Movies you never get tired of...

I'm watching Annie Hall for about the 400th time, and it occurs to me that there's a small subset of flicks that I can watch again and again without ever getting bored with them.

On first thought, I'd say a couple of those movies (in no particular order) would be:

1. Annie Hall
2. The Birdcage
3. Casablanca
4. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 version, not that Keanu Reeves crap)
5. The Sound of Music
6. The Music Man

And there are probably a couple of others as well. So what about everyone else? What movies can you stop and watch, no matter how many times you've seen them?

 

Star Wars and Star Trek movies aside.. I never seem to get tired of watching Heartbreak Ridge

 

In no particular order off the top of my head:
0) Casablanca
1) <Insert any Marx Brothers Film here>
2) Arsenic and Old Lace
3) Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Excellent tale of pure avarice destroying all the characters involved and it has Gerald Mohr as well (Phillip Marlowe on the radio), who is one of my favourite voices to hear along with Frank Lovejoy from the show Nightbeat.
4) Plan 9 From Outer Space
5) DOA - The original in proper B&W (That colourised bullshit never should have happened to any film). No interest in the recent remake.
6) M - 1931 Fritz Lang film starring Peter Lorre in a particularly unsavory role.
7) Metropolis
7) <Insert any Road film with Bob, Bing, and Dotti here> I am not counting the 1962 film Road to Hong Kong in this group.
8) A Touch of Evil
9) Citizen Kane
10) The Third Man
11) Manchurian Candidate (original of course)
12) Von Ryan Express
13) The General starring Buster Keaton
14) Little Foxes starring Bette Davis and Herbert Marshall (Star of Man Called X on the radio a few years later)



And yes there are two colour films in that list if you count Road to Bali from 1953 and the Sinatra film. I can't help it if my taste in films runs toward quality and not this recent drek. I did get as far as 1965 with the outstanding Old Blue Eyes picture.

 

With most movies if I've seen it a couple of times I'd much rather see something new.
I know this is bad but there are so many good movies out there I haven't seen that watching the same thing over and over just doesn't do it for me.

That said there are a few movies I can watch, in some cases because the movie making is pretty, the writing sparkles or they are a guilty pleasure.

For writing:
His Girl Friday
Any of the Marx Brothers Movies
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead

Pretty:
Terminator 2
Avatar
The Adventures of Robin Hood -- Though it has good writing too "Why you speak treason!" "Fluently."
7 Faces of Dr. Lao (if you haven't seen this do. It was the last movie George Pal directed.)
Matrix

And guilty
Knightriders (a George Romero movie not about zombies)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

 

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. I've seen it dozens of times, read the comics, know all the names, everything. I don't know why, but that's the one movie I never get tired of. Every plane or long car ride (when I'm not driving), I'm on my phone watching with headphones. Other than that... I've seen Shaun of the Dead, The Game, and a couple Wes Anderson and Miyazaki movies a few times, but mostly with people who haven't seen them. I'm sure there were some from before I started being so focussed on TV shows, and I'll probably remember them when I'm not so tired and curse myself for not writing them down, but there you go. So... I guess I would currently have to go with only Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, at least until I remember some others I wouldn't mind re-watching this weekend.

 

Oo! Scott Pilgrim vs. the World! I saw this thread earlier in the day whilst I was at work and started mentally creating a list. Can't believe I forgot that one. It's a great movie isn't it?
Shaun of the Dead & Hot Fuzz are two other movies I didn't think of that I rewatch on occasion.
As for my mental list, here's what I remember from what I came up with...
1. Fight Club
2. Boondock Saints
3. Bad Boys 1 & 2
4. ...
(there are more I'm watching a tv series and can't concentrate right now)

 

I've watched The Princess Bride more times than I can remember. I've even watched it in Spanish a few times, to mix things up.

I also seem to never get tired of Wet Hot American Summer and Empire Records.

 

Mony Python and The Holy Grail.
Blade Runner. Both versions.
The Last Waltz. Even after reading Levon Helm's book This Wheel's On Fire, which I very much enjoyed.
Angel Heart.
Kentucky Fried Movie. The best two opening lines ever in a comedy/farce.

 

Man, I think that's the only time I thought Renee Zellweger was dead sexy, was when she was singing in Empire Records.

 

She was pretty hot in Chicago, too.

 

Never saw it.
Does she sing in it?

 

Yep, it's one of the better jobs of taking a classic Broadway musical and making it into a movie.

 

1. Predator
2. The Naked Gun
3. Aliens
4. The Thing (1982)
5. Commando
6. The Dirty Dozen

 

A Hard Day's Night
Annie Hall
Kelly's Heroes
The Commitments
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Adventures of Robin Hood

 

Say Anything
The Transporter
Alien and Aliens
Pitch Black
Fight Club
Goonies
The Breakfast Club
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Pulp Fiction
and, I swear as a kid, I saw The Man from Snowy River at least 50 times.
I loved horses.

 

I swear I answered this already.

Labyrinth

Who's That Girl

 

Agree with Pulp Fiction.
And I never have turned the channel when Austin Powers is on.

 

I should watch this film at some point. It would make an ideal candidate for my "Movie Review Based Solely on a Trailer" idea first though.

 

Watchmen: Ultimate Cut. Upwards of four hours of grandiose, self-indulgent, head-up-its-own-ass, dark, brooding, pseudo-philosophical pontification on the human condition, all wrapped up in a pretty, colorful package and doused with Zack Snyder's magical semen.