And High Society, Hopscotch, Stormy Weather

One of my favorites.

🎼🎵🎶 The hills are alive with the sound of music...

The Shawshank Redemption. Good Fellas.

Good Boy (dog from outer space), As Good as it Gets (Nicholson), Beaches, Meet the Robinsons (Disney), etc., etc., etc.

Loved Wicked, but would I watch it over & over? Nah.

luck so far.

And the relatively innocent themes.

Keep looking! I'm sure you'll find somewhere with them for sale!

But the top few are:
Casablanca
Victor/Victoria
Young Frankenstein
Poseidon Adventure (original 1972 version)
JAWS

Moonstruck.

Also love many of those mentioned, especially Casablanca.

And I always watch While you Were Sleeping during the holidays & Groundhog Day on Groundhog Day.

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.

Also groundhog day and Harvey

So many, many more. Mostly old

The Martian
Tremors
Deep Impact
The Music Man
Start the Revolution Without Me
People Will Talk
Rio Lobo
Big Jake

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.

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.

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).

But only for a scene or two. Loved that movie as a kid till now. It is perfect.

Not sure where Taarna is but we sure could use her.

Young Frankenstein
Casablanca
Wizard of Oz
Dr. Strangelove
Blazing Saddles
It's a Mad Mad World
To Be or Not To Be (Jack Benny)

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.

my choice too, Thank you very much.

Never give up. Never surrender.

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

It's my all time favorite movie! Rest in peace Paul Reubens.

Peter Sellers and Jack Lemon are hysterical.
My wife would pick Casablanca.

among others

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.

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.

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!😊

what makes us want to see them again and again.

Fantastic cast, sharp and witty dialogue evocative of old Hollywood movies.


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Such great performances

Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan and Star Trek IV: The Whale Movie.

take care!

Close my eyes for that scene. Wonderful movie. It is on my tablet.

wicked witch comes into the scene, orders them to capture Dorothy and the others. A true classic!

Take care!

Battlestar Galactica
The Sound of Music
Sling Blade
The Shining
Halloween (the original)

The original. I've seen it and participated in all the fun over 3 dozen times at several different theaters. I love this movie!!

fun.

theater in the West Village (NYC) for a midnight showing of Rocky Horror.
A lot of contact highs, too. When pot smelled sweet!

We used to go to the midnight showings down in Iowa City (the theatre was like a big concrete swimming pool on its side and I assume that made it easy to hose out afterward) and one Halloween, they had a really horrible punk band play before the movie. I mean, they were maybe the worst band we’d ever seen… I finally got tired of waiting for the movie to start and reached into my bag of props and pulled out my newspaper and held it up in front of me to block out the band.

Immediately, the crowd started howling. I turned around (we were in the third row), and it looked like EVERYONE in the theatre had done the same! The lead singer quickly got pissed and tried insulting us for having no taste, and the band grabbed their equipment and left, to the cheers of all.

Such a satisfying experience—and it was probably the most enthusiastic RHPS crowd ever. We had a blast!

The Godfather is up there, too.

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Most everything from the "Master of Suspense"
And "Being There" (marvelous!!)

Radar Men From the Moon, The Crimson Ghost, The Purple Monster Strikes, and Zombies From the Stratosphere (with Leonard Nimoy as an alien!).

Force pilot was in one. Also like The Great Escape.

Wonderful screenplay and all the actors were at the top of their game.

my Husband, my blanket and my munchies and fruit juice. Perfect evening.

I think. Casting, music and direction, everything was just perfect.

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

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.

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.

If you haven’t already read it, I would highly recommend “Space Odyssey; Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clark, and the Making of a Masterpiece” by Michael Benson. I thought it was a great read, full of fascinating insights.

2001 was the last film that played on their big screen!

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

Wanting to see them.

I like watching the Selena movie

I've watched Goodfellas a bunch of times. (I know most of the lines)