Favorite movies you watch over and over?

[smiles33]

We just watched Princess Bride, *sigh* and it made me wonder what other movies are all-time favorites. I could watch that movie every month!

And while it wasn't my favorite the first time I saw it, every time I see Shawshank Redemption on cable I STILL stop and watch it.

Among more recent movies, I really like Disney's Mulan (probably because I identify with her waaaay too much) and The Long Road Home (a love story starring Zhang ZiYi, the woman from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).

What about you?

[JBB]

When Harry Met Sally, Miss Congeniality, and Mona Lisa Smile (I went to Mount Holyoke so I love the women's college aspect of the movie)

[TX Sweetheart]

Princess Bride
Mulan I & II (especially I)
Under the Tuscan Sun
Star Wars (all of 'em)
LOTR (all of 'em)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights

there's a lot more but I'm tired and can't think of 'em LOL

[stochasticgirl]

DH was just making fun of me the other day for watching "Ghostbusters 2" yet again. :p

Amadeus
You've Got Mail
Sleepless in Seattle
Strictly Ballroom
Sound of Music
Sabrina (original or remake)

[nylons73]

JBB - I am with you on 'When Harry Met Sally.' Love, love, love it!

Swingers
A Few Good Men
Goodfellas
In the Line of Fire
Bridges of Madison County

[kmmommy]

Legally Blonde 1 and 2
The Italian Job
Dirty Dancing

[sublime311]

Ooo, great question!

I share some of the same all-time faves previous posters listed:

* Barefoot In the Park (Jane Fonda and Robert Redford - one of my favorite movies ever)
* When Harry Met Sally
* Sleepless in Seattle
* A Few Good Men
* The Day After Tomorrow (it's not the best movie, I know, but I'm blown away by the concept and images)
* The Jason Bourne movies (Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy)
* A Christmas Story ("you'll shoot your eye out kid")
* Elf
* Office Space
* The Full Monty

ETA: The Sound of Music!!

[smiles33]

Oh man, I forgot about Star Wars, LOTR, When Harry Met Sally and Office Space--those are CLASSIC. :)

When we celebrated our first anniversary at a B&B, we had a VCR in the room and they offered a full library of classic movies--we watched the Star Wars trilogy, When Harry Met Sally, and a ton of other films.

DH and I are planning to watch the entire LOTR trilogy later today...a nice lazy way to end the weekend!

[jeepgirl]

The Saint
The Sound of Music
Shining Through
Sabrina (love both versions too!)
While You Were Sleeping
Keeping The Faith
It's A Wonderful Life
An Affair to Remember
The Mirror Has Two Faces
Return to Snowy River

And don't ask me why I like to watch this one, most people think it is SO sad... I think its inspiring because it demonstrates TRUE love:

When A Man Loves A Woman

[sublime311]

[b]
The Sound of Music


Yes! I can't believe I forgot that one! Good call! :D

[Aletheia]

I have the A&E Pride and Prejudice mini-series on VHS. Don't tell anyone, but DH LOVES watching them as much as I do (we've on occassion watched all 6 in a sitting!)

He also watches the Anne of Green Gables/of Avonlea movies with me. And our favorite to watch over and over again is Mean Girls-- it is hillarious!

Other faves:
Spanglish
Sliding Doors
Little Women (though DH can't sit through this one, strangely)
Dead Poets' Society

Fun thread, Smiles33!

[Kimberland30]

Grease
Simon Birch
Bridget Jones's Diary (both of them)
The Princess Bride
Shawshank Redemption (how many times a week is this on TNT???)
Millions of others, but these are the ones I remember that I've seen recently...again. :)

[Georgiana]

All of the Friday Movies with Ice Cube..... I am getting the three DVD set!

Also Rush Hour .. I love Chris Tucker!

[JenniferEC]

Dodgeball, Team America, Clue and anything by Alfred Hitchcock!

[ALeonard]

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Legally Blonde
SWAT
Singing in the Rain
Shrek 1 & 2

[SiValleySteph]

As soon as I saw this thread I thought of Office Space. We watched Office Space at the hospital while I was in labor and I will always associate that part where the friend is saying "a nan and and nother jan, how hard is that?" Of course, that is not really the right way to say his name, so it must be too hard for me. :D

[hockeybrat]

* Office Space (that is so my life sometimes)
* Any Harry Potter movie
* Any LOTR movie
* Shawshank Redemption
* Gone with the Wind
* Sound of Music
* Cleopatra (Liz Taylor & Richard Burton)

[laurenc]

I'm not a big Disney freak or anything, but I could watch "The Lion King" and "Fantasia" over and over again. They just bring up warm fuzzy childhood memories.

Other favorites:
--"Singles" (I love how it's such a 90's movie)
--"Office Space" (this strikes so close to home sometimes)
--Coen Brothers movies -- "The Man Who Wasn't There," "The Big Lebowski," "O! Brother Where Art Thou," "Fargo," etc. (I love their work, just love it)
--"Happy Gilmore" and "Billy Madison" (neverending laughs)
--"The Wedding Singer" (such a cute story!)
--"The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (because who doesn't love drag queens?)

[kiddo]

Such great movies!

Mine are:
The Outsiders
Grease (1 and 2)
Dirty Dancing
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation (DH and I watch it every year while trimming the tree)
A Christmas Story
It's a Wonderful Life
The Wizard of Oz
Sound of Music

[jbenny75]

Grease
Christmas Vacation
Gone With the Wind
The Notebook
Goodfellas
The Godfather Series
When A Man Loves a Woman
The Way We Were
The LOTR Trilogy
Dirty Dancing
The Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles

Legends of the Fall

[Freckles]

Fun Thread!

For me:
Grease 2
Can't Buy Me Love
Adventures in Babysitting
Goonies
Stand By Me
Feris Bueller's Day Off
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Heathers
SpaceCamp

Nemo
Little Mermaid
Lion King
Wizard of Oz
Princess Bride


Braveheart
Gladiator
Star Wars


Don Juan DeMarco
My Best Friend's Wedding
Mystic Pizza
Clueless

Obviously my favorites are from my childhood in the 80s. Funny not as many from HS or college.

Anne of Green Gables/of Avonlea

I *love* this series as well.

[PookiePrincess]

My all time favorite movie since I was a kid is The Wizard of Oz. When I was a kid, we didn't have a VCR and everytime we went to my aunt's I watched that movie...until they got tired of watching it and told me it was broken. That's traumatized me for life, but I still love the movie. :)

[kiddo]

My all time favorite movie since I was a kid is The Wizard of Oz. When I was a kid, we didn't have a VCR and everytime we went to my aunt's I watched that movie...until they got tired of watching it and told me it was broken. That's traumatized me for life, but I still love the movie. :)

Heehee we did the same thing to my nephew when he was about 3.

I was noticing a lot of the movies are from when we were kids. Must be a comfort thing?

[mrspugglesworth]

And don't ask me why I like to watch this one, most people think it is SO sad... I think its inspiring because it demonstrates TRUE love:

[b]When A Man Loves A Woman

Me too, I LOVE this movie!!

[Boopy]

My favorite movie of all time is Steel Magnolias. I can watch it again and again. It was even on TV last night, but I only watched a few minutes because DH said he couldn't stand to watch it again! lol A few months ago I saw the play on Broadway while in NYC. I was so excited for it, but I found myself getting frustrated because they changed some of the lines. They would say a line and I'd be thinking to myself, no that's not the way it goes! :p

[jeepgirl]

Mrspugglesworth - He,he... so I'm NOT the only one!!! :D

[PrincessButrcup]

Sound of Music
It's A Wonderful Life
Father of the Bride (the newer one - and it's sequel!)
When Harry Met Sally
While You Were Sleeping

There are so many others that I can't think of right now!

[smiles33]

But PrincessBtrcup you didn't mention The Princess Bride as one of your favorites! :D

[JLRenheos]

Everytime it's on t.v. we'll watch the movies:

Brian's Song & Mrs. Doubtfire

[PrincessButrcup]

But PrincessBtrcup you didn't mention The Princess Bride as one of your favorites! :D
Actually, smiles, I hadn't seen the movie when I originally chose this screen name. I have see it since, and enjoyed it. DH rolls his eyes whenever this movie is mentioned because apparently it was one of the movies that SIL would watch over and over and over again.

[JillyBean]

DH actually teases me about watching movies over and over. He doesn't understand how I can watch the same thing again and again and not get sick of it. Some of my favs:
Steel Magnolias
Grease
Sixteen Candles
Bridget Jones' Diary
Legally Blonde
Night at the Roxbury
Dumb and Dumber
Tommy Boy
Dirty Dancing

[JillianS]

I'll second A&E's "Pride and Prejudice" miniseries. I think I watch the entire thing at LEAST once a month :) I love it. (have you heard that they're remaking it? With Keira Knightly as Elizabeth and some ugly guy as mr darcy...saw a preview for it the other day...made my skin crawl, you can't remake that!!!)

anyways

ditto on the Anne of Green Gables movies too. There are now three, did you know? they did another one a couple years ago "the continuing story" all the same actors and stuff, I have that one too :) i love all three of them and am currently watching #2. :)

also:

Wimbledon (I LOVE this movie...I think mostly because my honey looks uncannily like a younger version of Paul Bettany..but I love it..)

Shakespeare in Love-fave movie
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Runaway Bride
Princess Diaries :)
Gone with the Wind
Sweet Home Alabama
Emma
Little Women

[Cohl]

The wedding planner. I became obsessed with it while I was planning my wedding.

ALeonard Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was one of my FAVORITES growing up!! I haven't seen that movie in so long!!

[oceaneast]

Let's see:
Office Space
Le Divorce
Night at the Roxbury
Weekend at Bernie's
Glory
Christmas Vacation

[MurphysLaw]

The Breakfast Club
Top Gun
Purple Rain
The Wizard of Oz...one of my faves as a kid and I *still* watch it.


And then I have a list of movies with my favorite one liners:
Tommy Boy - "Fat man in a little coat" & "My shoulder doesn't hurt very much, but my face does... RIGHT here... not here... or here so much, but RIGHT HERE." HAHAHA
Little Nicky - "Call me Mr. Beefy...say it", "Mr. Beefy", "Annnnd I love you."
Happy Gilmore - "The price is Wrong, Bitch!"
Billy Madison - "T-t-t-t-t-t-today Junior!" & "Sooo hot, want to touch the heinie!"
Fletch - "It's all ball bearings these days" & "Yes, I will have a Steak Sandwich, a Bloody Mary, and a Steak Sandwich, and put that on the Underhills tab." & "Mooooooon River"
Freddy Got Fingered - "Look at my Hooooooves" & "I'm the backwards man, the backwards man..." & "Daddy would you like some sausage?"

Okay I'm getting carried away:o

[Reenie]

Little Women, Sleepless in Seattle, Legally Blonde, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Mary Poppins, Sabrina, Beaches, Pretty Women, Wedding Planner

ETA: Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea, Mermaids, The American President, and Valmont

[Sare79]

Steel Magnolias
Grease 1 and 2
Chasing Amy
Mallrats
Shrek
Breakfast Club
Say Anything

[jenn0911]

We love The Princess Bride, my DH can watch the Star Wars stuff again and again but the 2 movies that I will watch every time they are on are

Pleasantville and Fools Rush In

[ginastorm]

Back to the Future. Just the first one though. I think that it is such a clever and funny movie.

Legally Blonde
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Old School

[tigger8402]

i wanna play!

grease
shrek 1 & 2
steel magnolias
billy madison
save the last dance
Little mermaid
mary poppins
instinct

[greenbunny]

I totally agree with Princess Bride and Shawshank.

Another one for me, which is kind of obscure, is Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. If you haven't seen it, you must!

[cocoa_femme]

Two movies I watch over and over again are Malcolm X and Little Women (1994). A new favorite is Iron Jawed Angels...great movie!

[lawyerlee]

* Almost Famous
* Swingers
* Dirty Dancing
* Tommy Boy
* Shakespeare in Love
* 13 Going On 30
* When A Man Loves A Woman
* When Harry Met Sally
* Amelie
* Breakfast at Tiffany's
* Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

[stevesbabygirl]

*Dirty Dancing
*Pretty Woman
*The Princess Bride
*A Night at the Roxbury (Hi Jill :D!)
*The Star Wars Trilogy
*The Goonies
*The Shawshank Redemption
*Field of Dreams
*A League of Their Own
*Sleepless in Seattle
*You've Got Mail