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Yesterday, I looked through my dvd-collection and I realized that of the 280 dvds I own there are only just a few I really like. ('really like' in this case means I can watch them at least once a year) In no paticular order they are:
- City of god
- Snatch
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- 8 Mile*
- Pulp Fiction
- The 13th Warrior**
- Queen of the damned ***
- American Beauty
- Full Metal Jacket
- Fight Club
- American History X
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- Donnie Darko
- The big Lebowski
- Falling Down
- Life of Brian
- Dr. Strangelove
- Shaun of the Dead
- Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2
- Ghost Dog

* not really a top-movie, but I like it anyway
** Not a great movie either, but I think it's somewhat underrated. The only explanation I have got is that Antonio Banderas really sounds ridiculous with his accent in the original version.
*** I think everyone but me thinks its cheap trash, I dont care :)


What's your list? Again, im searching for movies you can watch a few times and still enjoy. 'usual Suspects' for example is a great movie when you watch it for the first time, but after that the joke is kind of gone.

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You have a really bad taste in movies.

Lotr trilogy
Star Wars trilogy
Aliens
Terminator and T2
Faulty Towers box set :) (not a movie, but in my DVD collection)
Saving Private Ryan
Band Of Brothers
The Longest Day

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The movies I own:

Fightclub
Indiana Jones Trilogy
LOTR Trilogy
The Godfather Trilogy
La Vita e bella - Life is beautiful
Casino
Analyse this
Analyse that
Ronin
About a boy
Sleepers
The Shining
Rounders
Scarface
Pulp Fiction
Once upon a time in the west
Jackie Brown
Braveheart
American history X
Natural Born Killers
Donnie Darko
American Beauty
12 Monkies
Trainspotting
Pirates of the Caribean
Donnie Brasco
Dune
The Shawshank Redemption

Edit:
American Psycho 1 and 2
Goodfellas

I am not at home now so I probably forgot some. Most films I own are worth owning in my opinion, that's why I buy them.

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So far:

Matrix Trilogy
Fast and the Furious
About a Boy
Fever Pitch (UK Arsenal version, not the crap baseball thing)
Queen of the Damned
Love Actually
Snatch
Donnie Darko
A Lot Like Love*
American History X
Empire Records
American Pie
40 Year Old Virgin
Coach Carter
Bullet Boy

EDIT:
xXx
Pitch Black
Terminator 2

EDIT 2:
Le Ciel, les oiseaux,... et ta mère! (Boys on the Beach)
Taxi 1 & 2 (the French version)

Can't think what else to be honest. I'll add more later.






*This reminded me of my time with some girl I was going out with :(

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I quite liked lotr and star wars, but after watching them 2-3 times its enough.
I watched the first Terminator not so long ago, and no, it doesnt work any more. Did you pay attention to the soundtrack? It's like pure-80s. or look at poor Sarah's haircut. You almost wish she gets killed, just to put out of her misery.
Same with the first Alien-movie. I can't take a SiFi-Movie seriously if the computers look like they came from stone-age. I'd rather never watch them again and keep them in good memory.

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Based on the amount of times I've seen a movie such a list would need to include :

Annie Hall
Shadows and the Fog
Clerks
Terminator 1 & 2*
Back to the Future
Leon
The Usual Suspects**
Fight Club**
It's A Wonderful Life

And probably some others. Generally speaking it helps if the movies are short for obvious reasons. Annie Hall, at a mere 93 minutes is a damn sight easier to rewatch than something like LOTR (although I still enjoy the latter of course). Other factors include lack of cringing moments. There are some good movies with bits where I have to look away, it becomes harder to rewatch those movies each time.

* = Yes, T1 does still work. I've watched the films recently. "The soundtrack is so 80's" - wtf? It was made and set in the 1980's, obviously the fashion / music / etc is supposed to reflect the era. I mean, do you watch Casblanca and say "OMG, look at their old fashioned clothes?". If anything Sarah Connor's idiotic fashion makes it more "realistic" that she is a normal girl terrified shitless by the bizarre stuff unleashed upon her. It also makes the second movie more satisfying when she's basically become a hardened psycho.

As for computers being out of date well I'm not really sure what you meant here. We're seeing what the people at the time thought the future might be like - that to me is quite interesting in itself. I can still watch the original series of Star Trek despite the computers looking "old fashioned".

** = The Usual Suspects & Fight Club, despite being "twist orientated" movies both stand up to rewatching for various reasons. They are both still good movies, even if you ignore the endings (the same could be said for something like Memento). I'm not sure I'd enjoy something like The Village or Signs upon rewatching (although I didn't like them in the first place that much anyway).

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I'm just a casual watcher of films, and actually in film terms I've lived a distinctly sheltered life - I've never seen The Godfather, for example. Or Blade Runner. I intend to, I've just never had chance.

But anyway, my favourite films include:

The Matrix
Terminator 2
The Rock
Pirates of the Carribean
Wayne's World
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Dune
The Shawshank Redemption
National Lampoon's Animal House
Spaceballs
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python's The Quest for the Holy Grail
The Star Wars Trilogy

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Where Eagles... Dare!

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ok here goes:

- Godfather I
- Godfather II
- Godfather III
- Falcone
- The Last Don
- Bella Mafia
- Donnie Brasco
- Miller's Crossing
- Once Upon A Time In America
- Casino
- Scarface
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- The Silence Of The Lambs
- Battle Royale
- American History X
- Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
- Boondock Saints
- Apocalypse Now
- Hamburger Hill
- The Deerhunter
- The Pianist
- Raging Bull
- Trainspotting
- Pulp Fiction
- Reservoir Dogs
- Natural Born Killers
- Shooters

(i also have some dusty video2000 tapes with 16 James Bond movies, Papillion, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ben Hur, The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far and various others but they're not worth mentioning).

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Don't you think it kind of ruins the atmosphere? When i watched Terminator for the first time, I didn't notice any of this, I just thought it's a great movie. Now that i watched it, I noticed these things. It kind of distracts from the plot if suddenly, during the movie, you think WtF?. That doesn't mean that i would call them 'bad' movies now, but they are not as enjoyable anymore as they were when watching them ten years ago.

I agree with Fight Club, but I didn't see anything special in usual suspects once i knew the story. The Village and Signs were mediocre at best.

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Also for me:

BasketBall
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

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can't help what you think

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Most films I've seen have been dull and a waste of 2 hours, but All About Lily Chou Chou, Withnail and I, and American Beauty are worth watching.

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yeah. Here's what I don't get:

given say, a $20,000,000 budget, how can you fail to entertain someone for 90 minutes? I mean, if you gave that money to me, and note that I have no talents whatsoever, I'm sure I could just walk down the street and pay random people maybe $10,000 apiece to do humiliating and/or dangerous things, and even after legal fees and pocketing the bulk I'm sure it would be more entertaining than 75% of the movies I watch.

Anyway. Most of the movies I would put in this category have already been listed, but just in recent memory some movies that have been on television and I've ended up rewatching at least the second half (and enjoying):
Matrix 2
Fight Club
Lotr3
Gladiator
Old School

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We had a simerlar debate on the fcrew forums about our top 10 movies and my list was as follows.

In a year or so Serenity will probally make the list also but its too soon to include it now as its hard to judge a movie in terms of overall greatness so soon after release

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I think we must have seen different versions of the movie.

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It's 1/3 boys own tale, 1/3 spy thriller and 1/3 explosions. What isn't there to like?

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A lot of people have said that, but I honestly dont understand why. I mean you dont even have star wars on your list!

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Don't understand which bit? The bit where he reckons Serenity is good, or the bit where he says you have to give a film time to appreciate it in context?

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Serenity being one of the best films ever, especially when they say its better than star wars.

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Godfather Trilogy
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Football Factory
ID
Fightclub
Apocolypse Now
Trainspotting
Dambusters
American Beauty
Star Wars Trilogy
Back to the future
Lock Stock
Snatch

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Serenity is probably only in the league of great movies if you're a fan of the series. If you are then the film would have a lot more emotional impact (I would presume). That's why I prefer TV as a medium to film a lot of the time, you have time to build attachment to the characters so it actually means something when something happens to them.

As for it being better then Star Wars, well probably - but then Star Wars isn't a particularly good movie anyway (if you're talking about A New Hope). If you're talking about the movies as a collective entity (1-6) then they're still not very good. If you take the best bits of 4,5 & 6 then you do have an OK movie but that's cheating.

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The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Ishtar
Babe: Pig in the City
Battlefield Earth
Catwoman
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Gigli
Glitter
Hudson Hawk
XXX: State of the Union
Red Planet
The Postman
Jacki Chan-First Strike
Universal Soldiers 2
Alladin 3
Batman & Robin

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serenity would be on my list, but its not out on dvd yet, so i dont have it yet :( I most certainly will watch that one again, i even watched the whole series again after watching the movie. im really looking forward to the sequal (hey, if they make sequals for every crap movie nowadays, they will probably make one for this one, wont they? besides, its wide open for a sequal

Oh, and I'm just coming out of cinema, and I'd like to say that 'cry_wolf' is most definitly not going to make it on my list. If you think about watching it, think again. Even the 5.6 on imdb is overrated. (i didnt want to make a new thread about it, so i put it here)

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I can't remember the whole film when I'm doing invites for Z'G!

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For rewatchability -

DIE HARD (first film only)
Gone in 60 seconds
The Untouchables
Lotr trilogy
Strange Days
Broken Arrow
Gladiator
While you were sleeping*
Shaun of the Dead
The Matrix ( first film only)
The Blues Brothers!









* I don't usually like slushy romantic crap but I seem to like this :\

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done already

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322802/

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of course we believe that is your list of best films.

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not seen Groundhog Day mentioned. love that film.

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Fight Club
Trainspotting
Pulp Fiction
Road Trip
American Pie 1,2,3
Old School
School of Rock
Anchorman
Star wars trilogy
Die-Hard trilogy
lotr trilogy
Saving Private Ryan
Lock Stock
Snatch
Mean Machine
About a Boy
Full metal Jacket
Mallrats
Pirates of the Carribean
Rush Hour 1, 2

These are a few of the dvd's i own, and can constantly watch without getting sick of them, probably forgot a few.

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watching band of brothers again, cannot give it good enough praise.

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Anamnesis!!!

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I concur.

However, it did have one funny bit in it:

Alyssa

So for you, to "****" means to penetrate. You're used to the more traditional definition - you inside some girl you've duped, jack-hammering away, not noticing that bored look in her eyes.

Banky

HEY! - I always notice that bored look in their eyes.

I always think about that scene whenever some girl in my real life is talking about sex.

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personally i think the key to rewatchability is having a having a fast paced storyline,good soundtrack, actors who can genuienly act and an ending that is enjoyable but not predictable. Epics like LOTR, Troy etc tend to bore me when i rewatch them

My top 5 rewatchable films are probably :
1) Trainspotting
2) American History X
3) Heat
4) Tigerland
5) Goodfellas
6) Casino
7) The Beach
8) Dodgeball
9) Meet the parents
10) better throw in Terminator 2 for my fav action film

i think Mulholland drive gets a mention for a film that u definetly need to watch momre than once.(ive seen it around 8 times and im just getting it now lol)

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Oh and dace, is that u in ur avatar cos to me it looks like edward norton in fight club...

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Pink Panther

The Great Race

My Cousin Vinney (I watch it before or during every trial I do for humility)

Legally Blond (see My Cousin Vinney)

Any Bob Hope movie pre 1960

Any Marx Brothers movie

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Okay seriously now -

Any Sergio Leone film - A Few Dollars More; and also: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Jaws
Gone with The Wind
Titanic
From Russia with Love
You Only Live Twice
Diamonds Are Forever
Moonraker
Goldfinger
The Man with the Golden Gun
Goodfellas
Die Hard
From Here to Eternity
Singin' in the Rain
Pink Panther (I love that song and dance interlude by the fireplace)
The Breakfast Club
Buck Rogers
Conan the Barbarian
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Empire Strikes Back
The Pianist
The Professional ('Leon' worldwide)
Home Alone
Escape from New York

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His avatar in combination of his signature should give you the answer already for abou 99,99% dude.


ps:
The beach was horrible to watch over again :(

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Chronicles of Narnia :D

Godfather trilogy.

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The first Matrix film
LOTR trilogy
Forest Gump
Pulp Fiction
Girl next door
Terminator 2

Ofcourse there are many more films i love, but those are prolly my favourite ones.

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It seems you have 10 there dude...

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There aren't really many films which I can watch more than a couple of times. I don't really watch many movies either as I prefer tv series which I can just put on while eating food. Going by what I have watched most though it will be something like:

LOTR trilogy
Leon
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
American History X
Reservoir Dogs
Back to the Future I+II
South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut
Terminator

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Blastoderm <3

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I have three favourite films:

Rear Window
The Pianist
Seven

I no particular order.

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if someone makes "Seven Pianists in a Rear Window" you'll be first in line to see it :)

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Favourite Filmage mm...

Well some of my fave DVD's are:

Fight Club
Road & Euro Trip
Notting Hill
Anchorman
Old Skool
Oceans Eleven
Donnie Darko
Training Day
Layer Cake
Phoenix Nights (yeah i know its not a film, but its in my DVDs and its hillarious :D)
Top Gun
Silence of the Lambs
Seven

but my all time favourite film has to be either Blow with Johny Depp in (Seriously awesome film, anybody ive reccomended it too on IRC who has watched it has loved it) or The Beach with Leo DiCaprio. Just love the whole story of that film, such escapism its brilliant.

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My favorite films:

The Football Factory
Kill Bill
Fight Club
American Psycho
Reservoir Dogs
Three Kings
Romeo & Juliet*

Followed by:

The Shawshank Redemption
The Devils Advocate
Zoolander
Ocean's Eleven
Forest Gump
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill 2
Leon
Spiderman

Worth mentioning:

Black Hawk Down
Hannibal
Donnie Darko
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
The Butterfly effect
Die Another Day**
American History X
Gotti
12 Monkeys
Troy
The Cable Guy
Dude, Where's My Car?***


* The movie is just good
** I had to add a bond movie
** Those swedish dudes kill me

I rated it more on replay value,
because the matrix trilogy and lotr are also good but i wouldn't watch them ever again

I also have a few good b-movie's in my head that would certainly make it to the top
but I don't know their names.... Shit.. i'm tortured by it now

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Which r+j movie?

Why pick the worst bond film bar Lazenby's?

And spiderman?

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why reservoir dogs? what does everyone like about it? I think its completly overrated, almost as much as Bladerunner (just to mention another movie that sucks).