Movies You Have Watched Again And Again And Again

  On 3/18/2011 at 5:36 PM, joshuatxuk said:

 

  On 3/18/2011 at 8:07 AM, lumpenprol said:

Europa Europa

 

Europa Europa is excellent. I'd only seen it because my wife had watched it in a German class. Seems like a very overlooked film.

 

 

Yeah, for me it's sort of both the definitive holocaust film and one of the definitive coming of age films, too. Too bad it kind of faded from film memory, but that makes it more of an undiscovered gem.

Though I haven't seen it for a long time, there's another film that kind of reminds me of Europa Europa that could have been on my list - Before the Rain.

An odd film that somehow captures that blend of the surreal and very real nature of real life. I guess those are the sorts of films I like the most, like Herzog, the blend of the documentary aspect of real life, with the absurdity and surreality. Funny because I typically detest so-called magical realism, but I totally get Herzog's notion of "ecstatic truth", down to the core of my being.

8 1/2

la dolce vita

400 blows

lord of the flies

original version of "the mechanic"

entire lynch filmography

all the connery 007's

blade runner

alien

scanners

videodrome

enter the dragon

brazil

phantasm

cube[first one only]

goodfellas

dogtown z-boys

Down By Law

Akira

Dumb and Dumber way to many times since I was a kid.

Akira

Fire Walk With Me

Blood Simple

i watched the last 5 minutes of Knowing about 10 times just for the thrill of seeing Nicolas Cage get vapourised

Knew I'd forget half of them..

  On 3/18/2011 at 5:51 PM, Billov said:

Terminator 2

12 Monkeys

Blade Runner

Akira

Princess Mononoke

Spirited Away

My Neighbour Totoro

A Serious Man

Bad Lieutenant: port call

A Scanner Darkly

Mad Max 2

Top Secret

Donnie Darko

Waterworld

I'm sure I'll remember more

  On 3/19/2011 at 3:02 PM, AJW said:

Down By Law

oh yeah, good choice. i used to watch that pretty frequently.

around the same time i kept re-watching 'The Hired Hand' as well.. mostly for the soundtrack, i think, but it's a good movie anyway. 'Dead Man' got quite a few plays too.

what's a philistine?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

ones that have stood the test of time:

tim burton's first batman

boogie nights

punch drunk love

the big lebowski (actually many of the coen brothers' films would be here but will limit to 1..)

8 1/2

in the mood for love

raging bull

poltergeist

brazil

in a former life:

pulp fiction (i can only watch snippets now, the whole thing would drive me mad)

  On 3/19/2011 at 4:35 PM, Deep Fried Everything said:

in the mood for love

a favorite wong kar-wai film, bryan ferry fits just perfectly

Blade runner

once upon a time in the west

Das boot

Alien

all seen about 100+ times, i often go to bed listening to the directors commentary

Oh shit, I completely forgot:

Royal Tenenbaums

Life Aquatic

Fantastic Mr. Fox

actually, The Black Hole (pretty IDM)

wow @ how many of you mentioned blade runner, now i feel more cool or more idk

arizona dream

apocalypse now

alien

stalker

le mepris

baraka

Capturing the Friedmans

Gates of Hell

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper)

Irreversible

Sleepless in Seattle

Quick Change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ0Sazr9Yh4

  On 3/20/2011 at 1:08 PM, wake said:

Capturing the Friedmans

speaks volumes...

When I was younger, I kept a tally of how many times I watched Jurassic Park. I got up to 40+

I always make a point of showing people Boogie Nights, so that's probably in the 20's or 30's. Still not sick of it.

Happiness is the most depressing movie ever. In case anyone here likes it. I do, too. Its just massively fucking depressing

I could probably watch Dead Man every day for the rest of my life and not get tired of it.

  On 3/20/2011 at 8:33 PM, marf said:

Happiness is the most depressing funniest movie ever. In case anyone here likes it. I do, too. Its just massively fucking depressing hilarious

I laugh almost the whole way through this movie. It's long been my favorite comedy.

you know you want to watch it

*looking at movies I have*

I've watched all of these so many times it's most likely unhealthy.

Movie:

All Harry Potter Movies (save for #1)

Amelie

10 Things I hate About You

Alice In Wonderland (Original Disney cartoon version)

Boogie Nights

Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii

Amadeus

Better Than Chocolate

Center Stage

Dazed and Confused

Aladdin

Sleeping Beauty

Little Mermaid

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Gladiator (lol?)

Kill Bill 1-2

Mean Girls

The Fifth Element

The Note Book

The Devil Wears Prada

Thirteen

X men movies

Who Framed Roger rabbit

Hero

House of Flying Daggers

Hooberbloob Highway

The Lorax

The Grynch grynches the cat in the hat

TV Non Movies (watching entire series):

Six Feet Under

Code Geass & Code Geass R2

Misc Non Movies (I've watched all these much more than all the above):

Swan Lake (royal ballet) (2000's)

Sleeping Beauty (Royal ballet) (2000's)

Dreams To Reality

Ballet Russes

Nutcracker (80's Royal Ballet Performance)

Giselle (70's Bolshoi, absolutely outstanding)

I remember you making me watch ballet when we were tripping.