After a TBI my short-term memory kept resetting every 15 mins or so for a couple of days. Because I found that quite distressing my then-girlfriends put on The Fifth Element on repeat and took shifts watching me.
It worked well, because I'd already seen it so many times that it didn't matter when I reset I could just enjoy the bit I was there for and not think about why I didn't remember stuff.
it's about someone who can't make long term memories. The scenes are put together in basically backwards order and people tend to leave their first viewing confused
I just rewatched Goldeneye the other day and oh boy did it NOT hold up. I dunno, in my head it was amazing and seeing it again it's all so ever the top in all the wrong ways that this is one movie I won't see again
Eh, kinda. The actual story is a bit shit till the aliens, and then it ends just as it could've started to get interesting.
I grew up in the towns and countryside World's End was filmed in though, and was big into goth, so basically every location in the film is a place I recognise and the soundtrack and music references always make me smile.
Also "fuck off you big lamp" makes me laugh every time.
I feel the same way. Except I hated the aliens too. But like you said, right as the movie starts to get interesting, roll credits.
Can't relate at all to the location, unfortunately, because I'm not from England (nor The UK, for that matter). So the scenery didn't really do anything for me.
Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are absolute masterpieces, however.
Palm Springs , because it's an easy watch, it's funny and there is not much to stress out about.
Any of the "Cornetto trilogy" by Edgar Wright and starring Pegg and Frost, my favorite being Hot Fuzz . I'd even add Scott Pilgrim. There are so many details, jokes, references and other easter eggs that I just don't tire of watching them.
Finally, one of my all-time favs is Amelie , it awakened my love for cinema, it is beautiful, it has a heartwarming message and there is no real conflict in it.
"Marathon Man" It was written by the author of "The Princess Bride" and was designed to need rewatching. A minor character in one scene shows up halfway through the story. A casual conversation gives away an entirely new slant on two characters.
"Big Trouble In Little China." I can't believe I'm the first to mention this one. Completely stupid on every level, yet it works perfectly.
Spoiler.
::: spoiler spoiler
___When Roy Schieder arrives in Paris he makes a call and tells "Janey" to hurry up to his place. Later, William Devane tells Hoffman his name is Janeway, but people call him 'Janey."
:::
Not aliens per se, but Sunshine is great. Awesome ensemble cast headed up by Cillian Murphy on a journey to the sun.
Annihilation is an excellent sci-fi/ cosmic horror centered around our perception of alien "life", and will it even recognize us as life when we meet it. Natalie Portman and Oscar Isaac.
The classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Admittedly more notable for Kubrick's filmmaking than the plot, but still a mind-blowingly cool movie.
Enemy Mine for the other end of the spectrum, about a human and an alien learning to work together / overcome their innate xenophobia.
Likewise. If you haven't seen Bugonia, came out last year or maybe early this year, put it on the top of your list. Based on your taste, I'm willing to put it at a 9/10, I thought it was an easy 10
I just watched it last night! I need to watch it again, but I don't know if I liked it as much as Poor Things. The cast was electrifying on screen together, but the end threw me. I almost think it would have worked better as a standard woman against her captors movie. Still loved it, though. 9/10 even with my nitpicking. I love Yorgos Lanthimos' work.
It's the only movie where I watched it was was like "shit, I could watch it again right away". And I did. And again it was great. After that I rewatched it many times. The acting is just sooooo good it never gets boring. I think Spacey has the weakest performance there and it says a lot if two Academy Award winning actor looks average compared to his castmates.
My friends and I watched it so many times in college that we'd have a party whenever one of us hit our 100th time watching it. I think I probably have every line of that movie memorized.
This is probably my favourite film of the last decade, it's beautifully shot, written and directed, and the three lead actresses are fantastic.
Imo Braid is endlessly rewatchable too as it never fully explains what's actually going on, or what is fully real, and with each rewatch you notice new things and kinda start to piece more of the story together.
Others have added many of the same that I would also, so I'll keep to just these two. They are two of my favorites. One serious/semi-serious, one comedy. There's something special about Being There for me. Maybe it's that I consider myself a simpleton like Peter Seller's character, I don't know. Grandma's Boy, with its theme of video games and weed smoking, is also right up my alley! Too funny!
I know it's not the best movie and probably not a rewatch for most, but I love to watch "stay" (2005) the entire weird ambiance of it and the way it was directed just makes it a yearly rewatch for me
The matrix
Snatch
A knight's tale
Kingsman
Scott Pilgrim vs the world
Sahara
The big Lebowski
Die hard
O brother, where art thou?
Seconding O brother, where art thou? That movie is good every time
IIIIIIII am a maaaaaaaan 🎶
Came here to say A Knight's Tale 👍
The Fifth Element
Galaxy Quest
Die Hard
Trading Places
Muppet Christmas Carol
Star Wars
The Mummy (Brendan Fraiser, not Tom Cruise)
Edge of Tomorrow
National Treasure
Hunt for Red October
Goldeneye
Back to the Future
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
The Rock
Fast Five
Fellowship of the Ring
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Heat
The Last Starfighter
The Fugitive
Jurassic Park
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Happy Death Day
Rogue One
Hackers
While You Were Sleeping
Terminator 1 & 2 + Dark Fate
Alien
Aliens
John Wick
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
The Bourne Identity
Ip Man
Army of Darkness
Starship Troopers
They Live
Spaceballs
Wargames
It Happened One Night
Princess Bride
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
After a TBI my short-term memory kept resetting every 15 mins or so for a couple of days. Because I found that quite distressing my then-girlfriends put on The Fifth Element on repeat and took shifts watching me.
It worked well, because I'd already seen it so many times that it didn't matter when I reset I could just enjoy the bit I was there for and not think about why I didn't remember stuff.
I still watch it every now and then :-)
They should have put Memento on for you.
Never seen it, so it would provably be the worst possible choice!
it's about someone who can't make long term memories. The scenes are put together in basically backwards order and people tend to leave their first viewing confused
Yeah, I've heard of it and understood the premise, but decided not to watch it ;-)
Put Shaun of the Dead on this list, and we have a deal
I just rewatched Goldeneye the other day and oh boy did it NOT hold up. I dunno, in my head it was amazing and seeing it again it's all so ever the top in all the wrong ways that this is one movie I won't see again
Hot Fuzz. There are so many easter eggs in the movie that you'll still be finding new ones a dozen watches later.
Pulp Fiction
Terminator 1 & 2
Alien and Aliens
Second Pulp Fiction. I had a red vehicle once that I named Fred, and when folks asked why, I said Fred's red baby.
Pulp Fiction +1
Master and Commander: Far Side of the world.
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a half a tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.
Hit it.
Hot Fuzz
All of the Cornetto extended trilogy imo.
Except World's End.
Eh, kinda. The actual story is a bit shit till the aliens, and then it ends just as it could've started to get interesting.
I grew up in the towns and countryside World's End was filmed in though, and was big into goth, so basically every location in the film is a place I recognise and the soundtrack and music references always make me smile.
Also "fuck off you big lamp" makes me laugh every time.
I feel the same way. Except I hated the aliens too. But like you said, right as the movie starts to get interesting, roll credits.
Can't relate at all to the location, unfortunately, because I'm not from England (nor The UK, for that matter). So the scenery didn't really do anything for me.
Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are absolute masterpieces, however.
Palm Springs , because it's an easy watch, it's funny and there is not much to stress out about.
Any of the "Cornetto trilogy" by Edgar Wright and starring Pegg and Frost, my favorite being Hot Fuzz . I'd even add Scott Pilgrim. There are so many details, jokes, references and other easter eggs that I just don't tire of watching them.
Finally, one of my all-time favs is Amelie , it awakened my love for cinema, it is beautiful, it has a heartwarming message and there is no real conflict in it.
Princess Bride, and I enjoyed watching Ready Player One a few times. Any Month Python movie. Mr Nobody.
Tis a silly place
Team America: World Police
Shit just doesn't age.
This is a nice limo.
Yes it is. Now suck my cock
The Shawshank Redemption
"Marathon Man" It was written by the author of "The Princess Bride" and was designed to need rewatching. A minor character in one scene shows up halfway through the story. A casual conversation gives away an entirely new slant on two characters.
"Big Trouble In Little China." I can't believe I'm the first to mention this one. Completely stupid on every level, yet it works perfectly.
........is it safe?
Spoiler. ::: spoiler spoiler ___When Roy Schieder arrives in Paris he makes a call and tells "Janey" to hurry up to his place. Later, William Devane tells Hoffman his name is Janeway, but people call him 'Janey." :::
I used to watch Tombstone (or at least parts of it) every day after school.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Abyss
The Thing
Ben-Hur
Spartacus
Taxi Driver
Godfather I and II
Tarkovsky's Stalker
Terminator 2
Alien and Aliens
You've got a lot of alien genre movies in here, what else you got? Those are always awesome.
Not aliens per se, but Sunshine is great. Awesome ensemble cast headed up by Cillian Murphy on a journey to the sun.
Annihilation is an excellent sci-fi/ cosmic horror centered around our perception of alien "life", and will it even recognize us as life when we meet it. Natalie Portman and Oscar Isaac.
The classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Admittedly more notable for Kubrick's filmmaking than the plot, but still a mind-blowingly cool movie.
Enemy Mine for the other end of the spectrum, about a human and an alien learning to work together / overcome their innate xenophobia.
Definitely into the whole space genres as well, thanks for the recs
No problem! Hope you like them
Likewise. If you haven't seen Bugonia, came out last year or maybe early this year, put it on the top of your list. Based on your taste, I'm willing to put it at a 9/10, I thought it was an easy 10
I just watched it last night! I need to watch it again, but I don't know if I liked it as much as Poor Things. The cast was electrifying on screen together, but the end threw me. I almost think it would have worked better as a standard woman against her captors movie. Still loved it, though. 9/10 even with my nitpicking. I love Yorgos Lanthimos' work.
Dude I did too! I had the opposite reaction, it was an okay movie until the ending, then it was great.
TLOTR trilogy. I could watch those til the end of time.
5th element
Mars Attacks!
Ack ack........ack.....ACKACK!
I just watched it Saturday for the first time! It's great.
Fargo
Glengarry Glen Ross
It's the only movie where I watched it was was like "shit, I could watch it again right away". And I did. And again it was great. After that I rewatched it many times. The acting is just sooooo good it never gets boring. I think Spacey has the weakest performance there and it says a lot if two Academy Award winning actor looks average compared to his castmates.
For me -
And proof that I'm kinda a film nerd (and I had family in journalism)...
Oh, and most Star Trek movies.
Pulp fiction. I don't watch movies multiple times normally, but pulp fiction I watch yearly. It's the pinnacle of the art.
Any Denis Villeneuve film.
Who?
I used to rewatch "The man who wasn't there" yearly. I'd often desaturate the TV because out works so well in black and white.
Event Horizon and Scream
Jurassic Park
Avengers: infinite war
THE suicide squad
Mortal Kombat 21
Kung POW!
Homeward bound
The lion king
Toy story
John wick (all of them)
Playdate
Heads of office
A Christmas story
This is the end
The original TMNT movie.
Some good ones in no particular order:
Back to the Future trilogy
Congo
Goldeneye
Dumb and Dumber
Ace Ventura 2
The Fifth Element
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Zoolander
Tropic Thunder
School of Rock
Spirited Away
Your Name
Paprika
Ace Ventura 2 over 1 huh? Interesting.
Chicaga!
The boondock saints (the sequel is shit, ignore that)
I've been meaning to watch this since it was referenced in Helsing Ultimate Abridged like 15 years ago, glad to hear someone say it's good!
My friends and I watched it so many times in college that we'd have a party whenever one of us hit our 100th time watching it. I think I probably have every line of that movie memorized.
There was a FIRE FIGHT!!
Knives Out (any of them honestly)
Most films from Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz & Scott Pilgrim especially)
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (extended editions)
If you liked 'Knives Out' watch "The Last of Shelia"
The director says that this movie was the original inspiration; it's got twists you'll never see coming.
Bookmarked, thanks!
Try and get some people and make it a party.
It's that kind of movie.
3 Idiots. Maybe tough to find a good dub, but even with subtitles it is so good to rewatch.
Braid (dir by Mitzi Peirone)
This is probably my favourite film of the last decade, it's beautifully shot, written and directed, and the three lead actresses are fantastic.
Imo Braid is endlessly rewatchable too as it never fully explains what's actually going on, or what is fully real, and with each rewatch you notice new things and kinda start to piece more of the story together.
V for Vendetta
Being There
Grandma's Boy
Others have added many of the same that I would also, so I'll keep to just these two. They are two of my favorites. One serious/semi-serious, one comedy. There's something special about Being There for me. Maybe it's that I consider myself a simpleton like Peter Seller's character, I don't know. Grandma's Boy, with its theme of video games and weed smoking, is also right up my alley! Too funny!
Being There is so great. Hardly anyone I know when I bring it up has even heard of it.
Lord of the Rings
Die Hard
Terminator 2
I know it's not the best movie and probably not a rewatch for most, but I love to watch "stay" (2005) the entire weird ambiance of it and the way it was directed just makes it a yearly rewatch for me
The other guys
The good guys
Driver
Back to the future
Grandma's boy
Snatch
Lock stock and two smoking barrels