Movies to watch over and over again
We've been watching Taken over and over again and I am reminded that the mark of a good film is its durability - there are movies that shock and movies with odd twists but the great ones can be watched over and over again. A few that come to mind:
Update: Execupundit has some great additions.
- Stripes - I can't begin to guess how many times I've watched this movie
- Patton - "Did Ike get those two turkeys I sent him?" Ghostbusters - New York city under siege. Who you gonna call?
- Silence of the Lambs - creepy all the way around.
- Rear Window - Hitchcock, Stewart, Kelly. Need I say more.
- Casablanca - As good as the day it was made.
- The Godfather - Amazing.
- The Outlaw Josey Wales - "Dying ain't much of a livin'"
- Dirty Harry - While I'm thinking about Clint. . .
- The Burbs - A personal favorite.
- Tombstone - "I've not yet begun to defile myself."
- Braveheart - Never wears out.
- Gladiator - "Father to a mudered son, husband to a murdered wife. . ."
- Napoleon Dynamite - What a stupid, funny movie.
- Sixteen Candles - Anthony Michael Hall at his peak.
Update: Execupundit has some great additions.
Ordinary People.
Love that you have Nap Dyna!!!! Great description. E
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Great list - mine would include:
Fletch
Love Actually
The Shawshank Redemption
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Fletch and Shawshank are must additions. I've never seen Love Actually. I'll have to pick it up.
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Saw Clint mentioned - I assume you've seen Gran Torino? Dirty Harry reaches his place of revelation and judgement...
As far as the list, no argument with any of your choices. I would have added Easy Rider though...bit dated now but what an impact then...and it did give us Nicholson...
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Jeff - I really need to see Gran Torino but haven't. My wife and I get to see few movies before they hit DVD.
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True Grit and The Shootist, HELLO...
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Love Actually, Cinema Paradiso, La Meglio Gioventu (neither of the latter two dubbed), Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson version), Red Rvier (only the original), The Sons of Katie Elder, Pride and Prejudice (A&E version),
Billy Elliott, and To Kill a Mockingbird!
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