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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat movie/movies do you never get tired of watching. Mine is the Sound of Music. and Mary Poppins, I know the lines,
can sing the songs. and still get enjoyment from watching.
QED
(3,008 posts)And High Society, Hopscotch, Stormy Weather
debm55
(39,674 posts)TommieMommy
(1,314 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)SheltieLover
(60,703 posts)LeftInTX
(31,161 posts)One of my favorites.
SheltieLover
(60,703 posts)🎼🎵🎶 The hills are alive with the sound of music...
debm55
(39,674 posts)displacedvermoter
(3,356 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)brush
(58,283 posts)The Shawshank Redemption. Good Fellas.
debm55
(39,674 posts)SheltieLover
(60,703 posts)Good Boy (dog from outer space), As Good as it Gets (Nicholson), Beaches, Meet the Robinsons (Disney), etc., etc., etc.
debm55
(39,674 posts)SheltieLover
(60,703 posts)Loved Wicked, but would I watch it over & over? Nah.
SheltieLover
(60,703 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)luck so far.
SheltieLover
(60,703 posts)And the relatively innocent themes.
Keep looking! I'm sure you'll find somewhere with them for sale!
sdfernando
(5,464 posts)But the top few are:
Casablanca
Victor/Victoria
Young Frankenstein
Poseidon Adventure (original 1972 version)
JAWS
debm55
(39,674 posts)Raven123
(6,175 posts)Moonstruck.
Also love many of those mentioned, especially Casablanca.
debm55
(39,674 posts)CrispyQ
(38,712 posts)And I always watch While you Were Sleeping during the holidays & Groundhog Day on Groundhog Day.
debm55
(39,674 posts)4TheArts
(119 posts)Then Master and Commander.
Sound of Music was my go-to date movie in high school. Sharon, Elaine, Cheryl, Nancy, and other Nancy. You'd think one of them would have fallen in love with me, but no. I can sing those songs also. The simple Edelweiss is still my favorite.
But don't get me started on LOTR.
debm55
(39,674 posts)bedazzled
(1,859 posts)Also groundhog day and Harvey
So many, many more. Mostly old
debm55
(39,674 posts)LogDog75
(211 posts)The Martian
Tremors
Deep Impact
The Music Man
Start the Revolution Without Me
People Will Talk
Rio Lobo
Big Jake
debm55
(39,674 posts)Walleye
(36,714 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)Mike 03
(17,618 posts)I almost wrote something stupid like "Any of Kubrick's post-Lolita movies." Really for me it would be
Dr. Strangelove
2001 A Space Odyssey
Barry Lyndon
The Shining
And a handful of Martin Scorsese and David Fincher movies.
See, this question is so hard, because now I want to include Mulholland Drive by David Lynch, and Melancholia by Lars Von Trier.
Cartoonist
(7,562 posts)I'm sure I've seen this over a hundred times. It's a movie I can listen to without the picture. And George Martin's instrumentals are as good as the lads.
debm55
(39,674 posts)buzzycrumbhunger
(933 posts)I can endlessly rewatch Fear and Loathing, The Princess Bride, The Big Lebowski, anything Monty Python, most Star Trek movies, and most MST offerings (Prince of Space and The Cave Dwellers at the top of that list).
debm55
(39,674 posts)LeftInTX
(31,161 posts)Haggard Celine
(17,066 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)Turbineguy
(38,563 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)applegrove
(123,838 posts)But only for a scene or two. Loved that movie as a kid till now. It is perfect.
debm55
(39,674 posts)Phoenix61
(17,750 posts)Not sure where Taarna is but we sure could use her.
debm55
(39,674 posts)Squeaky41
(288 posts)Young Frankenstein
Casablanca
Wizard of Oz
Dr. Strangelove
Blazing Saddles
It's a Mad Mad World
To Be or Not To Be (Jack Benny)
debm55
(39,674 posts)DBoon
(23,241 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)Tarzanrock
(551 posts)The Lion in Winter;
Behold a Pale Horse;
All about Eve;
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre;
Citizen Kane;
A Man for all Seasons;
Hamlet with Olivier;
Richard III with Olivier;
The Entertainer;
The Nun's Story;
Grand Prix;
Orson Welles movies;
Willie Wellman movies;
John Huston movies;
Fred Zinnemann movies;
John Frankenheimer movies.
debm55
(39,674 posts)my choice too, Thank you very much.
FalloutShelter
(12,908 posts)Never give up. Never surrender.
debm55
(39,674 posts)Dave Bowman
(4,003 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)electric_blue68
(19,083 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(2,107 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)catbyte
(36,101 posts)Don't judge me.
I also love:
The Philadelphia Story
Bringing Up Baby
All About Eve
Grosse Pointe Blank (Yeah, Detroit, lol)
To Have and Have Not
and
Double Indemnity when I'm feeling dark
Shambala
(50 posts)It's my all time favorite movie! Rest in peace Paul Reubens.
debm55
(39,674 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)surfered
(4,060 posts)Peter Sellers and Jack Lemon are hysterical.
My wife would pick Casablanca.
debm55
(39,674 posts)TommieMommy
(1,314 posts)CanonRay
(14,965 posts)among others
debm55
(39,674 posts)woodsprite
(12,259 posts)Music Man and Oklahoma. My mom bought me the scores and I would sing through them when I was a kid drying dishes for her.
debm55
(39,674 posts)keithbvadu2
(40,730 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)Shambala
(50 posts)I've watched at least 40 times. And not only that but it got me down a wonderdul rabbit hole of reading and learning about all the characters in the movie Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, the Fitzgeralds, TS Eliot, Cocteau, Man Ray, Bunuel, Gaugin, Toulouse Latrec, and more.
debm55
(39,674 posts)KitFox
(121 posts)is one I have watched so many times. I also love and have watched Sound of Music and Many Poppins many times, and like you love singing along. My daughters and I have watched Beauty and the Beast (animated version) many times and sing along. Others on my list are Big , The Great Escape, Blazing Saddles and two already mentioned here-Casablanca and Second Hand Lions. My list could be pages long. I love watching movies!😊
debm55
(39,674 posts)what makes us want to see them again and again.
madamesilverspurs
(16,098 posts)Fantastic cast, sharp and witty dialogue evocative of old Hollywood movies.
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debm55
(39,674 posts)Easterncedar
(3,692 posts)Such great performances
Eugene
(62,816 posts)Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan and Star Trek IV: The Whale Movie.
debm55
(39,674 posts)SWBTATTReg
(24,482 posts)take care!
debm55
(39,674 posts)Close my eyes for that scene. Wonderful movie. It is on my tablet.
SWBTATTReg
(24,482 posts)wicked witch comes into the scene, orders them to capture Dorothy and the others. A true classic!
Take care!
debm55
(39,674 posts)Delarage
(2,360 posts)Battlestar Galactica
The Sound of Music
Sling Blade
The Shining
Halloween (the original)
debm55
(39,674 posts)Lunabell
(7,095 posts)The original. I've seen it and participated in all the fun over 3 dozen times at several different theaters. I love this movie!!
debm55
(39,674 posts)fun.
electric_blue68
(19,083 posts)theater in the West Village (NYC) for a midnight showing of Rocky Horror.
A lot of contact highs, too. When pot smelled sweet!
Mark.b2
(513 posts)The Godfather is up there, too.
debm55
(39,674 posts)LoisB
(9,045 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)LoisB
(9,045 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)LoisB
(9,045 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)ailsagirl
(23,921 posts)Last edited Sun Jan 12, 2025, 06:48 AM - Edit history (1)
Most everything from the "Master of Suspense"
And "Being There" (marvelous!!)
debm55
(39,674 posts)Permanut
(6,742 posts)Radar Men From the Moon, The Crimson Ghost, The Purple Monster Strikes, and Zombies From the Stratosphere (with Leonard Nimoy as an alien!).
debm55
(39,674 posts)marble falls
(62,643 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)Force pilot was in one. Also like The Great Escape.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,774 posts)Wonderful screenplay and all the actors were at the top of their game.
debm55
(39,674 posts)dai13sy
(504 posts)my Husband, my blanket and my munchies and fruit juice. Perfect evening.
debm55
(39,674 posts)Figarosmom
(3,636 posts)I think. Casting, music and direction, everything was just perfect.
debm55
(39,674 posts)electric_blue68
(19,083 posts)These above also have their serious parts
Drama, action, touches of comedy:
Shawkshank Redemption (w some of the best original score, and good song picks!)
ST: The Voyage Home,
The Undiscovered Country
ST:NG: First Contact
Close Encounters
LOTR: The Return of The King - Extended Cut DVD (I did have all 3 extended Vids, maybe all DVDs and wonderful music!)
Cloud Atlas
Not as recently but for decades:
SW: Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
#1, #3
#8, #9
(I forgot the full titles! It's very late here! 😄
Rouge One
debm55
(39,674 posts)OLDMDDEM
(2,172 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)The Wizard
(12,982 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)ificandream
(10,875 posts)I've watched the train scene in AHDN so many times .... love the way the boys take down that old guy .... and this George Harrison scene is brilliant.
debm55
(39,674 posts)global1
(25,981 posts)debm55
(39,674 posts)lastlib
(25,048 posts)I have to watch Apollo 13 every time it's on, to see if the heat shield on the capsule is going to hold this time. It's held every time so far--but it only has to fail once........
And 2001: ASO is simply the most profound and brilliant movie ever made.
debm55
(39,674 posts)Jeebo
(2,338 posts)The time it would take for me to answer you would be prohibitive, because there are lots and lots of movies out there that are just so compulsively watchable. I'm flipping through the channels and there's a scene from one of them and I can't stop watching and end up watching the whole movie for the umpteenth time, no matter how many times I've seen it before. But, there are two recent movies that keep showing up over and over on the movie channels I get on cable, and when they're on, I just can't not watch them. Those are The Martian and Sisu. I read the Andy Weir novel The Martian a couple years before the movie came out. It's a great novel and a great movie. Sisu is kind of preposterous in terms of the kinds of traumas the main character survives; NOBODY could survive being hanged, burned alive, drowned, shot up, or a nose-dive plane crash. But I love movies about bad-ass women and there are a half-dozen of them in Sisu, and they are realistic and believable. Real women in the real world who have those kinds of experiences would very likely react in the same way the women in Sisu do.
Ron
debm55
(39,674 posts)Wanting to see them.
LeftInTX
(31,161 posts)I like watching the Selena movie
I've watched Goodfellas a bunch of times. (I know most of the lines)
debm55
(39,674 posts)Easterncedar
(3,692 posts)War and Peace with Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda
A Lion in Winter (watched it twice this Christmas,)
debm55
(39,674 posts)Different Drummer
(8,846 posts)So many great scenes/lines in it!