The Philadelphia Story

Auntie Mame

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Working Girl

Showgirls, The Witches of Eastwick and Female Trouble

Airplane!

"This is your stewardess speaking... and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight... By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?"

"Auntie Em! Uncle Henry! Toto! It's twister! It's a twister!"

"Joey..."

WAAAAAAAAAY more than 10 times:

The Poseidon Adventure

The Towering Inferno

Auntie Mame

Gypsy

The Women

Mommy Dearest

Witness for the Prosecution

Evil Under The Sun

Death on the Nile

Female Trouble

Charade

The Margaret Rutherford Agatha Christie movies. I put them on some nights to play while I fall asleep. Those movies are so comforting.

None. I can’t imagine wanting to watch anything more than a couple of times, max. There are some mental issues happening here.

I was thinking about the New Age teacher from Heathers. The one who wore all the crystals. "The NEW happiness!" She was a riot...

R104 You have misspelled our name

R108, I don't make it to the end time after time, so peace-inducing! I finally had to watch the endings during the day!

The Others with Nicole Kidman and only when it happens to be on cable. For some reason, it soothes me.

I collect movies and have been since I was a kid and it took this COVID thing to realize how little I watch certain movies. There are only about 20-30 in my collection of about 3,000 that I revisit very often, so many of them are somewhat useless. Thinking of liquidating them and I bet I could make some decent money if I sold a good chunk of them.

The Awful Truth (1937)

My Favorite Wife (1940)

Both starred Cary Grant and Irene Dunne

Pillow Talk (1959)

Lover Come Back (1961)

Doris Day-Rock Hudson classics (with Thelma Ritter in Pillow Talk)

Hack, Hack ... Sweet Has-been

I mean Hush, Hush ... Sweet Charlotte

Debbie does Dallas

The Lady Vanishes

The Wizard of Oz

Leave Her to Heaven

Harvey

Auntie Mame

Rear Window

On the Beach

Judgement at Nuremberg

One, Two, Three

The Apartment

To Kill a Mockingbird

Dear Heart

Chalk Garden

The Double with Angels

The World of Henry Orient

Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

Goodbye, Mr. Chips ('69)

Airport

What's Up, Doc?

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

Murder By Death

Ordinary People

On Golden Pond

Sixteen Candles

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

'night, Mother

Terms of Endearment

The Party (1968)

Peter Sellers starred, Blake Edwards directed (his best movie)

'night Mother!

Many. English teacher and a film is a great way to keep the kids occupied. And they actually pay attention.

I loved freaking them out with this.

No suicides or complaints.

A New Leaf

Love and Death in Long Island

The Talented Mr Ripley

Jamais San Toi

Wings of Desire

Performance

Blow-Up

Gladiator

Sound of Music

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Elizabeth I

Clue

16 Candles

Deer Hunter

Original Star Wars

Oh, yeah, Elizabeth, Othello, Hamlet, Edward Scissorhands, Excalibur, Dairy of Miss Jane Pittman, Donny Darko, and more!

Joan Crawford in "Torch Song" Joan Crawford in "Berserk!" Joan Crawford in "Female on the Beach" "I Saw What You Did" (with Joan Crawford) The Seventh Victim Cat People Dead of Night Homicidal A Star Is Born (Garland) Auntie Mame Sunset Boulevard All About Eve The Opposite Sex ('56) It's Always Fair Weather Victim

The spielberg productions in the 80s

Contact with Jodie Foster. That movie is so underrated. I've probably watched it 20 times.

Heat, Strange Days, Swimming Pool, there are more but I can't think of them. Oh, The Matrix (first one). I love Contact, too, R127, and in spite of loathing M Maconaugh-whatever in everything.

R114 I hate to break the bad news, but unless you have DVDs of films that are out of print, most of your collection probably isn't worth much. Everyone is dumping their hard copies of media they've collected over the years since every thing has moved to the "cloud".

R129, I've seen that just like the craze for vinyl among young people, many want VHS. That's my impression.

R108, I think I could live very contentedly in that cottage of Miss Marple!

Bourne trilogy

state of grace

Soapdish. I lost count years ago of how many times I've watched it.

Bird on a Wire

Big Business

Outrageous Fortune

R131, do you mean the Margaret Rutherford one? I could, too, as long as MR was there to provide such an intelligent, stable presence. And she bakes cookies!

R119, I can't believe I've found a kindred spirit re: "The World of Henry Orient"! This movie has everything---humor, pathos, drama, friendship, love, and plain wackiness! Love the home of Marian! This is the NYC I would've liked to grow up in!

I had a heckuva time tracking down a copy of the book (pre-Internet), but now own a first edition!

I saw it at our local theatre when it (TWOHO) came out and loved it, too. My friend was less enthused.

Another for POLYESTER. There are a lot of funny John Waters films but this is his funniest.

Long Time Companion Love Actually Two Weddings and a Funeral Bridgett Jones Diary

Murder by Death

Ruthless People

9 to 5

Outrageous Fortune

Singing in the Rain

Cinderella

Parent Trap

Serenity (2005) - a gem of a movie. I might watch it again right now, in fact.

Casino Royale (the Daniel Craig one)

LotR: the Two Towers. I thought the first one was OK, and third was a turd.

Murder by Death doesn't get nearly the amount of love that it deserves. It's one of the funniest and most entertaining films of all time. It's quite simply a perfect movie. And the performances are off the charts.

Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Fatso

Mildred Pierce

The Wizard of Oz

Laura

The Harvey Girls

Meet Me in St. Louis

Sudden Fear

To Be or Not to Be

Showboat (1936)

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

All About Eve

Sunset Boulevard

Sister Act

r119, I am guessing you are exactly fifty-eight years old.

The End of Violence (the Wim Wenders one). That scene with the Mexican family who take him in makes something in me ache. Also contains one of my favourite brief romantic moments of all time.

Casablanca

Singin’ in the Rain

Grease

His Girl Friday

Easter Parade

The Women

All About Eve

Brokeback Mountain

The Thing from Another World

The Blob

Valley of the Dolls

Star Wars (A New Hope)

Gentlemen prefer blondes

It’s a wonderful life

The Maltese falcon

That’s entertainment

The Rocky horror picture show

The sound of music

Planet of the apes

Young Frankenstein

Paper moon

The bride of Frankenstein

Naked Gun 21/2

Birdcage

Alien

Blue Jasmine

Superman(1978)

Pink Panther Strikes Again

Silence of the Lambs

The Jackal (1996)

Also agree with Coma and Murder By Death, 9 to 5.

Triumph of the Will

Clueless, All About Eve, The Women, His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby, Elizabeth, The Talented Mr. Ripley, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining

R149 Triumph of the Will is two hours long. There’s no way Trump is capable of watching more than five minutes of anything in one sitting unless Bannon and Miller made a special cut for him that says “Trump” every two minutes to keep his attention.

"Les Parapluies de Cherbourg."

J'aime!

Home alone.

all those movies we watch every xmas...

Another Country

Maurice

Brideshead Revisited (the mini-series)

Every Kristen Bjorn movie

The Honeymoon Killers

Love that film. My go-to Christmas movie.

R154, if you come back here, where can you stream the mini-series? I can't get Netflix. I've streamed the film a few times, it's very good as well.

R155 - sorry, I don't know. I have it on DVD.

Thanks to previous posters--I'd forgotten about: Anatomy of a Murder Eyes Wide Shut The Talented Mr. Ripley and should add: Ripley's Game Harakiri Ran

Ripley is a great movie but seems to have been forgotten.

I'm glad to see all the love for Eyes Wide Shut. I find it hypnotic, along with The Shining.

What's Up, Doc? Hairspray (1988) Fame (1980) All That Jazz Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Mommie Dearest Airplane Waiting for Guffman

I should have added "And why" to the thread prompt. It's so intriguing seeing all the films people like to "live with."

I can tell you that I own The Odessa File because I'd love to have been living in Berlin in 1963. Seems like a youthful, dynamic time.

Doctor Zhivago

The Italian Job (Mark Wahlberg edition)

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Out of Africa

2001: A Space Odyssey

Charade

[quote] The Quick and the Dead (1995)

I love this movie, too. Russell Crowe looking hot and sexy. Gene Hackman was really good in his role as the de facto owner of the town. Then all the great character actors.

Underrated movie.

White Christmas

The Poseidon Adventure Trains, Planes and Automobiles Ferris Bueller's Day Off What's Up Doc? Back to the Future The French Connection The Wizard of Oz

Bride of Frankenstein

The Manchurian Candidate

A Fish Called Wanda

Léon: The Professional

Gattaca

Hawaii (2013)

R162

Clueless, All About Eve, The Women, His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby — In all these cases, just because the movies are easy and delightful to watch. They’re all so well done, and particularly the dialogue and delivery. They’ve all also got unique visual styles.

Elizabeth — Kind of the same as above. It’a not a comedy like the others are, obviously, but visually it’a a gorgeous movie, and watching powerful young Cate Blanchett grow from a delicate young beauty into a commanding force is mesmerizing to me.

The Talented Mr. Ripley — Commenting on this makes me realize how important visuals are to movies I rewatch because the aesthetic is a really big part of it—the era and the setting. The performances are really wonderful, all of them a little bit heightened and exaggerated but pulled back enough that they don’t feel cartoonish. Of course, it’s so gorgeous to look at: Matt, Goop and Cate look lovely in their 1950s-era costumes and Jude Law glows like he’s from Planet Adonis. More than anything, though, the story is just so different than what we get from Hollywood. It’s an out and out tragedy, and it’s unnerving because the air of the whole thing is menacing but also performed and filmed in a light that seems innocent and should not be. It’s just something unique among typical Hollywood dreck.

2001: A Space Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining — Kubrick is to movies what Tori Amos is to music for me. That’s the best way I can summarize the appeal of all these movies. With both Kubrick and Amos, I disliked their work very much when I first watched/heard it, finding its impenetrable, overly enigmatic, frustrating. But then you find that unlike anything else, the greater scrutiny and study you give it, the more you discover and whole worlds open up. I really do believe that each one of these movies dramatizes a simple and straightforward story that is really just a basic scaffolding onto which other stories are told symbolically. For me, 2001 is an existential philosophy movie and HAL hijacking the space ship has hardly anything to do with what the movie is about, even though it’s the primary plot and usually the plot described by people who don’t like the film. The Shining was the hardest for me to warm to but once I read some theories about the potential hidden meanings, the movie became a puzzle box with so many layers that has motivated me to rewatch many times. Eyes Wide Shut to me is the scariest movie ever made. I’ve discussed it here before and most people usually put down the film and say it’s terrible and unwatchable and then the discussions always get into Kidman’s personal life and cosmetic surgeries, so I won’t bother. :) The movie freaks me the fuck out, though.

I love "Meet Me In St. Louis" and have watched it every year during the holiday season for at least two decades. I think it is the greatest movie musical ever made.

That scene where Mrs. Smith sits down at the piano and starts to play "You and I", and then Alonzo joins in, and then the family slowly wanders in to listen still makes me cry.

Tommy. I saw it originally in the theater with quintaphonic sound. Not sure if it was the usual Ken Russell bombast,, Ann Margret, or Roger Daltrey shirtless, but it was awesome.

"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" never gets tired. Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell were at the height of their powers and both deliver great performances. They are aided in that by one of the strongest supporting casts ever assembled. Each of those roles is perfectly cast.

Planet Of The Apes (1968)

Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)

The silence of the lambs. Whenever it’s on I watch it. It’s just a perfect film. Jodie Foster is just brilliant in it. Also Heathers. Knew it off by heart as a kid.

More that I forgot:

Serenity

Part 1 Lord of the Rings

Ghostbusters

O Brother Where Art Thou

Mixed Nuts

R38 and r61 here,adding:

"A Hard Day's Night." Four times in a row in just one day in the theatre when the movie came out, never mind subsequent viewings!

"Macbeth" with Ian McKellin, as I once taught the play.

"The Sword of Gideon" with Steven Bauer, about Israeli revenge for the Munich Olympics massacre. Never gets old.

The best and most-watched movies for me have at least one perfect line of dialogue. In no particular order:

"Bet you're sorry you won!"

"He's remembered."

"Who's naive, Kay?"

"My team's on the floor."

"I didn't make him.....for YOU!"

"This is the business we've chosen."

"It was Barzini all along."

I know I've see TG more than ten times. Also forgot to add The Natural and North By Northwest.

I don't like Tommy. It is too disorganzied.

Only retarded Who fans like Tommy.

[quote]That scene where Mrs. Smith sits down at the piano and starts to play "You and I", and then Alonzo joins in, and then the family slowly wanders in to listen still makes me cry.

I too think this is the very best scene in the film. There is so much going on, and it is so clever and real. It is the finale to Act I.

Shakesspeare is boring.

I mean, get to the point.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Flash Gordon

The Wizard of Oz

Singin' in the Rain

Cabaret

All That Jazz

Blade Runner

All About Eve

Amelie

Midnight In Paris

My Man Godfrey

Auntie Mame

The Bourne Supremacy

The Day After Tomorrow

Volcano

Armageddon

Sailor in the Wild

Leo and Lance

Powertool

In Hot Pursuit

Giant Splash Shots 2

Heat in the Night

R61, R136: I'm with you, "Henry Orient" friends! I, too, would like a mouth like a crimson gash.

And Paula Prentiss is perfection.

Rosemary’s Baby

The (original) Producers

Fargo

Wizard of Oz

A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim version)

Sound of Music

Goodfellas

Maybe godfather saga

Psycho

The Birds

Shadow of a Doubt

The 39 Steps

Oh yeah, other holiday films

White Christmas

Bells of St Mary’s

Holiday Inn

R183, Welcome!

And who knew that years later, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd would re-unite as crime-solvers in Cabot Cove?!

R187, Indeed! Stella Dunnworthy ("[italic]Jayne Mansfield[/italic]?"), too, dropped by to visit Valerie's mother in Jessica Fletcher-land in an episode that also featured Norman Bates' house! And Marian Gilbert's mom was a resident of Cabot Cove at the time of one of the many murders in town. I don't think Boothy ever showed up.

I've seen The Magnificent Seven many more than ten times. Those guys only get sexier, somehow, in retrospect.

Also, The Wrong Box. (go ahead with the jokes)

The General (Buster Keaton)

Wizard of Oz (of course)

West Side Story

1776

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Superman the Movie

The Color Purple

Field of Dreams

Twister

Independence Day

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory