For me, it’s either the Matrix or Pulp Fiction. I have seen both a lot of times but certainly not more often than say a dozen times.
5th element
It’s just endlessly quotable, on top of being an absolute delight to watch! I still sneak in a few phrases from the movie in daily life, such as “negative, I am a meat popsicle” and “Aziz, light!”
Literally those two phrases at least once a month lol
Supergreen.
My favorite movie
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The Fifth Element is insanely rewatchable.
Everytime it was on.
Or came up in my /r/fullmoviesonyoutube feed. Which reminds me, we need that community here…
I can’t not rewatch Hot Fuzz whenever it’s on telly
For the greater good!
The greater good.
Shut it!
Shut it!
Hot Fuzz is my answer too, but never on the telly. I saw it several times in the theater and bought the dvd immediately upon release.
I swear this movie is the perfect example of a master class of editing and timing. It needs to be studied.
Shaun of the dead
“You’ve got red on you.”
Came here looking for this! I knew I couldn’t be the only fan of the Winchester. I first saw the movie playing at my neighbor dive bar, which was bunker like, and yep, could definitely get with the plan of holing up there until this all blew over.
All the scenes are great and hilarious no matter how many times I see this movie.
Fun fact: Have you seen Spaced? The old friend he comes across leading the group through the back fences is a character from a prior show they were both in together.
You’re all wrong. It’s Groundhog Day.
Finally! We need to move this correct answer up!
“What would you do if every day was the same and nothing you did mattered?” “That about sums up my life”
I’m sure I misquoted there but such a wonderful movie.
Chance of departure…
Oh that’s such a meta answer.
The Princess Bride is definitely up there for me. I don’t usually rewatch movies, but this is one that I’ll always be glad to sit through again and again.
Just rewatched this with my wife the other day, such a good movie!
Same, I’m generally not a fan of seeing movies I’ve already seen, but Princess Bride, along with Moonrise Kingdom, are exceptions.
Without a doubt “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”.
It’s only a model.
Somehow I stopped watching movies a few years ago, which kind of annoys me but we can’t find time that much for a long movie. Of course binge watching TV series is another thing…
For me, the three rewatchables were:
- Stanley Kubrick: Barry Lyndon - If you’re into cinematography and ultra techy perfection, this is the movie. And the main character is such an asshole.
- Celine Sciamma: Portrait of a Lady on Fire - This beautiful piece hits hard. Celine has an eye for women, and the story how the ladies take care of their own business since the beginning of time is really captivating.
- Pedro Almodóvar: All About My Mother - A queer classic. I really like the old Almodóvar telenovelas on acid, but this mid-career masterpiece has everything: the cinematography, the crazy characters and the melodrama.
That mid-Almodovar peak was incredible, now that you mention it. My personal favorite from that time has to be Habla Con Ella (Talk To Her), in parallel Woody Allen filmography terms I would equate it with Hannah & Her Sisters, in artistic achievement.
Barry Lyndon is currently a rising “underrated masterpiece” topic with most of the best film critic podcasters. My personal favorite film has nearly always been 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I just recently rewatched Barry Lyndon and man… in any other filmography this would have stood alone at the top.
And we still have the rest of Kubrick’s work to contend with… Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, Paths Of Glory, Eyes Wide Shut… it’s just ridiculous.For a long time now, I’ve regarded two people as my artistic heroes of the 20th century: Stanley Kubrick and John Coltrane. Mark Rothko could be up there, too, I cannot imagine my day-to-day life without his work to stop and look at, or to simply have as a presence in my surroundings.
Do you have some good podcast recommendations on Barry Lyndon? I really like the movie. For people who are reading this and thinking Barry Lyndon is some kind of super boring and high-minded art movie, just watch it. If you appreciate photography, pictures in general, the movie is done really well. It’s like watching live paintings from that era, nothing else looks like that movie.
Edit: And what is fascinating with Barry, is how the actor Leon Vitali who did Lord Bullingdon in the movie, just abandoned his acting career and started working as an assistant for Kubrick until his death in 2022.
How could I forget these
- Hayao Miyazaki: Kiki’s Delivery Service - the perfect movie for a sick day. A guaranteed good mood after.
- Hayao Miyazaki: My Neighbor Totoro - the kids are some of the best kid characters in any movie ever.
- Hayao Miyazaki: Spirited Away - cold shiver moments like the train on top of the flooding water.
- Hayao Miyazaki: Princess Mononoke - how we can finally maybe agree even when we disagree.
Back to the Future. It has been my “watch when I’m sick at home” go-to since I was 12.
Peter Jackson’s lord of the rings trilogy extended edition. I bought a 4k tv and bluray player just for the 4k release last summer I think it was. (not the shitty hobbit)
We do an extended edition marathon at least twice a year, sometimes more if it’s been a tough time. Last time we watched them was the week before getting married, to distract me from my stress.
I’m currently rereading the books and once that’s done we’ll do our first marathon as marrieds! 😄
I simultaneously hate to think, and also am very proud, of how many times we must have seen them by now.
Starship troopers!
Super Troopers for me!
I’m doing my part!
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Literally Groundhog Day, it’s one of my favourites and about 20 years ago I started a tradition of always watching it every Feb 2nd, and so I’ve watched it 20 times plus maybe half a dozen times before then.
The Matrix and Terminator 1 and 2
The Matrix is a classic for me too.
The Fifth Element and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Hackers and Grosse Pointe Blank. Watched it almost every night to go to bed for years on VHS.
Grosse Point Blank is not my favourite film of all time. But it’s the only one I’ve ever been able to honestly give a perfect 10/10 score.
The story, the cast, the script, the pacing, obviously the soundtrack, there is just not a single flaw I can find.
Hackers is a great choice, it’s so cheesy but it just draws you in and completely suspends your beliefs. Every character is likeable and the lines are so well delivered, man now I got to rewatch it. Terminator 2, hackers, and Pokemon 1st gen probably made more SDEs than any stem outreach program.
Isn’t Grosse Pointe Blank from around '98 or ‘99?
That’s when VHS was on its’ very last legs. I think my first DVD player was from around 2001, by that time the graph line of DVD rising and VHS falling had already intersected, and this was in Mexico, I’m not sure when other parts of the world made the transition, say in the US, Europe or Japan it happened earlier.
