How many times will you watch the same movie over and over?

[JOERM]

I really don't like watching the same movie over twice but have done so on a few. For some reason I just cannot get into it. Ok, I missed a few lines and what not but not worth watching the whole thing over again. Alice in Wonder Land and If I Were a Rich Man plus a few others is about it. There have been times when I fell asleep, (passed out?) in the middle of a movie and my wife the next morning said, "it was a good movie". Still, I don't want to re-watch those either. Got to keep the Netflix movies moven.

Oh yea, I have watched quite a few John Wayne's movies more than once but that's different.

 

[kudzu3]

If it's a good one, I don't mind watching it more than once. Sling blade is one that comes to mind that I have watched many times, and enjoy it every time.

 

[Sprefix]

I was about to get concerned until the last line where you mentioned the "Duke".

 

[Moonman]

The 10 Commandments, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Casino, Bullet, Midway, The Longest Day, Dirty Harry, The Spaghetti Westerns, James Bond, Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, The Sting, there are many I've seen MANY, MANY times.

 

[madmikeb]

If it's a good flick I will watch it more than once. I've watched many movies repeatedly but I think the winner in that department is The Road Warrior, I've lost count of how many times I've seen that! The Dirty Harry and Alien movie series are right up there too.

 

[rdcl]

The 1934 "Treasure Island" with Wallace Beery & Jackie Cooper is one of them.
I've seen it countless times. Just watched it again last weekend.

Some more multiple watches of mine:

"Bridge On The River Kwai"
"Unforgiven"
"No Country For Old Men"
"The Big Labowski"
"The Good The Bad & the Ugly"
"Band Of Brothers"......I have the box-set and have watched it all at least six times!
"Buckaroo Banzai"

...many more as well....



Russ

 

[woodsltc]

I've watched "Last of the Mohicans" enough that I can almost recite the entire dialogue for all of the characters.....I just really like the movie and the sound track.

Don

 

[Dennis The B]

"Pulp Fiction"
"Master and Commander..."
"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"
"Lonesome Dove"
"Band of Brothers"
"Tora, Tora, Tora"

 

[rdcl]

I've watched "Last of the Mohicans" enough that I can almost recite the entire dialogue for all of the characters.....I just really like the movie and the sound track.

Don

Oh yes, THAT is a great movie! Michael Mann at his best IMHO.

 

[Marshwheeling]

A really good movie is worth watching as many times as it takes.

These two are at the top of my rewatchability list:
Rancho Deluxe - more memorable dialogue than any other movie
Josey Wales - Dunno what it is about this sometimes silly flick, I'm pretty sure it's not Sondra Locke, but I will watch this movie any time it's on. The Josey Wales books by Forrest Carter are excellent as well.

There are dozens, if not hundreds of others. These stand out for me at the moment:
Chinatown
Blade Runner (Ruttger Hauer's "Tears in Rain" speech is unforgettable)
Fargo (I'm from Minnesota, and we really do talk like that)
Miller's Crossing (actually most Coen Brothers movies are worth seeing again, but these two I can watch over and over)
The Conversation (Gene Hackman does eavesdropper's paranoia)
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs

These are not necessarily the best movies, although some of them are among the greatest.

 

[Straightshooter2]

These I will watch over and over and over, etc.

The Quiet Man + most of The Duke's other movies
Casablanca (Just saw it recently at the Fox Theater)
Gone With The Wind

A few others, especially war movies.

CW

 

[GKC]

There have been many movies that I have enjoyed and still enjoy watching again...often, many times over again. The same with books...I have many favorite books, and reading them over again is like visiting with an old friend. You may have the same old conversation on the same old topics that you have had many times before, but it's spending time in good company that matters.


There are other movies or books that watching or reading once is one too many times.

 

[Bert Man]

Just last night I watched "The Shootist" for the umpteenth time and enjoyed it just as much as the first time. Also not ashamed to say that I have watched, of all things, "The Wizard of Oz", at least a couple dozen times since first seeing it as achild in the early 1950's. Lionsand tigers and bears oh my!

 

[cougar14]

Not sure why, but I am drawn to "Unstoppable" every time it comes on. Also like "Shane", The Shootist", Bullitt", and that Depression -based movie w/Charles Bronson and Charles Coburn " Hard Times". I think his wife Jill Ireland was also in it.

 

[bloo]

Anytime The Good The Bad and The Ugly comes on I stop what I'm doing and watch. Only other thing I watch more than once is old W.C. Fields movies. Really don't see them anymore.

Ted

 

[Frank46]

I'm partial to the older war movies that many of you mentioned. However having said that I have watched "Titanic" many, many times. Then again some of the newer movies like "Expendables 2" some of the cgi stuff is so good I never really see all of what is going on. So rerun is your friend. Babylon 5 was a great syfi series from some years back. They had excellent cgi and was kinda sad when it finally went off the air. Frank

 

[JOERM]

Just last night I watched "The Shootist" for the umpteenth time and enjoyed it just as much as the first time. Also not ashamed to say that I have watched, of all things, "The Wizard of Oz", at least a couple dozen times since first seeing it as achild in the early 1950's. Lionsand tigers and bears oh my!

If I only had a brain!

 

[LVSteve]

I'm terrible for watching movies over and over. My buddy would watch The Hunt for Red October whenever it was on to the degree his girlfriend would arrange her girls' nights out around the TV guide.

 

[Onomea]

Depends on how much I was drinkin' the first time through. If sufficient to the extent that I don't remember what happened, I'll watch it again....

A good, classic movie I will watch again after about ten years has passed. The African Queen or something like that. Most movies, with the exception noted in the first para, I do not care to watch more than once.

 

[perrazi]

seen the original star wars around 40 times now.