If you asked me a few years ago, the list would have definitely included a bunch listed above ... including The Blues Brothers and Monty Python and the Holy Grail but things are different now.  This past month I watch Barbie's Fairytopia about 6 or 7 times and Monsters Vs. Aliens a few more than that.

julibee
Pretty in Pink (I'm an 80's girl, and that's that.  Good Soundtrack, too)

I too am an 80's person but I probably only saw Pretty in Pink 1 time.  The classic 80's flicks for me were things like "The Toxic Avenger" and "Reanimator".  I saw The Toxic Avenger soon after it was released and it was probably the only movie (to the best of my recollection) that I ever saw that got a serious "standing O" at the end of it.

Dave

Probably The Shining (the original).  When it came out I saw it 3 or 4 times at the theater since my then gf and I kept missing the begginging or end and it took that many times for both of us to see it in toto.  I saw it on TV several times and I had it on tape, too, but I'm continuing the original tradition since I tivo'ed it last month but the end got cut off.  So I just bought the DVD.

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"Saigon.......sh**"...need I say more, OK how about...."charlie don't surf!"

that and in Space
Dark Star.
Soylent Green.

hmm...
Trainspotting.
Quentin Tarantino movies
Withnail and I

oldies

Brief Encounter
A Matter of Life and Death

war
Bridge over the River Kwai
Battle of Britain
633 Squadron

foreign
The Vanishing
Manon de Sources
Amelie

comedy
Leslie Nielsen movies
The Peter Sellers pink panther ones
Annie Hall
Spinal Tap

plus a bunch of those already mentioned.

Hi,

No order on these ...

Performance (Mick Jaegger and James Fox)
Brazil (Jonathan Pryce)
Blade Runner
The Fencing Master (d. Pedro Olea/Spain)(best fencing film ever!!! and not a Hollywood fluff)
Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
The Fox (V. deSica with Peter Sellers)(off the scale madness and funny)
Ran (Akira Jurosawa)
Journey of Hope (Keller)
Prospero's Books (Greenaway)(best reading of shakespeare ever done)
Dracula (Browning)(Lugosi)
Forbidden Planet( enough said)
Carmen (Saura)("you dance with your eyes, not your ass!")
Ladyhawke
200 Motels (Zappa)
The Wall (Pink Floyd) (opera for the future if classical music ever wakes up!)
Mike Oldfield - Exposed (best rock/orchestra concert film ever) (classical music for the future)
Klaus Schulze and Lisa Garrard - Live at Rheingold (it's a shame that so few folks have an ear for appreciating something as far out as this!)
 
I probably could name a hundred more films ... but these rank along the lines of the super special ... I really wanted to add a Godard film here, but could not make up my mind which ... I am a great fan of his "anti-film" stance ... I wish there were more people that had enough balls to do music with an "anti-music" vision ... but I guess that Frank Zappa's can only come once in a million years ... and saying it scares most musicians off their pants.

I cannot believe no one has mentioned the Forbidden Zone except me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjN4Ysdc69w

I don`t watch a lot of movies these days, but I think my list is something like this

- Holy Grail
- Life of Brian
- Naked gun
- A room with a view (I love Lucy... :-)
- My life as a dog (Swedish)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_as_a_Dog

Best, JH

Oh, "My life as a Dog" is GREAT Ducky... and JonBouy, Manon de Sources and it's sequel were just stellar.  I don't usually like French films (just not my sensibilities, I guess), but these are the exceptions...  JB, have you ever seen Peter Sellers in "The Party"?  That's HILARIOUS!

In my adulthood: "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Airplane!", both twice.

I plan to watch "The Usual Suspects" again some day, now that I know how it ends. Likewise the original "Manchurian Candidate"; I don't have any interest in the re-make.

From my "early days": I watched "The King and I" several times back-to-back in a theater, and I'm sure I've seen "The Sound of Music" at least three times over my lifetime. So shoot me!

-Susan

I collect movies. I don't count them anymore, but they number in the thousands. The whole idea of a collection is to a) not have to watch any one of them again for a long time, but b) to watch favorites over and over.

Action flicks constitute the bulk of the ones that wear well over many viewings, especially epics with grand musical scores.

Gladiator
Blade Runner
The Matrix, but not its sequels
eXistence
Chronicles of Riddick
Lord of the Rings
All the Harry Potter movies
Star Wars, all except Episode I
The Patriot
Rob Roy
Alien
Jurassic Park

Moshkiae, I am impressed that you were able to sit through 200 Motels more than once. I could barely make it through a single viewing, despite being on drugs in a theater full of similarly buoyed party-goers.

Susan G

Likewise the original "Manchurian Candidate"; I don't have any interest in the re-make.

The Manchurian remake is one of the rare, rare few remakes I enjoyed watching. If it comes on tv, you should give it a glance. Btw, I just picked up the original Manchurian Candidate on DVD ($3.99 new in the bargain bin at Blockbuster...go grab a few)!

From my "early days": I watched "The King and I" several times back-to-back in a theater

Do they still allow that, staying in the theater for multiple viewings? Or these days do they clear everyone out to sweep for mines or something?

If the question was 'what movie have you watched in the theater the most', it would be Star Trek II - the Wrath of Khan. You couldn't pry me outta that seat.

my favorite movie..... very possibly.....

The Outlaw Jose Wales

Most other Clint Eastwood westerns & Dirty Harry series..... "Go ahead PUNK...make my day"  "A man's got to know his limitations"  "you feeling lucky PUNK?"

Lord of the Rings.

Hi Spaceduck-

Spaceduck

Susan G

Likewise the original "Manchurian Candidate"; I don't have any interest in the re-make.

The Manchurian remake is one of the rare, rare few remakes I enjoyed watching. If it comes on tv, you should give it a glance. Btw, I just picked up the original Manchurian Candidate on DVD ($3.99 new in the bargain bin at Blockbuster...go grab a few)!

From my "early days": I watched "The King and I" several times back-to-back in a theater

Do they still allow that, staying in the theater for multiple viewings? Or these days do they clear everyone out to sweep for mines or something?

If the question was 'what movie have you watched in the theater the most', it would be Star Trek II - the Wrath of Khan. You couldn't pry me outta that seat.

Ok, I'll give the Manchurian remake a shot, based on your recommendation!

No, I doubt most theaters allow multiple viewings these days. When I was a kid you paid once to get in, there was only one movie showing (but it was usually a "talkie"), and you could basically just stay until (unless) your parents came looking for you! Shelley Brightman and I watched "The King and I" three times that day, IIRC! Little did I know back then that it would be playing on some TV channel somewhere any time of the day or night.

I can't remember when or where I saw "Star Trek II", but I do remember being transfixed by Ricardo Montalban's chest. I knew even then it wasn't real, but still... I also still remember those creepy crawlies going into Chekov's ear... and coming out again...

Was that also when Kirk famously roared "KHAN!", or was that in the TV series?

At any rate, I think I've tripped far enough down Memory Lane for one night!

Thanks-

-Susan

1. Ham & Cheese (2004)
2. Cara de queso 'mi primer ghetto' (2006)
aka "Cheese Head" - (English title)
3. Kajmak in marmelada (2003)
aka "Cheese and Jam" - (English title), (English title)
4. Guggen - Du store gauda (2001)
aka "Guggen: The Big Cheese" - (English title)

5.
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006)

6.
Cheese Chasers (1951)

7.
I Am the Cheese (1983)
8. Cheese It, the Cat! (1957)

9.
Paul and Pauline Calf's Cheese and Ham Sandwich (2003) (TV)
10. The Best Movie Ever Made (1994)
aka "The Battle for the Planet of Cheese"
11. Cheese Burglar (1946)
12. Cheese Makes You Dream (2003)
13. Choose Cheese (1940)
14. Fire Cheese (1941)
15. Nanna & Lil' Puss Puss in 'Who Calcutta the Cheese' (1993)
16. Pierre and Cottage Cheese (1969)
17. Urusei Yatsura: Yagi-san to Chiizu (1989) (V)
aka "Urusei Yatsura: Goat and Cheese"
18. Winky and the Gorgonzola Cheese (1914)
19. The Actress and the Cheese Hound (1915)
20. All on Account of the Cheese (1914)
21. Amour et fromage (1910)
aka "Love and Cheese" - USA
22. Big Cheese (1930)
23. The Big Cheese (1992) (TV)
24. Casino Royale with Cheese (2007) (V)
25. "Chalk and Cheese" (1979)
26. Cheese Cake (2007)
27. Cheese & Crackers (2005)
28. The Cheese Industry (1915)
29. Cheese It (1926)
30. The Cheese Mites, or Lilliputians in a London Restaurant (1901)
31. The Cheese Mites (1903)
32. The Cheese Nappers (1938)
33. A Cheese Romance (1921)
34. The Cheese Special (1913)
35. The Cheese Tamers (1917)
36. Concerning Cheese (1925)
37. Fists of Cheese (2002)
38. The Great Cheese Mystery (1941)
39. The Great Cheese Robbery (1920)
40. Grill Cheese Bandits (1991)
41. Hawkeye and the Cheese Mystery (1914)
42. The Hole Cheese (1922)
43. It's the Cheese (2003)
44. Making a Six-Ton Cheese (1911)
45. Making Cheddar Cheese (1911)
46. Oh! That Limburger: The Story of a Piece of Cheese (1906)
47. Pimple's Million Dollar Mystery (1915)
aka "Flivver's Famous Cheese Hound" - USA
48. A Plaster, a Paper and a Cheese & Pickle Sandwich (2007) (V)
49. Say Cheese (2000)
50. Say Cheese, Elohim (2002)
51. Say Cheese, Please (1970)
52. Snappy Cheese (1919)
53. The String Cheese Incident: Live at the Fillmore Auditorium, Denver (2003) (V)
54. Swiss Cheese (1930)
55. Swiss Cheese Family Robinson (1947)
56. Whathathoom: Cheese Live! (2003) (V)
57. When Slippery Slim Bought the Cheese (1915)
58. Wild Lions and Ferocious Cheese (1920)

Natural Born Killers.  Probably 10 times or more...