What movies have you watched many times through the years ?

Mission to Mars

Forest Gump & Tremors.......... my wife hates Tremors...... oh yeah, and Blazing Saddles.

I'm sure if I thought longer I would add to the list, and many of my choices are previously mentioned here already, but I generally would post almost any of John Wayne's films to a list. A lot of Bruce Willis's movies were forgettable but when he "hit his stride" with the right script he was hard to beat.
A child of the fifties, I like a lot of the old b&w noir classics, and back when stars were stars and most of their less than admirable behavior was not common knowledge, I always enjoyed most any of the films with Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchem, Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant.

A lot of the folks here definitely seem to like the ones with gunfire, explosions, and car chases (ah, Steve McQueen . . . ), I mean, who doesn't ? So my "favorites" list is quite encompassing.

I find it difficult to name an 'all time favorite', but I seem to keep coming back to one in particular, and I've tried to analyze "why?" and find it hard to explain. Tom Cruise's "A Few Good Men" with Jack Nicholson, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Pollak, Keifer Sutherland and Demi Moore stands out in my mind as just an absolutely fine film. Not really an 'action' film (no gunfire, explosions or car chases ) I find the story/writing compelling and the performances top notch - everyone in the movie down to the minor characters gave great performances. There was tension, chaos, subterfuge, good guys who were bad guys, flawed humans caught in the blurry area between doing the wrong thing for the right reason and coming to the realization too late, and a conclusion that satisfied justice, the victory of morality over an imperfect system, and the triumph of the human spirit with the true villains getting their due, and even some lighthearted humor in the subtext. In this movie I consider it a modern classic, in that the story was the star - not the actors, not the action, not special effects - a throwback to the great films of the past in a market today where all those things I mentioned are not there because there's very little "story" to the plot that allows good character development to draw out true human emotion and compel the viewer to care about the characters.

Don't get me wrong - my baser self loves watching Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Jason Stathom, Tom Cruise and all the new crop of actors wreak havoc on all the bad guys for mindless satisfaction and short term diversion from life's duller side. I can blithely sit down and watch most any of most them numerous times. But few of these offerings are like a good book, where the story is so good the characters take a secondary place. I get pulled into "A Few Good Men" every time I happen to come across it on the tube.

The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Good,The Bad and The ugly

Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, The Hunt For Red October, Air Force One, Absolute Power, In The Line Of Fire, The Bourne Identity.

Kelly’s Hero's
Any John Wayne
Any Clint Eastwood
Others that strike my fancy

Just was a thread

There was a thread on here a couple of weeks ago about The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Some of mine that I have not seen mentioned
The Outlaw Josey Wales (was a good book as, well)
Kelly's Hero's
Forrest Gump
Tombstone
Aliens
Galaxy Quest
Raising Arizona
Joe Dirt
Bubble Boy-I've got a weird sense of Humor

Can quote most any line from any of the above AND if I am channel surfing and see them on broadcast, I usually go to my saved movies and watch from the start without commercials.

Play Misty For Me, favorite Clint Eastwood
McClintock, favorite John Wayne
Good Morning Vietnam, best of Robin Williams

bigmtnman said:

1. War of the Worlds (1953)
  2. Forbidden Planet (1956)
  3. The Thing From Another World (1951)
  9. The Pink Panther (1964)..

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All the old 50'-60's sci-fi monster movies and all the Pink Panther movies staring Peter Sellers.

"Does your dog bite?"
"No."
"Nice doggie."
"CHOMP!"
"I thought you said your dog did not bite."
"That is not my dog."

HA!

1. Dirty Harry (1971)
2. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
3. The Terminator (1984)
4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
5. Die Hard (1988)
6. Rocky (1976)
7. El Dorado (1966)
8. Rio Bravo (1959)
9. Midway (1976)
10. The Dirty Dozen (1967)
11. Predator (1987)
12. Full Metal Jacket (1987). The most realistic depiction of Marine boot camp ever! As a young deputy assigned to the courthouse, we had this VHS tape playing in the ready room at all times until someone got so sick of it they got rid of the tape!
13. Alien (1979)
14. First 3 Star Wars movies.
15. All the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies.

This is easy:

1. Casablanca
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. The Big Sleep

Yeah, there's a common theme there. And I think I was born about 50 years too late - at least regarding life depicted on film. Having avoided many of the turmoils of that generation, I count my blessings that I wasn't born 50 years earlier.

I started a list, but there were too many.

A couple movies I could probably quote every line from are, Goin' South, and Man on Fire.

Love Clint's spaghetti westerns, horror movies, and good war movies.

Just heard there's a new mini series called WWII From the Front Lines I'm gonna check out after I finish The Flight Attendant.

My list includes quite a few of the movies already mentioned, but I'll add:

Catch-22
Dr. Strangelove (Or How I...)
Duck Soup
A Night at the Opera
Arsenic and Old Lace
Jaws

Most that would be on my list (I don't have a list) have already been mentioned, but I will add four favorites that I feel are worthy of repeated watchings. I could add more if I thought harder.
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Body Heat
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Wild Bunch

John wayne and Frank Sinatra head My list.
Rio Brave
El Dorado
Never so Few
Sandpebbles
Magnificent Seven
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Von Ryans Express
Manchurian Candidate
The Great Escape
Oceans 11

Casablanca
To Have and Have Not
Public Enemy
White Heat
Stagecoach
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
True Grit
Dirty Harry
Unforgiven
A Face in the Crowd
Jailhouse Rock
Goldfinger
Major League
Strategic Air Command
Tarzan's New York Adventure
Sgt. York

So many of the ones already listed here. Plus,
Dr. Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket
Kelly's Heroes
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Battle Of Britain
Band Of Brothers
Casablanca
A Christmas Carol 1951
The Longest Day

And a bunch more, old movie buff here.

The wife has to watch "It's A Wonderful Life" a couple of times every Christmas season.

Shoot, there's too many to list individually.

John Wayne westerns + The Quiet Man
Anything Eastwood
Anything Tarrantino
Anything Coen Brothers
Anything Monty Python
Anything Mel Brooks
Most things Scorcese
Most things Spielberg

Some favorites on their own:
Jeremiah Johnson
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Tombstone
Secondhand Lions
2001: A Space Odyssey
Clue
The Ghost and the Darkness
Apollo 13
Forrest Gump
Open Range
Broken Trail

And finally, my all time favorite movie. The Princess Bride. Almost as good as a nice MLT.

lihpster said:

Shoot, there's too many to list individually.



And finally, my all time favorite movie. The Princess Bride. Almost as good as a nice MLT.

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Forgot that one! At least fifteen.
And "Field of Dreams."