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Particularly if you're old enough to remember the 80's, "Hot Tub Time Machine" is the greatest comedy of the past 30 years.

Cloud Atlas.

Most definitely Big Fish. Every time I swear I won't cry; every time I end up sobbing. With snot.
It just hits too close to home. I even had to trigger-warn my 55-year-old dad, to whose home it hits even closer.

I watch Groundhog Day at least twice a year.

Ronin. Back when TV was a thing, if that shit came on, we did not change the channel until it was done. GOD what a fantastic film that is.

So many. i will just list one that i bet most people have not heard of: the Vourdalak it’s in french. it is one of the best horror movies i have seen in a while. maybe the best vampire movie since let the right one in. in canada, it is 99c to rent it on the apple store right now

Lost Highway VHS got pretty worn out back in the day

Ones I haven't read in this thread:

Trainspotting

Tombstone

The matador (2005)

Catch Me If You Can

I think Cars i dont remember much.

District b13, the transporter, fast and the furious 1, 2, and Tokyo drift, nation Lampoon's Christmas vacation, the big Lebowski, 28 days later, resident evil, probably others.

Digimon Movie (US)

Starship Troopers, Die Hard 1 & 2, Alien & Aliens Mad Max, Road Warrior, Thunderdome, Meet the Parents, Little Miss Sunshine, Wedding Crashers, Step Brothers, Office Space, LoTR Trilogy, OG Star Wars trilogy, Any if the Star Trek films, 2001

Dredd (2012). Excellent film, stellar performances from Karl Urban and Lena Headey. Alex Garland writing goodness before he started directing.

On the topic of Alex Garland, I've also researched Civil War (2024) three times. I love how both movies are so tight, not a scene or moment wasted.

I got trash taste, granted but;

As a kid? He man and the masters of the universe.

As a young adult? Grandma's boy.

Currently? I don't think I remember movies well enough for it to be considered a rewatch. But I've definitely rewatch Peter Jackson's lotr more times than reasonable.

Megamind

Tron: Legacy and Hot Rod are my comfort movies.

the three lotr, its a wonderful life, miracle on 34th street all versions, the orginal star wars trilogy, star trek one and two and four, ladyhawke, up, princess bride, close encounters of the third kind, alien, aliens, forbidden planet, raiders of the lost ark, rocky horror picture show, charlie brown specials, grinch who stole chrismass cartoons, frosty cartoons, the blues brothers, original dune movie, all the monty pythons I know of (grail, brian, yellowbeard, meaning of life), time bandits, spaceballs, terminator 1 and 2, yellow submarine, airplane1+2, top secret. Maybe it should be limited to post 2000. Thing is when you go back there are things broadcast every year or when they were broadcast you made it a point to catch it then in the age of video cassetes if you did not find anything you felt like that week for the weekend you maybe picked up something you liked or you had a friend who had not seen it or something. Not as much came out every year and in addition as more comes out the total pool is way larger. so it is harder to rewatch things. Like I think I have only watch the harry potters twice but drop them into the 90's and im sure they would have been a regular pickup or i would have owned them. That being said there are some older movies that are just classics to and there is a reason you went out of your way to catch it broadcast.

There’s plenty of movies that I like to rewatch, and most have been mentioned here already.

But the first movie I remember rewatching over and over again when I was little, was Labyrinth.
Funny enough I haven’t seen it in more than thirty years. It’s mostly nostalgia vibes by now, but I remember being in love with that movie back then.

I haven't seen it listed here in a quick scan, so:

Office Space

The 1986 Transformers movie. Would rent that every couple of weeks as a little kid.

Princess Bride

Strictly Ballroom

Paul

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Star Wars 4,5,6

LOTR all of them

Operation Petticoat

Dr Strangelove

The Great Race

Pacific Rim

The Abyss

True Lies

Alien

Aliens

Clue

The Cutting Edge

Forbidden Planet

Harry Potter series

Kelly's Heroes

The Last Starfighter

Young Frankenstein

Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Star Trek movies: Wrath of Khan, First Contact

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

Gumball Rally

Meet the Feebles(1989)

One of Peter Jackson's early films. Think muppets gone bad.

We turned it into our cult classic through high school.

Most of mine have already been mentioned, but the biggie that hasn't is: the Back to the Future trilogy.

Not only are there lots of little details you probably don't catch on the first viewing, I'm surprised they don't make more millennial-and-older users' lists just from them being often the best thing on TV, in the ancient times before streaming.

Lord of the Rings, Gattaca, There's Something About Mary, Dazed and Confused, The Death of Stalin.

1. Fight Club
2. Spiderman Into the Spiderverse
3. The Rugrats Movie
4. Stand By Me

Too many to count, and more than I even remember.

I went without internet in an area not friendly to children being outside, so I watched movies in no particular order over and over. Just "yeah I haven't watched this in a few weeks" and re-watch.

Lord of The Rings, Star Wars, Star Trek, Monty Python (all), Princess Bride, MIB, Evolution, Terminator 1&2, Starship Trooper... Honestly most popular Sci fi movies from the 90s... The sound of music, fiddler on the roof, a bunch of musicals..

I'm sure I watched the classic disney movies many times.

I know people who buy watch a movie and then don't feel like watching any of them ever again.

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Spirited Away
• Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
• Tron
• Every Disney movie that came out between Peter Pan and Toy Story 2 including those two.

A ton, but the one I'm most inclined to talk about is The Thing (1982). We rewatch it almost weekly since I introduced my spouse to it which is amazing because each time we spend about an hour afterwards dissecting the things motives, the order of replacements, different theories, etc. It's truely one of the best movies ever made. The practical effects get a ton of praise, but for me it's just gotta efficiently the movie is at what it does. You know every character within minutes of their appearance, you feel the alienation and paranoia, and the thing itself is so inexplicable that even after hundreds of watches in my life time I genuinely can't rationalize why it does what it does.

The 2011 one would have been better if they left in the pilot alien and had better set and custome guys. It doesn't feel like a pequal, it feels like a remake set in 2011.

Jurassic Park. (1,2 and 3)

Tremors (1 and 2)

Lake Placid (RIP Betty)

And Then There Were None

The Thing

Robin Hood (Disney animated version)

Star Wars (Original trilogy + Episode 1)

Addams Family Values

Django Unchained

Inglorious Basterds

Pulp Fiction (not a Tarantino stan, I swear)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Aliens

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Ironman (first one)

Pacific Rim

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Big Short

Probably more than that TBH. I rewatch a lot.

• Harry Potter films
• Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse
• Zathura

So many, but my go to is Silverado. 😉

• Month Python and the Holy Grail
• Young Frankenstein
• Seven Samurai
• LOTR Trilogy

I see a lot of LOTR fans here. Good crowd.

BTTF trilogy

Return to Oz (Mostly, I commented to say this, because no one else has yet.)

Most of James Bond

Along with many of the others already mentioned, but I'd be remiss if I didn't include Miracle on 34th Street (1947), probably all of the Charlie Brown Specials, A Christmas Story, Frosty the Snowman, The Grinch who Stole Christmas, and probably several others, just because as a kid we watched them every holiday. I'm sure there's more on this list, but I'm old.

I've also watched the first season of Altered Carbon at least three times, and Rick and Morty, Archer, and others.

I lost count:

There was a time I’d watch V for Vendetta every November 5th, but that’s fallen off in recent years. Still a great movie; it’s one of those few films I think is better than the source material. I have also probably seen Billy Madison 500 times. There are a ton more I could list but those are jumping out in my head

Madmax...all of them.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, probably a dozen times.

John Wick 1-4. Saw them all in the theater at least three times a piece. More at home

My no-doubt incomplete list (I enjoy watching old favourites over):

• Bladerunner
• The Blues Brothers
• The Princess Bride
• Baby Driver
• The Cornetto Triliogy - Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End
• Monty Python - Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Meaning of Life
• Star Wars Trilogy (original and best)
• Dune (the David Lynch one)
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Twelve Angry Men
• Die Hard
• Alien
• Aliens

In steam of consciousness order:

• Young Frankenstein
• Princess Bride
• Double Indemnity
• Nightmare Before Christmas
• The Breakfast Club
• The Fifth Element
• 12 Monkeys
• The Terminator
• Star Wars (first trilogy)
• Harvey
• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
• Men In Black
• The Incredibles
• Inception
• E.T.
• The Sting
• Grease
• Ghostbusters
• West Side Story

Probably a number of others

Real Genius. It is a movie with a very young Val Kilmer and lasers. That's all you need to know. Watch it.

Big Trouble in Little China. Its my comfort-film.

The first Transporter movie just for the pure nostalgia. If I’m flicking through channels on tv and it’s playing, I will sit there and watch it even with commercials running.