What film can you watch over and over?

nwlady said:
Oh yeah Gael, I watch a lot of movies over again, many times too. Two I can think of off-hand are:

Grumpy Old Men

The Last of the Dogmen

Old black and whites:

Laura w/Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews

Key Largo w/Bogie and Bacall;)

edited: oh one more!! A total FAVE: Baby Boom w/diane Keeton and Sam Shepherd

Ok, just one more (edited) Kindergarten Cop, LOL! That was filmed right up in our own Astoria/Seaside Oregon:) Oh, and the Pioneer Square Mall in Portland;)
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There we go again. I completely forgot about Bogie and Bacall and I always had a crush on Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews was in some great film noir.
 

Mainly old musicals for me. Seven Brides, Oklahoma, Carousel, Calamity Jane, South Pacific, On Moonlight Bay etc. Away from musicals, it would be Lawrence of Arabia, To kill a mockingbird and Raintree County. Couldn't pick just one film... sorry!:)
 
Gael said:
Any that you seem to never tire of and why??
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I was going to say I didn't really have one, then I remembered this one movie I've watched repeatedly. It just happened that I stumbled across it several times and each time I did, I just started watching and forgot to stop. It's kind of a strange movie, pretty violent, but with a good cast. Here's a link to a trailer because I'm sure most have never heard of it.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...qo-X7mUUw7VS2ePvnnEurJA&bvm=bv.62922401,d.aWc
 
One movie that I enjoy over and over is "Frequency" with Dennis Quaid. It has that heart-warming story quality, but with one of those plots that turns and twists, and the essence of something very close to time-travel , as well.

I also love "Almost Like Heaven", another one with interesting plot twists, and the most magnificent roof garden in the whole world, about a man who moves into a vacant apartment, and discovers what seems to be a ghost also living there.

"Hunt for Red October" is another one I never tire of watching again, classic Sean Connery, great plot.
 
RCynic said:
I was going to say I didn't really have one, then I remembered this one movie I've watched repeatedly. It just happened that I stumbled across it several times and each time I did, I just started watching and forgot to stop. It's kind of a strange movie, pretty violent, but with a good cast. Here's a link to a trailer because I'm sure most have never heard of it.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...qo-X7mUUw7VS2ePvnnEurJA&bvm=bv.62922401,d.aWc
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I would watch Del Toro in a dog fight. Always a fascinating actor to watch work. But Ebert's review is less then glowing:

The Way of the Gun" is a wildly ambitious, heedlessly overplotted post-Tarantino bloodfest--the kind of movie that needs its own doggie bag. There's a good story buried somewhere in this melee, surrounded by such maddening excess that you want to take some home and feed it to undernourished stray movies.
The film marks the directorial debut of Christopher McQuarrie, who won an Oscar for his screenplay of "The Usual Suspects." He is a born director, and now what he needs to meet is a born editor.
There are scenes here so fine, so unexpected, so filled with observation and nuance, that you can hardly believe the notes he's hitting. And then he'll cycle back for another round of "Wild Bunch" gunplay--not realizing that for Sam Peckinpah, the shootout was the climax, not the punctuation.
Both of these McQuarrie films have loop-the-loop plots, unexpected reversals and revelations, and closing lines that call everything else into question--although not, I hasten to add, in the same way. Can this one really be only 119 minutes long? It has enough plot for a series. I'd love to see the prequel, in which these characters twist themselves into narrative pretzels just setting up all the stuff that pays off here.
Benicio Del Toro and Ryan Phillippe star, as Mr. Longbaugh and Mr. Parker (the "mister" is a reminder of "Reservoir Dogs"). Having exhausted all their chances at normal lives (we doubt they tried very hard), they tell us in the narration that they "stepped off the path and went looking for the fortune we knew was ours." At a sperm bank, they overhear a conversation about a millionaire whose seed is being brought to term by a surrogate mother, who is always kept under armed guard. Their idea: Kidnap the mother and collect ransom.
The notion of kidnapping a (very) pregnant woman would provide complications enough for some directors, but not for McQuarrie, who hurtles into a labyrinth involving criss-crossing loyalties among the millionaire's current bodyguards, his shady employers, his longtime enforcers, the enforcer's old pal and a gynecologist whose involvement in the case is more (and less) than professional.
The pregnant woman is played by Juliette Lewis, who is the movie's center of sanity. She is the only one who talks sense and understands more or less why everyone is doing everything--occasionally, so thick is the going, she'll simply explain things to the other cast members on a need-to-know basis. Mr. Longbaugh and Mr. Parker drive her into Mexico, the bodyguards (Taye Diggs and Nicky Katt) follow--and so does grizzled old Joe Sarno (James Caan), the suicidal but competent enforcer who is relied upon by the shady millionaire (Scott Wilson). It is a measure of McQuarrie's skill that the millionaire's wife plays a full and essential role in the movie while uttering a total of perhaps nine words.
Much of the movie consists of cat-and-mouse games, car chases, and shootouts. McQuarrie scatters fresh moments among the wearying routine of gunfire; shots of guys dashing into the frame with machines guns have become tiresome, but I liked the way Phillippe vaulted into a dry fountain that contained a nasty surprise. And the way the car chase slowed down to an elusive and tricky creep (I didn't believe it, but I liked it).
James Caan is very good here as the professional gunman who has seen it all. He's supposed to be on the same side as the bodyguards, but distrusts them and tells one: "The only thing you can assume about a broken down old man is that he is a survivor." McQuarrie gives Caan clipped lines of wisdom, and he has a wonderful scene with Del Toro in which he explains his functions and his plans. He and Wilson have another nice scene--two old associates who trust each other only up to a point. Jeffers, the Taye Diggs bodyguard, meanwhile maintains cool competence while everything nevertheless goes wrong, and is only one of several characters who reveals an unexpected connection.
Up to a point, a twisting plot is entertaining. We enjoy being fooled and surprised. But we have to halfway believe these things could really happen--in a movie, anyway. McQuarrie reaches that point and sails past it like a ski-jumper. We get worn down. At first you're surprised when you get the rug pulled out from under you. Eventually, if you're a quick study, you stop stepping on it.
As a video, viewed at less than full attention, "The Way of the Gun" could nicely fill the gaps of a slow Saturday night. It's when you focus on it that you lose patience. McQuarrie pulls, pummels and pushes us, makes his characters jump through hoops, and at the end produces carloads of "bag men" who have no other function than to pop up and be shot at (all other available targets have already been killed). Enough, already.
 
Happyflowerlady said:
One movie that I enjoy over and over is "Frequency" with Dennis Quaid. It has that heart-warming story quality, but with one of those plots that turns and twists, and the essence of something very close to time-travel , as well.

I also love "Almost Like Heaven", another one with interesting plot twists, and the most magnificent roof garden in the whole world, about a man who moves into a vacant apartment, and discovers what seems to be a ghost also living there.

"Hunt for Red October" is another one I never tire of watching again, classic Sean Connery, great plot.
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Great choices!! I have to catch this one (but it's "just like heaven):

 
Pappy said:
I'm going way back but I watched The Sands of Iwo Jimo three times. If I remember right, John Wayne was killed in this flick. Anything with Iwo, I watch as my Dad was there on that terrible day.
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It would have special meaning for you then, Pappy. And yes, Wayne's character is killed by a snipers bullet in the film I think.

 
I have a few actually.

1937 version of A Christmas Carol, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. I'm a Victorian history buff and have been working on a site on Victorian lifestyles since 1999.
 
LogicsHere said:
I have a few actually.

1937 version of A Christmas Carol, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. I'm a Victorian history buff and have been working on a site on Victorian lifestyles since 1999.
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Oh so agree about that version of A Christmas Carol. They all pale in comparison for me. But I did like the 1995 version of Sense and Sensibility. Hard to beat Emma Thompson's performance:


Your site sounds fascinating. The Victorians still interest me.
 
Gael said:
I would watch Del Toro in a dog fight. Always a fascinating actor to watch work. But Ebert's review is less then glowing:
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Yeah, I don't really read what the critics say...found that my tastes are apparently not in line with them. I pick movies by actors, plot subject and director (really like Luc Besson for example). I get lemons now and then anyway but I'm just dumbfounded sometimes at the movies critics think are wonderful. Again, as an example, I love science fiction but Gravity had me squirming in my seat..couldn't wait for it to finish. But, I know I have a strange sense of humor so maybe that's an indication that my perception of the world in general is a bit skewed.
 
RCynic said:
Yeah, I don't really read what the critics say...found that my tastes are apparently not in line with them. I pick movies by actors, plot subject and director (really like Luc Besson for example). I get lemons now and then anyway but I'm just dumbfounded sometimes at the movies critics think are wonderful. Again, as an example, I love science fiction but Gravity had me squirming in my seat..couldn't wait for it to finish. But, I know I have a strange sense of humor so that might drift over into other things.
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Ebert and the New York Times reviews are about the only ones I pay any attention to. Critics often have their own agendas which don't necessarily have anything to do with the film.
I like to think I have pretty good taste in cinema having watched thousands of films over the years and avidly followed interviews and articles with actors and directors about the craft itself. Bottom line is if a film gives us pleasure then that's what matters. We're the audience and without us they would not exist.
 
As the son of a WWII combat veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor, I honor your father's service Pappy. But I cannot stand John Wayne. He was a chickenhawk supreme.

"When I went to Vietnam, I believed in Jesus Christ and John Wayne. After Vietnam, both went down the tubes. It don't mean nothin'" William P. Mahedy, Episcopal campus minister UCSD, former Augustinian monk and US Army chaplain in Vietnam.

(Sorry to "hijack" a nice discussion about movies we enjoy but any mention a such a disgusting chickhawk makes me sick and I just gotta say somethin'.)
 
This little trailer doesn't do the film justice. "Down by Law" w/Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni and John Lurie is fantastic. In my humble opinion, actually a very sweet and funny flick...

 
That Guy said:
As the son of a WWII combat veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor, I honor your father's service Pappy. But I cannot stand John Wayne. He was a chickenhawk supreme.

"When I went to Vietnam, I believed in Jesus Christ and John Wayne. After Vietnam, both went down the tubes. It don't mean nothin'" William P. Mahedy, Episcopal campus minister UCSD, former Augustinian monk and US Army chaplain in Vietnam.

(Sorry to "hijack" a nice discussion about movies we enjoy but any mention a such a disgusting chickhawk makes me sick and I just gotta say somethin'.)
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Gotta admit, TG, I had to look up Chick Hawk. One who talks up a big war and then makes sure that they are not involved. Didn't realize Big John was like that. See, I can learn something even at my age.
 
That Guy said:
As the son of a WWII combat veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor, I honor your father's service Pappy. But I cannot stand John Wayne. He was a chickenhawk supreme.

"When I went to Vietnam, I believed in Jesus Christ and John Wayne. After Vietnam, both went down the tubes. It don't mean nothin'" William P. Mahedy, Episcopal campus minister UCSD, former Augustinian monk and US Army chaplain in Vietnam.

(Sorry to "hijack" a nice discussion about movies we enjoy but any mention a such a disgusting chickhawk makes me sick and I just gotta say somethin'.)
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I don't believe in hijacking a thread. Often it's just the natural progression of a discussion as happens in real life also. So hijack away on any of my threads.
 
Gael said:
That's some cool cinematography there. Is that New Orleans by the way?

Tom Waits; he's some creature isn't he!
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Tom Waits is great! Saw him once while having dinner in Occidental near Bodega Bay but didn't want to bother him so just enjoyed the time from afar . . . two tables away and a walk through the parking lot...
 
That Guy said:
You know what's funny about that short clip from "84 Charlie MoPic", Gael? It concentrates on the "action" that so many people want from war flicks. I think the people who created it missed the point. The movie is about a cameraman who accompanies a LRRP team to record their actions as a "lessons learned". It's done as raw, unedited film and very powerful. Anyway, thanks for caring about it.

Now, on a very important lighter note . . .

I would choose just about anything by Mel Brooks: "Spaceballs", "Young Frankenstein", "Blazing Saddles". I love just about any film noir. Just this weekend, watched one of my favorite movies of all time, "After the Thin Man"

Now, come to think of it, there are just too many great flicks to see over and over and over. I think I'll settle on somebody's homemade surf movies from good days at The Point.
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I have Young Frankenstein;) my fave line, one of "what hump" LOL!!
 
That Guy said:
Tom Waits is great! Saw him once while having dinner in Occidental near Bodega Bay but didn't want to bother him so just enjoyed the time from afar . . . two tables away and a walk through the parking lot...
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He's one cool daddy he is.
 

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