— Musings —08.01.2020 07:23 AM
Movies you have watched more than five times
No explanations (like, for example, that mine conclusively prove I’m still a teenager). Just say them.
Mine:
Being There. Princess Bride. Local Hero. Rock’n’Roll High School. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Repo Man. Star Trek IV. Napoleon Dynamite. Almost Famous. Blue Velvet. Clockwork Orange. Die Hard. Trading Places. Blade Runner. Elf. Something About Mary. Shrek. Anchorman. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Sixteen Candles. Shining. Breakfast Club. The Dead.
Sunset Boulevard. The Godfather I & II. The Thin Man series (I adore William Powell). Giant. The Graduate. Double Indemnity. The Desk Set. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Inherit the Wind.On Golden Pond. Jaws. Reservoir Dogs (Lawrence Tierney of noir fame is great as the boss). Pulp Fiction. The Virgin Suicides. The Big Lebowski. Easy Rider. The Postman Always Rings Twice (the Lana Turner/John Garfield version)
I am sure that I have more but these are some of my favourites.
In particular order:
1. Tremors
2. The Eagle Has landed
3. Star Wars epsiode IV
4. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
5. Scent of a Woman
6. Rio Bravo, Rio Lobo, El Dorado (They are interchangeable)
7. The Battle Of Britain
8. The Guns of Navarone
9. Zulu
10. All of the James Bond films with Sean Connery
11. The Great Escape
12. The Sand Pebbles
I must be a mid-century modern man
You are clearly a glutton for punishment…to keep the game fair, I limit it to one film per director…The Passenger, End of the Road, Bad Timing, Husbands and Wives, Bowfinger, Wait Until Dark, Thunderball, The Thomas Crown Affair (Norman Jewison), A New Leaf, Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, The American Friend, Straw Dogs, Every Man for Himself (Godard), Charade / The Trouble With Charlie (Donen/Demme versions), Reds, Shampoo, Parallax View, Mulholland Drive, Citizen Kane, Prince of the City, Day for Night, La Dolce Vita, Two for the Road, Breakfast at Tiffanys, The Long Goodbye, Taxi Driver, The Sheltering Sky, The Long Good Friday, Out of the Past, Night Moves, The Game, Boogie Nights, Five Easy Pieces, Marathon Man, Rosemary’s Baby, To Live and Die in LA, Casino Royale (McGrath/Hughes/Parrish/Huston/ Guest), The Grifters, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufmann version), Don’t Look Back, Dead Ringers, Apocalypse Now (not including Redux and Final Cut), Petulia, The Limey, Pandora’s Box, The Serpent’s Egg, The Deer Hunter, Days of Heaven, Psycho…I don’t get out much.
I forgot Three Days of The Condor, The Candidate, Modern Romance, Deliverance (last film I saw in a cinema before Lockdown) and The Counsellor…I’ll shut up now.
I forgot Mike Nichols…Catch-22 more so than The Graduate as I get older. OK I am going to cinema hell now.
Dr. Strangelove. Clockwork Orange. If. O Lucky Man. Shawshank Redemption . Hugo. The Taking of Phelham 123 (1974). Casablanca. The Maltese Falcon. The Big Sleep. The Big Lebowski. Oh Brother Where Art Thou. Fargo. Breathless (1960) . La Dolce Vita . 8 1/2. 1900. Citizen Cane . The Sting . The In-Laws (1979) . The Breakfast Club. Taxi Driver . Monty Python And The Holy Grail. Amelie. It’s A Wonderful Life. Wizard of Oz.
The Godfather I & II. Likely 10 times.
The Road Warrior (aka Mad Max 2).
…but I hear they have introduced air conditioning done there to bring back audiences post-COVID…Rushmore, Obsession (DePalma), N-Zone (Arthur Lipsett), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Go-Between, The Last Wave, The Kremlin Letter, Heat, Ronin, A Place in the Sun, Brazil, Children of Men, The Last Picture Show, The Collector, Trois Coleurs: Bleu/Blanc/Rouge, Jaws, Cabaret, The Loved One, Internal Affairs, Lawrence of Arabia, The Thing (John Carpenter version), Sexy Beast, Betrayal, Shoot the Moon, [Safe], The Big Sleep, Beat the Devil…and far too many other films by the directors cited above.
Dept. of Unmerited Coda (or Compulsive Listmakers Anonymous):…and the best goes on (and repeating directors now)…Chinatown, Bonnie and Clyde, Hidden, Blow-Up, Touch of Evil, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Fortune, Love on the Run, Pierrot Le Fou, Eyes Wide Shut, The King of Comedy, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Christian Licorice Store, Play It As It Lays, Brideshead Revisited (Charles Sturridge/Michael Lindsay Hogg), The Third Man, The Bourne Identity, Election, Performance, This is Spinal Tap…hey, where did everybody go?
As a cable=keepn’, non-netflixr’, my list has increased embarrassingly exponentially since covid. I think I’ve been caught in a Swayze vortex as I’m pretty sure I’ve watched the original Red Dawn and Point Break a handleful of times each in the last five months.
The Shawshank Redemption, The Untouchables. North by Northwest. The Bourne Series (all 4). The Usual Suspects. A Few Good Men. The Last of the Mohicans. Heat. Fracture. Seven.
Non-obvious ones from me only. Too many obvious ones.
Der Himmel Uber Berlin
Chungking Express
Crossing Delancey
The Unbelievable Truth
Impromptu
Metropolitan
Choose Me
24 Hour Party People
My Brilliant Career
Drive
An Education
Frances Ha
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lost in Translation
Apocalypse Now
War Dogs
Dr. Strangelove
2001 A Space Odyssey
Trading Places?
I always assumed a couple of bigwigs in media bet each other a dollar that they could discredit the best PM in our lifetimes, Stephen Harper, and get an intellectual imbecile like Trudeau elected.
GF 1&2
SW (80s) + Rogue One
Gladiator
Field of Dreams
Being There
Jurassic Park
Breakfast Club
Goodfellas
Jerry McGuire
Wayne’s World 1 and 2
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
To Big to Fail
The Big Short
A Few Good Men
For Love of the Game
Airplane
Kung Pow Enter the Fist
Talladega Nights
Chasing Madoff
Indiana Jones (Lost Ark and Last Crusade)
Grapes of Wrath
Wizard of Oz
Falcon & The Snowman
Collateral
The Verdict
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
Sunset Boulevard
All That Heaven Allows
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnissis
The Pope of Grenich Village
The Fall of Lehman Brothers
Scrooge [Alistair Sim] NOT colourized version
Three Billboards Down
The Quiet Man
In Cold Blood
Killing Them Softly
The Cider House Rules [love the soundtrack]
Road to series Bob Hope & Bing Crosby
White Christmas
It’s a Wonderful Life
Charley Brown’s Christmas
Breaking The Bank [Frontline PBS documentary]
I have watched The Wizard of Oz at minimum of 200 times.
RW
There is no Warren. Only Zuul.
1. The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2)
2. Godzilla Final Wars
3. Interstellar
4. Zulu
5.Mad Max:Fury Road
6.Aliens
7.Guardians of the Galaxy Part II
8. The Professionals
9. Dances With Wolves
10. The Mad Detective
11.Battle Beyond the Stars
12.Pacific Rim
13. Serenity
14. Kung Fu Hustle
In no order, other than how they popped into my head:
1. Dances With Wolves
2. Beverly Hills Cop
3. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
4. Monty Python & The Holy Grail
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Star Wars (all 3 of the “real” ones)
7. Wizard of Oz
8. Breakfast Club
9. Nightmare on Elm Street
10. American Beauty
11. Caddyshack
12. Ghostbusters
13. Shawshank Redemption
14. Stand By Me
15. The Shining
Not that my tastes run to the highbrow I apparently stopped watching cinema in the mid 90s.
Airplane, Apocalypse Now, Alien / Aliens, Babes in Toyland, Big Trouble in Little China, Bladerunner
Boondock Saints, Clockwork Orange, Dr Strangelove, Ghostbusters, Holy Grail, La Haine, Leningrad Cowboys go America, Life of Brian, Naked Gun, Reservoir Dogs, SW epsiode IV, The Big Lebowski, The Shining
Excellent choices one and all….how about the ancient curmudgeons’ specials- Forbidden Planet and The Day The Earth Stood Still (original version)?
Also the later films- Seven…..and The Quiet Man?
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Fifth Element
Pretty well all the Star Trek movies
American Graffiti
Easy Rider
Goodfellas
Casino