Movies you've seen over 5 times and will watch again

[salsdali]

Paul

 

[Quad Linda]

In my mind, I debated whether to include music/concert movies. Anything that got a theatrical release seemed fair game. No made for TV or home video concerts. So, Kenny Loggins Alive or easily 100 others of that ilk were left off. I believe Alive concert DVD, etc. has been OOP for years. I also bought a Video Disc before the Pioneer Artists DVD. Recommended.

For brevity's sake, I left off dozens more films. Red Shoes is certainly one of those. I have a videodisc of that one. Rockshow is one of many others.

Hunchback is another one. I've seen the Chaney & Laughton versions. I also bought a video disc of the Laughton version.

Saw Blues Brothers the second day it was in theaters. I remember standing in line in the parking lot of Golf Mill Mall. Being in Chicagoland, of course it was mobbed. The mall they drove through was Dixie Square. It had only been closed a couple years before the film. It layed rotting for nearly 40 years. It was finally torn down in the last few years. If you're interested, check Google Images for pix and links to articles on Dixie Square. "This mall's got everything..."

Have seen the Burt Lancaster Sweet Smell movie, as well as the Broadway production starring John Lithgow.

I saw the French and American films of LaCage, along with owning the soundtrack album and having seen the musical at Chicago's Aerie Crown.

Odd Couple movie is a sure fire hit with company, as is putting on Vivaldi: Four Seasons during dinner. One of my 10 favorite films. Poker players commenting on Oscar Madison's "Buffet:" "some buffet, warm beer and sandwiches left over from when you went to high school. You're not going to eat that. I saw milk standing in there (fridge) that wasn't even in a bottle!"

Keep sending in those "cards & letters" in this great thread.

Leave it to Linda to include music related movies. In that genre, I’ve viewed the following too many times to remember:

The Last Waltz
Woodstock
The Wall
The Song Remains The Same

 

[ar surround]

In today’s local newspaper, there are recommendations for movies that sports junkies can watch during this drought of NCAA, NBA, etc. one of them is Caddyshack. There’s a photo of Bill Murray talking to the gopher.
I told my wife not to worry if the house cleaner didn’t want to come out because I’d just use the leaf blower and take care of it myself.

 

[salsdali]

In today’s local newspaper, there are recommendations for movies that sports junkies can watch during this drought of NCAA, NBA, etc. one of them is Caddyshack. There’s a photo of Bill Murray talking to the gopher.
I told my wife not to worry if the house cleaner didn’t want to come out because I’d just use the leaf blower and take care of it myself.

It's a little harsh

 

[Chris Gerhard]

I believe the only movies I have watched over 5 times:

The Wizard of Oz
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II

Since I own all of those on Blu-ray, I will probably watch each again.

 

[salsdali]

I believe the only movies I have watched over 5 times:

The Wizard of Oz
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II

Since I own all of those on Blu-ray, I will probably watch each again.

but The Departed avy? I agree though, not worth watching 10 times even though Jack and Vera Farmiga . Marry me Vera, Please, I beg of you.

 

[jimfisheye]

Well, if we can include concert "movies"...

I've certainly watched Live At Pompeii with the original quad soundtrack more than 5 times since finding it in 2012. Certainly more than 5 times with the stereo or mono soundtracks before that.

back to stereo:
The Wall
Yessongs
Baby Snakes
Does Humor Belong In Music?
The Song Remains The Same
Tommy
Any and all broadcast Floyd concert excerpts
Black Sabbath live in Paris broadcast
The Genesis live broadcasts
The Zappa live broadcasts

I suppose the live broadcast things are more like listing TV specials than movies? Sorry if that's cheating!

 

[salsdali]

Well, if we can include concert "movies"...

I've certainly watched Live At Pompeii with the original quad soundtrack more than 5 times since finding it in 2012. Certainly more than 5 times with the stereo or mono soundtracks before that.

back to stereo:
The Wall
Yessongs
Baby Snakes
Does Humor Belong In Music?
The Song Remains The Same
Tommy
Any and all broadcast Floyd concert excerpts
Black Sabbath live in Paris broadcast
The Genesis live broadcasts
The Zappa live broadcasts

I suppose the live broadcast things are more like listing TV specials than movies? Sorry if that's cheating!

 

[under1630]

Ronin
Pulp Fiction
The Glass House
The Fifth Element
Hangover (all)
Field of Dreams
Wizard of Oz
The Big Lebowski
Casino
.....

 

[Quadly McQuadmeister]

I'm trying to avoid the ones I've already seen posted and there are a bunch of those on my list as well. That said:

-The Matrix Trilogy (but not because of the Martial Arts shenanigans, I'm partial to the Wachowski's lifts of the lid to Plato's "The Cave" and Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation)
-Sharky's Machine (I like both the story and the soundtrack, but not necessarily in that order.)
-Unforgiven ("Deserves got nothin' to do with it" finds its way into my conversations almost every day.)
-Too Big To Fail (Topical)
-Margin Call (Ditto)
-The Right Stuff
-Apollo 13
-Devil's Advocate (a couple of really insightful monolog's by Pacino in that one. Especially the one with "Buy futures, sell futures, when there IS no FUTURE" in it)
-It's a Wonderful Life (just not around Christmas)
-To Kill A Mockingbird
-Bridge Over the River Kwai
-The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
-Alexander Nevsky (you can't go wrong with Prokofiev)
-Bridge of Spies
-The Road To Perdition
-The Owl and the Pussycat (mostly because of the B, S&T/Dick Halligan Soundtrack)
-American Beauty (Thomas Newman's soundtrack gets licensed out all over the place and it's pretty good, IMO)
-The Gauntlet (again, mostly because of Jon Faddis' contributions to Jerry Fielding's (Hogan's Heroes & others) soundtrack
-Uncle Joe Shannon (Maynard Ferguson's performances on Bill Conti's soundtrack-the movie itself is pretty silly...)
-The Wild One (Leith Stevens/Shorty Rogers/Maynard Ferguson soundtrack)
-"The Hustler" and "The Color Of Money".
(-Any other Scorcese movie really)

I know I'm missing some. I might add/edit later. (Great idea for a thread!)

 

[proufo]

Everything Kubrick, except the dock workers union film.

 

[WBP]

these spring to mind:
The Shining
The Exorcist
The Thing ( 1982)
The Producers ( 1968)
The Wicker Man (1973)
The Firm
Arlington Road
The Omen (1976)

 

[DaveLaPorte53]

I know that this has nothing to do with surround, well, maybe indirectly, but I was wondering about this after seeing a post in another thread.
How many movies have you watched so many times that you can almost recite them? You know, for me it's movies like "Caddyshack", "Blazing Saddles", "Blues Brothers", "Stripes", there are quite a few. Of course, the older you are the more time you've had to watch them again and again but I am curious as to what others do with movies they like or love.

There are movies that I've seen that I would never ever want to see again, and some I wish I didn't see in the first place, but others just seem to be able to be digested over and over, even if they are not considered great films. I mean no matter when I see the pool scene in Caddyshack I start laughing way before "the event" actually happens.

That kind of thing. Besides, we're all cooped up - what else do we have to do?

The original RollerBall

 

[DaveLaPorte53]

Wow, we have very similar tastes.

I would add

Fight Club
The Matrix
Caddyshack
Psycho

BTW, I highly recommend everyone watch The Andromeda Strain right now. This 50 year old movie is eerily similar to Covid and even the treatment in the movie (low blood pH) is being talked about why quinoline might work as a treatment today. Crazy how History repeats itself.

The original RollerBall

Akra

 

[DaveLaPorte53]

Sorry for misspelling Akira

 

[soesbeout]

The Thing and John Carpenter version
Them
Forbidden Planet
The Godfather 1& 2
Quigley Down Under
Young Frankenstein
Big Jake
In Harms Way
Fargo
Goodfellas
Casino
Concert movie would be Almost Famous great soundtrack.

 

[MidiMagic]

The Wizard of Oz
Star Wars (IV - A New Hope) - saw 20 times in theaters - was in dollar theater a year
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dune
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (1964)
Santa Claus - The Movie
The Ten Commandments
Miracle on 34th St (1947)
Ben Hur
Avatar
Tron
Apollo 13
Airport
Airport 75
What's Up Doc
Move over Darling
My favorite Wife
Sex and the Single Girl
Tommy (1975) (first surround)
War Games
*Batteries not included
UHF
Harvey
That Darn Cat
The Cat from Outer Space
Overboard
Fantasia
It's a Wonderful Life
A Thief in the Night (4-movie set)

The following were repeated many times on late night TV:
The Thing (1951)
The Day the Earth stood still (1951)
Invasion of the Star Creatures
Invasion of the Saucer Men
Tobor the Great

 

[Sal1950]

Tombstone The greatest cowboy movie ever made.

 

[Infomas]

The Seduction Of Mimi - Lina Vertmuller

Did not expect to see a Lina Vertmuller film on anyone's list. So wonderful but so depressing. Then again, the sex scene with the fish eye lens... one of a kind!

 

[Infomas]

Really? Not a single vote for Harold and Maude, the "greatest love story of our generation". And no Princess Bride? And like so many of you, Blazing Saddles, The Fifth Element and of course Groundhogs Day and Groundhogs Day and Groundhogs Day and...